With the proliferation of the Internet, the burgeoning youth subculture thriving within its realms and across social media platforms has evolved into a significant facet of Generation Z’s cultural consumption and creative endeavors. Amidst the backdrop of globalization, myriad youth subcultures, such as two-dimensional culture, hip-hop culture, Shamut culture, ghost culture, and Lolita culture, have emanated predominantly from the Western sphere. Consequently, one must ponder: might these Western-rooted subcultures, replete with distinct ideological paradigms and value orientations, exert an influence on the ideological constructs and cultural identities of our nation’s youth cohorts? How do Chinese youths perceive and assimilate these foreign subcultures? In what manner shall they recalibrate and reimagine…