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你遇见我的时候，正是我人生中非常中国的一段时期。 You met me at a very Chinese time of my life! $Chinese

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Before there was $CHINESE, there was a cultural shift happening online.

It started with a sentence:

“You met me at a very Chinese time in my life.”

The phrase appeared online in 2025. Then the internet did what it does best—it remixed it.

Dumplings. Hot water. Chinese malls. High-speed trains. Pharmacies. Street food. Chongqing at night. Random pieces of everyday life in China suddenly became content people actually wanted to see.

Videos using the phrase started pulling millions of views, and by 2026 the phenomenon had grown into what the internet began calling Chinamaxxing. Major media outlets were writing about Western Gen Z suddenly embracing pieces of Chinese culture that, only a few years earlier, rarely entered mainstream internet culture.

Then Luca Maxim gave the idea a different kind of fuel.

Instead of treating China as one viral joke, Luca kept building.

Chinese pharmacies.
Chinese malls.
Chinese food.
Chinese neighborhoods.
Chinese technology.
Random conversations.
Ordinary moments.

And eventually the fictional worlds, characters and absurd AI videos followed.

The same line kept appearing:

“You met me at a very Chinese time in my life.”

Today Luca sits at roughly 835K TikTok followers with nearly 70M likes, while his Instagram audience is measured at 500K+. His TikToks average around 255K views each according to public analytics.

But the numbers are only part of it.

The bigger accomplishment was creating a language people could copy.

Once people started putting the phrase under their own food, outfits, vacations, memes, characters and everyday experiences, it stopped belonging to one creator.

“Chinese time of my life” became a format.

And formats spread further than individual posts ever can.

That is the cultural backdrop $CHINESE was born from.

Not an attempt to manufacture a narrative around a token—but a community forming around a narrative that was already spreading across the internet.

Now the idea can move anywhere.

Dante can have a Chinese time.
Your favorite anime character can have a Chinese time.
A celebrity can have a Chinese time.
Your group chat can have a Chinese time.
You can have a Chinese time.

Any person. Any character. Any universe.

Eventually, they enter a very Chinese time in their life. 🇨🇳

The culture came first.
Luca helped turn it into a language.
The internet made it bigger.
Now the community gets to decide where it goes next.

$CHINESE
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@SaintDovy @0xGroovy Me too brother

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@SaintDovy Truly a gem

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My $CHINESE way of living

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Everyone on my timeline is saying the same thing right now: the trenches are dead. New pairs feel impossible to trade, everyone is getting chopped up, and the market pumps just enough to make you think things are turning around before taking it straight back. There hasn’t been that one massive runner this month that makes everyone stop what they’re doing and pay attention. More importantly, nobody is having fun.

I think people are finally getting tired of the same cycle. KOL coin, side wallets, bundled supply, everyone rushes in, a few people make a fortune, everyone else becomes exit liquidity, then 48 hours later we’re supposed to collectively forget about it and move on to the next one.

You can feel people becoming more skeptical of it. Even recently, when another personality-driven coin launched, the reaction felt different. A lot more people are asking questions now instead of blindly bidding because a recognizable name is attached to something.

And maybe that’s actually healthy, because I think the trenches need to remember what made memecoins fun in the first place: communities.

Not another coin designed around extracting as much attention and liquidity as possible before everyone moves on. Actual groups of people trying to build something together.

Maybe the “value” is just making people laugh. Maybe it’s creating ridiculous videos every day. Maybe it’s art. Maybe it’s lore. Maybe it’s a meme so stupid that thousands of people start repeating it. It doesn’t have to change the world. It just has to give people a reason to care.

Because if we actually want normal people to come back into this space, the experience cannot just be: buy new pair → get farmed → lose money → leave.

There has to be something worth sticking around for. Something people want to participate in even when the chart isn’t moving.

And I think this month has quietly shown us something important. Look at the coins that are still alive after weeks of this market. Look at the chats that are still active. Look at who is still making content after a 50% drawdown. Look at who still raids when there isn’t a candle to celebrate. Look at who has inside jokes, recognizable characters, people creating things without being paid, and holders who somehow refuse to leave.

Those are the coins I think deserve more attention.

Not because they are guaranteed to go up, but because they are actually doing the thing memecoins are supposed to do: forming communities around ideas people enjoy being part of.

And once you start looking at the market through that lens, you start noticing certain things.

There’s one community I’ve watched survive months of pumps, dumps, dead weekends, jeets, and awful market conditions. They still make videos every day. They still raid. They still make memes. The phrase behind it keeps spreading outside of crypto. The content keeps improving. And somehow the same group of delusional people is still there every morning doing it again.

You’ve probably seen the red shirt by now. You may have seen Dante. You may have seen:

“you met me at a very Chinese time in my life.”

I’m not telling you what conclusion to come to. I just think in a market where almost everything dies in days, it’s worth paying attention to the things that somehow keep living. 🇨🇳

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@BitCloutCat @0xLazy @bstocksfinance The Chinese cult is ready to welcome you back

[you met me at a very chinese time in my life @chinesetimeinmy]

We’ve been chinamaxxing since we were born.

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Chinese 68G

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There’s a $CHINESE in all of us. 🐉☀️

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《来自 $CHINESE 战壕的一封信》
2026年10月21日
亲爱的日记：

今天没有什么单一的大事件。

但整体的感觉越来越明显了：

这个东西还在长。

不是只看图表。

是 meme 在长。

社区在长。

内容在长。

而最重要的是，

它已经活得比绝大多数 memecoin 久太多了。

大多数低市值币的生命周期都很短。

几天。

有时候甚至几个小时。

一波热度。

一根大 candle。

然后群聊安静。

内容停止。

所有人去下一个地方。

但 $CHINESE 到现在还在。

而且不只是“还没死”。

是真的还在继续做东西。

Raid 继续。

视频继续。

新 meme 继续。

新的想法继续。

核心组还是每天出现。

威廉姆斯列兵今天问我：

“长官，我们到底活了多久了？”

我说：

“久到已经不能再叫偶然了。”

他点了点头。

“所以现在算老兵？”

我告诉他：

“先把 raid 做完再谈军衔。”

但他说的其实有一点道理。

因为时间本身已经开始变成 thesis 的一部分。

一开始，

大家都可以说这是另一个短命 meme。

等几天就没了。

然后几周过去。

还在。

几个月过去。

还在。

更有意思的是，

外面的 meme 还在继续变大。

“you met me at a very Chinese time in my life”

没有因为币的价格怎么样就停止传播。

新的人还在看到。

新的版本还在出现。

视频还在被做出来。

衣服还在被穿。

Luca 还在继续发内容。

这个 phrase 还在往越来越多的地方渗透。

所以现在的情况很有意思：

外面，

meme 在变得更大。

里面，

社区在变得更老练。

这两件事同时发生，

才是我觉得最值得关注的地方。

因为如果有一天，

更多 attention 真正开始流进来，

他们不会看到一个刚刚创建的空壳。

他们会看到一个已经有历史的社区。

已经有内容。

已经有 lore。

已经有自己的角色。

已经有自己的语言。

已经经历过 pump。

也经历过 dump。

还经历过一堆无聊得要命的日子。

但人还在。

这就是区别。

今天我们也继续做内容。

继续想新的东西。

继续把可以用的素材堆起来。

我们现在的 meme 库存几乎没有尽头。

而 AI pipeline 也越来越顺。

以前要花很久才能做出来的东西，

现在越来越快。

越来越稳定。

威廉姆斯列兵晚上问：

“长官，如果这 meme 继续这样长，会发生什么？”

我说：

“不知道。”

然后停了一下。

“但至少我们不会因为没准备好而错过。”

这大概就是今天的感觉。

没有必要每天都喊突破。

没有必要每天都说大行情马上来了。

有时候只需要看一件事：

时间过去以后，还有没有人在。

今天，

答案还是：

有。

而且比以前更多。

今日记录结束。

10月21日。没有神迹。只是又多活了一天，又多做了一天内容。
大多数币几天就死。我们已经开始按月计算。 🇨🇳🐉

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@PR0H0S definitely going to be solana:Tm2iqbxYjKpW8xCMe6q1xUraNMNzcG5xMztAir3pump

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@BoominRR @chinesetimeinmy Mood

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You met me at a very Chinese time in my life

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@NeetChud888 Giga solana:Tm2iqbxYjKpW8xCMe6q1xUraNMNzcG5xMztAir3pump

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@SantiOnSol Crazy how little traction he’s gotten on X, feels like a viral video going to hit the algo any second now

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crypto bros

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How Crypto bros be moving after Unc tells them crypto is a scam

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crypto bros

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@ChildOfKhan_ this going to make the coin price go up

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You met me at a very Chinese time in my life

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@rasmr_eth Yo

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@SolLunix Are you Chinese or not?