Emoticons: An Analysis of Youth Subculture on the Internet

What is "subculture"? The term "subculture" must have been an unfamiliar concept to us before this. So, I deliberately go to look for the concept of "subculture", which is also known as collective culture or subculture, refers to those non-mainstream, local cultural phenomena corresponding to the main culture, refers to the background of the main culture or integrated culture, belongs to a region or a collective unique concepts and lifestyles, a subculture not only contains values and concepts that are compatible with the main culture, but also has a strong influence on the development of the society. A subculture not only contains values and concepts that are common to the main culture, but also has its own unique values and concepts. So far, we more or less will have a little understanding, but may still be in a cloudy state, so then, to give two simple examples may be a better understanding, such as "piggy Peiqi body tattoos, everyone is a social person", "big luck, eat chicken tonight! "The above two are the subcultural phenomenon of online youth embodied in Internet buzzwords.

Talking about this, the phenomenon of subculture can be seen everywhere around us, whether in the real life of communication, or virtual world of communication, are reflected one by one. And now, after the prevalence of network language, a variety of forms, more expressive emoticons in cyberspace "rise", by the majority of Internet users, especially as college students, we are hot. Therefore, the emoticon "hot" has become a network culture phenomenon that cannot be ignored nowadays. In fact, emoticons are essentially a network of expression symbols, mostly static pictures or dynamic pictures, both expressions, actions, can also contain text, expression of witty and interesting, at a glance, interactive and fast features, just a picture can reflect the rich social and cultural implications, has become the most common network social networking platforms, a communication symbol.

In addition to Facebook's emoji wars, a variety of classic TV series have also been made into emojis, such as "Bai Zhan Tang's Smile" in "Martial Arts Outreach", accompanied by the words "Awkward and Polite Smile", which has been widely recognized as a "fan". "Fan". From this, we can see that emoticons are widely used and spread as a representative symbol of online socialization and online public opinion. In the report of Guangming Daily, it is mentioned that the emergence of emoticons has its special background, which is the popularization of Internet communication technology and the prosperity of online social culture. Internet technology has derived a variety of visual symbols and sticker emoticons, so that people can adopt a symbol that cannot be used in daily life to express their emotions and convey information in the network social space, which is both a new experience of information dissemination in the network era and a new feature of the current network social culture.

Under the increasing pressure of people's life and work, and the increasing singularity of entertainment, something out of the ordinary can stimulate people's numb nerves. For example, papi jiang, who is a combination of beauty and talent, makes exaggerated facial expressions without regard for his personal image. In fact, papi sauce video is a dynamic version of the emoticon, from the deeper exploration, can be launched this is a little secular rules and other things bound by the rebellion.

In today's life, expressing oneself through emoticons has become an indispensable way of communication for young people. Combined with the author's own actual situation and in the surrounding students and friends of a small survey, in the daily communication, we will be more frequent use of emoticons to vividly express their inner thoughts, but also to facilitate the understanding of others, so that the conversation is more vivid. Of course, as young people we are the main body of communication using emoticons, but the people who use emoticons also include people of different age groups. People of different age groups have the habit of using emoticons, it just means that the style style of emoticons varies from person to person.

Nowadays, with the continuous development of culture, such as emoticons and other network youth subculture is also developing, and dependent on the mainstream culture to exist. In the process of subculture development, there are places that deserve our attention. For example, there are many causes of the development of subculture, many times will be mixed, so it is necessary to raise the height of the development of subculture, to promote the development of mainstream culture with the forward development of subculture, to enrich our ideology.