1. The document discusses the evolution of memebeasts on the Chinese internet, with examples such as "Shi shi shi shi shi" and the 🍚🐰 (rice bunny) meme. 2. Memebeasts evolve as a way for internet users in China to express themselves under censorship rules, through wordplay, puns, and cultural references. 3. New memes take on added layers of complexity as a form of survival on the Chinese internet, as censorship authorities try to control discussions. Memebeasts evolve to live under these conditions of censorship and control.

1. EVOLUTION OF MEMEBEASTS OF THE
CHINESE INTERNET

2. 《施氏食獅史》
石室詩士施氏，嗜獅，誓食十獅。
氏時時適市視獅。
十時，適十獅適市。
是時，適施氏適市。
氏視是十獅，恃矢勢，使是十獅逝世。
氏拾是十獅屍，適石室。
石室濕，氏使侍拭石室。
石室拭，氏始試食是十獅。
食時，始識是十獅屍，實十石獅屍。
試釋是事。
“Shi shi shi shi shi”
Shíshì shīshì Shī Shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī.
Shì shíshí shì shì shì shī.
Shí shí, shì shí shī shì shì.
Shì shí, shì Shī Shì shì shì.
Shì shì shì shí shī, shì shǐ shì, shǐ shì shí shī shì shì.
Shì shí shì shí shī shī, shì shí shì.
Shíshì shī, Shì shǐ shì shì shí shì.
Shíshì shì, Shì shǐ shì shí shì shí shī.
Shí shí, shǐ shí shì shí shī shī, shí shí shí shī shī.
Shì shì shì shì.
Form
Tones
Puns

3. Cultural Linguistic
Primordial Soup

4. Chinese internet = State of Nature
A taste of freedom CCP censors

5. Victims of censorship

6. River Crab: tyrannical pun

7. A taste for complexity: better than Cumberbitches
Modern day pop star Ancient poet circa 365 AD

8. Survival comes in infinite forms

9. #🍚🐰#Metoo #我也是 #米兔

10. All the possibilities
Me too  mi tu
97 x mi, 34 x tu =
3,298 possible unique
combinations
Alternatives
秘屠 (secret massacre)
密凸 (secret rising)
迷兔 (confused rabbit)
迷土 (confused land)
蜜兔 (honey rabbit)
米吐 (spitting rice)

11. Rabbit
Idealism
Purity
Femininity
Protector of
the weak
Ballad of Mulan

12. Rice

13. 🍚🐰
Rice Bunny
Feminine individuals that stand for a universal necessity
fundamental to every (Chinese) individual

14. Sinofication = Survival
Memebeasts evolve to live
Expect complexity