Chinese Doraemon [repack]

Why has Doraemon, specifically, been adopted so thoroughly by Chinese internet culture?

During the late 1980s and 1990s, mainland Chinese audiences primarily knew the character as (机器猫 - "Robot Cat"). When the anime first broadcasted on CCTV, the character was given the phonetic nickname Ah Meng (阿蒙). Reddit·r/AskAChinesehttps://www.reddit.com chinese doraemon