也是醉了
I’m speechless
我也是醉了。I can’t even.
也是醉了 means “I’m drunk too”. Online it is a sigh at something so silly or annoying that you have nothing left to say, close to “I can’t even”.
- Took off
- 2014
- Started in
- Online game players
- Today
- Now everyday Chinese
What it means
醉 means “drunk”. The joke is that the thing in front of you makes your head spin as if you had been drinking. People usually add 我 and put it at the end of a complaint: 我也是醉了.
It does the same job as 无语, “speechless”, with a little more drama.
How people use it
It is still common in chat and comments, if a little old now. 醉了 alone works too. The tone is mild: you are fed up, not angry.
你到了吗？
Are you here yet?地铁停了半个小时，我也是醉了
The subway stopped for half an hour. I can’t even.没事，电影还没开始
No worries. The movie hasn’t started.帮我买一桶爆米花
Get me a bucket of popcorn.
More examples
等了一个小时，外卖还没到，我也是醉了。
An hour, and the delivery still isn’t here. I can’t even.
他又把钥匙忘在家里了，也是醉了。
He left his keys at home again. Unbelievable.
Where it came from
Articles from 2014 say online game players spread it, especially players of DOTA, who said it about another player’s moves, very good or very bad.
Some of the same articles trace it further back, to Jin Yong’s novel 笑傲江湖, in which the hero says that flattery makes him feel ill, as if he were drunk.
In December 2014, a list of the top ten internet phrases of the year put 我也是醉了 first. Another list from the same month did not rank its ten phrases.
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Sources
- Qianzhan: the internet phrases of 2014 (in Chinese) (qianzhan.com)
- Sina News: two lists of 2014 phrases (in Chinese) (news.sina.cn)
Checked November 2026. The picture at the top is our own drawing of 灯灯. It is not the original meme image.
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