"Fatty from Hebei Province," is drinking beer. The 34-year-old online celebrity is well-known on Twitter. Screenshot from Sina Weibo

In a short online video, a Chinese man with a round face and a buzz cut pops open a beer cap with a single chopstick. After a sip, he quickly lifts the bottle to his mouth while giving it a few sharp turns.

A small "tornado" forms in the bottle, and "Fatty from Hebei Province," as the 34-year-old is known on Twitter, drinks it all in seconds.

Hebei Pangzai's real name is Liu Shichao. The odd job laborer hails from Zhengyuansi, a nondescript village where everyone knows everyone.

Liu now has over 130,000 followers on Twitter, drawn to his beer-drinking clips. This week, he even had three new American friends visit him in his village. His claim to fame was an old video of Liu's shared on Twitter in August. It went viral, gaining 12 million views.

He said he knew something was up when he first got hundreds of new followers on Kuaishou, a short video-sharing platform. All of them wrote their comments in English.

Reuters