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It was caused by a Taiwanese teen singer Chou Tzu-yu who waved the flag of Taiwan in a South Korean television, which represents Taiwan Independence (the most controversial political and territorial issue in China currently). People from Mainland China required the government to ban her and her band in China, so Chou responded with a videotaped apology on the Internet, which made Taiwanese people angry. Then, some online users from Mainland China organised a ‘war' on several Taiwanese political media accounts on Facebook. The funniest thing happened, the ‘weapons' they employed were memes! Instead of using words to refute, people from Mainland China took advantage of memes to attack ‘the enemy'. Thus, a seemingly serious political event suddenly became an online carnival of memes.
Well, there you have it, folks. SomethingAwful somehow manages to live up to its name constantly, while taking irony to heights never previously fathomed by mankind. Goofy Internet memes, Family Guy, and "random" (see: foundationless) humor not only are par for the course, but infest every crevice of signature and avatar space. Internet nerds lambaste those who disagree with them on the sole grounds that the counter-points damage their individual identity as an interesting, unique, and important human being, all the while never proposing substantive counterarguments. They then proceed to proclaim the originator of the ideas to be a nerd (like it really matters who's behind the ideas at all to begin with), even though they're the ones entrenched in banal pop culture references, anonymous socialization, and ego inflation - all staples of nerddom.