Incredible Things Are Happening In China

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Incredible Things Are Happening In China is a catchphrase and copypasta that is used to remark on Chinese news, videos or memes. The phrase can be traced back to X / Twitter in 2020, with its usage gradually increasing in consecutive years. While the phrase is often used to comment on trivial news and cute animal videos shared by Chinese state media, the meme is also evoked to sincerely comment on developments in Chinese policy. In 2023, the phrasal template "Incredible Things Are Happening in X" came to be used to describe events in various other countries.

Origin

The earliest known use of the phrase "Incredible things are happening in China" can be traced back to posts on X (formerly Twitter) made by users @housetrotter^[1] and @muenzenberg_w^[2] on December 3rd and December 5th, 2020.

assistant inspector @housetrotter incredible things are happening in china Chen Weihua ( Replying to Bitch @MarshaBlackburn 9:01 PM Dec 3, 2020 Follow @chen Dec 3, 2020

WILLI Follow @muenzenberg_w Incredible things are happening in China CGTN CGTN @CGTNOfficial Dec 5, 2020 China commissions new-generation "artificial sun" news.cgtn.com/news/2020-12-0... 6:14 AM Dec 5, 2020

An August 3rd, 2021, post on iFunny^[3] used the catchphrase as a title, while a September 3rd post on X^[4] by @goingtoflorida1 was the first post using the phrase to cross 1,000 likes (seen below).

goingtoflorida @goingtoflorida1 incredible things are happening in china Here's a running list of all the "crackdowns" going on in China so far (note: we're way beyond "tech" now): 1. Ecommerce companies 2. Social media companies 3. Fintech companies 4. Fan clubs (organized online and promoted by TV) and celebrity culture 1/2 11:19 AM - 9/1/21 Twitter Web App 167 Retweets 28 Quote Tweets 402 Likes 1:35 PM Sep 3, 2021 5. High-income individuals who avoid taxes, or make "excessively high incomes" 6. Tutoring and education companies, private schools 7. Gaming companies 8. Ride-sharing, car-hailing, bike sharing, and powerbank sharing companies 1 222 63 4 : Chang Che @Changxche 2d 3/3 9. Companies that want to IPO in the U.S. 10. Companies that make heavy use of algorithms 11. Cloud computing firms that sell services to state and Party organizations 12. Bitcoin miners and crypto exchanges 13. Real estate companies and landlords 14. Private investment funds 25 67 ...

The earliest known post to use the phrase "Incredible things are happening in China" to comment on Chinese media outlets reporting on cute animals was a December 7th, 2021, post by @DerekPutin,^[5] gathering over 20,000 likes in two years (seen below).

Incredible things are happening in China. https://t.co/EfIV3hXvBs

— Jewish Groyper For Peace ☮️ (@DerekPutin) December 7, 2021

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A September 6th, 2022, post by X user @goofxist^[6] used the phrase "Incredible things are happening in China" to comment on Chinese state media reporting on an orange cat. the post gathered over 96,000 likes in a year (seen below).

incredible things are happening in China https://t.co/WWWuaszjgA

— Goofxist (@goofxist) September 7, 2022

An October 15th, 2022, post by X user @castawaymariner^[7] used the catchphrase and gathered over 25,000 likes in a year (seen below, left), while a January 9th, 2023, post by user @KyleTrainEmoji^[8] using the phrase gathered over 9,000 likes in a year (seen below, right).