What does Tang mean in Internet terms?

"Down" is an Internet slang that refers to Down syndrome.

"Tang" is used to describe a person who has insufficient IQ and a dull expression. For example, if a person is "really Down", it means that his expression looks like that of a person with Down syndrome. This term is very popular on the Internet. For example, in King's Ranking, the expression of the protagonist Poji is called "Down's Expression", so King's Ranking is also called "Down's Ranking".

This meme originally came from the Internet celebrity 6324 orphan Zhang Shunfei. Because his smile really looked like a child with Down syndrome, he was nicknamed "Tang Shunfei". Nowadays, the meme "Tang" is very popular in Tieba, Bilibili, Apex and many other circles. People often use it to poke fun at people with dull expressions and insufficient IQ.

Sources of Internet terms

The emergence and spread of this type of language mainly depends on the Internet crowd, and there are also a large number of mobile phone users. Internet language such as "dinosaur, pretty girl, bad girl, frog, embarrassing man, dongdong" often appear in chat rooms. In BBS, words such as "next door, upstairs, downstairs, landlord, diving, and flooding" often appear in their posts.

There are rich and vivid expression charts in QQ chat, such as a waving hand representing goodbye, and a steaming cup representing drinking tea. Mobile phone text messages are increasingly using near-dialect words, such as Lengsong (Northwestern dialect, lěng sóng, meaning exhaustion), etc. The new vocabulary that pops up on the Internet mainly depends on its own vitality.