{"id":146113,"date":"2026-02-13T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146113"},"modified":"2026-02-13T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:30:10","slug":"becoming-chinese-memes-reflect-a-world-shaped-by-chinas-ascent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146113","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Becoming Chinese\u2019 memes reflect a world shaped by China\u2019s ascent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAcross social media, a curious phrase has been circulating: \u201cYou met me at a very Chinese time in my life.\u201d It appears under videos of hotpot dinners, DHGate hauls, Chinese streetwear fits and users joking about switching their phone interfaces into Chinese \u201cfor the aesthetic\u201d.<br \/>\nIt has even spawned an ecosystem of spin-offs: \u201cChinamaxxing\u201d, \u201cyou will turn Chinese tomorrow\u201d and countless posts where people half-joke about becoming \u201cmore Chinese\u201d by the day.<br \/>\nBut beneath the humour of what looks&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3342421\/becoming-chinese-memes-reflect-world-shaped-chinas-ascent?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAcross social media, a curious phrase has been circulating: \u201cYou met me at a very Chinese time in my life.\u201d It appears under videos&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}