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This is China! The Middle Kingdom, which has its own parallel internet universe and delectable collection of memes.

Summary

You know about China. Great food, ancient history, authoritarian government, the martial arts movies, and being the sweatshop of the world too. And don't forget the pirated video and computer games (along with other pirated things). But have you heard of its parallel internet universe?

Perhaps you know about the Great Firewall, blocking websites left and right. That means no YouTube, no Wikipedia, no many other foreign websites. So the Chinese instead have their own websites.. like Sina, Baidu, Sohu, Tudou, Youku, Renren, Kaixin001, and Hudong (BTW, Google is allowed, but its presence is far below Baidu's). All get supervision from the Communist Party, because the Commies (who aren't really Commie.. they are as capitalist as Uncle Sam now) don't want to lose power.

Also if you go on internet forums and post content a little too out of line, you will find a "Big Mama" cleaning up after you. Also if you go on Chinese municipal websites, you will find "internet police" cartoon characters reminding you that the internet is censored and watched.

China has no shortage of internet memes. Particularly the Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures (including the beloved Grass Mud Horse), Jia Junpeng, Little Fatty, the Lonely Brother, and the Back Dorm Boys are well known on the mainland. The Hong Kong Bus Uncle comes from the special territory of Hong Kong.

Origins

From way, way back

Current status

Still up, Communists still in charge, firewall still in place.

Images

	China has plenty of emos who do not eat ramen, but eat loneliness	Every Chinese internet cafe has police watching the cafe's patrons.	LOL WUT
LOL WUT?!?!	Sarkozy Was At Tiananmen
Stop! It's the internet police!	Jingjing: You are under arrest...	Chacha: ...for YouTubeanity violation!	"Are you looking at Star Fox porn, young lady? You are under arrest!"
Baidu Baike vandals topped Wikipedia vandals by making the Grass Mud Horse and other creatures to poke fun at the censorship	Jia Junpeng's mommy needs him to stop playing World of Warcraft and come to the dinner table

Videos

Related Pages

Back Dorm Boys

Baidu

Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures

Big mama

Hong Kong Bus Uncle

Hudong

Jia Junpeng

Japan

Kaixin001

Korea

Little Fatty

My dad is Li Gang

QQ (software)

Renren

Sina

Sina Weibo

Sohu

Taiwan

Teeth-revealing Brother

Tianya Club

Tudou

What brother is (doing) is not X, but loneliness

Youku

External Links

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