 When somebody says that to you, you just have to say, yeah, being chilling, being chilling with your mama. The new Chinese memes on the internet, are they racist? Are they funny? Are they appreciative? Or does it just not matter? Yeah, we got to talk about it because this is going viral right now. A lot of these memes have been out for like two years now, maybe one year. And they're sort of reaching mass adoption to the point where some people are saying Andrew, it's becoming racist and problematic towards Asians or Chinese people in real life instead of not just being isolated in the gamer world. So make sure you like, subscribe, turn on your notifications. Andrew, let's drop the first meme, the infamous John Cena, being chilling. I'm chilling now. I really like chilling. Ice cream? Good morning, China. I'm chilling now. I like chilling. Andrew, did you think that this meme was going to get this widespread? Like literally, it was started, I think it started amongst like people who took Mandarin, like Mandarin 101. And then it spread to like sort of the internet crowd that likes like really deep cut memes. And then it spread to the gamer world. And then some people are saying from the gamer world, it's actually becoming racist against Asians in real life. Yeah. I mean, being chilling, that is a real Chinese word. It means ice cream in the mainland Chinese way, right? In Taiwan, they would say something different. Shui Kao, Shukou in Cantonese. Exactly. So it is a real word. And when John Cena was speaking Mandarin, he did not mean it offensively at all. He loves speaking Mandarin. Yeah. He's kind of like this fun village-y folk hero in America because he's a wrestler. And then he speaks like crappy Chinese, sort of for like, I guess, villagers in China. No, it's like if a big buff superstar from China was like, yeah, come to America. I love a hamburger. The hamburger is so good. Oh, the pasta and the pizza. It's a great. No, no, no, no, no, give me, give me, give me. But my movie is even better than the hamburger. Yeah, so it's like that. But obviously, totally harmless from John Cena. But yes, I've seen there's a lot of instances and stories of been chilling being used kind of like the new Ching Chong in a negative racist way. Right. Some of what are some of the incidents? Yeah. They were talked about on Reddit. A Korean guy said he was sitting at a Korean restaurant with his Korean friends and this like drunk white kid pops his head in and just goes, being chilling. Right. Sort of like the new Ching Chong. Obviously, this guy is not making the distinguishing like contrasting between the different languages, right? No, no. Because I saw some people writing Korean in some of the gamer chats and like League of Legends and people were like, huh, they're speaking that being chilling language. Yeah. So in a gamer way, first of all, the gamer world is this own thing, man. It's its own vibe. It's very trolly, right? It's super trolly, a reverent. It is disrespectful, but you're supposed to disrespect each other. So anyways, guys, but either way, guys, being chilling right now is the main viral Chinese meme. And yes, it has been used against other Asians. But the origin is not harmful. Did you see the ones where they're calling John Cena Zhongxina? That's right. Because they're obviously saying sort of like LeBron that he wants to pander for money. Moving on, Andrew, this one actually is really interesting. I did not really know about this one, the Qingcheng Hanji. Andrew, this is actually a P-King opera song that a DJ remixed, but threw it over. This is the controversial part, a racist Tom and Jerry scene where Jerry the cat looks like Fu Manchu and it's like spitting. Anyway, drop the clip. David, I can't lie. The beat goes hard, man. Oh, man. It's a great song. Now, obviously, the imagery, it's a clip from John and Jerry. Tom and Jerry is a very old cartoon, all right? Obviously, no one would do this type of imagery now, but it was a playoff Fu Manchu. He's butt the hat on, his eyes are squinting, he got the thing. Qingcheng Hanji. Yeah. And then it's a good song, though. Yeah, actually, Andrew, do you want to hear what they're actually saying right now? Because a lot of people are like, oh yeah, it just sounds like a bunch of funny sounds, right? They're saying, Paul, how to his typhoon palace? Imperial family's consort, listen. It's basically just what P-King opera talks about, which is stories from the dynastic days. All right, David, this next Chinese related meme that went viral was actually started by this Korean rapper, comedian on YouTube. And he basically made a song in the Cantonese accent. It's a funny Cantonese accent, but he did in the Cantonese accent talking about how stupid his son is. It's like a song that an Asian parent would make, right? It's almost like a mixture of the old A-Z-N pride, time-eye shoe days, mixed with just the classical high expectation Asian parent father meme thing. Anyway, just drop the clip. My son, so dumb, IQ 21. He tried to make friends, but they call him Qing Zhang. He eat the wonton, but if I like him Zhang, he's so ugly when he smile, he look like the King Kong. So David, obviously this is like an Asian kid trying to be funny about Asian culture. But what could be a little bit off about it is that he's Korean and he's only making jokes about Chinese things like. Ping pong eat the wonton, then you cook the dim sum, and you know the milk tea, and you know it's silky. Yeah, so obviously he's a comedian, but overall listen, I'm not gonna like tell, say this guy's like really being like racist against Chinese people. I do think people and all other Asians do not take Chinese culture very seriously. Maybe particularly Cantonese culture where almost everybody feels like that is the go-to goofy funny Asian accent. And I think that we could make a whole video about this and I won't delve too deep into it, but I do think that Cantonese have been in America for the longest. It's one of the easier accents to do because it's you know, you play the ping pong, eat the dim sum, and you know it's don't want the wonton. Yo, that was really funny, man. Yeah, yes, it was guilty, right? But I'm saying that like, to be honest, yeah, a lot of people don't really take, you know, for good or bad reason, I have to accept it. Even us being Cantonese, that every, like, it's almost like, Andrew, the Cantonese action is royalty free. But other accents, you gotta pay a little bit, gotta make sure you're saying respectful things, but it is what it is. Moving on, Andrew, we got Xuehua Piaopiao. Drop the clip. Xuehua Piaopiao, Bei Feng Xiao Xiao. Yo, this dude has a striking image. I think that was largely why this clip went viral. Yeah, and is it crazy that he blew up that whole song? I mean, it is a very catchy hook, the Bei Feng Xiao Xiao. I think it's really funny that these memes that you think only go viral in China, like on Douyin, are now making it over to America. And I think it's for a number of reasons, which we'll get into very quickly. But David, there's a lot of social credit score jokes on the American internet now. Right, and oftentimes they come combined with a Zhongxin meme, like plus 1,500 social credit, minus 1,500 social credit. Obviously that's referring to the social credit system in China, which I do think it's like, it's actually not even as advanced as people think it is. It's literally more like, I'm not saying that they don't have it, but I'm just saying I just don't think it's at the level that people think it is. Trust me, a lot of the people leaving the comments and the jokes, they are not well studied in Chinese politics and what's actually going on. But it's just based off the one headline and the one article that you might have read about, okay, this is the Chinese social score. If you guys said something positive towards China, it's like plus 9,000 social credit. Or you get Wu Mao points. Wu Mao is the reference to the internet farms that used to have defending China that would give you like half of a quai, like half of a dollar over there. Andrew, why do you think these memes are just like popping up right now? Cause I remember when we were growing up, the memes were just like, what the? Like maybe Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan a little bit, which are Chinese American memes. Obviously Jackie Chan is from over there, but sort of his career was based over here. Why do you think we're starting to see Bing Chi Ling, Wu Mao? You know what I mean? Like real Chinese concepts, but obviously just being taken to a total troll joke level. Yeah, I mean, you would just say, listen, Chinese culture in general is more popular than it's ever been. It's everywhere, right? As much as China is the enemy in the news, right? That means a lot of people are talking about China. So there's a ton of YouTube videos talking about China, covering Chinese news, the social credit score, Bing Chi Ling, Chinese language, everything like that. A lot of people are eating Chinese food. A lot more people are taking Chinese classes. John Cena and Mark Zuckerberg have been learning Mandarin for like the past 10 years. Let's be honest, guys. The gamer world, which a lot of this stuff kind of gets popularized in. Right, because it's a little bit more brainy and a little bit more tapped into the internet, right? It is more tapped into the internet, but it's extremely a trolly culture. Very irreverent. And super irreverent. No respect, anything goes. You can say whatever. However, I will say this, and I haven't been gaming lately, but I feel like maybe more people are willing to make like the Chinese jokes rather than like jokes about other people that they feel like, oh, they're even too dangerous, too controversial. Yeah, I think that it's for two reasons. One, politically, they're not scared, but also in IRL, they're not scared of physical violence towards them from Asians, obviously. To be honest, if I put on my internet hat, Andrew, if I remove myself from being an Asian, some of these are funny. I mean, they make me laugh, too. Listen, guys, I got a sense of humor. I get it, you know what I mean? Like in a way, it's better than getting called a stupid C word, which is actually what I remember growing up getting called. Yeah, so I think for, let's just say Chinese-Americans or Chinese from overseas or Chinese that are visiting America, like how do you process seeing this stuff? Why are they really calling me like ice cream? That's my name is ice cream. Everywhere I go, everybody's saying bing jing. Why are they calling me bing jing? I think, especially if you're in college and you're around a bunch of gamers, you're just gonna have to know and scan how people are using the word. Any word, any word. Is that a lot of calculus to ask people to make, man? Because now you're asking people to make reads on intention and tonality and emotion and oxytocin release and the little curves. It is tough when people are starting to weaponize real, actual Chinese words against you. It's tough to tell because you just have to see the tone. But I'll tell you this, David, growing up where we grew up, I've been called just regular English words, but in the wrong tone and you gotta take that offensively. Right, you're saying, hey man, you look like an Asian. Yeah, they're like, you Chinese. And it's like, well, you just said you're Chinese but obviously the way you said it was horrific. Right, so you're a good girl. Well, that's not bad to me because that's what I am but I know to you it's bad. So you're calling me a word that you think is bad and inferior and lower than you and then blah, blah, blah. And I think we have to just be real right now especially with the internet and the way things are going and even the whole China-America thing. Talk about the downstream macro, downstream trend, right? You are not gonna be able to gatekeep and police these words in this culture. When it comes to style, food, words, language, this stuff is permeated. I saw on the internet somebody was like, yeah man, when somebody says that to you, you just have to say, yeah, I've been chilling, been chilling with your mama. That's not a bad comeback. I mean, do it, I think so. I think that basically, you know, these gamer wars, these troll wars, they are what they are. I mean, like you said, once a word gets out, it is tough to police it. But I am glad, I don't know if it's ever gonna reach this point where somebody gets physically attacked in real life being called being chilling. I don't know if it's gonna ever get there and I'm sure nobody wants that, you know? So I guess since the origin of these words are more harmless, I'm just hoping that it's just a trolly thing. That it's just words and at the end of the day, if you're an Asian kid, you gotta toughen yourself for these words because you're gonna hear them again, man. Trust me and it is better than being called a C-word but it still can be not good or it can also be harmless. So you're just gonna have to know. Anyway, let us know what your experience is in the comment section below. We do not have all the answers. We've just been exposed to some of these memes like just pretty quite recently because we're not that deep in every single world of the internet, just what people send us and what has been brought to our attention. Let us know what you think of the comment section below. Are these serious, not serious? Is it in the middle? How do you judge intention? And until next time, we the Hop Hop Boys. We out. Peace.