Comment on Lebron James is popping up in Chinese videos shouting "What can I say?" - Is this a Chinese meme?
Venator@lemmy.nz 6 days agoSeems like an example of childlore, which describes a specific species of meme that only propagates among children.
early_riser@lemmy.world 3 days ago
didn’t even know childlore had a name or academic interest associated with it. until last year. When I was a kid I always wondered who came up with things like JIngle bells batman smells or those paper fortune teller thingies or the candyman/Bloody Mary or the game Safety and so on. I never saw adults doing or saying those things, so I figured some kid somewhere had to have made them up at some point and it just spread from there.