The expansion speed of abstract values on the internet is several game designers faster than Indian mythology.
Just when you think Nai Long is the peak of abstraction in the yellow spectrum, reaching an invincible state, the internet always reminds you that there are enemies from above. Nai Long probably never imagined that one day he wouldn't even qualify for a seat at the Tang Jia San Shao selection table. Moreover, new guests keep flooding this table, squeezing Nai Long back to the kids' table.
Meituan Kangaroo, a mysterious mascot, so plain and unadorned that it needs no adjectives. Although it lacks presence, it has emerged as a new yellow force, triggering a polar impact. Carrying countless bizarre funny remarks and outrageous user stories, it completed a historic leap from an unknown nobody to an abstract giant, finally meeting Milk Frog and Niu Lai at the summit.
Milk Frog, originally an AI subspecies of Nai Long, due to overly overpowered skill design, can turn any situation into a joyful laughter of all guests at the end; Niu Lai, a rising star on the internet, whose single "Mom—Mom—" brought tears to countless movie fans' eyes, rating it ten chrysanthemum petals. The status of both is self-evident, so what virtue does the new hero Meituan Kangaroo have to compete with the bright moon?
There may be many reasons. The most intuitive one is that the Yellow Kangaroo is somewhat associated with rule-based creepypasta. When you see a user speaking with a Yellow Kangaroo avatar, you must know that what they are consuming is not just takeout, and what they are saying is not just a comment. It is the echo of decades of chaos accumulated on the Yellow Kangaroo on the internet, information transmitted long after Earthlings conversed with the Trisolaran civilization. And all of this emerges from those wise eyes, making viewers exclaim, "I really logged out."
In the Yellow Kangaroo's understanding, food can self-replicate; how can you keep eating if takeout decreases as you eat? From a merchant's perspective, such an unreasonable negative review would ignite nameless anger. However, its innocent yet wise gaze would completely ignite the river of love between you and it. From that moment, you realize that this little gadget, whoever invented it, truly brings joy—in other words, it makes you laugh out of anger.
Sometimes, the Yellow Kangaroo also uses expressions fitting its color to voice dissatisfaction with meals—"Tastes terrible, Merchant, did you show porn to the rice? It's so hard." The combination of visual imagery and humor is a soul-searching interrogation, and the genius use of metaphor is proof that AI can never surpass humans. It is precisely through such thunderous language systems that the secular world truly understands the Yellow Kangaroo... or rather, the Yellow Kangaroo begins to integrate into the secular world.
The Yellow Kangaroo wanders through the universe, flies in the sky, runs across the earth, and immerses itself in neon lights—its stream-of-consciousness lifestyle makes every statement unexpected. When it says, "The merchant didn't say buy one get one free, so why did another one come out after I finished eating?" any intelligent being would suffer an immediate brain downgrade upon reading it. Only merchants with active minds can barely keep up with the Yellow Kangaroo's logic, responding with, "Then eat that one too."
This feeling is奇妙 (wonderful/strange), like how you never know why eating makes you fuller and fuller. Yes, why does eating make you fuller? It might be a biological instinct, or perhaps redundancy that hasn't been optimized during long evolutionary processes... But here, it's more like a philosophical proposition. Socrates would crash for three minutes looking at it, then tell Plato not to record it in his books.
Such profound questions might only be answered by those with the special constitution of getting hungrier the more they eat. And the Yellow Kangaroo, possessing information on all life in the universe, can transform into Liangzi, using pig-like grunting murmurs to give extremely high praise to the delicacies made by merchants.
Yes, the Yellow Kangaroo encompasses Everythinggj. Whether you are a customer or a merchant, as long as you can utter a few shocking statements, you can become a spokesperson for the Yellow Kangaroo, walking among humans and spreading legend after legend—even if the Yellow Kangaroo is just the customer's default avatar; even if it's not on Meituan. The Yellow Kangaroo is like the Sun Xiaochuan of the food world; Everythinggj is done by it, even breaking Mount Buzhou.
Because of this, the harmless yet mischievous Yellow Kangaroo memes have a solid foundation. Even if you're neither a customer nor a merchant, you can still drop a few mysterious Yellow Kangaroo images in the "Qingtang Dalao Ye" segment, declaring to all humanity—I have joined the Church of the Yellow Kangaroo.
Even so, the aforementioned experiences are only enjoyed by a small circle. If you ask me what has made the Yellow Kangaroo so widely circulated recently, to the point of competing with Milk Frog and Niu Lai, I can only tell you that it's all fate.
Humans have three major desires: appetite, libido, and sleep desire—at this moment, they meet in the highest priority desire. Some want to eat rice, some want to eat rice.
Initially, a customer asked the rider to bring a pack of cigarettes on the way. Seeing the rider refuse, the customer directly pulled out 100 yuan as a tip. Later, when the merchant saw the 100 yuan tip and instantly reversed their attitude, and the rider saw the 100 yuan tip and changed their expression to say, "You've got some guts (Fei Du Du)," the gears of fate began to turn.
The comedic effect of being respectful first and arrogant later is just one aspect. The phrase "Fei Du Du" (Chubby), coming from nowhere in the rider's mouth, better demonstrates that the boundaries of language are the boundaries of thought. People's understanding of "Da Wei Dai" (Big Stomach Bag) deepened further, learning brand-new rhetoric. And the Yellow Kangaroo, which had long become a generator of outrageous remarks, merged with the original Yellow Kangaroo meme during the spread of this chat record, becoming the Yellow Chubby Kangaroo, thus injected with infinite creative vitality.
No one knows how many different forms the Yellow Kangaroo has, but people know that Milk Frog's status has suffered its second shock since Niu Lai. People say riders fear overtime, overtime fears the Yellow Kangaroo, and upon hearing this, Milk Frog hurriedly deleted its rider account overnight.
Although I can't understand where the humor in the word "Fei Du Du" (Chubby) lies, director Nolan, who shares the same pinyin abbreviation as "Niu Lai," once wrote: "Don't try to understand it, feel it." The chubby Yellow Kangaroo is also a feeling, just as Jiahao is a flavor.
The reason is simple: when people enjoy expanding on a meme and derive pleasure from playing with it, the lottery ticket always hits someone lucky. This time, it happened to hit the Yellow Kangaroo, an image that already had a slight weird vibe but also considerable popularity.
On this basis, netizens' collaborative creations began to snowball, just like the countless abstract meme remixes we've seen before. During this period, if we exaggerate a bit, Meituan officially had sufficient reason to stay behind the scenes and fuel this hype. But regardless, the result is the same—the Yellow Kangaroo became popular just like that. It blew up suddenly, inexplicably, but also interestingly.
It is pure absurdity, pure meaninglessness, just like its predecessors Milk Frog and Niu Lai. Even if you don't understand what this thing is, you just want to laugh when you see it. Coincidentally, you can also assign some deeper meaning to it at certain moments, because you will always encounter some Yellow Kangaroos in life, whether you are a merchant, a rider, or a customer.
Life is already dramatic enough. When you want to resist this baffling life but find your punches hitting cotton, absurdity might be the only antidote—and that is where abstract memes find their best home.
