The main owner of the Spring Festival Gala area of Bilibili, Yunshe_, produced a crosstalk video "On the Inflation of Calls Today", which deeply satirized this phenomenon. Let's take a look.

Nowadays, the Internet language has entered the era of "call inflation", and the face value of expression is getting bigger and bigger, but the expression itself is getting scarce. The main owner of the Spring Festival Gala area of Bilibili, Yunshe_, produced a crosstalk video "On the Inflation of Calls Today", which deeply satirized this phenomenon. Let's take a look.

Today's Internet language has entered the era of "call inflation". "Killing crazy", "Please kill me", "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

In response to this expression style, the up owner of the B station Spring Festival Gala area, "Yunshe_", produced a crosstalk video "On the Inflation of Calls Today", which compiled these language phenomena into crosstalk jokes, using the comic images of Mr. Lu Xun and Li Dazhao to ridicule the "over-issue and depreciation of language" behind this expression, and defined it as " inflation of language ", referred to as "call inflation".

(original video screenshot)

In the era of call inflation, the face value of expression is getting bigger and bigger, but the expression itself is getting scarce. Most people dislike this depreciation, but unconsciously follow the trend. It is like a group of people who are keen on using Internet languages, driving a bumper car that is rampant, and most people are forced to join this game. Their emotions are caring in venting, and Chinese is barren under the wail.

However, this crosstalk named this phenomenon, deeply satirizing this phenomenon, but failing to grasp the deep concerns behind "call inflation".

01 "Call inflation", it is true that

praises a person as great as it is. How do you say it in Internet language? "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

of course is - "I can't laugh until I laugh until I get to the point of laughter hahahahaha." If you use "haha" instead of rolling back and forth between life and death, it is the greatest perfunctory and disrespect in Internet etiquette.

The normal statement in real life is not like a good word in the context of online chat; the normal emotions in real life are expressed through the screen but need to be exaggerated to the point of gambling on life. According to that crosstalk video, there are three common forms of "call inflation".

The first category of "nine deaths" is not a simple laugh, but crying cannot be a simple cry. You must bring a sentence with high "help", "laughing until you lose your head", "I am gone", etc., and the per capita "suicide rate" has increased significantly.

The second category is "bending", and it superimposes a bunch of adjectives, verbs, and nouns in a random manner without logic or order. For example, if you describe it as delicious, you should say "storm-style inhalation and stomp jiojio", and you should agree with it and say "a big move of nodding hard."

The third category of "gods and Buddhas in the sky", recommending something to say "goods and good things", and praising handsome girls to say "little fairies" and "gods and immortals descend to earth". The expression is becoming more and more extreme, and in the end, you can only defeat YYDS with YYDS.

("Strange" and "Gods and Buddhas in the Sky" on Xiaohongshu)

However, this is not enough to depict the full picture of the current language of online surfers. With "call inflation", there will naturally be "call contraction" - this occupies another world of Internet expression habits. In the recent hot topic on Weibo, "How efficient are contemporary people's speeches?", netizens rushed to post chat records with friends, believing that the concise and concentrated chat method accurately grasps the expression habits of young people.

"1" is extended from comment interaction to work and life, showing the powerful vitality of the number "1". The lyrics school uses "farm", "hungry" and "walk" to contract all social activities. Primary school students seem to be a little childish expression, but college students enjoy it.

In the comment section of the video, netizens on B also contributed another fashionable panacea number "6". When expressing greatness and admiration, you can deduct "6" when you feel speechless, and when you say "6" when you say ridicule, you can also deduct "6" when you express ridicule. Such encrypted calls are equally confused to the viewers, but if both parties can understand each other, they can communicate freely. Both "call inflation" and "call compression", the different styles of the Internet language seem to be completely different.However, the essence of the problem is not the length or shortness of the term.

What people urgently pursue is always the efficiency of language.

02 A paradox: communication anxiety and the increase and decrease of communication efficiency

"social terror", a new word that appears in the Internet language, once created, easily becomes a popular identity. It is not difficult to see that the communication anxiety symbolized by "social terror" has long permeated between people in contemporary times. A questionnaire survey on social platform Tantan in 2020 showed that nearly 60% of people were anxious about communication.

("Social phobia" group on Douban )

In real life, people who are extremely socially rejected may be rare, but they and their friends around them may have some anxiety symptoms. For example, when facing other people’s warm greetings, I don’t know what kind of greetings should be used to respond; during group discussions, I am worried that I will be stuttering, but I am afraid to raise my hand to speak for a long time. People with communication anxiety are essentially afraid that others will not understand themselves, and then misunderstand and leave an indelible bad impression. To solve such anxiety, people hope for more efficient expressions, such as online language represented by "call inflation".

First of all, "call inflation" can help people express their emotions efficiently. By maintaining an active and active personality, the chat content appears playful and lively and full of personality. It can also allow two strangers to quickly break the ice and improve the efficiency of daily communication. Imagine that students who have never met have gathered together through group chats. If someone is the first to greet "family people" in the group, then each will give out emoticons. Those who have nothing to talk about can echo "hahahaha, laugh and laugh" and "extremely", and the atmosphere becomes happy, which solves the embarrassment of group chats at once.

After all, daily communication is different from writing articles. People do not need to cherish words or follow strict grammatical norms. If there is an expression that can make every word you send out does not appear cold or ruthless or stereotyped, and can make the other party not misinterpret your meaning, why not accept it happily?

(New Student Group Awkward Chats Anxiety)

Secondly, through the follow-up use of the common language "meme", the signal that "we are the same type of people" is efficiently conveyed, and it has also become a good medicine for most "meme people" to relieve anxiety. If you can't catch up with the hot topic, you can first learn to use it with only a little knowledge, and then gradually master the key points through popular science from people around you.

The Internet world blurs the identity gap in real life. As long as you master the latest memes, you will not be left behind by the rapidly iterating network express, and maintain the same frequency communication at the lowest cost and the highest efficiency. However, the relationship between efficiency and anxiety is not one-way. The continuous pursuit of efficient communication has also given rise to new communication anxiety.

(Emoji package that criticizes the emoticon that cannot be read)

Have you deleted it silently because no one likes it in the circle of friends and doubted yourself; are you secretly sad because the carefully edited messages cannot be read back? Explosive growth of Internet information incites emotions, and the lack of instant feedback increases the uncertainty of communication, forcing us to use hot memes on the Internet to resolve the anxiety caused by this uncertainty.

Face-to-face conversations can accurately convey the emotions of a passage with the help of attached signals such as tone and tone. The other party’s expression and expression can also give us timely feedback and remind us. However, online chat lacks the support of speaking scenarios, and messages are more likely to be misread. People will also focus on simple words, giving it more uncontrollable space for interpretation.

(interpretation of "haha" on the cover of a book)

For example, a simple "haha", if it appears in the dialogue between the characters in the novel, we can use the author's psychological description and action description to supplement its real emotions, but it appears to be shriveled and indifferent when it appears in a lonely dialog box. Therefore, we must play a series of "ha" to imply that the other party "This is really funny, you see, I can't stop laughing, and I tremble with my smile."

Human beings seem to live in such a paradox: in an era when face-to-face communication can only be communicated, people develop communication technology because they want to touch each other; but now that Internet technology is so developed, it is even more difficult for people to connect with each other at all times. The difficult-to-eliminate media for expressing anxiety and renewal always grows and falls in the competition.

In order to solve new difficulties, short videos to make up for audio-visual communication emerged, and online languages with extreme emotional expressions also appeared. Some people began to worry about the thin and superficial expression caused by this language.

03 The language habit of intertwining depths and shades, there is no need to worry about the most important function of

language, which is "expression and meaning". When the call is inflated, the "meaning" and "emotion" in the words will naturally depreciate. "In the past, a person was simply a star-eyed, sword-browed or fair-skinned and beautiful, but now he doesn't say that his "peerless" looks like he looks ordinary. 'YYDS' has laid off all adjectives by relying on his own efforts."

(yyds emoticon package in WeChat)

Long before the video of B station was released, the official account tweet "Chinese is almost laughed to death" expressed his concerns about "call inflation". The author believes that online terms have occupied the space for normal vocabulary use, leading to a regression in language and culture. He praises "fairy" whenever he meets everyone and calls "treasure" whenever he sees, which makes the expression that originally symbolizes high intimacy become polite, and the emotions contained are greatly devalued. The social relationships created by shallow communication are difficult to continue to develop in depth - they just call each other a "baby".

The new communication method brings new anxiety. Some people stand in the present and start looking back at the slow past of "cars, horses, and emails". But this is obviously unfair. The use of Internet language is actually mainly used for shallow communication during entertainment and relaxation, helping us to better express our feelings in a specific context.

For example, in the 2021 Weibo hot search topic "How much language is scarce", some netizens said, "If I remove the 'hard', 'who understand', 'forever dictionary', I will lose the function of speaking forever." This sentence certainly expresses a sense of powerlessness towards the pale wording, but it also reflects the irreplaceability of the Internet language at the moment.

Nowadays, we live in an era of information explosion, and the cyber landscape is constantly updated on the Internet, so we naturally need new expressions to convey our moods and feelings. The Internet language rooted in the Internet soil has become the best carrier for expressing Internet emotions.

The "emo" that modern people often talk about is cleverly expressing a state of loss between collapse and normality.

Of course, you can also find familiar Chinese words to replace "I emo" and say it as "I am lost", "I am sentimental", "I am sad", the general meaning has not changed, but I always feel awkward when I read it.

(the "emo" entry uploaded by netizens on the Xiaoji Dictionary)

Is the in-depth expression really abandoned by people? In fact, deep expression and network language have their own appropriate context. The key lies in the user's choice, not in the language itself. Real life is not as pessimistic as some people imagine.

People are talking about popular online memes, but they still have respect and admiration for the high-end expressions that are bathed in spring. Dong Yuhui's popularity just shows this. When the classic "rice recitation" is widely circulated outside the live broadcast room, netizens will still regain their impulse for reading and their pursuit of meaning under the influence of the fragrant words of the mouth.

(Quotes from Dong Yuhui produced by netizens)

When people face friends they want to make close friends or run irreplaceable intimate relationships, they will not always stay in the "call inflation" that devalues emotions. There are many podcasts and programs now, which allow listeners to immersively listen to in-depth conversations between friends.

, a substantive expression, will not be filled with exaggerated popular Internet memes, nor will there be any expansion or tightening of calls. Social relationships on the Internet can be deep and shallow, and people's expressions coexist so deeply. This reflects the flexibility and creativity of human language use.

One day at work, dragging his tired body back home, turn on Douyin to browse for a while, and see fun memes and friends imitating and making fun of us, we need a shallow expression to release the pressure. On the weekend, the pace of life slows down and the thoughts are clear. If you open a book or open an in-depth official account to browse, we also need in-depth expression to enrich our hearts.

(The secret chat podcast in the small universe)

So the language is diverse, only the difference between depth and weakness, no difference between advantages and disadvantages. Say "YYDS" when necessary, which saves the time to choose words and sentences, and gives the tense thoughts some breathing space. Why not do it?

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