# Chinese Beaver Chinese Beaver is a series of 3D CGI animations posted to Bilibili by user 乙人教动画 starting in November 2022, featuring a gopher or beaver character re-enacting scenes from Hong Kong films and Chinese TV dramas. The clips went viral on Twitter and TikTok in November 2023 and got folded into the Literally Me Guys genre. ## Overview Chinese Beaver is a run of short 3D CGI animations starring a stocky rodent-like character that looks somewhere between a bear, a beaver, a gopher and a groundhog[1]. The clips take dramatic live-action scenes, most famously from the Hong Kong film series A Better Tomorrow and the 2023 Chinese TV drama The Knockout, and re-stage them with the same blocking, camera angles and dialogue but rendered in low-budget CGI[1]. The character is also called the Chinese Gopher or the A Better Tomorrow Bear, and the humor comes from the mismatch between the serious source scenes and the goofy, oddly proportioned animal actor[1]. English-speaking Twitter users latched onto the videos in late 2023, quote-tweeting them with reaction jokes and eventually pulling the character into the Literally Me Guys template[1]. ## How It Spread On November 16th, 2023, TikTok account @10254446zgw reposted both Bilibili animations, and the two uploads pulled in about 983,500 and 250,900 plays over four days[3]. Two days later the same account uploaded side-by-side edits pairing the animations with their live-action source scenes, which commenters identified as coming from A Better Tomorrow[3]. The jump to English-speaking Twitter came on November 17th, 2023, when @DamielBernaldo reposted one of the @10254446zgw TikToks and racked up over 20.2 million views and 27,000 likes in three days[4]. Quote tweets rolled in almost immediately, including a November 19th QRT from @DBloxkzTrinidad in the style of the This Probably Funny AF format that pulled 63,000 likes in a day[1]. An English-dubbed edit shared by @KmaFr_ on November 29th, 2023 picked up around 11,000 likes in five days[5]. The series kept going into 2024. On March 19th, 2024, 乙人教动画 posted a new Bilibili animation that added a monkey character alongside the beaver, and the clip cleared 25,000 likes over two months[6]. That video was based on the "Tell Lao Mo, I want to eat fish" scene from The Knockout, a 2023 Chinese crime drama[1]. A May 11th, 2024 tweet from @ascinhiding, captioned "the budget went up wtf," pushed the newer entry past 84,000 likes in two days[1]. ## How to Use The videos are typically shared as standalone reposts, often paired with a side-by-side of the original live-action scene so viewers can catch the shot-for-shot match[3]. On Twitter, a common convention is to quote-tweet the clip with an unrelated caption about a personal mood or situation, treating the beaver's dramatic delivery as a reaction to whatever the poster is describing[1]. Users who slot the character into the Literally Me Guys template will often use a still frame of the beaver mid-scene[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Chinese Beaver? Chinese Beaver is a series of 3D CGI animations by Bilibili user 乙人教动画 that restage scenes from A Better Tomorrow and The Knockout with a gopher-like animal character in the lead role[1]. ### Where did Chinese Beaver come from? The first video was posted to Bilibili on November 18th, 2022 by user 乙人教动画, and the follow-up on November 14th, 2023 is the one that went viral in the West[2]. ### What does Chinese Beaver mean? The joke is the gap between the serious cinematic source material and the low-budget CGI rodent playing the lead, which is why the clips got pulled into the Literally Me Guys genre[1]. ### How do you use Chinese Beaver? People typically repost the clip on Twitter with an unrelated reaction caption, or share it side-by-side with the original film scene it copies[3]. ### Is Chinese Beaver still popular? The series had its biggest Western viral moment in November 2023 and got a second wave in May 2024 when a new Knockout-based entry cleared 84,000 likes on Twitter[1]. ## References 1. [https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1qP4y1t7bA/]() 2. [https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1yG411B7Yz/]() 3. [https://www.tiktok.com/@10254446zgw]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/chinese-beaver-chinese-gopher-a-better-tomorrow-bear]() 5. [https://twitter.com/KmaFr_/status/1730160000000000000]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Lm56zPY04]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/chinese-beaver Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library