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About memes

No matter how fun they are, what kinds they are, memes are determined to be used. They were born by usage; they have to keep existing by usage, too!

So, where are internet memes being used? It’s the topic I am going to introduce today.

4Chan

"4chan is an English-language imageboard website. Users generally post anonymously, with the most recent posts appearing above the rest. 4chan is split into various boards with their own specific content and guidelines. Registration is not required, nor is it possible (except for staff).[1]"

As you can see above, except it’s image-based, 4Chan is similar to PTT, a text-based forum also containing anonymous post. As my view, some boards on 4Chan are not appropriate for normal people to browse, such as /b/.

"Gawker.com's Nick Douglas summarized /b/ as a board where "people try to shock, entertain, and coax free porn from each other." /b/ has a "no rules" policy, except for bans on certain illegal content, such as child pornography, invasions of other websites (posting floods of disruptive content), and under-18 viewing, all of which are inherited from site-wide rules.[2]"

On some boards, however, you can enjoy browsing some fun, satiric posts about each others, such like /int/, which stands for International. If you like manga, anime, or other Japanese subculture, there is, of course, /a/, for Anime & Manga.

Summary

I have introduced the famous forum in the western Internet, but feel free to develop your own! See you next week!

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan

[2] Same as 1.

Two-sentence stories

What?

Two-sentence stories, as the name indicate, are kinds of stories with only two sentences.

Do you remember that several weeks ago, there were lots of events on Facebook named like “一句話惹毛XX人大賽”? Long time before those memes were floated on FB, there had been memes like those out of foreign Internet.

As the benefit of English grammar, two sentences in English usually can be much longer than those in Chinese, thus, delivering more information in those two sentences. As usual, let’s see some example below. Oh, did I mention that most of them are horror stories? Well…, that probably wouldn’t matter :)

Examples

“I begin tucking him into bed and he tells me, “Daddy check for monsters under my bed.” I look underneath for his amusement and see him, another him, under the bed, staring back at me quivering and whispering, “Daddy there’s somebody on my bed.”  -Juan J Ruiz

“After working a hard day I came home to see my girlfriend cradling our child. I didn't know which was more frightening, seeing my dead girlfriend and stillborn child, or knowing that someone broke into my apartment to place them there.”  

“When I finally grabbed her in the darkness, I swam back to the surface. It never occurred to me how fast the ice could freeze over.”

“My grandmother told me that it was a gift to see the angel of death in front of people's houses, to know that he'd be collecting someone there soon. I thought it was a gift too, up until the day I began to see it in front of every house.”[1]

Do it myself

“I was sitting on my chair watching the most gorgeous view I’ve ever seen, near a window, her brown hair shining gold under the sun, with her flawless face looking down. As usual, the alarm rang, before I could know which book she read.”

Summary

Internet memes can still train your expression in English, like limit your sentence describing a story into only two sentences. Also, it can be literary sometimes, just like I did above XD

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[1] http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/two-sentence-terror#.yuXypzMVaL