鸡你太美 (jīnǐtàiměi): "chicken you are so beautiful"…

Mondegreen of lyrics from Cai Xukun's (蔡徐坤) 2018 song 《只因你太美》 — 只因 (zhǐ yīn, 'only because') sounds exactly like 鸡 (jī, chicken). The meme escalated when his 2018 iQiyi trainee-show promo showed him dribbling a basketball while singing and dancing. The mashup 唱跳rap篮球 (sing-dance-rap-basketball) and 鸡你太美 became one of China's longest-running ridicule memes.

usage

Also spelled 只因你太美 when quoting the song straight. Any reference to 篮球, 打篮球, or even a chicken emoji near a fan is likely a jab at Cai Xukun. By 2023 the meme was so saturated that his name and 鸡 were shadow-filtered on parts of Bilibili.

In Pop Culture

鸡你太美 Jī nǐ tài měi

Chicken you are so beautiful

A mondegreen of Cai Xukun's (蔡徐坤) song 《只因你太美》. Combined with footage of him dribbling a basketball while dancing during his 2018 Idol Producer stint, 鸡你太美 became one of the most enduring parody memes in Chinese internet culture — regularly used to tease boy-band idols and awkward dancing.