鸡汤/毒鸡汤
jī tāng / dú jī tāng
Chicken soup (for the soul) / toxic chicken soup — inspirational quotes vs. darkly humorous anti-motivational quotes.
Origin
From the American book series "Chicken Soup for the Soul." 毒鸡汤 is the cynical Chinese internet parody version.
Examples
That quote is pure 鸡汤 — sounds nice but means nothing.
毒鸡汤：你不努力，别人替你努力。(Toxic chicken soup: If you don't work hard, others will work hard for you.)
Related terms
哈基米
hā jī mǐ
A phonetic, essentially meaningless meme sound ('Hajimi') that can mean a cat (especially a cute orange one), cuteness or playful chaos, an all-purpose nonsense exclamation, or genuinely nothing — its power being that it doesn't insist on a meaning.
废话文学
fèi huà wén xué
'Nonsense literature' / 'empty-talk literature' — a style of online writing built from statements that are grammatically perfect and confident in tone but completely empty of information, looping back on themselves or stating the obvious as if revealing a deep truth.
YYDS (永远的神)
yǒng yuǎn de shén
GOAT (Greatest of All Time). Used to praise someone or something as the absolute best.
真香
zhēn xiāng
Smells good / So good — used when someone ends up loving something they previously said they'd never do.