‘Aircraft Carrier Style’ Chinese Internet Meme Goes Viral

“Aircraft Carrier Style“, the English translation for the “航母style“, is a recent internet meme that spread across the Chinese internet following a news report featuring the successful take-off and landings of fighter jets on China’s new Liaoning aircraft carrier. Specifically, Chinese netizens were amused by the funny pose of two aircraft carrier personnel at the 2:37 mark in the following video:

Chinese netizens soon began uploading photoshops and images of themselves mimicking this pose, and the internet meme was then combined with the recently world popular “Gangnam Style” phenomenon by Korean rapper PSY. Below is a collection of some of the earliest photoshops and images, many of which were collected into news articles and featured on television news segments throughout China…

Then there are the animated gifs…

If you’re curious, here are some statistics regarding “Aircraft Carrier Style” on China’s most popular microblogging platform Sina Weibo…