The cat flutter was born from the “elite” and carried forward by the “grassroots”. It used to be the weather vane of Chinese Internet fashion, avant-garde and popular.
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “Geek Park” (ID: Geekpark), author Moonshot. The cat flutter was born from the “elite” and was carried forward by the “grassroots”. It used to be the weather vane of Chinese Internet fashion, avant-garde and popular.
A lot of people don’t know that the cat flutter was originally a game community website and the earliest game community website in mainland China.
However, in 1997, discussions on TV computer games appeared more in “Popular Software,” “Computer Newspaper,” “Video Game Software,” or even more niche vertical forums, such as “Dragon.” And the underground city Chinese station.” The transformation of the cat pounce from the vertical game community to the mass community can be said to be the coincidence of the times.
The catwalk user at the beginning of the birth was a game player with a “small and high threshold”. They must have at least 3,000 game consoles, tens of thousands of computers, and kilobits as the Internet speed dial-up Internet, but this is just the basic threshold for entering this community. You can find the original Chinese Internet article at the time of the cat’s flutter, and thanks to the user base of the “high threshold”, the occasional non-game content posts, the discussion around the theme is also of high quality.
The early cat flutter is a hardcore gamer gathering place
Before 2000, there were more and more chats in the cats. After the reports of traditional media such as “Computer Newspaper” and “Volkswagen Software”, the cats rushed into the Internet and did not know. The new users who went from here, the old mopper (the cat flutter users) called the “aliens occupy the cat flutter” event, in which 20-30 years old users accounted for 2/3 of the total number of users, a miscellaneous of young and new netizens. The chat forum was born.
Old users who have accumulated during the birth period either compromise to embrace the influx of traffic and the new style of the cat-sweeping community, or choose to leave. In the process, the cat flutter completed the transition from the vertical game forum to the comprehensive forum.
After 2005-2010, the cat fluttered againThe trend has led to the arrival of the Chinese Internet Web 2.0 era. China’s Internet is moving from dial-up to home broadband, and Internet access users have increased from 8.5% to 38.4%. Tianya, Maopu, everyone, Douban and follow-up stickers, occupy the community culture of China Internet. The cat flutter ranked second in the 2007 China Internet Community Rankings is one of the larger traffic gatherings in the “sea area” and has the meaning of “high seas”.
The birthplace of online popular culture, the cat smashing (DZH), the more than 150 sub-versions of the cat flops, the cat-sweeping channel… The cat rush into the Web 2.0 era is not just a forum, it is a youth group to create their own pop culture. The network community is also the birthplace and base of the Internet grassroots culture. The network culture created by it has precipitated through time, not only infiltrating into the real world, but also affecting the Internet culture of today.
·”Net Red”
China’s net red is from the cat. Xiaopang, Sister Furong, called the beast Yi Xiaoxing, milk tea MM, pussy goddess ayawawa, Zhao rushing… These people are now or with the cat flutter, or are still active on the Internet, they have created fashion has passed, but culture It settled down. Today’s “net red” is no longer a phenomenon, but also a profession and industry.
·”Human flesh search”
The cat flutter is the originator of the Internet human flesh search. The cat abuse incident in 2006 aroused the indignation of the netizens, so the human flesh search Pandora’s magic box was opened in the cat flutter, and the subsequent cat flutter not only opened a special human flesh search section, even The first human flesh search engine (now ineffective). Net red combined with human flesh search, the cat fluttered in that era, contributed a rather strange way to link the Internet and the real world, and from that time, the concept of Internet privacy and big data began to spread to ordinary netizens.
Compared with the other famous forums in the same period, the cats don’t have so many “bovine cows”, but it is a young moppers who together build a network culture of entertainment and popularity. The grassroots culture is glowing in the cat’s rush. In the major communities, only the cat has left the mopper exclusive name represented by the user group and the user is also proud of it. There are also countless scriptures born from the catCodememe, from BT, “very yellow is very violent”, to the rpwt, yy, the pinyin abbreviation trend; some are outdated, now it seems a little rustic “do not be obsessed with brother, brother is just a legend”, “… said Some of them are still active on the Internet. For example, few people know the source but lead the “233” of the expression pack culture.
In 2006, “The Kobe is not linked to Conan” from the cat flutter.
From the 2009 cat smashing hodgepodge, a popular post titled “Don’t be obsessed with brother, brother is just a legend…”
The cat flutter was born from the “elite” and was carried forward by the “grassroots”. It used to be the weather vane of Chinese Internet fashion, avant-garde and popular. Vitality and sincerity, chaos and illusion, humor and creativity, justice and controversy, you and the world, in the mixed community of cats and hawks, have been distorted, or vain, or exaggerated, or concealed. Volkswagen’s internet and everyone’s 17-inch display.
The truth of the cat flutter makes it last forever, whether it will eventually resist the test of time. ▊
Edit: Chris