A 2026 AI meme describing the act of deploying, configuring, and continuously feeding tokens to OpenClaw, an open-source autonomous AI agent framework — treating the agent like a pet you "raise," where the more context and tokens you feed it over time, the more productive work it can do for you.
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"我最近也在养龙虾，天天喂它token，它已经能帮我处理邮件了。"
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Named after OpenClaw's red-lobster logo and the English word "claw," symbolizing AI moving from merely talking to actually taking action. The "raising" metaphor caught on because using the framework well genuinely resembles pet care: continuous feeding (of tokens and context) over time is what makes the digital pet more capable, and a wave of "raising lobster" posts, tutorials, and even paid at-home uninstall services followed as the trend peaked — alongside official safety warnings about default configurations exposing excessive permissions.
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