Corona-chan
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Corona-chan (Japanese: ) is a anthropomorphization of COVID-19 which became a popular meme on 4chan, Reddit and other websites during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.
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It sits within the topics 2020 in Internet culture, 2020s fads and trends and Fictional characters introduced in 2020.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- internet meme
- Named after
- COVID-19
- Gender
- female
- Creator
- /pol/
- Significant event
- COVID-19 pandemic
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- hashtag
- 冠狀病毒醬
- pseudonym
- Wuhan-chan
- wears
- cheongsam (qipao)
- inception
- 2020-01-21
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject COVID-19
- fictional or mythical analog of
- COVID-19
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Corona-chan (Japanese: ) is a anthropomorphization of COVID-19 which became a popular meme on 4chan, Reddit and other websites during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.
In mid-January 2020, 4chan users created the Corona-chan character as a girl with bat wings and green eyes wearing a red cheongsam, an item of traditional Chinese clothing, with thorny spheres for hair buns, symbolizing the virus. In some representations, she holds the flag of China and hands out bat soup. These features reference the popular bat soup and Wuhan lab theories for the origin of the virus. On 4chan, a user made a thread titled "All hail, Peng Zhou, creator of Corona-Chan", linking to an article by Zero Hedge, claiming that the new coronavirus may have been created by the Wuhan Institute of Virology, at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. As a pun, she was also often represented holding or drinking a Corona beer.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Corona-chan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.