{"id":3053,"date":"2020-09-18T07:43:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T07:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?page_id=3053"},"modified":"2022-12-03T10:37:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T10:37:36","slug":"hyper-cute-visual-icons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?page_id=3053","title":{"rendered":"Hyper-Cute Visual Icons: Cheesy Art or Chique Propaganda?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3058\" src=\"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Picture1-1.png\" alt=\"Picture1\" width=\"566\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Picture1-1.png 566w, https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Picture1-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Picture1-1-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is on an ongoing project on hyper-cute visual icons as they are utilized by contemporary activists on social media platforms such as Weibo, Twitter, WeChat, Bilibili, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram. Socially engaged youth and netizens East and West largely belong to a generation of \u201cdigital natives\u201d who have developed their literacies and social skills on digital platforms. They are familiar with hyper-cute\/kawaii aesthetics and the fantasy characters of Japanese ACG (Animation, Comics &amp; Games), which they appropriate and recreate as profile images, animated gifs, memes, photographs, videos, cartoons and\/or emoticons in public and private communications. They use hyper-cute visual icons such as Hongqiman and Jiangshanjiao (\u7d05\u65d7\u6f2b\u548c\u6c5f\u5c71\u5b0c), Pepe the Frog (\u4f69\u4f69\u86d9), Little Grape (\u63d0\u5b50), Pandaman (\u718a\u732b\u4eba) Wang Yao (\u738b\u8000) and A-Bian Doll (\u6241\u5a03) to express complex states of affect, as well as solidarity and hatred within civil society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is on an ongoing project on hyper-cute visual icons as they are utilized by contemporary activists on social media platforms such as Weibo, Twitter, WeChat, Bilibili, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram. Socially engaged youth and netizens East and West largely belong to a generation of \u201cdigital natives\u201d who have developed their literacies and social skills on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?page_id=3053\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hyper-Cute Visual Icons: Cheesy Art or Chique Propaganda?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3058,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3053","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3997,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3053\/revisions\/3997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libidot.org\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}