Musk Praises Chinese-Language X in a Bilingual Post: 'Chinese X Is Awesome' Tops 3.5 Million Views as a Namesake Meme Coin Passes $5 Million
On the evening of November 8, Pacific time, Elon Musk — owner of the social platform X and head of Tesla and SpaceX — posted a single bilingual line on his own X account: 'Chinese 𝕏 is 牛逼,' using a Chinese internet slang term meaning 'awesome' to praise the Chinese-language X community. The short post spread quickly. According to financial news site JRJ, by the afternoon of November 9, Beijing time, the post had been viewed more than 3.5 million times and drawn nearly 10,000 replies.
The numbers climbed fast. Crypto news outlet ChainCatcher reported on the morning of November 9, Beijing time, that shortly after the post appeared it had already passed 300,000 views and 700 replies; by the time JRJ followed up in the afternoon, the tally had reached 3.5 million views and nearly 10,000 replies. According to BlockBeats, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) also interacted with the post in its replies.
The crypto crowd took it further. According to Odaily's meme-coin monitor, a BSC-chain meme coin named 'Niubi' launched soon after the post, its market capitalization touching $1.88 million intraday before passing $4.4 million, up more than 690 times on the day at one point; GMGN market data cited by BlockBeats put the coin above $5 million within two hours of launch, at $5.13 million with $8.3 million in trading volume. Several market-data outlets noted at the same time that such meme coins have no clear real-world use, are driven mainly by sentiment and speculation, and are extremely volatile.
It is not the first time Musk has posted in Chinese. In 2021 he shared an excerpt of Cao Zhi's 'Seven Steps Verse' on social media, drawing wide discussion among Chinese-language users. This time he gave no further explanation for praising the Chinese-language X community, and as of publication he had not added any follow-up comment on the post.
Source: Elon Musk on X
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