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Internet Culture·2019·informal

野生

yě shēng

Wild / unofficial — something or someone that's self-made, unofficial, or discovered in an unexpected place.

Origin

Used to describe amateur but talented people found "in the wild" — like a street singer who's incredibly good.

Examples

I found a 野生 singer on the subway who was amazing!

野生程序员。(A self-taught "wild" programmer.)

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.

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