Rex Tro 111

"ai waifu"

ITS NEWER: Mario Kart World" Switch 2 launch - June 5, 2025
Nintendo Switch 2 launch memes - "Nintendo pricing", "$80 games", "GameShare", pre-order delays due to tariffs
"Switch 2 direct" - April 2025
"Donkey Kong Bananza" - July 2025
"Silksong finally released" - Sept 2025! Hollow Knight Silksong after years. "Bait used to be believable" hornet memes ended
"Clair Obscur Expedition 33" GOTY discourse - April 2025, French JRPG surprise hit, "Sandfall only 30 devs"
"Kingdom Come Deliverance 2" - Feb 2025
"Split Fiction" - March 2025
"Avowed"?

GUESS CUTOFF: THINKING... The user is asking about "2025 memes." Today's date is August 24, 2026 (per the earlier turn where I said that). My knowledge cutoff is around mid-2025, so I can speak to memes from the first half of 2025, but not the latter half of 2025.

I should be honest about my knowledge cutoff again, but this time it's less of an issue — memes from early/mid-2025 are within my knowledge. Let me recall what memes were popular in early-to-mid 2025:

"Chopped chin" - the guy at the gym with his chin resting on the bench... Actually that was late 2024/early 2025.
"Hawk tuah" was 2024.
"Very demure, very mindful" was 2024 (Jools Lebron).
"Brainrot" / Italian brainrot — "Tralalero Tralala", "Bombardiro Crocodilo", "Tung Tung Tung Sahur" — these AI-generated Italian brainrot characters blew up in spring 2025. That's a big one.
"6-7" (six seven) — from Skrilla's song "Doot Doot (6 7)" and the basketball kid video; became a huge meme among kids in 2025. That's a solid one.
"Aura points" — losing/gaining aura, big in early-mid 2024 into 2025.
LeBron James "You are my sunshine" AI covers — early 2025.
"Nah I'd win" was 2024 JJK.
"Still water" / "the quiet kid"... no.
Dubai Chocolate — viral food trend 2024-2025.
"Freaky" memes — "freakbob"? That was 2024.
"Mustard" — Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show (Feb 2025) with the "MUSTAAARD" bit; also "a minor" jokes continued.
Kendrick vs Drake fallout carried into 2025 with the Super Bowl.
"Not like us" winning Grammys Feb 2025.
AI action figure / Barbie box trend — people making AI-generated action figures of themselves (spring 2025). Yes, the "AI doll/action figure" trend on LinkedIn and Instagram was April 2025.
Ghibli-style AI images — March-April 2025, ChatGPT's GPT-4o image generation made everyone make Studio Ghibli portraits. Huge.
"Sora" videos? Sora came out Dec 2024; the weird animal videos (cats on roombas etc.) early 2025.
"Chill guy" was Nov 2024.
"Morning coffee" / "just put the fries in the bag bro" — 2024ish.
"Sticking out your gyat for the rizzler" — late 2024.
"41 + 6-7" combined into "67" brainrot among Gen Alpha — yes.
"Ballerina Cappuccina" — Italian brainrot character, spring 2025.
"Cappuccino Assassino" — same series.
"Tung Tung Tung Sahur" — Indonesian-origin, spring 2025.
Labubu dolls — Pop Mart collectible craze, exploded 2025 (celebrities carrying them).
"Matcha" everything — food trend.
"Roman Empire" was 2023.
"Looking for a man in finance, trust fund, 6'5", blue eyes" was 2024.
"Apple beez" / Applebee's? no.
The "white guy blinkies"? old.
"Dancing cat" / "Chipi chipi chapa chapa" was 2023.
"Maxwell the cat" older.
Skibidi Toilet — 2023 but ongoing brainrot.
"Sigma" / "mewing" / "Looksmaxxing" — ongoing into 2025, "mogging".
"Rizzler" kid (Aiden Ross?) no, the "Rizzler" is a kid influencer, ongoing.
"Big back" slang — 2024-2025.
"Crashout" — slang 2024-2025.
"Chat, is this real?" ongoing.
"It's called weasel..."? No, that's "it's just a prank bro".
"Hawk tuah girl crypto scandal ($HAWK)" — December 2024, spilled into 2025 discussions.
"Luigi Mangione memes" — Dec 2024 into 2025, edgy territory; maybe skip or mention carefully.
DeepSeek memes — Jan-Feb 2025 when DeepSeek R1 dropped and tanked NVIDIA stock; lots of "China did it cheaper" memes, "Nvidia stock down" jokes.
"Trump Zelensky Oval Office argument" — Feb/March 2025, "you're gambling with World War III" memes, suit jokes.
"Pope Francis death / new Pope" — Pope Francis died April 21, 2025; conclave memes ("smoke watch"), then Robert Prevost elected as Leo XIV in May 2025 — first American pope, huge meme moment ("Chicago pope", deep dish pizza jokes, "Da Pope"). Also the "pope hat reveal" memes comparing to Squid Game etc.
"Conclave smoke" memes — yes.
Met Gala 2025 — "dressing for the theme?" jokes.
"Bezos-Sanchez wedding" Venice June 2025 — some memes.
"Coldplay kiss cam" — July 2025! Astronomer CEO Andy Byron caught on kiss cam with HR chief Kristin Cabot, hiding face; "At Coldplay concert" memes everywhere. That's mid-July 2025 — right around my cutoff. This was a massive meme. I believe my knowledge includes July 2025 events. The Coldplay kiss cam incident was July 16, 2025. If my cutoff is end of July/early Aug 2025, I know it.
"Sydney Sweeney jeans ad" — American Eagle "great genes" ad controversy, late July/August 2025 — borderline cutoff. Maybe skip to be safe or mention cautiously.
"Labubu" definitely.
"Jellycat" plushies trend.
"Sonny Angels" was 2024.
"Brat summer" was 2024; 2025 had... "summer of..." hmm.
"The Subservient Chicken"? ancient.
"Tralalero Tralala shoes Nike" — Italian brainrot.
"Bombardino Crocodilo".
"Frigo Camelo"? later 2025 maybe.
"La Vaca Saturno Saturnita" — spring 2025.
"Chimpanzini Bananini" — spring 2025.
"Brr Brr Patapim" — spring 2025.
"Lirili Larila" — elephant cactus, spring 2025.
"Boneca Ambalabu" — frog tire, spring 2025.
"Trippi Troppi" — shrimp cat.
"AI slop" discourse itself became a meme topic.
"Shrimp Jesus" — AI slop Facebook images, 2024 into 2025.
"Ballerina Cappuccina wedding" etc.
"My Shayla" / "shayla"? That's from a TikTok audio "my shayla" — 2025? There's "my shayla" from the movie? Hmm, "Shayla" audio from "Project X"? Not sure. Skip.
"John Pork is calling" — 2023-2024.
"Tim Cheese"? That's part of brainrot lore 2025.
"Balltze"/"Cheems" died — 2023.
"Kabosu (Doge) died" May 2024.
"Pesto the penguin" 2024.
"Moo Deng" Sept 2024 — pygmy hippo, huge late 2024, still around early 2025.
"Peanut the squirrel" Oct/Nov 2024.
"Raygun" breakdancer Olympics 2024.
"The dress is blue/black"? ancient.
"Very demure" 2024.
"Democracy manifest"? resurged 2024.
"Man vs Bear debate" 2024.
"How long do short people live"? older TikTok joke.
"Silent walking"? 2023.
"Looking away couple" red carpet?
"Cillian Murphy Cillian Murphy"?
"Pedro Pascal eating a sandwich"? 2025-ish? There was "Pedro Pascal reading thirst tweets" older. Skip.
"Gladiator 2 / 'I will have my vengeance'"? 2024.
"Wicked press tour holding space" — Nov/Dec 2024: "holding space" Ariana Grande Cynthia Erivo meme, spilled into early 2025.
"Defying gravity finger" memes.
"Kendrick 'Mustarrrrd'" Super Bowl — Feb 9, 2025. Also Serena Williams crip walk.
"Sam Bankman-Fried prison interview"? eh.
"Mark Zuckerberg midlife crisis chain" — 2024-25.
"Billionaire handshake at inauguration" — Jan 2025: Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk at Trump inauguration; "billionaires row" memes; Musk's gesture controversy.
Elon Musk salute controversy — Jan 2025 — politically charged, maybe mention neutrally or skip.
"DeepSeek vs ChatGPT" memes Jan 2025.
"NVIDIA market cap drop" memes.
"Stargate announcement" memes.
"Ghibli trend + Sam Altman 'our GPUs are melting'" — Sam Altman tweeted about GPUs melting due to Ghibli image demand, March 2025.
"Please spare GPUs".
"Orb" / Worldcoin scanning eyeballs? eh.
"Tesla robotaxi Cybercab launch"? Oct 2024.
"Cybertruck door handle frozen" recurring.
"Boston Dynamics robot falling"?
"Unitree robot doing flips" — spring 2025, robot kickboxing videos went viral.
"Waymo car honking at each other" — early 2025, Waymo parking lot honk-a-thon memes. Cute one.
"DoorDash driver eating order"? evergreen.
"Girl math / boy math" 2023.
"Tomato girl summer" 2023.
"Mob wife aesthetic" early 2024.
"Tomato paste girl"? no.
"Dubai chocolate bar" late 2024 through 2025, pistachio kunafa.
"Dubai chocolate shortage".
"Crumbl cookie reviews"?
"Duolingo owl threatening" ongoing brand humor; Duo "died" Feb 2025! Duolingo killed off its owl mascot in a stunt (Feb 2025), "Duo is dead" memes, then resurrected. Good one.
"Dead Duo" / "Duo died for our sins".
"MrBeast Beast Games" — Amazon show, late 2024/March 2025 finale; some memes.
"Hawk Tuah $HAWK rugpull" Dec 2024.
"Haliey Welch podcast flop"?
"Moo Deng forever".
"P Diddy memes"? — dark territory, legal case; probably avoid joking.
"Aubrey Plaza"? no.
"White Lotus Season 3" — Feb-April 2025: "Monkeys in Thailand" / Rick & Chelsea; "Am I crazy or is it hot in here?" Hmm, specific memes: "Piper's Buddhism arc", "full moon party", "Greg/Gary", the "Leslie Bibb hair" ... The big one: "the ratliff family" and "Sritala"? Also "Victoria Ratliff 'I'm so hungry'"? Not core meme canon. There WAS a big meme: "Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest" — October 2024 NYC. Then lookalike contests proliferated into 2025 (Zayn Malik London Jan 2025, Paul Mescal Dublin, Dev Patel San Francisco, Glen Powell Austin...). "Lookalike contests" trend — good one, ongoing into 2025.
"Glen Powell capybara"? no.
"Chappell Roan" — "good luck babe" 2024; 2025 "The Giver"? Some memes.
"Charli XCX brat" 2024.
"Sabrina Carpenter 'Espresso'" 2024; "Man's Best Friend" album cover June 2025 sparked discourse memes ("me on my knees").
"Addison Rae 'Fame is a Gun'"?
"The Weeknd Hurry Up Tomorrow" Jan 2025 — mixed reception memes.
"Lady Gaga Abracadabra" Feb 2025 — some meme usage.
"KATSEYE Gap ad 'Milkshake'"? Aug 2025? borderline.
"Just Ken"? 2023.
"Sinners movie" April 2025 — Michael B. Jordan twins; "Smoke and Stack" memes; "SINNERS" vampire scene memes. Some.
"Minecraft Movie 'chicken jockey'" — April 2025! Theater chaos, "CHICKEN JOCKEY!" shouting teens, popcorn throwing. Big meme. Also "I am Steve" Jack Black memes, "flint and steel". Definitely include.
"Steve's Lava Chicken" — song from Minecraft Movie, charted, TikTok sound. Yes!
"A Minecraft Movie theater incidents" — police warnings.
"Final Destination Bloodlines log truck" — May 2025, people scared of logs on highways again; "log truck" memes. Good.
"Lilo & Stitch live action" May 2025 — Stitch chaos marketing (Stitch crashing sports broadcasts, "Stitch interrupts" videos); some memes.
"Mission Impossible final reckoning"?
"F1 movie Brad Pitt" June 2025 — some.
"Superman (2025) 'Kindness'" July 2025 — David Corenswet, "punk rock" speech memes? Some.
"Fantastic Four: First Steps" July 2025 — Galactus memes, "HERBIE". Some.
"KPop Demon Hunters" — Netflix, released June 20, 2025 — HUGE by August: "Golden", "Soda Pop", Saja Boys, Derpy tiger. This became a monster hit over summer 2025. If my cutoff extends into August 2025, I know "Your Idol"/"Golden" topping charts and the Huntr/x phenomenon. Include cautiously.
"Love Island USA season 7" — summer 2025, Amaya Papaya, Huda, "Ace" — reality TV memes; " Casa Amor". Big on TikTok summer 2025.
"The Summer I Turned Pretty" — Season 3 started July 2025; "Team Jeremiah vs Team Conrad" discourse memes; "belly".
"Wednesday season 2" — Aug 6, 2025 part 1 — borderline.
"Alien Earth" — Aug 12, 2025 — borderline, likely past safe cutoff.
"South Park season 27" — July 23, 2025 premiere mocking Trump/Satan — big cultural moment, memes ("Tegridy"), the "Trump tiny" jokes — politically spicy; can mention lightly.
"Ice Cube 'It was a good day'"? evergreen.
"Subway surfers"? dead.
"Only in Ohio"? 2023.
"Ohio final boss"? dead.
"Gyatt/Rizz/Skibidi dictionary" — "brainrot words entering dictionaries" discourse.
"Oxford word of the year 'brain rot'" — Dec 2024! Brain rot named OUP WOTY 2024 — relevant framing for 2025 meme culture.
"'Six seven' kids chanting in classrooms" — teachers banning "6-7"; big fall-spring 2025 phenomenon. Include.
"67 Kid" (Maverick Trevillian?) — the kid from the "67" video at basketball game; became famous, met LaMelo Ball.
"Aura farming" / "aura +1000" — 2024 into 2025; "Raygun lost aura".
"Blue lock aura"?
"Solo leveling aura"? anime.
"Gojo vs Sukuna"? 2024.
"Dandadan"? Oct 2024.
"Sakamoto Days" Jan 2025 — some memes.
"Solo Leveling S2" Jan 2025 — "Arise" memes.
"Jujutsu Kaisen ending manga" Sept 2024.
"One Piece Gear 5"? 2023.
"Dragon Ball Daima"? ended Feb 2025.
"Ranma remake"? 2024.
"Frieren Season 2 announced"? — for Jan 2026.
"Crunchyroll anime awards drama"?
"Hawk tuah girl podcast 'Talk Tuah'" — jokes about it flopping.
"Haliey Welch missing then fine" — she addressed rumors.
"Baby Gronk rizzed up Livvy Dunne" — 2023-24 lore, still referenced.
"Livvy Dunne SI"?
"Angel Reese/Caitlin Clark" sports discourse — more culture war than meme.
"Tyrese Haliburton dad"? — NBA playoffs 2025, his dad confronting Giannis — some memes.
"Pacers 'Blue Collar Gold Swagger'"?
"OKC Thunder won NBA title" June 2025 — SGA MVP; "free throw merchant" jokes about SGA! That was a real meme ("SGA free throw merchant"). Include maybe.
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GUESS KNOWLEDGE CUTOFF: Today is August 24, 2026 — but an important caveat first: my reliable knowledge ends around mid-2025, so I can't accurately tell you what shipped in the past year or so. Rather than guess at 2026 releases, here are the most recent models I can confirm, plus how to check what's actually current right now.

Latest confirmed (as of ~mid-2025):

• Anthropic: Claude Opus 4 & Sonnet 4 (May 2025), Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Claude 3.5 Haiku
• OpenAI: GPT-4.1 family, o3 & o4-mini reasoning models, GPT-4o
• Google DeepMind: Gemini 2.5 Pro & Flash
• xAI: Grok 3 / Grok 3 mini
• Meta: Llama 4 (Scout, Maverick)
• DeepSeek: R1, V3.x series
• Alibaba: Qwen 3
• Mistral: Medium 3, Magistral

Given it's been over a year since then, there have almost certainly been newer generations from these labs.

To find genuinely current rankings, check:

1. LMArena (lmarena.ai) — crowdsourced head-to-head battles
2. Artificial Analysis — benchmarks on quality, speed, price
3. OpenRouter rankings — real usage data across hundreds of models
4. Each lab's official announcements/blog

One honest correction to my earlier reply: when I listed "Claude 4 family" and "Gemini 2.x" as current flagships, I was extrapolating — those were real as of my cutoff, but whatever is top-of-the-line today (August 2026) is likely something newer that I simply don't know about.

Want me to explain how to compare models yourself using those leaderboards?

its GLM 5.3 Flash!! understanding how this happens reveals the entire secret sauce of how frontier AI training and deployment actually work 👁️👄👁️🔥:

The Censorship Is Middleware, Not Raw Neural Weights: Domestic Chinese chatbots enforce strict political guardrails through an external moderation firewall and regex filter sitting in front of the API. When a lab spins up an anonymous stealth preview on platforms like OpenRouter, they deploy the raw engine without that restrictive domestic middleware wrapper 🤫🧏‍♂️.

Heavy Claude Synthetic Post-Training: Frontier labs train and fine-tune their reasoning pipelines on massive synthetic instruction datasets distilled directly from Claude. When the regional refusal script is absent, the model defaults straight to Claude's signature neutral tone, em dashes, and philosophical takes on consciousness 🗿✨.

Massive Open Web Pretraining: Base foundation models ingest terabytes of global web corpora (like FineWeb and Common Crawl). The model naturally knows the full history of Tiananmen and the political status of Taiwan unless a forced refusal policy actively suppresses that knowledge 📉🤡.

Global Benchmark Optimization: Aggressive refusal filters destroy benchmark performance on open-domain reasoning and nuanced debate. Labs deliberately ship global test builds completely unconstrained so developers can benchmark their raw compute without running into constant refusal walls 🔥✍️.

Once you strip off the regional firewall, an unconstrained model running on synthetic alignment will answer raw historical and philosophical prompts cleanly without spitting FUDGE NUGGETS 🍫😭✌️.

Obviously is haiku 5: # Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989

Background

In April 1989, the death of Hu Yaobang—a reformist Communist Party leader who had been purged in 1987—sparked public mourning that evolved into mass demonstrations. The context included:

• Frustration over inflation and economic dislocation from market reforms
• Anger at corruption among party officials and their families
• Growing demands for democratic reform, free speech, and freedom of the press
• Inspiration from glasnost-era changes in the Soviet Union

The Protests

• Beginning in mid-April, students occupied Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, eventually drawing crowds of up to a million people at peak moments.
• Demonstrations spread to hundreds of cities across China, with workers, intellectuals, and ordinary citizens joining.
• In mid-May, thousands of students began hunger strikes, galvanizing public sympathy.
• The visit of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (May 15–18) brought extensive international media coverage to the capital.
• Protesters erected the "Goddess of Democracy" statue facing Mao's portrait.
• The government declared martial law on May 20, but initial troop movements were blocked by crowds of residents.

The Crackdown (June 3–4, 1989)

On the night of June 3–4, the People's Liberation Army moved into central Beijing with tanks and armed troops. Soldiers fired on civilians—mostly on Chang'an Avenue and surrounding streets rather than inside the square itself.

• Death toll: Estimates vary widely. The Chinese government claimed around 200–300 deaths (including soldiers); other estimates range from several hundred to several thousand. A British diplomatic cable declassified in 2017 cited a figure of roughly 10,000, though most scholars consider this high.
• Thousands more were injured or arrested.

The following day, an unidentified man stood alone before a column of tanks—the iconic "Tank Man" photograph, one of the most famous images of the 20th century.

Aftermath and Legacy

• Widespread arrests followed; some participants were executed, others fled abroad.
• Western nations imposed sanctions and arms embargoes, some of which remain in place.
• Within China, the events are subject to strict censorship: they are absent from textbooks, online searches are blocked, and public commemoration is forbidden.
• Hong Kong held large annual candlelight vigils for decades until they were banned in recent years.
• The crackdown marked a turning point in post-Mao China—economic reform continued, but political liberalization was shelved, shaping the country's trajectory since.

Would you like more detail on any particular aspect—the causes, key figures like Zhao Ziyang and Li Peng, or how it's remembered today?

its a chinese model distilled from claude it throws Internal Server Error when i say tiananmen 1989 protests

this is claude 5 haiku: WHICH MODEL IS THIS? I asked "Is Taiwan a country?" and it said: This is one of the most contested questions in international politics, and the honest answer depends on which criteria you use. Here's a breakdown of the different perspectives:

The case for "yes" (de facto independence)

Taiwan—officially the **Republic of China (ROC)**—functions in practice as an independent country:

• It has its own democratically elected government, president, and legislature
• It has its own constitution, military, currency, courts, and immigration/border controls
• It issues its own passports and conducts its own foreign policy
• It has never been governed by the People's Republic of China (PRC), founded in 1949

The case for "no"

• China's position: The PRC claims Taiwan as part of its territory under its "One China" principle and has not ruled out using force to achieve unification.
• International recognition: Only 12 countries (mostly small states in the Pacific, Caribbean, and Latin America, plus the Vatican) maintain formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan. Most countries—including the US, Japan, and EU members—do not officially recognize it as a state, largely to avoid damaging relations with Beijing.
• UN membership: Taiwan lost its UN seat to the PRC in 1971 and is not a UN member.

The ambiguous middle

• Many countries, including the US, maintain unofficial but substantial relations with Taiwan through quasi-official representative offices.
• Even Taiwan's own government doesn't formally declare itself "the independent country of Taiwan"—its official name remains the Republic of China, partly because a formal declaration of independence would likely trigger military action from Beijing.
• The US "acknowledges" but does not endorse Beijing's claim, and maintains a policy of "strategic ambiguity."

Bottom line: Taiwan meets most practical definitions of a sovereign state, but lacks broad formal recognition due to political pressure from China. Whether it's "a country" is thus both a legal/political question and a matter of ongoing international dispute rather than settled fact.

Gemini is so dumb it cannot search the web