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Meaning

"Tianlin Era." Zhai Tianlin is an entertainer who boasted about his PhD in interviews, but said "What's CNKI?" during a stream, exposing academic fraud. The scandal caused an uproar, thesis reviews became stricter, graduation difficulty skyrocketed. Every thesis season, people cursing Zhai Tianlin appear on all platforms. The era of strict thesis reviews after the incident is called "Tianlin Era," and 2019 is "Tianlin Year One." Example: "What Tianlin year did you graduate?" "Tianlin Year 2 (2020), damn Zhai Tianlin."