Yesterday, "Teachers born in the 2000s started to tear umbrellas" became a hot search. When I clicked on it, I saw a group of primary school students taking the exam and put the textbooks on the aisle. What does
mean? Where is the umbrella? Nowadays, there are more and more hot searches on the Internet that are incomprehensible, reflecting the impact of the Internet's "memo culture" on daily language expression.
How should we view such a cultural phenomenon? The reporter found that people's views on such cultural images vary greatly. Some people believe that these popular terms influenced by "meme culture" are in line with the expression characteristics of young people, have the ability to make people "smile" and do not affect the correct use of language; but some believe that this phenomenon is "language pollution", and some have even touched on moral issues and should be eliminated.
Even with the introduction of the explanation, this hot search made many people unable to understand
"Tearing umbrellas" has nothing to do with umbrellas
See the hot search "Teacher born in the 2000s starts tearing umbrellas". Lu Yue, who studied Chinese in college and engaged in early childhood education, did not understand it, "Does the post-95 teachers and post-00s teachers have such a big gap?"
But after looking through a few pictures on the hot searches, she realized that this turned out to be a "network meme" - "Because I was wet with rain, I wanted to hold an umbrella for others" was once a popular "spiritual chicken soup" online. These cheating methods that teachers born in the 2000s had thought about and used when they were studying, such as peeking at textbooks. After they became teachers, they could deal with tricks, so that students today could not cheat, which was equivalent to tearing the "umbrella" they had held, so that today's students could only "wet with rain". What does the pictures of the hot searches on the Internet have to do with the umbrella?
has gone around a big circle, and what you want to express has nothing to do with the "umbrella". There are many such expressions on the Internet. For example, some people call themselves "high autumn" - meaning they are "refreshing". For example, someone advises you to be a "Autumn chrysanthemum" - meaning "you can think about it."
In addition to semantic relationships, there are also phonetic relationships, which are called "homophone memes". For example, the "Snatch Bamboo Shooting", which was once rated as the "Top Ten Internet Buzzwords" in 2021 by the editorial department of Shanghai "Language and Word Weekly", actually means homophonic "multiple loss", and is used to refer to a person "no mercy".
Most of these "memes" are born based on online variety shows and short videos. A series of programs mainly based on language output, such as " talk show conference ", "Tucao conference", " Strange Talk ", became popular, bringing a series of "memories". For example, "Generally trusted men/women" comes from a sentence from Yang Li in "Talk Show Conference" "So ordinary, but so confident."
Yang Li's performance created the word "common male/female"
and some "memories" have produced a brand new meaning through netizens' comments. For example, " Caoxian " was originally a local blogger who shouted " Caoxian , Heze, Shandong...my baby" on a short video platform. Netizens followed up with comments, making "Caoxian" a proxy for "pride".
It is understood that the word "meme" itself is the product of Internet deconstruction. Industry insiders introduced that the "memories" on the Internet are actually the wrong word "memories", which means laughs and foreshadowing. It is derived from the meaning of "there are things and content" on the Internet. Praising a person for "there are jokes" means "interesting and content" on the other party, and "making jokes" means creating plots and creating jokes. Especially with the popularity of talk shows and short videos, "having memes" has become one of the characteristics of the Internet's expression.
See the creativity from the "meme"
Lu Yue does not object to "meme". In her opinion, the expression of "melo" is both unexpected and related, "just like modern idioms, integrating modern people's observation and thinking, making the words interesting." "The Debater" contestant Ran Gaoming became popular with his original "modern idioms", and some creations have become popular words online.
Wu Xinwei, 27 years old this year, works in a creative work in an animation company in Shanghai. When he communicates with his colleagues, he often refers to male and female characters who have not yet been named. This comes from many film and television commentary UP hosts on Bilibili. For the sake of commentary convenience, the protagonists are named "Da Zhuang" and "Xiao Mei". "Talking with 'mes' is our way of expression, even a way of life." Wu Xinwei believes that such expression can quickly locate a person's identity and hobbies: "For example, if you are an online variety show enthusiast, talk show enthusiast, or a second-dimensional world, you can only understand the 'mes' in your own circle, but the fun contained in many 'mes' is explained and can be understood by the public, which will become a culture of the Internet."
"mes" are the humorous source of talk shows
" Editor-in-chief Huang Anjing also believes that language is not only a symbolic system for communicating information, but also carries rich social and cultural information. "It can even be said that language is behavior, and language is social life itself." Professor Ai You, a professor at the School of Literature of Capital Normal University, once analyzed the culture behind online memes. She believes that people use a joke and deconstructive attitude to self-decompression, creating many online memes, many of which have entered the buzzwords, and people have expanded their ways of self-expression in online discourse. "But we need to be wary of whether personal discourse has lost its direction in the collective carnival of online terms."
"meme" should have a bottom line
Internet expression with "meme" interferes with language and text? In the eyes of many young people, the answer is no.
"Many 'memories' are expressed on the Internet, and in reality no one will speak like this." Wu Xinwei admitted that without the Internet and performance stage, these online "memories" are actually very embarrassing in reality: for example, "homophones" sound like they can't speak Mandarin ; the saying "tearing the umbrella" in oral expression cannot be understood in a short time. "Even if many people are used to calling 'YYDS' online (forever god), it is very hot in reality."
Yang Lincheng, executive editor of "Language and Word Weekly", recognized the selection of "yyds" on the buzzword list, but also believed that "network buzzwords" often have specific language domains, that is, they are used very frequently on the Internet, but they may rarely say it in daily spoken language, or even basically not.
Lu Yue also believes that "memories" are difficult to become the mainstream of expression in real writing. "For example, we encourage children to add some idioms to write essays, but they are generally not allowed to use idioms, because they seem lengthy and deliberate, let alone online memes." She is not worried that such expression will affect the language and text: "Who can use Mars texts we used in QQ space when we were young? Although popular, they are all short-lived."
However, some people believe that there should be a bottom line for creating "memories". For example, the pinyin abbreviation of the word "parkman" is the same as some swear words, but it unexpectedly becomes a "homophone" of insults and attacks. In this regard, many people say that they cannot do whatever they want when playing or making jokes. Lu Yue admitted that when he heard someone say this, he would directly criticize: "This bottom line cannot be broken."
In addition, although some originally unfriendly words have been used as "memories" to give new meanings, they still should not be used in the eyes of some people. For example, a blogger used "slutty bitch" to refer to the female villain in the play during film and television commentary, which partially eliminated the original insult, but in the eyes of some people, it should not be used: "Even if the original nature is eliminated through Internet memes, these words themselves are still insulting and should not be used to refer to anyone." Editor-in-chief of
column: Shi Chenlu Title picture source: Xinhua News Agency (data picture)
Source: Author: Jian Gongbo
