Chinese netizens can’t stop watching Nine-Tailed Fox Demon Falls for Me (狐妖为我倾城), and honestly, we get it. This AI-generated fever dream just clocked 170 million views—not because it’s good, but because it’s so wildly unhinged you can’t look away.
In the span of a few minutes, the show throws viewers into a dimension where a fox demon’s cozy den is flattened by an excavator-wielding female lead (iconic), a male fox spirit gives birth (…yup) to a litter of baby foxes (complete with full-on “male mom” energy), and the final boss literally looks like Labubu from POP MART‘s plushie lineup.
Visually, the animation feels like someone fed a junk drawer of Clipart into Midjourney and hit “export.” The transitions are comedically clunky, and the storyline? Pure, chaotic nonsense, and yet, people are bingeing like it’s Love Island.
As for the show’s response? A complete mixed bag, with comments ranging from, “This makes no sense whatsoever” to “can’t stop watching, help,” proving once again that campy chaos is a hell of a drug. It’s AI storytelling at its weirdest, laziest, and most addictive; a perfect storm for virality on platforms like Douyin and Bilibili.
And so we ask: is this the future of entertainment? We’re already aware of AI‘s involvement within the Entertainment industry, especially within short-form drama. But as to where exactly the future will take us is hard to say—especially with mega hit curve balls like this. For now, Nine-Tailed Fox Demon Falls for Me is the mess we didn’t know we needed.
Catch a few of some of the most wonderfully unhinged clips from Nine-Tailed Fox Demon Falls for Me (狐妖为我倾城) below.
All still images via Xiaohongshu.
