If you've been surfing the Internet lately, you won't miss this wonderful face.
The man in the emoji has a hint of dazedness in his doubt, and there is a slight struggle in the collapse, which can be called a left-right fight between micro-expressions.
And that square face plate, coupled with a little deep look in the confusion, is like a humanoid reproduction of the Tibetan fox.
It can't be said that it has nothing to do with it, only that it is exactly the same
This is the top stream of the current Chinese Internet emoji industry: the Tibetan fox emoji.
With a world-weary face, Tibetan fox emojis are running rampant in major chat groups.
Whenever people feel numb and confused about life, it is when this meme appears.
Other tibetan fox emoji use scenarios include, but are not limited to—
When you receive your credit card bill for the previous month:
When you're being called a crush:
When the lover never replies to the message:
In short, in this wonderful man who looks like a Tibetan fox, it seems to condense our imagination of the absurdity and incomprehension of life.
And his real body is actually the popular science UP master @ infinitesimal light science daily with more than three million fans in the B station.
How did a popular science UP master become the top of the meme industry?
Everything has to start with Xiao Liang's "Network Heat Transfer Biometric Identification" series of videos.
Xiao Liang's "Network Heat Transfer Biometric Identification" series of videos
As a popular science UP master, one of the things Xiao Liang does every day is to help the majority of netizens identify various unknown creatures.
In the era of the Internet, a picture and a video can become a hotbed for the birth of mysterious creatures.
"Water ghosts" who eat people, giant fish, "water monkeys" all over the country... The opening picture, the species all rely on editing.
Do you dare believe this is a mermaid?
As a popular science writer, Xiao Liang has taken on a lot of "divine beast" counterfeiting work over the years.
Someone once said that a bird to be ashamed when drinking water is as elegant as "the ancients covered their sleeves and drank".
But after Xiao Liang's identification, this is actually just a black heron using its wings to block out a shadow and attract small fish to prey.
There was also a rumor on the Internet about a colorful strange object that Li did not even sell for 4 million yuan .
But after Xiao Liang's identification, this is actually just a creature called a funnel needle coral.
Later, Xiao Liang's business scope also expanded to non-biosphere, and the content of identification became more and more exaggerated.
The flying saucer photo, which is said to be unrecognizable by scientists, is punctured by Xiao Liang as a picture in the science fiction movie "District 9".
The kiwi bird group video sent by netizens was actually the work of the special effects blogger.
But the most classic of the biological identification series is also the "Water Monkey" series.
The water monkey is a folk creature that lives in the water and resembles an ape.
Since Xiao Liang began to do biological identification, countless photos and videos of suspected water monkeys have been debunked by him.
Someone once mistook an animal called a finger monkey for a water monkey.
Some people once regarded a patch of algae that grew into the shape of a monkey as a water monkey...
What is strange is that no matter how many times Xiao Liang refutes rumors, there will always be new rumors, and Xiao Liang has been repeatedly angry.
However, for a long time, Xiao Liang did not appear in the video, so those moments of collapse could only be experienced through his voice.
I don't want to be in a certain video released at the end of July last year, Xiao Liang broke the sky to give the gas to the camera.
It was a realistic dinosaur video, and netizens asked after sending it:
"Xiao Liang, this dinosaur has a shadow, will it be true?"
And the answer given by Xiao Liang is very crisp.
"It's an app effect."
In order to prove it, Xiao Liang also "summoned" the dinosaur to his home-
Generally speaking, the video will go straight to the next topic when it goes here.
But to everyone's surprise, the picture suddenly cut to a hideous-looking man, who slapped the camera with great speed.
Xiao Liang's Buddha-figure was finally filmed.
In the face of this sudden situation, even the barrage was startled, and they rushed to tell the big news of "Tibetan fox beating people" --
The Tibetan fox hit people!
But fans didn't know it at the time, and that was just the beginning.
After playing that, as soon as he encountered a strange video that gave him a headache, Xiao Liang would coldly appear and beat people.
And it may be that the experience points have risen, and the techniques are getting more and more tricky.
Sometimes he'll add a front shake before hitting people —
Sometimes I add a buff to my chant—
Sometimes there's a false shot —
A popular science UP lord was forced to become a thug in this way, who looked at it and did not boast a word -
But at that time, the "Tibetan fox beating people" meme was only popular among Xiao Liang's fan base.
What really pushed it to the top was The two videos that Xiao Liang released in May.
In the May 12 issue, Xiao Liang encountered a video that made his anger level explode.
In that video, a self-media number boasted that it had made a dynamic video of the photos of the fans' fathers when they were young.
And when Xiao Liang fixed his eyes, this so-called "fan dad" was actually Bruce Lee...
Obviously, beating people can no longer accurately summarize the mood at this moment, Xiao Liang learned Bruce Lee on the spot to play a double knuckle stick, violently shocking the camera.
This is the origin of the terrier of "Tibetan Fox Stick".
But the evolution of the Tibetan fox doesn't stop there.
In the immediate May 26 biometrics, even more absurd things happened.
Someone sent Xiao Liang a few videos of survival on a desert island, and the people on those desert islands actually picked up groupers, lobsters, winter melons, and even live women on the beach for several days in a row...
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This time, Xiao Liang has completely abandoned violence and verbal resistance. All that remains is a series of images that can be called performance art.
From full of doubts -
To the head-hugging collapse -
And then to utter despair —
Up and down, all in one go.
Some fans even wrote a poem "TianjingSha Tibetan Fox" on the spot to commemorate this postmodernist masterpiece that sensationalized the Chinese Internet.
At this point, the three major materials of "Tibetan Fox Beating People", "Tibetan Fox Playing Stick", and "Tibetan Fox Confusion" have all been in place.
The creators all over the web who were waiting to be fed smelled the bloody smell of excitement.
The carnival of tibetan fox emojis began.
On social media, countless people have begun to use Tibetan fox memes to solve all kinds of hardships encountered in life.
Even more playful, he will also use the Tibetan fox terrier to tease the Buddha-figure.
All along, Xiao Liang will summarize the organisms that appear in the current period in the comment area of each issue of "Biological Identification". And now, each video has been manually added by netizens to a new animal...
Since the image of the Tibetan fox and Xiao Liang began to be deeply bound, many of the videos related to the Tibetan fox on the B station have begun to be chaotic with a large number of "Xiao Liang" bullet screens -
Some of the bullet screens even have some philosophical flavor after being soaked with the temperament of the Tibetan fox -
At the same time that the Tibetan fox terrier spread to the whole station, a wave of two innovations also swept through the entire B station.
Most of the two creations take the funny route.
For example, someone made a real fox version of the Tibetan fox emoji, and the confusing attribute was doubled.
Another example is the UP lord @ Amin Ah Ming, using the real fox to restore Xiao Liang's confused scene, openly showing what is called the real fox doubt.
And when it comes to restoration, no one is more real than up master @ drag cupcake.
He simply reproduced the classic passage "Hidden Fox Playing Stick" with animation, and you have to say that the real people who move to catch it are believed.
In the face of such ingenuity, the response of the Lord is only a concise line, and everything is in the unspoken.
But that's not all @Cupcake's all it takes.
Immediately after, he launched the masterpiece "Two Tibetan Foxes Love to Dance", which achieved the biological miracle of egg beating foxes, and "Two Tigers Love to Dance" also ushered in a wave of Renaissance because of the birth of this Tibetan fox.
And if the two creations of the previous UP masters focus on funny, then the two creations of the UP lord @ Li Qingyi are dimensionality reduction blows from professional players.
He directly created a beautiful ancient painting with the theme of the Tibetan fox, from hair to grass and trees.
From now on, the King of Sui did not have to worry about the red face of Daji, and it was time to beware of the Tibetan fox hitting people.
In this way, the frustration of the original popular science UP lord for debunking rumors did not expect to trigger a feast of two innovations.
In the end, even Xiao Liang's real-life colleagues were affected, and directly asked him about the Tibetan fox emoji...
The scene of the death of the lord
However, although "Tibetan fox beating people" is funny, it is a real feedback on a rumor-ridden online environment.
Every blow that the Tibetan fox struck at that time was also helplessness and indignation at rumors and pseudoscience.
In fact, we interviewed Xiao Liang last year, and he knows that popular science is a long, circuitous, and sometimes futile journey.
"There will always be people who can't see, and even if they see it, they will forget, this is the norm."
Xiao Liang was at home
In his view, science popularization is actually a position to grab the position with rumors, and the rumor-mongers do not stop, and he cannot give up.
Therefore, he chose to use the way of making videos to tirelessly explain, clarify and prove to the public.
"A sloth, you don't tell him it's a sloth, he just thinks it's a 'water monkey'. But as soon as you told him that the window paper was broken, he immediately felt that this matter was very absurd. I will use my efforts again and again to combat this absurdity of public opinion. ”