About

Every Time I Draw My Sword I Grow Stronger is a series of memes based on a video using footage from the Chinese Stardust TV drama After Drawing My Sword a Hundred Thousand Times, I Became Invincible, where a character is shown repeatedly, rapidly drawing and sheathing their sword to train themselves and become the strongest swordsman. The videos and their narration draw parallels between excessive masturbation and the act of drawing a sword. The memes were popularized in mid-February 2026 on sites including TikTok, X and Reddit.

Origin

On September 30th, 2025, the StardustTV-Chinese YouTube^[1] channel uploaded the film, After Drawing My Sword a Hundred Thousand Times, I Became Invincible, garnering over 150,000 views in five months. The film is about a warrior who is tasked with drawing his sword 100,000 times to learn an ultimate technique. The film was made for the Chinese StardustTV^[2] app, where it was originally released in short chunks.

On October 7th, 2025, TikToker^[3] @shbdhxhdb2 posted an AI-generated video using footage from the film, telling the story of a Chinese warrior who trains to learn the "ultimate sword technique" by drawing his sword 1,000 times per day. He practices all day, while eating, sleeping, etc. The video shows him rapidly drawing and sheathing his sword in a variety of situations. One day, a woman sees him drawing his sword in bed and thinks he is pleasuring himself. His disciples laugh at him, but he knows that if he can draw his sword 100,000 times he'll become an unmatched master.

The video gained over 2.6 million views in four months.

Spread

On February 9th, 2026, X^[4] user @g1a1c2a1e2e2d2 posted an animation based on the video where the characters are drawn over, garnering over 38,000 likes and 5,400 reposts in a week. The animation was reposted to the /r/fishmaell^[5] subreddit that day, garnering over 1,600 upvotes in the same span of time.

On February 10th, TikToker^[6] @txqs1jw5u8 posted the original version of the meme, garnering over 4.5 million views in a week.

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