Aside from his successful film career, Jackie Chan seems to have lived a parallel life of public-service rebellion.

In the 90s, Jackie Chan partnered with Hong Kong and Mainland public-health authorities for a series of anti-smoking PSAs. Recently, they’ve gone viral again — not just because of nostalgia, but because of the unmistakable 90s PSA aesthetic: bold one-line headlines and posed celebrity portraits. It feels completely opposite to today’s overly polished posters filled with QR codes and algorithm-bait.

Feeling motivated. No smoke break today.

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Opening ciggies.app feels like flipping through a Pokébox, except the collection isn`t Pikachu and Charizard, it`s 3,000+ Chinese cigarette SKUs across 210+ brands, each tagged with regional origin, tar/nicotine levels, and a public leaderboard ranking users by how many they`ve personally collected. Built by anonymous dev collective 0x_ultra.

Feeling nostalgic, might need a smoke break after this.

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Hong Kong has always been one of Asia`s most spiritually saturated cities. Red earth-god shrines glowing at the foot of every shopfront. Causeway Bay`s villain-hitting grannies. At some point this stops reading like subculture and starts feeling like infrastructure.

So it`s no surprise that Psychic King (通灵之王) found its home on TVB: Hong Kong TV`s first-ever psychic competition reality show. Two seasons, 2022 and 2023. Headlined by Spencer Leung Sze Ho (TVB`s King of Ghosts), with co-hosts Wong Ka Wai and Ng Wan Ting. Cast: 15 practitioners. Witches next to Kung Fu masters, Mayan ritualists next to Thai magic specialists, Tarot readers next to Chinese horoscope experts.

Honestly probably should`ve asked one of them which direction to face before hitting post for better engagement.

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On Xiaohongshu, a quiet community of 手帕纸 (hand tissue) collectors has been filing pocket-sized packs into binder sleeves: cataloguing designs, hunting rare colorways, and doing everything except blowing their nose.

Unlike a Popmart figurine, 手帕纸 was just there, in your school bag, your grandmother`s drawer, pressed into your hand before you left the house. Keep enough of them and you have something closer to a diary than a collection.

Might be a good hobby if you have rhinitis.

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In 1993, Hong Kong entertainment magazine YES! started bundling something with every issue: think blind box but in photocard format, featuring the city`s biggest Cantopop stars, sold separately from vending machines for $1 HKD each.

The magazine folded in 2014. But the cards kept moving, through drawers, trading markets, and now secondary platforms where rare ones sell for hundreds. A $1 insert became the closest thing to a physical archive of Hong Kong`s pop golden age.

Every generation has its collectible ritual, the object you pulled blind and held onto without knowing why. Pokémon cards. Blind boxes. For a generation of Hong Kong fans, it was a photocard from a machine outside a convenience store.

Nostalgic maxxing now.

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