Internet phenomena in the People's Republic of China: Wikis
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Very erotic very violent — An
common internet catchphrase, after a report by Xinwen Lianbo, the
most viewed of China's state-sponsored news programs, where a young
girl was reportedly to have come across content on the internet
which was "Very erotic, very violent". This incident sparked wide
forms of parody on the internet, and also questioned the
credibility of the state
broadcaster's newscasts.
Very good very mighty - a common
catchphrase found throughout Chinese forums, and has many different
variants.
Jia Junpeng — A
post on the Baidu
Tieba WOW forum which attracted more than 400,000 viewers and
17,000 replies, despite only consisting of the text "Jia Junpeng,
your mother is calling you home for dinner".
Bus
uncle — The reaction of an angry middle aged man towards a
young man seated behind him on a bus in Hong Kong, which became widespread over the
internet.
Xianxingzhe —
the first bipedal humanoid robot in China, commonly subject to
parody and ridicule on the internet.
Hong
Kong 97 — a game made in Japan and set around the transfer of
sovereignty of Hong Kong in 1997, which features poor quality graphics,
difficult gameplay, and character control, and a bizarre storyline.
The game has gained a cult following for its notoriously poor
quality - it has been ranked as a kuso-ge (Japanese for
"shitty game"), a game so bad that it's good.
Q-version —
cartoonification or infantilization in the artistic renderings of
real life characters or objects, commonly found on the
internet.
Fist of the North Star — a
Japanese manga commonly subject to parody in mainland China and
Taiwan.
Very erotic very violent — A common Internet catchphrase, after a report by Xinwen Lianbo, the most viewed of China's state-sponsored news programs, where a young girl was reportedly to have come across content on the Internet which was "Very erotic, very violent". This incident sparked wide forms of parody on the Internet, and also questioned the credibility of the state broadcaster's newscasts.
Very good very mighty - a common catchphrase found throughout Chinese forums, and has many different variants.
Jia Junpeng — A post on the Baidu TiebaWorld of Warcraft forum which attracted more than 400,000 viewers and 17,000 replies, despite only consisting of the text "Jia Junpeng, your mother is calling you home for dinner".
Bus uncle — The reaction of an angry middle aged man towards a young man seated behind him on a bus in Hong Kong, which became widespread over the Internet.
Xianxingzhe — the first bipedal humanoid robot in China, commonly subject to parody and ridicule on the Internet.
Hong Kong 97 — a game made in Japan and set around the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong in 1997, which features poor quality graphics, difficult gameplay, and character control, and a bizarre storyline. The game has gained a cult following for its notoriously poor quality - it has been ranked as a kuso-ge (Japanese for "shitty game"), a game so bad that it's good.
Q-version — cartoonification or infantilization in the artistic renderings of real life characters or objects, commonly found on the Internet.
Fist of the North Star — a Japanese manga commonly subject to parody in mainland China and Taiwan.
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