Tuzki was created in 2006 by Chinese animator Momo Wang, originally as a QQ and instant messaging sticker character.
Tuzki spread across QQ, MSN, WeChat, KakaoTalk, Facebook and Zalo, becoming a real part of internet culture across Asia.
The character got fucking huge too.
- Motorola used Tuzki across Asia.
- KFC China distributed 9.5M+ Tuzki figurines in 2013.
- It even made it to Times Square.
And now we're seeing old Tuzki imagery come back through Chinese meme culture, especially the famous smoking Tuzki meme that basically represents the current "whatever, I'm done caring" internet mentality.
This is the state of internet culture right now.
Old IPs are being rediscovered and turned into new cults, new narratives and $TUZKI is sitting right in the middle of that revival.
Don't sleep on the old internet anon.
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