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The word “duang” is spreading like wildfire throughout China’s Internet
- afarrell 12y agoThis is interesting, but why is it more relevant to foreign policy than, say, fhgwgads?
- rspeer 12y agoIt's not. The article is clickbait.
- Gigablah 12y agoSo is this going into Unicode 8.0? :p
- rcarmo 12y agoWe could always propose it as the phonetics for a Jackie Chan emoji. Weirder things have happened, and it's not like we're running out of glyph space.
- xrstf 12y agoIf there's a Jackie Chan emoji, I want Chuck Norris as an emoji as well.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoThere is always the Jiong (囧) character.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoIs that a Minecraft creeper character?
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoIt's a real chinese character: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiong http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiong It's original meaning is "patterned window."
- kurthorray 12y agoThe internet world changes rather fast here in china. The day before the day before yesterday, my WECHAT feed were full of the word 'duang'. When it came to the day before yesterday, the trend changed. People were discussing about the mysterious color of this skirt: http://qz.com/352479/this-dress-of-disputed-colors-is-driving-china-crazy-too/ http://qz.com/352479/this-dress-of-disputed-colors-is-drivin... Yet yesterday, a documentary talking about pollution in china occupied all my sights: http://www.womenofchina.cn/womenofchina/html1/news/newsmakers/1503/1-1.htm http://www.womenofchina.cn/womenofchina/html1/news/newsmaker... The discussion on this documentary persists today and im not quite sure what the internet will bring to me on tomorrow.
- wingerlang 12y agoThis sounds exactly like the "western" internet to be honest.
- apetresc 12y agoInterestingly, from my hotel room in Shanghai right now, the article appears to be blocked.
- imjustsaying 12y agosamesies in Zhejiang
- saryant 12y agoWorking in Beijing.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoBeijing China telecom, it doesn't get rejected, but doesn't seem to load on an iPad either. Maybe they are linking to google fonts or something.
- showerst 12y agoWe're not loading any google fonts but we've seen them block over our commenting system (livefyre) or our political content before. Interestingly it's usually not a domain-wide ban. If you'd be willing to help me diagnose it, I'd be grateful. tim.showers@foreignpolicy.com
- fspeech 12y agoI seem to remember from reading Harvard's study http://gking.harvard.edu/publications/how-censorship-china-allows-government-criticism-silences-collective-expression http://gking.harvard.edu/publications/how-censorship-china-a... that discussing the censoring could get you blocked, so maybe your last paragraph got the censors. Still it is curious they care so much about an English article if your site is otherwise allowed.
- showerst 12y agoTech director at FP here, is the whole site blocked or just that article? We occasionally have to play whack-a-mole with Chinese (and other nations') censors, so I'd love any info you could provide. tim.showers@foreignpolicy.com
- xiaq 12y agoChinese here. Instead of youku, the fake ad video actually got viral on bilibili (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilibili http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilibili http://www.bilibili.com/ http://www.bilibili.com/), a video sharing site with user-generated subtitles, where such spoofs are very, very common. If you are interested in memes of the Chinese Internet, bilibili and acfun (another earlier similiar site, but it also features articles) are very interesting (and important!) subjects to study.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agobili bili is very addictive, I find it much better than yoku or tudou. The iOS app is really good.
- agumonkey 12y agoHa, user generated subtitles ? Reminds me of the Fanta Shokata commercials. https://www.google.com/search?q=fanta+shokata+subtitles https://www.google.com/search?q=fanta+shokata+subtitles
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- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoUser-generated subtitles? Like Nico Nico Douga?
- xiaq 12y agoExactly. Bilibili is inspired by Acfun, which is in turn inspired by Nico Nico.
- canjobear 12y agoThere's a good in-depth linguistic analysis here: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17913 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17913
- 6502nerdface 12y agoThanks, today I learned that there exists "Chinese scat singing"!
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