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  • @AccentedCinema
    @AccentedCinema  11 місяців тому +287

    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)

    • @T42oqq
      @T42oqq 11 місяців тому +6

      Hey, can you do a demographic analysis of your audiences?

    • @sendilkumar3851
      @sendilkumar3851 11 місяців тому +1

      7:33 What is the name of the song?

    • @ursamajor3275
      @ursamajor3275 11 місяців тому +2

      @AccentedCinema
      did you forget his 1?
      ua-cam.com/video/JKm4-NXBl8M/v-deo.html

    • @peekaboopeekaboo1165
      @peekaboopeekaboo1165 11 місяців тому +4

      What the heck is "cultural fatigue" ...!?
      China football team isn't corrupt. It's only the commercial league !

    • @zupra5638
      @zupra5638 11 місяців тому

      Please do the dragonballs, tribute to akira toriyama

  • @nightmayor6114
    @nightmayor6114 11 місяців тому +813

    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.

    • @mrjellyfish2
      @mrjellyfish2 11 місяців тому +51

      this is the most Reddit comment I've ever read

    • @nightmayor6114
      @nightmayor6114 11 місяців тому +6

      @@mrjellyfish2 😭😭🙈

    • @amarsanaab
      @amarsanaab 11 місяців тому +19

      it was such a devastating takedown that the director of the original movie, Chen Kaige, threatened to (or did?) sue the guy who made the video

    • @aandwdabest
      @aandwdabest 11 місяців тому +3

      Ahh yes, that Chen Kai Ge movie the promise. That movie was roasted to oblivion.

    • @beponeko
      @beponeko 10 місяців тому +3

      reminded me of that video of sam in lord of the ring saying ’its the furthest he’s ever been from home’ every time he takes a step

  • @easternhills1329
    @easternhills1329 11 місяців тому +411

    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.

    • @Mickey-v7p
      @Mickey-v7p 11 місяців тому +18

      Oh yes, the scene where Zhuge Liang verbally whoops his opponent and the latter gets KOed.

    • @timhuester7721
      @timhuester7721 10 місяців тому +15

      That's so funny! I have read several wuxia novels as a westerner with little context. I always thought, that this expression must go back to some ancient chinese classical literature to be so widely used 😂

    • @雅君墨客-i9z
      @雅君墨客-i9z 10 місяців тому +6

      ​@@timhuester7721的确是古代这属于内伤

    • @timhuester7721
      @timhuester7721 10 місяців тому +1

      @@雅君墨客-i9z Sorry if it was't clear from my comment. I have read several translated wuxia novels in english. Sadly I don't understand any chinese.

    • @operationstratos1013
      @operationstratos1013 10 місяців тому +10

      Also, that phrase “I never seen someone so shameless” became more impactful due to the fact that it was not from that script. The actor forgot the line and he had to improvise, which created this classical line.

  • @jw1731
    @jw1731 10 місяців тому +252

    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.

    • @_de_reve
      @_de_reve 9 місяців тому +21

      this is an absolute genius pun LOL

    • @ledias4263
      @ledias4263 8 місяців тому +8

      窃格瓦拉是吧

  • @kuekevin
    @kuekevin 11 місяців тому +145

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

    • @rondomane
      @rondomane 11 місяців тому +4

      i came down here to say the same exact thing, wild

    • @cac_deadlyrang
      @cac_deadlyrang 11 місяців тому

      CHINESE REV

    • @aerboi1428
      @aerboi1428 8 місяців тому

      +1

  • @maxalmonte14
    @maxalmonte14 11 місяців тому +217

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

    • @liryan
      @liryan 10 місяців тому +13

      The translation somehow makes it sounded like a manifest of some sort 😂

    • @ammi5311
      @ammi5311 10 місяців тому

      Part-time to be precise

    • @w415800
      @w415800 8 місяців тому

      "work" is not an exact translation, it's "earning a wage" to be precise.

    • @胡辰阳-q5o
      @胡辰阳-q5o 8 місяців тому +4

      what he said “打工” is more like 'work for the boss'. note that this guy is released from jail, and now he own a restaurant, he is 'work for himself' now.

  • @Y-two-K
    @Y-two-K 10 місяців тому +59

    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

    • @cagewu2274
      @cagewu2274 10 місяців тому

      😅 everywhere you can see 🐼

  • @adriandapat1206
    @adriandapat1206 11 місяців тому +203

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

    • @teslashark
      @teslashark 11 місяців тому

      The study of Memes used to be called Hauntology

    • @emperorfaiz
      @emperorfaiz 10 місяців тому +4

      Now there's a pretty meme. Exquisite.

  • @kiricappuchin
    @kiricappuchin 11 місяців тому +44

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

  • @cow_tools_
    @cow_tools_ 10 місяців тому +7

    I recognised "Too Simple! Sometimes Naive!" there.

  • @reviathan3524
    @reviathan3524 11 місяців тому +47

    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

    • @SlapstickGenius23
      @SlapstickGenius23 11 місяців тому +6

      A psa gone horribly wrong?

    • @lancergt1000
      @lancergt1000 11 місяців тому +7

      @@SlapstickGenius23 yep

    • @lancergt1000
      @lancergt1000 11 місяців тому +8

      Yea I was really disappointed that he didn't mention the Brother Jie meme, I *really* wanted to know wtf that meme is about since it's so often refenced without context in Arknights

    • @Alaerick1
      @Alaerick1 10 місяців тому +11

      It's also wildly popular in mainland China as well. Brother Jie's actor has a bilibili channel with more than 1 million subs

    • @YY-05
      @YY-05 10 місяців тому +7

      Brother Jie 😂😂

  • @nunyabiznes7446
    @nunyabiznes7446 11 місяців тому +126

    I fucking cackled at the Ip Man edits

    • @ComdZero
      @ComdZero 10 місяців тому +6

      youtube.com/@xiaopenglzy editors channel.

  • @mimisaiko
    @mimisaiko 11 місяців тому +60

    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.

  • @DEV8795
    @DEV8795 11 місяців тому +24

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

  • @candypak7532
    @candypak7532 8 місяців тому +10

    Tbh some movie and classic lines mentioned in this video are originally in Cantonese instead of Mandarin, e.g. the “everyone is rubbish” one. Strong recommend listening/watching the Cantonese version so that you get the emotion better.

  • @DodderingOldMan
    @DodderingOldMan 11 місяців тому +25

    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.

  • @hansyang1697
    @hansyang1697 10 місяців тому +5

    I can’t believe you actually included “虾看” series! kudos to you my dude!

  • @jussts
    @jussts 11 місяців тому +6

    This was fascinating, and the memes were way more relatable than you let on.

  • @sophiamcgarlin7507
    @sophiamcgarlin7507 10 місяців тому +6

    Stephen Chou really is the thickest pillar of chinese memes

  • @bestbro
    @bestbro 11 місяців тому +39

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

  • @gab_gallard
    @gab_gallard 11 місяців тому +5

    I recently watched the 90s Romance of the Three Kingdoms TV series and it was so awesome. So many memorable Zhuge Liang moments. This is just one of them. Tang Guoqian's performance as Zhuge Liang was one for the ages.

  • @Whitewingdevil
    @Whitewingdevil 11 місяців тому +7

    Those Ip Man 5 jokes are fire, I laughed my ass off :D

  • @Nardril
    @Nardril 11 місяців тому +65

    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

    • @SlapstickGenius23
      @SlapstickGenius23 11 місяців тому

      Marmots are related distantly to beavers. Hence they have similar faces.

    • @bephibiki6082
      @bephibiki6082 10 місяців тому +1

      you are right

    • @BOT-ye6tj
      @BOT-ye6tj 10 місяців тому +7

      Because that line was quite serious, no one would say those words when joking, and there were very few suitable scenes.

    • @t1ko677
      @t1ko677 10 місяців тому

      是的😂

    • @deepseer
      @deepseer 10 місяців тому

      It's too long to be put into a single picture, or a short voiceless animation (gif or png format).

  • @-Raylight
    @-Raylight 11 місяців тому +145

    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 Chow!

    • @shinsenshogun900
      @shinsenshogun900 11 місяців тому +22

      Bang bang a chiki chiki~
      Record scratches as Kongming roasted somebody so hard his opponent straight up flatlines

    • @AndrewTan-random
      @AndrewTan-random 11 місяців тому +11

      Sticking out your gyatt for Nerizzler

    • @redkommie80
      @redkommie80 11 місяців тому +11

      Someone paid ther Biboo tax

    • @madelinewright5739
      @madelinewright5739 11 місяців тому +2

      lol did not expect to see you here

    • @sauronthemighty3985
      @sauronthemighty3985 11 місяців тому +6

      Zhuge Liang’s roasts are so savage they literally kill people. No one outshades Zhuge Liang

  • @MrLolx2u
    @MrLolx2u 10 місяців тому +13

    In Hong Kong, everything Stephen Chow makes are memes. I mean EVERYTHING!
    - His "Chinese Odyssey" series where Luo Jiaying/Law Kar-Ying sings "Only You" As "Ong lee yiew.... Can take me choi sai geng" and got slapped scene was epic.
    - His argument during the whole court session in the later stages of "Hail The Judge" was an entire meme scene also.
    - The "From Beijing With Love" scene with the pistol firing both backwards and forwards also became a huge joke point and a meme
    - The "Forbidden City Cops" bed scene wasn't a real tearjerker meme but it's a good meme about "money shifting" when his wife acted by Carina Lau threw the gear into reverse and breaking the mechanism and the bed makes it a pretty good meme.
    Stephen Chow has more but it's too much to list.
    Then we have the ROTK TV series which has tons of iconic quotes and memes of itself, especially the newer rendition of it with the 2010 series
    - Cao Cao running whilst laughing hysterically against Yuan Shao at the Battle of Guandu's meeting became a huge meme because of how dumb it looks
    - Cao Cao shouting "No! It cannot be! NO!" in mandarin in one of the scenes became a real big major meme in China and the Chinese speaking community to be used when things are unbelievable.
    - Liu Bei tossing his son away at Changban scene gave birth to the meme of people yeeting stuff away in social media scene.
    - Zhou Yu clutching his chest whist vomiting blood also became a huge meme in social media by using the same portrayal that you're being angered to the point of vomiting blood and dying
    - Cao Cao screaming "WHY THE HELL WOULD I NEED THIS?!" scene when offered the lost imperial seal also became a meme of itself in social media portraying... yes, as what it's intended.
    Really... While you have Stephen Chow running Chinese memes from HK, you have the "new" Three Kingdoms show that runs Chinese memes from China itself.

    • @magicer911
      @magicer911 10 місяців тому +1

      Not the Battle of Guandu, but the Battle of Red Cliff. This battle was famous for Cao Cao being known for drawing out enemy attacks every time he laughed.

    • @MrLolx2u
      @MrLolx2u 10 місяців тому +2

      @@magicer911 It's Guandu you fool. Yuan Shao was already dead for more than 5 years when Cao Cao decided to claim Jingzhou and pushed Liu Bei to Xiakou which forced Liu Bei to work with Sunwu for alliance sake and also that's when in early 208, Cao Cao decided to push Dongwu/Eastern Wu into submission by using Cai Mao's navy.
      Yuan Shao already died in 202 and the whole laughing and running away scene in the 2010 "Three Kingdoms" drama was the Battle of Guandu when Cao Cao parlayed with Yuan Shao just as a pretext for his cavalry to route behind Yuan Shao's army and when the time hit, Cao Cao mocked Yuan Shao with the annoying laughter like a stupid fool and told Yuan Shao "If I was you, I would never let Cao Mengde live as as long as he has his head on his shoulders, he'll never surrender" and just trots away, like a kid. That was the meme.

    • @magicer911
      @magicer911 10 місяців тому +1

      @@MrLolx2u Cao Cao's most famous laughing memes are the ones he gave during his escape from the Battle of Red Cliff. In China, this is common knowledge.

    • @MrLolx2u
      @MrLolx2u 10 місяців тому +2

      @@magicer911 Plus Cao Cao did NOT even laugh when he escaped Chibi in the show.
      He fled like a peasant that's in tattered clothing cuz everything he had was burnt and Gan Ning chased him to Huarong. Once he was at the crossroads, he was told by Cao Ren to take the longer but seemingly safer route which, he denied as he was already losing hard, lacking of both men and supplies thus he took the shorter and more dangerous route.
      That's when he met Guan Yu blocking Huarong Path and he had never once laughed in the show at that point cuz he knew he was fucked beyond all recognition for losing it all at Chibi and he knew if he played his cards wrong, Guan Yu would lob his head regardless and end it all at Huarong Path.
      None of what you said about what fuckery that "Cao Cao was laughing when he escaped Chibi" was correct... IN THE SHOW
      Cao Cao DID mock the rest and scoffed that Guan Yu was too kind to let him leave and should have lobbed off his head there and when Cao Cao reached the gates of Xuchang, he pointed to heaven with his sword and laughed at it saying how he was the heaven's protected son and he still gets to fight another day and the lords are too weak to stop him. That did happen in actuality but the scene I'm saying is NOT real life but in the show.
      Dude ain't reading for sure.

    • @magicer911
      @magicer911 10 місяців тому

      @@MrLolx2u I ran into a fool who read memes as canonical history.

  • @lydiamendez2706
    @lydiamendez2706 11 місяців тому +10

    Video Remixes/YTPs are truly a universal art form that transcends all borders

  • @GrandArchPriestOfTheAlgorithm
    @GrandArchPriestOfTheAlgorithm 11 місяців тому +252

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

    • @DEV8795
      @DEV8795 11 місяців тому +30

      should have known

    • @pingdragonify
      @pingdragonify 11 місяців тому +36

      I regret nothing!

    • @jenifhaque
      @jenifhaque 11 місяців тому +33

      Its the better option really, kunfu panda and Milan are not native Chinese and they have been covered excessively by others on this platform, so why not something like foreign memes , it gives a glimpse into the thinking of the Culture of chinese netizens who are heavily censored.

    • @CloudAyon
      @CloudAyon 11 місяців тому +11

      It's a good way to know culture for some, if a little questionable

    • @zabi_aka
      @zabi_aka 11 місяців тому +1

      Chinese memes are fascinating and hilarious though, I'd love to know more!

  • @iamnoone21
    @iamnoone21 11 місяців тому +25

    I love learning about memes fron other cultures! My fam and I quote/sing the part at 1:16 to each other all the time haha

  • @SuperKendoman
    @SuperKendoman 11 місяців тому +7

    Jacky Cheung is such an amazing singer! I loved his songs

  • @joshwew9551
    @joshwew9551 11 місяців тому +43

    0:38 NOOOO BIBOO GET OUT OF MY HEAD

  • @Hellacious-Blue-Liquid
    @Hellacious-Blue-Liquid 11 місяців тому +22

    I love how these memes are just like ours! It takes like 5 seconds to learn the context and they're just as funny

  • @misteral9045
    @misteral9045 11 місяців тому +9

    As an American user, the sticker and emoji game on wechat is spicier than Kentucky BBQ. Constant vibe checks, it's always an interesting dance beneath the small talk and conversation rituals.

  • @CNX625
    @CNX625 11 місяців тому +16

    Ip Man vs Frieza. Ip Man vs Saitama. Yup, I still remember that meme.

  • @allmyhomieshatefreud5501
    @allmyhomieshatefreud5501 11 місяців тому +49

    Pandahead mentioned 😤😤🐼🐼🙌🙌

  • @Asummersdaydreamer14
    @Asummersdaydreamer14 11 місяців тому +4

    I may not know many memes, but a quality meme is wonderful to see; I am glad to learn more about panda face since I saw him last week

  • @ScarletCharlotte
    @ScarletCharlotte 11 місяців тому +10

    Thanks. I JUST got Gyatt For Nerizzler out of my head. Now it's back.

  • @janedoe4316
    @janedoe4316 11 місяців тому +2

    I follow & chat with a lot of chinese in my fan community, & have grown to find many of their memes funny? Even if I dont exactly understand the context, so I really do love this information on memes!!! I would watch another video or even a more in-depth video! Thank you for this either way. You are one of my fave youtubers

  • @unitheg6839
    @unitheg6839 10 місяців тому +1

    These memes are so old I can accurately pinpoint which Gen Accented Cinema’s from xD

  • @haroldellis9721
    @haroldellis9721 11 місяців тому +8

    "Even my mom heard of it." Sub meme in a video on memes. Well played Sir, well played.

  • @hokkie4ever
    @hokkie4ever 11 місяців тому +5

    I didn't expect to see Dong Dong Never Die in this video! 😂

  • @jordanetherington1922
    @jordanetherington1922 10 місяців тому +4

    I learned about Dong Dong Never Die when the Super Best Friends played it. It was for a series about crappy fighting games but they ended up actually loving it!

  • @blobloblob
    @blobloblob 8 місяців тому +1

    honorary mention to empresses in the palace, it's a bottomless pit of memes and edits

  • @WhatAboutZoidberg
    @WhatAboutZoidberg 11 місяців тому +4

    You can literally make memes a masters level thesis video. Just continuously great content.

  • @user-rc3cm1zv4j
    @user-rc3cm1zv4j 11 місяців тому +3

    Not gonna lie, I would love to see a part 2 of this topic

  • @Dragonskincollector
    @Dragonskincollector 11 місяців тому +3

    Jacky Cheng is famous of his song, but man this man have impressive acting skill .

  • @TheNinjutsuAlchemist
    @TheNinjutsuAlchemist 11 місяців тому +3

    I’m even more determined to learn mandarin now! A whole world of memes lays before me!

  • @frostmourne1986
    @frostmourne1986 11 місяців тому +6

    They do say memes are the dna of the soul.

  • @kasiamoua8767
    @kasiamoua8767 9 місяців тому +1

    Man, I grew up watching a whole bunch of Stephen Chow movies. Watching the original and Hmong dubbed versions, so many scenes are too relatable.

  • @cabbytabby
    @cabbytabby 11 місяців тому +63

    We’re all inspired by the Motivational Beaver

    • @stevemcgroob4446
      @stevemcgroob4446 11 місяців тому +9

      I may not know what he's saying. But I feel motivated listening to him.

    • @sulemiofan34
      @sulemiofan34 10 місяців тому +4

      what about the hall of mirrors in Versailles

  • @mileshill7196
    @mileshill7196 11 місяців тому +21

    OH. MY. GOD. DONG DONG NEVER DIE MENTIONED!

  • @conghaoxu7344
    @conghaoxu7344 10 місяців тому +3

    7:37 I know it's him even when there's not a single clear pixel on the screen lol

  • @CabblowStudios
    @CabblowStudios 11 місяців тому +12

    The IP Man memes/comments remind me of Chuck Norris memes that used to plague the internet - when I was in high school in the 2010s. Maybe it was a South African thing, but we used to make fun of how invincible Chuck Norris was 😅

    • @emperorfaiz
      @emperorfaiz 10 місяців тому +1

      Chuck Norris meme is a classic.

    • @112313
      @112313 10 місяців тому +1

      Chuck norris is so strong he even made memes about him go extinct

    • @woxolahughes867
      @woxolahughes867 23 дні тому

      Yeah watching him on SABC 1 on Fridays was hilarious

  • @TheMightyMcClaw
    @TheMightyMcClaw 11 місяців тому +4

    Dong Dong Never Die is a classic of internet culture.

  • @atlanta2076
    @atlanta2076 11 місяців тому +3

    I'm increasingly suspecting that I miss out on a ton of great humor because I don't understand Mandarin. The Chinese humor seems sublime to me. The art of saying the most unhinged and preposterous things while staying divinely polite at the same time :)

    • @golwenlothlindel
      @golwenlothlindel 10 місяців тому

      I don't know that actually speaking Mandarin is required, but the humor is one of the reasons I prefer watching shows with subtitles instead of dubbing. You definitely miss things by not being able to hear when there is a pun, or by not hearing the terms of address the characters use.

  • @ZhouTie47
    @ZhouTie47 11 місяців тому +7

    Damn, I stopped watching that Three Kingdoms show a while back when it was removed from UA-cam. Need to find it again and pick it back up.

    • @gab_gallard
      @gab_gallard 11 місяців тому

      I watched it on BiliBili. You can find it with English subs there.

    • @Statusinator
      @Statusinator 10 місяців тому

      It's on Nyaa if you're willing to torrent.

  • @RDG99
    @RDG99 11 місяців тому +2

    Those Ip Man edits are fire lmao

  • @goldeneunuch
    @goldeneunuch 11 місяців тому +6

    Chinese memes don’t often get a lot of attention from the west but they occasionally pop up in places that you dont expect, such as Jinkela references in Azur Lane and osu, random bilibili otomads on UA-cam, Chinese memes referenced in the Mokou meme macros, as well as a Blue Archive edit I saw that featured 杰哥.

  • @HappiAcrossCultures
    @HappiAcrossCultures 11 місяців тому +2

    Omg we would quote the 这辈子不可能打工 all the time 😂😂😂

  • @BallotBoxer
    @BallotBoxer 11 місяців тому +3

    Some day, we will get an Internet we all can share.

  • @aggrogahu
    @aggrogahu 11 місяців тому +1

    I always find working class struggle reflected in media fascinating.

  • @temetyly
    @temetyly 11 місяців тому +3

    So glad memes won😂 Was smiling the whole time haha

  • @songyani3992
    @songyani3992 8 місяців тому

    3:34 another layer of this meme is that due to the facial resemblance the actor playing the primary antagonist, Benjamin Lam, bears with another VERY famous actor and singer Leon Lai, people almost always refer to Leon Lai when using this meme, partially because they mistake Lam for him, partially to just mess around

  • @Mickey-v7p
    @Mickey-v7p 11 місяців тому +1

    Gangsta Zhuge Liang has everything figured out, except for the downpour of rain that robbed him of the opportunity to roast Sima Yi alive!

  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena 11 місяців тому +18

    YANG: Memes...Really?
    ALL OF US: Yes

  • @ThatsABean
    @ThatsABean 11 місяців тому +2

    I never expected to ever see DongDongNeverDies on this channel

  • @digdogbulldogdog
    @digdogbulldogdog 11 місяців тому +1

    Finally someone’s talking about the important topics.

  • @ryllharu
    @ryllharu 11 місяців тому +1

    I've found that Chinese humor and American humor share a lot of similar elements when you get through the translation.

  • @sudip39
    @sudip39 10 місяців тому +3

    Nothing will be more memorable than the Chinese beaver 🦫 .

  • @Kevin-en5zw
    @Kevin-en5zw 11 місяців тому +2

    my man took a meme video and some how made it a feel good educational vid

  • @andrewwang8204
    @andrewwang8204 10 місяців тому +1

    I LOVE YOU DISTRACTION DOG!

  • @ak-ub1ym
    @ak-ub1ym 11 місяців тому +2

    Nice video 😆👍
    Was just watching Stephen Chow's Love on Delivery now on Netflix after Look Out Officer.
    I dont understand much of the context from language but always understood the scene from what the scenario is built on so even if I didnt get the main part always somehow got what the movie was hinting it.

  • @ihatevnecks7015
    @ihatevnecks7015 11 місяців тому +19

    Prior to the whole Kiryu Coco incident, there were a decent number of netizens who contributed random Hololive translation and meme clips here on YT, especially the 'remix' types. Some of the big ones ended up deleting their videos in protest over Coco though lol.
    One of the most popular I think was 'Pekora Quest' which ended up being re-uploaded by someone else eventually.

    • @Oswald-hb2mj
      @Oswald-hb2mj 11 місяців тому +5

      Which was tragic. Chinese editing style was unique in a way that brings a lot energy to the clip. I kinda miss it.

    • @ihatevnecks7015
      @ihatevnecks7015 11 місяців тому +1

      @Oswald-hb2mj Yeah agreed. I have zero empathy for their choice to leave, but it was still an unfortunate loss.

    • @zhu_zi4533
      @zhu_zi4533 8 місяців тому +1

      To be honest, Hololive’s public relations performance is confusing and even angry. This is just a political topic that can be easily avoided, but until the relevant forums are filled with all kinds of racism, personal attacks and various destructive bots. But what Hololive did was just add fuel to the fire

  • @Ledabot
    @Ledabot 10 місяців тому +1

    I just saw Shoulin soccer for the first time a few days ago so I was quite surprised to hear it mentioned in this video. I was going to leave a comment about how it also satiates the corruption of football, but it got a direct mention!

  • @Giffsen
    @Giffsen 11 місяців тому +1

    Seeing Aniki in the intro filled my heart with joy 😊

  • @myronl2910
    @myronl2910 10 місяців тому

    thanks for talking about the game at the end. i was wondering forever what that game was when I saw videos of it on wechat lol

  • @TheTickyTickyTicky
    @TheTickyTickyTicky 11 місяців тому +1

    I'm enlightened from being exposed to 4000 years old Chinese history of memes.

  • @sulemiofan34
    @sulemiofan34 11 місяців тому +8

    Omg this is great XD
    I only knew about that zhuge liang meme because Gigguk of all people referenced it in his 2022 best anime video when he was talking about Ya Boy Kongming

  • @schizoprenicschizoprenic
    @schizoprenicschizoprenic 10 місяців тому +1

    good job for spread the hong kong culture and memes to the worlds

  • @justrandomotaku
    @justrandomotaku 11 місяців тому +2

    More!! This video is way too short. Honestly you can make this into a series

  • @GamerSensato
    @GamerSensato 11 місяців тому +1

    Dong Dong Never Die is very similar to Street Chaves, a fighting game with characters from El Chavo del Ocho (Chaves, in Brazil) that got popular here in Brazil some 20 years ago

  • @kyoko703
    @kyoko703 11 місяців тому +1

    Memes will never die. I live for the memes.
    Long live the memes.

  • @yingmo6910
    @yingmo6910 8 місяців тому

    8:55 fun fact, this guy goes to work in a restaurant couple years later.

  • @iyi3305
    @iyi3305 10 місяців тому

    It should be noted that the source of the panda head is an advertisement for panda cheese.

  • @williamzhang153
    @williamzhang153 11 місяців тому +1

    AccentedCinema: "Finally, real culture!"

  • @SeoulMan
    @SeoulMan 11 місяців тому +1

    Super Best Friends and SuperBunnyHop both covered DongDong Never Die, and they're both glorious in reactions. XD

  • @Rapamaru
    @Rapamaru 11 місяців тому +3

    I was waiting for the Chow-Yun-Fat "Chinese Beaver" meme.

    • @caoqingnan9904
      @caoqingnan9904 9 місяців тому

      its so interesting that the most important thing you need to get the fun of "Chinese Beaver",is not knowing what he saying ,at least you are not a chinese speaker。because if you speak chinese ,it will be more Serious(but still fun)🤣

    • @zhu_zi4533
      @zhu_zi4533 8 місяців тому +1

      This is a pure English area meme

  • @thesimulationcollective9970
    @thesimulationcollective9970 10 місяців тому +1

    "Juk Sai Lei" is my favorite one!

  • @hokoro330
    @hokoro330 8 місяців тому

    If I don't see Stephen Chow in here, I'm leaving because he got to be one of the most famous comedy actors.

  • @VictoriaStobbie
    @VictoriaStobbie 10 місяців тому +1

    I was just thinking about this the other day watching some old Stephen Chow comedy movies. Like I wonder if someone could act out the way Cantonese comedy is but with English for English speaking audiences.

  • @bpcgos
    @bpcgos 11 місяців тому

    What awesome is, our dubber and translator mostly change the meme and its honestly still very funny 😅

  • @evilmousse1
    @evilmousse1 11 місяців тому +2

    now THIS is the kind of cultural exchange i can get behind! i've always thought people underestimated this kind of cultural transmission. they focus too much on how inane it is, instead of how good it is at humanizing the foreign.
    now there's one old asian meme i want someone to explain to me: the fan drop. i've seen it several places, but the one that comes to mind is at the end of the new version of 13 assassins, where the evil lord is impressed with the elegance of the 1on1 duel about to take place, and drops his fan in respect of it. i'm darn certain that this is a specific expression, and i want to know what it means! The badass way the "never seen so shameless" dude fans himself after his diss reminds me of it.

  • @anselmliow4139
    @anselmliow4139 11 місяців тому +3

    I love how you end the video. Such a nice touch.

  • @T6S10CM
    @T6S10CM 11 місяців тому +1

    You're such a man of culture😂😂😂

  • @kkfvjk
    @kkfvjk 11 місяців тому +1

    That fighting game looks incredible

  • @cac_deadlyrang
    @cac_deadlyrang 11 місяців тому +1

    FUN FACT: I have both Dong Dong and Sheng Hua Nan in my MUGEN game.
    Amongst other characters like Goose Howard, Sketch Turner, and Bluey.

  • @jonesjohnathan664
    @jonesjohnathan664 10 місяців тому +2

    How could you fail to mention "Huaqiang bought a melon"(华强买瓜) when talking about Chinese movie memes?

  • @Tomattoism
    @Tomattoism 11 місяців тому

    That posh sass literally made bro go 💀

  • @prn_Melatonin
    @prn_Melatonin 10 місяців тому +1

    STICKING OUT YOUR GYATT FOR NERIZZLER

  • @francishan7729
    @francishan7729 8 місяців тому

    Seen it from bilibili and come here to click the like button. A very good video of meme in Chinese internet world❤

  • @SL4PSH0CK
    @SL4PSH0CK 11 місяців тому +11

    i watched IRL form a taiwan streamer and can say ive learn a lot of chinese internet culture. form using numbers as an alternate for english names or terms like "87"

    • @LegoCookieDoggie
      @LegoCookieDoggie 11 місяців тому +1

      Drop the streamerre

    • @GreenC
      @GreenC 11 місяців тому +2

      that 87 was mostly exclusive to Taiwan internet culture due to their dialect though, mainland China rarely or never used that term

    • @SL4PSH0CK
      @SL4PSH0CK 11 місяців тому

      @@GreenC thanks for acknowledging greenC 👋 i now learned more in the internet

    • @SL4PSH0CK
      @SL4PSH0CK 11 місяців тому

      @@LegoCookieDoggie the streamer is JoeyKaotyk, covid lockdown got me hooked to IRL's