Prodigal System in the Flourishing City

Chapter 491: Chapter 489: The Culture of Emoji Battles [5th update, bonus Chapter for recommendation votes]

Zhu Haixuan was still desperately collecting pictures previously posted by Lu Xiaobu.

Result.

Lu Xiaobu’s set of eighteen anti-piracy images directly stupefied him!

Dammit! Where did Lu Xiaobu even find so many images?!

Actually, if it were about making stuff up, he could do it too!

But if such images can’t catch the public’s eye, what’s the point?

These memes may look simple, but actually, they require inspiration and groundwork; it’s not just about slapping a few words on and calling it a meme.

The expression in the picture, the text above, both need to mesh well together!

”Bring it on! Keep it up!·jpg!”

Lu Xiaobu continues to post images.

Motherfucker, you’re battling me with pics?!

Not going to let you get the better of me!

Is Zhu Haixuan going to continue?

Why the hell would he continue!

It’s like everyone was originally poking each other with spears and throwing javelins; I throw a javelin back at you as soon as you throw one at me.

But then, just after I’ve thrown one back, you whip out a Gatling gun belching blue flames – how the heck am I supposed to play now, dumbass?!

Better to cut your losses early, then blame the piracy on someone else to minimize the damage!

So, waving the white flag, hoisting the ”Don’t Shoot” sign, and throwing out a scapegoat became his next move.

”You’re hanging a truce sign with me?!”

Lu Xiaobu laughed with disdain: ”Tang Geng, you trash-talk him for me, use my account, and blast him twenty-four hours a day!”

”Yes, Boss Lu!”

Tang Geng immediately promised!

...

In the following days, Zhu Haixuan’s life was like living in hell.

Lu Xiaobu’s Weibo seemed to have gone haywire, endlessly bombarding him with various memes around the clock.

What a situation; he didn’t even dare to open Weibo.

Sometimes, just by opening Weibo, he’d be bombarded until his device practically crashed!

Your mom’s a bitch!

Where the hell did you get so many images?!

...

At the same time, due to this incident, the culture of picture battles gradually took shape online!

Countless young people started to collect memes made by Tang Geng and began to use them fiercely across different platforms!

They were battling it out joyfully every day!

Later on, the images made by just Tang Geng alone could no longer satisfy their needs.

Countless people started to create their own memes, then brought them into all kinds of battles!

It was as if the sky and earth were dim, the sun and the moon without light!

There was even a time where it was almost impossible to find text online, all filled with memes!

Who knows how many people’s phones crashed because of these meme battles!

Interestingly, because of this, the sales of the Shadow mobile phones actually went up.

No choice, other phones were too laggy.

Oh well, it didn’t really make that much, just casually raked in tens of millions, really not much!

Cough cough cough!

And that wasn’t the end.

This culture of picture battling initiated by Lu Xiaobu, with the internet fanning the flames, continued to spread like wildfire!

It spread at such a terrifying speed!

Very soon, the culture of picture battling was no longer confined to just regular netizens.

The Voice coach Chen Wen on Weibo: ”My English name is, World Fort Dear. Wower River So Hot. jpg”

Counteract.

His wife, The Voice coach Fang Li came out with: ”You better watch your mouth, my three-dollar flip flops aren’t just for show. jpg”

Chen Wen immediately cowered: ”My dear wife, I was wrong! .jpg”

Fang Li laughed heartily: ”I appreciate you very much. jpg”

The netizens laughed their heads off.

”Munching melon masses. jpg”

”Slurping noodle masses. jpg”

”My titanium dog eyes. jpg”

”After eating this dog food. jpg”

”Where’s the integrity. jpg”

”...”

Not only them, even the Queen of Heaven Sun Wanqi joined in the fun: ”She’s the prettiest I’ve ever seen. jpg”

And next to this meme was a picture of herself.

Netizens are having a blast.

”This is a full-score performance ·jpg”

”You must be a Lu based on your act ·jpg”

”Judging by the way you strut, you must be one of the Lu family ·jpg”

”Look into the baby’s eyes and say that again ·jpg”

”...”

Alright, there were lots of meme images about Lu Xiaobu in the evening.

And apart from the above kind of Lu family series, 80% of the rest are classic quotes of Lu Xiaobu.

Such as.

”A reward of five thousand! ·jpg”

”Zhang Meng, go! ·jpg”

”I’m just a prodigal, got a problem with that? ·jpg”

”Believe it or not, I can crush you with money? ·jpg”

”There are two things you can’t beat me at, one, you can’t be a bigger spendthrift than me, two, you can’t out-lazy me ·jpg”

”Don’t try to compete with me, you can’t beat me, and I’m too lazy to bother with you ·jpg”

”Trying to show off to me? Do you even know who Lu Xiaobu is? ·jpg”

”Please refer to me as the master of meme combat, hurry up and worship me ·jpg”

”...”

Anyway, Lu Xiaobu was played to death online, all kinds of images being thrown around!

There was even a dedicated website for Lu Xiaobu meme images.

Lu Xiaobu himself was quite amused by this, as long as these rascals weren’t maliciously messing with him, he didn’t mind at all.

In fact, he even thought it was well done.

It really had flavor, like that ’A reward of five thousand! ·jpg’ was crafted with so much charisma!

Oh, right, it’s worth mentioning that Lu Xiaobu’s disciple, and the instigator of this whole affair, the female top student—Zhang Shilin, hasn’t said a word from beginning to end.

Lu Xiaobu was puzzled and even called her to ask about it.

Do you know what she said?

Her exact words were.

”Boring! A group of people who could be swimming in the sea of books, engaging in cultural exchange, yet have fallen into a low and childish struggle, filled with utilitarianism! I refuse to waste my time on such so-called struggles and recognition!”

Listen to how she phrased it.

So moving, so full of integrity, so magnanimously upright.

Even Lu Xiaobu himself was deeply touched after hearing it.

Then...

He had Tang Geng create a meme image for Zhang Shilin.

”All of you are low and juvenile ·jpg”

”Boring ·jpg”

”Only knowledge can comfort the soul ·jpg”

”Wasting time is shameful ·jpg”

”...”

Yeah, after they were done, they uploaded them online.

Man, they were on fire!

They were even hotter than Lu Xiaobu’s meme images for a while.

No way around it, Zhang Shilin, that serious-looking top student, her earnest eyes, and expression were just too earnest.

They worked magic paired up with any text.

For example.

Zhang Shilin’s version of ’You idiot ·jpg’.

Do you know what it feels like seeing this image?

It’s like when you were at school, and your teacher glared at you, then earnestly told you — ”You idiot!”

How could this image not be a hit?!

It would be against all reason if it weren’t!

So freaking dominant!

And like, another of Lu Xiaobu’s favorite images.

Zhang Shilin’s version of ’Aren’t you supposed to be writing? ·jpg’!

That look, that gesture, oh the dominance!

Lu Xiaobu made this image, enlarged it, and hung it in the ’little black room’ for torturing writers!

One for each room, and then hung the biggest one in the living room!

Man, the writers’ typing speed soared!

Talk about fast!

Hahaha! So thrilling!

Scaring all you street authors to death, hahaha!