Serena Williams' daughter's doll Qai Qai is the biggest mood of 2018
Raise your hand if you felt personally victimized by 2018. Real Qai Qai understands your pain.
Look, this year was rough. Nobody exemplifies it better than Qai Qai, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.'s sardonic doll who's constantly on the brink of existential crisis.
Tennis champion Serena Williams and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian are far from relatable — they take power couple to a whole new level of untouchable — but their daughter's doll seems to embody what everyone felt during this rollercoaster of a year.
When the @RealQaiQai Twitter account first began, there were only captionless photos of the doll in various states of disaster.
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But Qai Qai was finally given a voice in late October. In an all too relatable tweet captioned, "it be like that sometimes," the doll lies on the floor, her face fixed in an empty gaze into nothingness.
She, like many young millennials and Gen-Zers, understands the futility of putting in effort and instead chooses to accept the way her life is going anyway.
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At times, she's optimistic — despite getting wedged into a couch with an inexplicable lavender cast on her leg, Qai Qai posted, "knock me down nine times but I get up ten."
She may be resigned to her fate as an inanimate toy at the mercy of a child's whim, but she's still hopeful for the future!
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She also fiercely advocates for other toys on social media, like the creepy plush Shakespeare that a Twitter user's daughter is obsessed with.
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Whoever runs Qai Qai's account not only understands the younger generation's nihilistic tendencies, but also manages to nail down memes better than any brand's Twitter.
Whether making a thank u, next meme or referencing the bunny trend while summing up Qai Qai's rivalry with Olympia's stuffed puppy, the person behind the account actually gets how to effortlessly use memes.
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And if anyone gets the internet's love for messy drama, it's Qai Qai.
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Qai Qai's fans are fiercely protective of their Very Online doll — whenever someone questions why someone would follow Serena Williams' daughter's toy, Twitter fans jump to defend her.
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Serena and Alexis keep quiet about who runs the account. Despite fan theories, Qai Qai insists it's all her writing captions and tweeting photos.
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You have to appreciate the amount of effort that goes maintaining Qai Qai's Twitter presence. Someone really went out of their way to pose the doll, prop up an iPhone, and take a picture to make it look like Qai Qai took a mirror selfie.
If anything, Qai Qai is the perfect representation of Gen-Z. She's cynical, knows her selfie angles, and uses meme culture to channel her daily existential crisis. This little plastic doll truly was the biggest mood of 2018.
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