What is KUSO?

Recently, there have been many things that the older generation over 30 can't understand, such as the recent rise of flash mob, the funny song and dance competition of Fun Wave Party held this afternoon, and Yahoo! The "used chopsticks" or "dental floss" that often appear in the auction of Qimo are all part of the "spoof culture". This generation of young people is leading the arrival of a spoof culture.

KUSO originally meant "hateful" in Japanese, and it is usually used as a mantra of swearing. But for the Internet generation in Taiwan Province Province, "spoof" (or "spoof") is widely regarded as "spoof" and "funny". In Taiwan Province Province, KUSO was limited to the Internet in the early days, and then it became more and more influential by using the characteristics of the Internet.

KUSO started about three or four years ago, and it was a subculture similar to network language at first. In online messages, it uses a lot of classic dialogues or words from Hong Kong movies "Gourmet", "shaolin soccer" or Hong Kong martial arts comics. For example, "folding stool" represents the strongest weapon, and "not enough class" is not enough to describe it. Or on this basis, some stories are created to reverse right and wrong, such as "Sun Yat-sen with an iron fist".

For the die-hard KUSO people, the definition of KUSO is very strict. Even if it is funny or humorous, the objects or materials are limited to Hong Kong comics, Japanese ACG (comics, comics, video games) and so on. And create a unique humor through words and grammar with a sense of distance.

Later, some Japanese words such as "lolicon" and "Remnant Thoughts" (unfortunately) also joined the ranks of KUSO, and the objects began to be more and more extensive, slowly spreading from BBS discussion areas, no longer limited to vocabulary.

In the early days of spoof culture, it meant "seriously facing bad things". At the beginning of this year, Thunderstorm and Fire in Taiwan Province was handled by netizens in various KUSO ways, which created a new wave of popularity.

Many companies close to teenagers have begun to accept and even play the role of promoters, holding various activities and providing network mechanisms to encourage the Internet generation to continue KUSO, such as putting "Jordan slippers" created by netizens on Yahoo! In addition to the "just Funny" mapping area, Qimo Homepage and PCHome recently held the "RO Funny Mapping Competition", and Coca-Cola also held a funny song and dance competition for high school students.

Recently, the society likes to use the negative word "strawberry family" to describe the generation around 20 years old. Now, they want to use their KUSO culture to fight back and subvert the thinking of the older generation, which seems to be quite successful.