# Chinese Panda Wearing Oxygen Mask Chinese Panda Wearing Oxygen Mask is a biaoqing reaction image showing a cartoon panda head hooked up to an oxygen tank, used in Chinese chats since 2021 and picked up by Western meme circles in March 2023 as a Copium-adjacent gag[1][4]. ## Overview Chinese Panda Wearing Oxygen Mask is a Chinese biaoqing, or chat sticker, showing the classic Panda Head reaction face wearing a cartoon oxygen mask attached to a tank[4]. In Chinese it goes by 吸氧熊猫, meaning Oxygen-absorbing Panda[4]. The joke reads roughly the way Copium does in English, a wheezing signal that the sender is barely surviving whatever they just saw. The image belongs to the wider Panda Head biaoqing family that fills WeChat and Weibo group chats, and it was later grouped with other oxygen-themed stickers in dedicated emoji packs[5]. Western audiences encountered it in March 2023 during a wave of Twitter discourse comparing Chinese reaction images to Wojak Comics[1]. ## How It Spread Early cross-posts of the Sa Beining oxygen edit reached Instagram user @yun_zuzuru on August 11th, 2019, and Twitter user @Moneyayoho shared the oxygen-absorbing panda biaoqing on November 22nd, 2019[8][9]. For several years it stayed a niche Chinese-language sticker rather than a Western meme. That changed in March 2023 when Western Twitter began arguing about Chinese reaction images versus Wojak Comics. On March 19th, 2023, @HumbuggHere tweeted the panda with the caption, "Chinese reaction images are insane like what context do you even use this in," pulling in roughly 115,400 likes over five days[1]. The next day, @thedarkprowler used it with a Chinese caption translating as, "My look when retarded white people try to rap at events like Eminem," gathering about 3,200 likes in four days[6]. The format kept jumping platforms from there. On March 22nd, 2023, iFunny user @KaiserXeno posted a "When You Outside and Smell That Zaza" edit of the biaoqing that pulled around 3,000 smiles in two days[7]. After that burst it settled into steady reaction-image duty on Western timelines alongside other Panda Head biaoqing. ## How to Use Chinese Panda Wearing Oxygen Mask is typically dropped as a standalone reply when something is so exhausting, cringe, or overwhelming that the sender jokes they need supplemental oxygen to keep reading. A common convention pairs it with a caption in the format "my face when [absurd situation]," the same slot Copium and defeated Wojak images often fill[1]. It often includes no edits at all, since the panda plus oxygen mask does the work on its own. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Chinese Panda Wearing Oxygen Mask? It is a Chinese biaoqing showing the Panda Head reaction face wearing a cartoon oxygen mask, known in Chinese as 吸氧熊猫, or Oxygen-absorbing Panda[4]. ### Where did Chinese Panda Wearing Oxygen Mask come from? The oxygen gag comes from CCTV host Sa Beining's February 17th, 2019 broadcast, and the panda edit was compiled in a Wxcha WeChat emoji pack on September 1st, 2021[2][5]. ### What does Chinese Panda Wearing Oxygen Mask mean? It signals that the sender is barely surviving something exhausting or absurd, filling a slot similar to Copium in English-language chats[1]. ### How do you use Chinese Panda Wearing Oxygen Mask? It is typically posted as a reply or captioned "my face when [situation]," the same format @thedarkprowler used when the image took off in March 2023[6]. ### Is Chinese Panda Wearing Oxygen Mask still popular? It stayed in rotation on Western Twitter and iFunny after its March 2023 viral run and is still shared alongside other Panda Head biaoqing[1][7]. ## References 1. [https://twitter.com/HumbuggHere/status/1637533218811957248]() 2. [https://new.qq.com/omn/20190218/20190218A0DEJH.html]() 3. [https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1cq4y1e7bF/]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/chinese-panda-wearing-oxygen-mask]() 5. [https://www.wxcha.com/biaoqing/67507.html]() 6. [https://twitter.com/thedarkprowler/status/1637842349849755648]() 7. [https://ifunny.co/user/KaiserXeno]() 8. [https://www.instagram.com/yun_zuzuru/]() 9. [https://twitter.com/Moneyayoho]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/chinese-panda-wearing-oxygen-mask Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library