About

Chinese Man Offering A Cigarette is a series of memes, including redraws, based on a photo of a Chinese man handing a cigarette forward, as if handing it to the person looking at the meme, while another Chinese man behind him smokes. The image originates from a video by Douyin user @dejiang1592 and went viral in late October 2025 when it was reposted to X / Twitter by @0thernet, inspiring redraws in which the men and the cigarettes are replaced.

Origin

On October 26th, 2025, X^[1] user @0thernet posted a screenshot from a video by Douyin^[2] user @dejiang1592 of two Chinese men standing outside what appears to be a temple, one holding a cigarette out to the viewer and the other smoking in the background, writing, "ancestors need you to lock in son," garnering over 183,000 likes and 18,000 reposts in a week.

Spread

The image garnered viral spread over the following days, also inspiring redraws.

For example, on October 29th, 2025, X^[3] user @SuitedWolf redrew the image with two anthropomorphic animals, one offering a lollipop, garnering over 14,800 likes in four days.

On November 1st, X^[4] user @vestigialbones posted a redraw replacing the men with Sam and Max, garnering over 54,100 likes and 4,900 reposts in a day.

On November 2nd, X^[5] user @MYViq_MOKOLS posted a version of the meme replacing the men with two from Bocchi the Rock! garnering over 4,000 likes in under a day.

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