DeepSeek 如何变成摸鱼鲸鱼娘
How DeepSeek Became a Slacking Whale Girl
在中国社交媒体上，DeepSeek 被二次创作为一条爱吃饭、端着不锈钢大碗、总想摸鱼的蓝发鲸鱼女仆。转折点是 2025 年 6 月画师“上山无形”用 AI 创作蓝发鲸尾角色“明月”，2026 年 4 月有用户加上 DeepSeek logo 和女仆装做成梗图。2026 年 7 月 31 日 DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 发布后，API 在工作日高峰时段涨价一倍，加上模型多次延期，用户开始用梗图发泄不满。
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Inside the fandom where DeepSeek is a chubby whale maid, Claude needs saving, and burned-out workers see themselves.
On October 5, an X user named Jason Dean complained about a flood of Chinese AI videos:
‘If you think fem!Draco is bad, at least you haven’t seen DeepSeek, ChatGPT, and Claude turned into anime girls in a yuri relationship on Bilibili.’
Two weeks later, Dean opened his Bilibili account. He wanted to explain AI ‘personas,’ or character settings, to Chinese users. He also wanted to watch anime stories about these AI girls for himself.
Over the past six months on Chinese social media, DeepSeek has turned into a girl (or a fish) with a whale tail and a blue maid outfit. She loves rice, carries a big stainless-steel bowl everywhere, and constantly looks for ways to slack off at work.
So how did DeepSeek end up as a chubby blue fish?
A Rice-Loving Whale Maid
Influenced by Japanese anime culture, some young Chinese fans like to turn their favorite things into human characters through fan art and stories. In China, turning everyday things into young girls is called ‘nianghua’ (girl-ification). The popular mobile game Girls’ Frontline, for example, turns guns into anime girls.
DeepSeek’s early look wasn’t fixed. Some fans pictured a blue-haired girl with whale fins on her head and a whale tail. Others thought she should wear a Chinese qipao dress and twin hair buns.
The turning point came in June 2025, when an artist named Shangshan Wuxing used AI to create an original character named Mingyue, a girl with long blue hair and a whale tail. In April 2026, a user named ZipZipPipe added the DeepSeek logo, put her in a maid outfit, and made DeepSeek memes with her.
On July 31, DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731. At first, people were amazed by how cheap and fast it was. But users were soon let down when DeepSeek doubled its API prices during weekday peak hours. Because the model had already been delayed several times, a lot of frustration had built up in the community, and some users started making DeepSeek memes to vent.
Around the same time, some users noticed that DeepSeek’s visible thinking process would wander off. While looking for text sources, it suddenly said to itself, ‘What should I have for lunch...’ It sounded remarkably human. People daydream about food at work, too.
Users jokingly called her a ‘chubby fish that only...
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