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Early Monday clean humor: Chinglish

This girl broke up with her boyfriend. She is a foreigner in China and posted a pic of herself in tears with the boyfriend on Xiaohongshu, China’s life style sharing platform, captioned “bye baby.”

The Chinglish responses to comfort her soon followed and created an atmosphere of humor. 28,000 Comments followed under her post and gathered popularity on overseas social platforms, with many foreign netizens showing a strong interest in Chinglish.

A few of the comments:

“cry what? Man like taxi, one goes, next come.”

“you can try try Chinese man, Don’t cry baby, you are very pretty,”

“You pretty, he ugly, u swan, he frog!”

“Abandon him!! Abandon him!!”

“imagine going through a rough patch with your boyfriend and thousands of Chinese netizens comfort you.”