“Taiwan Independence Chihuahua” (台獨吉娃娃, Táidú Jíwáwá) is a derogatory political term comparing irrational supporters of Taiwan independence to a pack of neurotic Chihuahuas who bark easily. It had came from PTT's Gossiping board around August 30, 2018.

On PTT's Gossipping board, there was a thread about how Tsay Ting-kuei had criticized Ko Wen-je on Facebook for being against renaming Chinese Taipei to Taiwan, reeling in pro-communist accusations towards the mayor of Taipei at the time. A day later, a user named “TrenchCoat” compared independence supporters to Chihuahuas for being irrational and, to use an English idiom, “all bark and no bite.”

A few months later, the 2018 Taiwanese referendum on November 24, 2018 concluded with a proposal to use “Taiwan” for international events failing to pass. Despite mainstream news outlets expecting this result, the result caused an uproar on PTT where people begrudgingly used “Chinese Taipei” ironically, so the users fighting back started using “Taiwan Independence Chihuahua” as an insult.

Then on January 2019, a user named “jimmyliu1217” made a thread about “The Ten Symptoms of a Taiwan Independence Chihuahua” on PTT's HatePolitics board, listed and translated below:

• At the time of this writing, the NCCU surveys reveal that the citizens of Taiwan actually prefer to maintain their current status quo, rather than rush to any provocative option.¹⁾
• Ignoring all of that, did you know that Chihuahuas are actually named after the State of Chihuahua in Mexico which, itself, is named after the North American Chihuahuan Desert?

• Taiwan Independence Chihuahua on the PTT Villager's Encyclopedia