塌房
tā fáng
"The house collapsed" — what fans say when a celebrity they support is engulfed by scandal and the public image falls in. The metaphor is structural: the fandom lived in the house, and the house is now rubble.
Origin
Appeared as 塌房子 on Douban around the first half of 2019 and shortened to 塌房 as it spread through 饭圈 fan circles and then the wider Chinese internet. It has since generalised well past entertainment — esports players, streamers, brands, and even restaurants can 塌房.
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Examples
我的哥哥塌房了。("My fave's house collapsed.") — said with real grief; the fandom vocabulary treats it as a loss.
房子塌了，我先退了。("House is down, I'm out.") — announcing you are 脱粉, leaving the fandom.
别急着塌房，等官方回应。("Don't call it a collapse yet — wait for the official response.")
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.