Grade A12 sourcesHIS-01818
Becoming Chinese
Trend & aesthetic · 2025
A TikTok trend prompted a fruit tea video with over 2.4 million views.
Spread Score
How it worksNumbers
- Peak proxy date
- Jan 2026
- Dec 6 ’25 to Jan 2026
- Platforms
- 4
- Started on TikTok
- Origin
- Seeded
- Culture (no sector)
How it spread
Trace the originSherry Zhu joked about becoming Chinese in December 2025. Viewers posted their own routines, and discussion spread to YouTube, Reddit and news coverage in January 2026.
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Timeline (8)
December 2025
Sherry Zhu seed · Dec 6 ’25
Zhu posted a video telling viewers that seeing it meant they were Chinese.[1]
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Spread the same way
Do this
- 1Make a participatory idea easy to demonstrate in an everyday routine.
Every number (3)
- Zhu’s Jan 15 hotpot TikTok only, lower bound“more than 530,000 likes and 3.1 million views on TikTok”3.1M[5]
Press (4 outlets)
- Feb 13, 202669 days in
TIME · What to Make of Social Media’s Chinese Era
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