The most popular anime this year won't be "Pigman" 17 years ago, right?

Are there any Internet personalities that have skyrocketed recently?

Yes, like Pigman.

I don't know when it started, Pigman suddenly began to fly in the form of emojis, from Tieba and Weibo to Tiger Pounce, and even in major WeChat group chats, some people used it to express their mood.

Take a closer look, this little pig is indeed magical.

In addition to the ancient picture quality, the realistic pig nose and large proportion of the whites of the eyes are all features, revealing a touch of exaggeration in the simplicity, which is very abstract.

Even if you cut it casually, it can become a carrier for expressing emotions.

If you add some text, it's even worse.

The right caption is like a seasoning packet in instant noodles, which always adds a lot of flavor.

We can no longer know which brother is the potential of Pigman to make memes from these pictures, what we can know is that today's massive Pigman emoji have become popular on the Internet, comparable to the eagle flying high in the past.

Some people simply rehearsed the series with this batch of memes, focusing on the realistic style.

If you think that there is only meme fire, you really underestimate the popularity of "Pigman".

During this time, Pigman was kidnapped eight hundred times a day by the official number on Douyin.

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On Station B, Pigman shoots new sprouts from ghost animals and old trees.

Instead of Huaqiang to buy melons, from the theme song "Superman Strong is Handsome" that was changed to the teacher's evolutionary history, the powerful netizens focused on "not letting go of a single one", all arranged.

Children generally don't like villains, but Superman seems to be excluded, and many netizens think that Superman is a charming and cute villain, and specially make videos for it.

"Superman Strong is Handsome" generated by AI, don't say, there is that taste:

Looking at the data and heat of this Pig Man explosion, I can't help but ask, why can Pig Man still be popular?

And now that animation technology is advancing by leaps and bounds, there are countless high-quality cartoons, why is it that people still remember these cartoons that are old and blurred?

"Pigman" was officially born at the beginning of the 21st century, when it was the golden age of domestic cartoons.

In 2001, Shanghai Art Film Studio launched the animated film "I am crazy for song", which detonated the animation market, and major TV stations bought the copyright with a lot of money, which was repeatedly broadcast in the golden strong file, and also stimulated more producers to enter the animation market.

In 2003, Shanghai Today Animation Co-produced an animated film called "Martin's Morning" with France, which was also a fire.

In the same year, CCTV Children's Channel was launched, and all provinces followed suit, and then under the leadership of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the first national animation theme planning meeting was successfully held.

In 2004, the annual national TV cartoon theme planning, after review and approval of the project of 158 dramas, 11814 episodes, 155250 minutes, the data continued to rise in the following two years.

In today's terms, cartoons are a pig on the cusp.

Under economic rationality, a large number of classic domestic cartoons have been born, and if you talk in detail, you can't finish talking for three days and three nights.

In 2004, the classic works released were "Big Ear Tutu".

In 2005, "Go Boy", "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf".

In 2006, "Pigman", "The Legend of the Seven Heroes of the Rainbow Cat Blue Rabbit".

At that time, a company called Guangdong Yongsheng Animation also saw this business opportunity, and in the light educational audio-visual product "Ghost Horse Elf", there was an animated character Piggy in it that was very popular, and they wanted to continue to develop around this character and create grassroots heroes with Chinese characteristics.

During the Spring Festival in 2004, a 60-minute MV "Pig Hero Greeting the New Year" was released to the Southern Children's Channel, and the result was an instant hit.

Yongsheng decided to continue designing around Pigman and launched a series of 3D cartoons.

As a result, Pigman has a big name, called GG Bond, GG is a homophone of "Pig" in Cantonese, Bond is Bond in 007, Pigman and Princess Fifi are still a couple.

By chance, Yongsheng successfully sold this film to CCTV.

As a result, in the summer of 2006, "Pigman" was released on more than 400 TV stations across the country, and the huge user base made this character a collective memory.

Looking back now, the picture quality of "Pigman" is certainly not enough to fight, but at that time, it could be called well-made and attentive enough, as netizens said in hot comments:

Of course, the perception brought by the production level is shallow, but at a deeper level, its story connotation is also very capable.

First of all, the theme of "Pigman" is avant-garde and keeps up with current events.

The first "Pigman's Magical Pig" was released in 2006, which is about the serious destruction of the earth's natural environment at that time, and Pigman developed the "Magic Wisdom Ball" in order to protect the environment, and fought against the villain chef Wang Xiaoer.

Many netizens left messages recalling that they had environmental awareness when they were young, and they started from this film.

The second "Pigman's Martial Arts 2008", the same year as the Beijing Olympics, tells that Pigman traveled to 208, a small island called Olympus, the islanders are sports masters, in order to go home, Pigman and Superman Qiang launched a sports competition, competing for the key prop Koynol Big Diamond.

In this part, Pigman was originally a hanging ratio, relying on eating the super lollipop given by the confused teacher to stimulate the body's potential, defeating Superman, until he lost weightlifting, he began to reflect, exercised diligently, quit hanging step by step, and finally won the game by strength.

The protagonist does not have an aura of invincibility

As the strongest athlete on the island, the villain Superman also continues to grow in this process.

He asked himself, "Where is the former composure?" Is it that I care too much about Pigman, but ignore my own play", thus becoming a man who transcends the plug-in.

These plots, even if they look back now, still make people feel like they are always new.

But in my opinion, the resurgence of "Pigman" is just a microcosm.

Behind it represents the memories of their youth of the 90s generation who have just grown up.

In fact, it is not only "Pigman" that is popular, many classic animations belonging to the post-90s generation have been intermittently resurgent.

For example, "Big Ear Tutu", some netizens compare the three views of Tutu and other domestic animations horizontally, restore Tutu's favorite instant noodles, or dig deep into the connotation of this cartoon.

The characters of "The Adventures of Jackie Chan" were also taken out one by one to examine and recall.

There is also "Go Boy", which looks like a cartoon, but now it is also a group of adults on the Internet revisiting and interpreting.

Someone reads the coming-of-age story of a generation of geniuses; Some people like to interpret the protagonist, saying that Wu Yunfei was a fool at the beginning, in order to defeat Jiang Liuer, he also did bad things, and finally the prodigal son turned back and became an extraordinary chess saint.

So far, it has been known as the pinnacle of domestic martial arts cartoons, and the same is true of "The Legend of the Seven Heroes of the Rainbow Cat Blue Rabbit".

The storyline is complicated, the IQ of the characters is online, the bad guys also have feelings and righteousness, the villain Niu Whirlwind and the decent character Daben smell similar, and when encountering difficulties, the bull whirlwind blocks the giant snake and lets Daben go first.

When I was a child, a group of children watched it as a cartoon with relish, and when they grew up, they continued to get the strength they needed on the road of life.

But no matter how much everyone recalls these animations, childhood will eventually pass.

For example, Pigman is said to be a childhood classic, but it has long been made into a Pig Universe...

Absolute evergreen IP

Pigman became tall and handsome, from a realistic Bajie to a handsome young man.

The superhuman strong character has also been turned upside down, and the former self-disciplined and strong character has been directly gone, replaced by all kinds of bragging, evading tasks of lazy goods, netizens call it wasted and weak.

Many old fans also lament from time to time that "there will be no pig man after xx".

Nowadays, searching for the opening and ending songs of these old animations on site B, you can also find a wonder: they tend to be extremely high-played, and the comment area and barrage are even more scenes where netizens gather to recall their childhood.

Some people can't help but discuss, why do these children's songs, the rhythm is often cheerful, and it always sounds sad?

Another group replied that as soon as the melody of these songs sounded, there would be an inexplicable annoyance, as if they would go to sleep after listening to it, and they would have to go to school tomorrow.

There are also people who recall the bits and pieces of their elementary school days, the grandfather waiting for him at the village entrance, the aroma of fried meat with cucumbers, the chicken coop behind the house, and the children who can forget their troubles after watching one or two episodes of Pigman.

Indeed, technology has been improving, and now children's entertainment methods are much richer than we were back then, such as handmade experience halls, Lego, and remote-controlled toys.

Now the animation picture is more high-definition, the characters are more fashionable and handsome, and we have loved those cartoons, outdated.

But when the familiar music plays, you will probably remember the afternoon of 2006, when you were freed from boring textbooks and hurried home to wait for the broadcast of your beloved cartoon.

You will complain about "so childish", and then after a while you can't help but follow along, trying to regain your youth through the lyrics.

As soon as the song stops, you're back to 2023.

You don't watch TV anymore, and you don't wait in front of the TV.

All you have to do is pull out your phone and send a friend a meme.