In October 2021 Chinese Dwayne Johnson memes started to become popular alongside John Xina and memes about China's social credit system, used to mock China. On August 12th, 2021, the FaceApp image of The Rock was reposted to /r/blursedimages, gaining over 24,000 upvotes in two months. On December 22nd, 2020, iFunny user SamONellaAcademy posted a shitpost video fading-in on a demotivational posted using the FaceApp Dwayne Johnson over text reading "Dwayne 'Rock-Lee' Jong-sun" (shown below). Memes referencing an Asian version of The Rock continued to spread over the course of late 20.