Remember the cool kids in school who knew how to twirl their pens five or six different ways? This guy knows more than 1,000.
Think of pen spinning like the Rubik’s Cube or cup stacking. They’re niche subcultures with a fiercely loyal fan base. A pen spinning subreddit has 86,000 members, mostly from Asia and Europe. In China, its main pen spinning community, Zhuan Bi Zhi Jia, has over 167,000 members.
Remember the cool kids in school who knew how to twirl their pens five or six different ways? This guy knows more than 1,000. Maomao is a pro pen spinner in China who decided to pursue his passion after beating leukemia. The 25-year-old has more than 3 million followers on social media and started his own pen-spinning business in 2019.
