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SEP 11
Taiwan-based American comedian Ellery pairs polite Mandarin phrases with exaggerated English subtext, building a 32-second glossary of refusals, delays, apologies, and irritation. The joke lives in the gap between what is said and what listeners are expected to understand.
SEP 11
Instagram creator Maori gathers popular Taiwanese Threads posts that turn misheard Mandopop lyrics into deadpan visual jokes. The Reel moves from Jolin Tsai and Jay Chou to Guanyin and mushrooms in 82 escalating seconds.
AUG 29
A friend mistook ChunChun Chen’s snowy photos from Jungfrau for Qigu Salt Mountain in Tainan. The replies became a collection of similar mix-ups, with the Taj Mahal, Machu Picchu, Hawaii, and other destinations recast as familiar places in Taiwan.
AUG 28
In a clipped scene from the 1997 Taiwan-set political thriller Island of Greed (黑金), arriving late in a Mazda becomes grounds for exclusion. The insult later took on a second life as a Chinese-language internet joke.
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