非酋

What does 非酋 mean?

脸黑, black face, is the adjective Chinese gacha players reach for when the pity counter keeps climbing, and 非酋 is the noun: the African chief, the player whose luck has emigrated for good. Sufferers recognise one another with 同非, same-chief, one tribe member greeting another, and the dream they share has a name, 脱非入欧, leave Africa and enter Europe. The cruelest case is the whale with bad rates, because the 氪金 only bought more chances to lose. Its blessed counterpart at the top of the same map is 欧皇.

Where does 非酋 come from?

2016, the gacha wave that produced 欧皇, produced its counterpart in the same breath. Where the European Emperor was blessed by drops, 非酋 was the African chief walking his people through a drought with no end in sight. The geography of the joke held up: every gacha community since maps luck onto an Africa–Europe axis, and 脱非入欧 is still the standard prayer before a limited banner opens.

How to use 非酋

• 又保底了，我这个非酋。
  Yòu bǎodǐ le, wǒ zhège fēiqiú.
  Pity again — being the African Chief is my destiny.
• 同非，同非，我已经连歪五次了。
  Tóng fēi, tóng fēi, wǒ yǐjīng lián wāi wǔ cì le.
  Solidarity, fellow chief — I’ve lost the 50/50 five times in a row.