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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!

[Cnote @ChosenSlyfox]

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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[MrPumpernickel @MrPumpernickel_]

Thanks for being a jeet and lifting the @orangie curse

Now my $Chinese brothers, we soar

[Santi @SantiOnSol]

it’s called the food chain bro😂🇨🇳

[CJV @CJV_SOL]

BIG CHINESE SZN

[Cnote @ChosenSlyfox]

@stevewilldoit 😭
https://t.co/a8jgLcIGFF

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

It's called the food chain bro @orangie

[Cnote @ChosenSlyfox]

@chinesetimeinmy @orangie Insanely funny 😆

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

It's called the food chain bro @orangie

[Cnote @ChosenSlyfox]

No way we let this dude orangie run the crypto space 🤣

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

It's called the food chain bro @orangie

[lacoste 🐊 @LacosteTN26]

True

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

With the Chinese, may the Force be.

[Cnote @ChosenSlyfox]

@ChildOfKhan_ 😭

[Luca Maxim @ChildOfKhan_]

nba youngboy fans

[Santi @SantiOnSol]

@Pumpfun it’s a very Chinese time in our lives

[MrPumpernickel @MrPumpernickel_]

@orangie How about this?

[Cnote @ChosenSlyfox]

@WatcherGuru Very Chinese times right now

[Cnote @ChosenSlyfox]

9. Sometimes you don’t choose a very Chinese time in your life.

A very Chinese time in your life chooses you. 🇨🇳🐉

[Cnote @ChosenSlyfox]

I lost my job, my girlfriend left me, and my parents stopped answering my calls.

But the Chinese arc never abandoned me.

Here’s 9 things it taught me about holding $CHINESE: 👇

[Cnote @ChosenSlyfox]

8. Nobody understands what you’re building until they suddenly pretend they always did.