Aircraft-carrier style: Chinese netizens celebrate landing of carrier-based fighter with funny-looking pose
China successfully lands the first carrier-based fighter jet – J15 – on its newly christened aircraft carrier. But instead of the news itself, it is a rather trivial detail in a television news segment about it that has held Chinese netizens enthralled and inspired a new geeky and warped Internet meme.
This is a screen grab of a news segment about the successful take-off and landing of J15. In the image, two flight deck crew members, also known as shooters, give a hand signal they’ve copied from the U.S. navy to the pilot to launch the fighter jet. Chinese netizens immediately picked up the amusing-looking signal and gave it their own little twists.
The characters on his back read, “Take-off/launch”.
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oh chinese girls i love you!
Just goes to show even the chinese can create dumb internet memes. At least they’re not all pouring bottles of milk over their head.
Well, don’t be so sure. Some Chinese have already started to do just that.
It might be safer than drinking it.