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Just launched https://t.co/Usj4XYrRae — a free English dictionary of Chinese internet memes.500+ entries from 2000 to today. Cultural context, not just translation.#LearnChinese #ChineseCulture

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🇨🇳 牛马 (niú mǎ) — "Ox and Horse / Beast of Burden Worker"

Literally 'ox and horse' — the draft animals that pull plows and carts. A darker, more bitter evolution of 打工人 (worker).

https://t.co/ztgBmqLgxD

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🇨🇳 胖东来 (Pàng Dōng Lái) — "Pang Dong Lai (The Dream Employer)"

Pang Dong Lai is a regional supermarket chain from Henan province that became a viral sensation for treating its employees like actual human beings.

https://t.co/DnzjeZwD9V

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🇨🇳 降本增笑 (jiàng běn zēng xiào) — "Cut Costs, Boost Laughs"

A sardonic riff on the corporate buzzword '降本增效' (cut costs, boost efficiency), swapping '效' (efficiency) for '笑' (laughter/laughingstock).

https://t.co/NDiU08lAT5

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🇨🇳 AI替代焦虑 (AI tìdài jiāolǜ) — "AI Replacement Anxiety"

The creeping dread that your job, skills, or entire career path is about to be rendered obsolete by a chatbot that never sleeps, never asks for a raise, and never calls in sick.

https://t.co/ImfhTWnPUk

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🇨🇳 AI味 (AI wèi) — "AI Flavour / That AI Smell"

"AI Flavour" is the unmistakable whiff of machine-generated content — overly polished, suspiciously well-structured, stuffed with transitional phrases like 'Certainly!' and 'Great question!', yet strang...

https://t.co/RVYZ7OaQ2x

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🇨🇳 躺平 (tǎng píng) — "lying flat"

China's Gen-Z answer to hustle culture: if housing is unaffordable and 996 is normal, why try at all?

Not laziness. Protest.

https://t.co/zjez19RuWY