In social networks, we can often see all kinds of electronic emoticons. Whether chatting with people or posting status, these emoticons often have more intuitive feelings than words. When young people use them to express their ideas, they often have a reinforcing effect of "this is not just my own idea", because these wrapped expression packs look like instructions that have been verified countless times and contain another force that cannot be ignored.

The emoticons on Taobao also have traces of electronic patina.

Another special feature is that the electronic patina expression pack itself has no official source, and it comes from all kinds of DIY by various folk masters. You may have seen a patina expression pack with the same picture but different words repeatedly. This expression also reflects the playful attitude of young people towards things.

In a sense, after each additional processing, these electronic expression packs are endowed with new connotations, which are much more brilliant than those traditional cartoon expression packs, and therefore, young people who are more susceptible to the free environment of the Internet at home and abroad prefer to use them.

The voice on the other side of the ocean

In the United States, there are two different expressions for emoticons used in online chat. The most familiar kind of yellow face is called emoji, while other kinds of picture emoticons are called meme. There is a special expression for electronic patina called "deep fried memes", which well describes foreigners' love for this kind of emoticons.

Just like French fries and fried chicken wings in fast food restaurants, expression packs become blurred or even yellow and green after being treated like "fried".

This so-called "frying" is to make pictures and expression packs present a special texture by reducing resolution, increasing noise and improving contrast, and the expression packs processed in this way have gradually become a special culture. Does this sound familiar?

In fact, foreigners love electronic patina emoticons as much as we do. In the overseas version of reddit, 856,000 people are now paying attention to deep fried memes, and tools for making this emoticon with one click are also emerging one after another. People who are crazy about it even made tools that can make videos patina.

With a website like Meme Deep Fryer, you can make your own pulp.

Yes, video can also be wrapped electronically. Although it looks a little spicy, it does produce a special performance effect, just like manny404, the great god who made this tool, thinks, "This is the most advanced expression pack technique in history. 」

In foreign countries, this has indeed gradually become another form of expression besides social chat. Just like people like to paint graffiti on the wall to express their emotions, the pictures and expressions after electronic packaging are no longer the original ones. It has become an emotional state that the creator wants to express, like a "virtual graffiti" where all netizens can participate, and the content of electronic packaging can also become diversified.