Social media is often analyzed as a "front stage" where social media users perform their identities and manage impressions through various forms of user-generated content: text, picture, video, as well as visual expression such as emoticon, emoji, sticker, and meme. Although Baozou manhua is an Internet phenomenon emerging from the specific sociopolitical context of contemporary China, examining this form of expression not only sheds light on popular online culture in China and the issues Chinese netizens grapple with but also provides an understanding of how digital visual culture changes across time and space as North American rage faces circulate around the world and garner new meaning after being appropriated and reinterpreted in the ‘interpretative community’ of Chinese cyberspace.
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It also explores how computer software technology and the Internet have influenced contemporary Chinese visual humour by focusing on the Internet community. This paper examines how the genre of Baozou manhua enables Chinese netizens to vent about their everyday experiences and frustrations of daily life. The emergence of Baozou manhua signifies a new form of expression for ordinary netizens where they move from simply being consumers of comics to producers, combining image and text in a humorous way and distributing them via a wide variety of communication tools. Nima launched in 2008 to introduce rage comics (Baozou manhua) to China after noticing its popularity in the USA. Typically, this will involve the Doomer condescendingly asking the Girl Doomer if she’s heard of a band only to have the situation blow up in his face. Most memes in this format involve the male Doomer Wojak attempting to interact with the Doomer Girl but failing to do so because of his own shortcomings.
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Rage comic culture has literally gone full circle - wav January 6, 2020 The appearance of “Doomer Girl” has caused a resurgence in a type of meme format that can inarguably be recognized as some variation and a direct descendant of rage comics. The rage comics subreddit still boasts over 800,000 subscribers with the board’s pinned post stating that “rage comics will never die.” Apparently, that’s correct.
In 2013, the Daily Dot published an account of the slow decline of the rage comic. From here, a whole cast of characters such as Trollface, Forever Alone Guy, and “Me Gusta” Face was added to rage comics, cementing their places as hallmarks of internet memes. As most memes did back then, rage comics made their way from 4chan to Reddit in January 2009, with the launch of the “FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU” subreddit (referred to as “f7u12”). With their earliest origins being able to be traced back to 4chan’s /b/ board in 2008, rage comics are traditionally four-panel stories about circumstances that lead to anger or rage. While no longer a dominant force, their saturation within internet culture in the early 2010s was on par with “ Advice Animals,” the umbrella term for image macro memes where captions were written in Impact font. The rage comic is intrinsically linked to the internet of a bygone era. Someone is going to dress up as this girl and get 14k likes 3.8k retweets before someone else exposes her for saying the n word in 2017 /VoEotUNzDV- zhenzhen January 6, 2020 The artist is currently unknown but depictions of a character known as “Doomer Girl” began showing up online on Jan. The introduction of a new female Wojak, or Feels Guy, derivative has reinvigorated a format that dominated the meme marketplace in the early 2010s: rage comics. A long-slumbering, influential meme template is suddenly thriving-and it has a new frontwoman.
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