Memes From Chinese Movies | Video Essay

To avoid visual clutter, we are citing the memes, movies, and videos in this comment. A lot of them came from links of dubious safety, so I'll just sit the names in the parenthesis. Google are your own risk and sanity :) In order of appearance: Intro 00:06 Confused Cat (Unknown source) 00:08 Shrugging Rabbit (Tuzki by Momo Wang) 00:09 Lisa Simpson Presentation (The Simpsons) 00:16 Millicent's Interesting (iCarly 2021) 00:19 A miserable pile of little secrets (Castlevania Symphony of the Night) 00:22 Richard Dawkins (Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Sience) 00:25 All Your Base Are Belong to Us (Zero Wing) 00:27 All Your Base Are Belong to Us (Red Alert 3 - Viral Marketing Trailer) 00:30 All Your Base Are Belong to Us (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) 00:34 Brent Rambo Approves ('90s Apple Promotional Video) 00:37 Doge (Kabosu by Atsuko Sato) 00:38 Nerizzler (Ludokano) 00:40 Princess Majima (Unknown source, uploaded by (Porn)sche) 00:43 Billy Herrington Speech (Billy Herrington, reuploaded by Ain) 00:49 Xue Hua Piao Piao (蛋哥) 00:52 Xue Hua Piao Piao (王志平) 00:59 Neighbor Wang (Chinese Parents, commentary by GrayStillPlays) 01:04 Dancing Auntie (God of Cookery) 01:10 Burning Money (A Better Tomorrow) 01:16 Singing Monk (A Chinese Odyssey 2) Part 1 01:31 Panda face (Unknown source) 01:55 East Sh*t (As Tears Go By) 02:13 Yeah I'm not listing all that... 02:19 The Pope Smirks (Elijah Samuel Burke) 02:22 Big Laughs (Master Kim vs Master Kim vs Master Kim) 02:38 I Want It All (Hail the Judge) 02:49 I Have Never Seen Someone So Shameless (Glasses version from unknown source) 02:51 I Have Never Seen Someone So Shameless (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) 03:24 You Are All Rubbish (Love On Delivery) Sponsorship by Squarespace 04:06 Whatcha Lookin' At? (Kung Fu Hustle) 04:08 Wearing China On Your Chest (Song of Youth) 04:13 Surprise? Happy? (All's Well, End's Well) 04:59 Loss (Ctrl+Alt+Del by Tim Buckley) Part 2 05:24 Super Ip Man (小芃路子野) 05:27 Ip Man With Guns (小芃路子野) 05:29 Ping Pong Ip Man (小芃路子野) 05:39 Dancing Ronald (ランランル, Unknown Source) 05:44 Auntie Yell At Door (你有本事抢男人 be Boychouchou) 06:23 A Murder for Mantou (一个馒头引发的血案 by 胡戈) 06:41 China Wins World Cup (中国队勇夺世界杯 by 猫少爷) 06:57 Two Blind People (瞎看什么) Part 3 07:42 Korone with a Camera (Uploaded by Sakasandayo) 08:00 Ge You Tang (I Love My Family) 08:30 996 ICU (Unknown Source) 08:32 Sleeping Salary Man (Unknown Source, shared by BBC) 08:39 Tang Ping Meme Collection (Shared by Manya Koetse on Whatsonweibo) 08:55 Works Is Out of the Question (网罗天下 by CTV) 08:56 Ernesto Guevara (Shared by 窃格瓦拉) 08:59 Kizuna Ai (Uploaded by 啤酒子） 09:02 Parody Posters (Unknown Source) 09:19 I Love My Company (War of the Genders) 09:23 F*ck Your Boss Tomorrow (No More Bets) Afterword 09:55 Dong Dong Never Die (Gameplay footage from nocommentarytws) 10:22 Beauty Restoring Fist (Flirting Scholar)

Someone editing a whole movie into a True Crime Documentary is peak meme culture. Hats off to you sir, We will watch your career with great interest.

If anyone is wondering, the often seen "coughing up blood" in Wuxia novels comes from the aforementioned Zhuge Liang's opponent dying the same way in Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

8:56 due to his physical resemblance to Che Guevara, the nickname for this man became “qie Guevara” using the phonetic pun of qie 切 being the transliteration of Che, and qie 窃 meaning thief.

"Work is not an option, at least not in this lifetime" LEGEND!!!

"Memes, the DNA of the soul" -some nihilistic cyborg with magnets.

I never thought I would see Dong Dong never die on this channel

9:50 Dong Dong Never Die is actually even more alive than ever!!! Somehow two independent groups who've never even been on the same site made their own overhaul mods for the game: - lilihao on bilibili made Dong Dong Never Die 2023, that added Santa as a playable character - DismasThePenitent on Youtube made Dong Dong Never Die: Judgment Day, that added Korone as a playable character as staff for Judgment Day, I wish we could contact the original creator of DDND (江西恐龙/Jiangxi Dinosaur) so we can see what he thinks of the mods... 😢

I fucking cackled at the Ip Man edits

Wow. I lived in China for half a decade and saw the panda meme thousands of times, even used it myself a few times. Never thought I'd learn where it was from. Thank you, Accented Cinema <3

0:38 Sticking out gyatt for Nerizzle- Zhuge Liang is so classy that he killed his opponent without touching him. Next you're gonna tell us he got reincarnated to Japan and become a manager for an amazing singer or something 🤣🤣 Chinese memes are not complete without Stephen Cho

躺平 is more similar to Goblin mode, which is not trying to meet up the social standard. It could be much more radical. Quiet Quitting means you are still keeping your job, but playing smart to not impress to avoid excessive devotion.

from 音MAD to YTPMV to 恶搞文化....The art of the Funny Video Remix truly transcends borders.

I don't know if you know this, but in Taiwan there's a meme called Brother Jie. It came from a life lesson video about a teen being tricked into drinking with a man who then later did something sexual towards him. It's was so corny that the two actors became memes. So much so, the actors embraced the memes and even landed a few sponsorships

You had a vote and memes won? Really? Really?

Memes are actually a really interesting lens through which to look at cultural and linguistic differences. Memes have to be specific enough to have meaning, but universal enough to be understood by a large audience. So a Western audience can look at these and not understand the specific reference but probably, perhaps with a bit of explanation, understand the general premise.

0:38 NOOOO BIBOO GET OUT OF MY HEAD

Man I love the quality of these videos, keep it up sir

Didn't expect to see the doog korone there. But a welcome addition, nonetheless.

I was surprised to not see the "Chinese Beaver meme" but I guess that's a meme that strangely became popular in the west and less so in China