
星球日报|11月 30, 2025 08:30
[Vitalik: Memes Are Reshaping English, the English Internet Is Starting to Form Its Own 'Idiom System']
Odaily Planet Daily reports that Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin stated that memes and emojis are driving English to evolve in a more 'pictographic' direction. English social media is even beginning to form highly abstract expressions similar to Chinese idioms. Using the 'leopard eats face' meme as an example, he explained that such memes no longer require text and can convey complex contexts through a single image, becoming emerging 'symbols of deep meaning' within the English system.
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