One aspect of foreign internet cultures you often see is that they preserve and continue to use traits or things that Western Internet culture no longer does.
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One example of this is Korean and Thai Twitter's frequent usage of RTs. When a tweet gets viral in either group, usually that doesn't mean it has a lot of likes but a lot of retweets. Er, reposts.
Third world internet also commonly uses outdated western memes
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One counter-example is that Japanese Twitter users used to strongly dislike quote retweeting for a few reasons. Some view it as unnecessarily combative, whilst others (if they're retweeting art, as an example), view it as stealing likes and views from the artist's tweet. In the latter case, the accepted practice is to retweet the art, then make a post "LRT (last retweet): blah blah blah" with whatever they wanted to say about the art. This practice has actually entered some sections of Western Twitter spaces. Well, almost exclusively weeb spaces for obvious reasons.
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The troll-face meme is a good example of this phenomenon. It was utterly dormant from like 2016 to 2020, then it was revived on TikTok by third worlders seeing it for the first time. Although even on TikTok, it ended up being used in a mostly ironic manner eventually, mirroring phonk.
One counter-example is that Japanese Twitter users used to strongly dislike quote retweeting for a few reasons. Some view it as unnecessarily combative, whilst others (if they're retweeting art, as an example), view it as stealing likes and views from the artist's tweet. In the latter case, the accepted practice is to retweet the art, then make a post "LRT (last retweet): blah blah blah" with whatever they wanted to say about the art. This practice has actually entered some sections of Western Twitter spaces. Well, almost exclusively weeb spaces for obvious reasons.
>>3
The troll-face meme is a good example of this phenomenon. It was utterly dormant from like 2016 to 2020, then it was revived on TikTok by third worlders seeing it for the first time. Although even on TikTok, it ended up being used in a mostly ironic manner eventually, mirroring phonk.
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> In the latter case, the accepted practice is to retweet the art, then make a post "LRT (last retweet): blah blah blah" with whatever they wanted to say about the art.
Ah, I'd wondered why some of the artists I followed were always doing that.
> In the latter case, the accepted practice is to retweet the art, then make a post "LRT (last retweet): blah blah blah" with whatever they wanted to say about the art.
Ah, I'd wondered why some of the artists I followed were always doing that.