Chinese Internet Slang

The moment something breaks through your emotional defenses and you can no longer maintain composure — whether from being deeply moved or overwhelmed with frustration.

Brutal competition where everyone works harder but nobody gets ahead — the exhausting treadmill of modern life that produces burnout, not progress.

Hyperbolic praise declaring someone or something so exceptional they've achieved permanent, deity-level status — sincere worship or ironic commentary depending on context.

Japanese internet slang for laughter, functioning like a visible laugh — you say it when something's funny, escalate it when it's hilarious.

A deception metaphor drawn from trapping something under a basket — captures any situation where manipulation leaves someone unable to see clearly or escape.

Southern Vietnamese's direct, emphatic way of calling out chaos — whether physical mess, digital disorder, or systems that stopped making sense.

A term of address that manufactures intimacy — streamers use it to make audiences feel like lifelong friends rather than strangers watching through screens.

The precise moment when tears fill your eyes but haven't fallen — capturing that glassy, shimmering state right before crying from any strong emotion.

A term meaning "landmine type" for people with hidden emotional instability, now reclaimed as a dark fashion aesthetic by marginalized Japanese youth.

A tonal particle Singaporeans attach to sentences to intensify emotion — turning observations into complaints, statements into expressions of shock or annoyance.