do you remember when the 'jejemon' craze started?.....i don't......one day i just heard them being featured in tv shows....the first time saw a feature about the 'jejemons' was in jessica soho's show on the kapuso chanel....kapuso mo jessica soho....then they were featured in a lot of talk shows soon after.....
who or what are 'jejemons'?.....wikipedia (yes they reached that level where wikipedia devotes precious internet space just to discuss them) defines jejemons this way:
Jejemon (IPA: ['dʒɛdʒɛmon]) is a pop culture phenomenon in the Philippines. Jejemons are defined by Urban Dictionary as those "who has managed to subvert the English language to the point of incomprehensibility and online lynch squads."[1] A Jejemon is described as one of a "new breed of hipsters who have developed not only their own language and written text but also their own sub-culture and fashion."
most jejemons are teenagers....their name supposedly came to be because of their penchant to use 'jejeje' instead of 'hehehe' to denote laughter in sms or status messages in social networking sites....the mon was supposed to be from 'monsters' much like the japanese anime pokemon.....
'jejemons' have developed their own 'language' or way of communicating....aside from replacing h with j they also use letters that are not often used like z and x....for example 'musta (short for kumusta which means 'how are you') is written as mUsZt@h..... notice that not only was w, z and h added but @ was used instead of a...and also notice that some letters were capitalized....sometimes they also usenumbers to replace letters.....the number 3 is used as e....'jejeje' is sometimes spelled as j3j3j3.....it was thought that their manner of texting was developed to maximize the character allocation of cellphones for sms.....like sending ko instead of ako which means me) or u instead of you.....maybe it did start from that....but you would see now that instead of making words shorter, they make them longer and difficult to understand.....ako for example is spelled as aQcKuHh (saw this in wikipedia)....u is spelled as yUHh.....
more often than not, sms messages from 'jejemons' are confusing....to non-jejemons, their text messages are weird, absurd....
but the 'jejemon' culture has gone beyond text messaging....they now have thier own fashion styles....i can't really describe what they wear.....maybe i could say they look rather weird.....
you will know that the 'jejemon' culture is really popular because of the existence of another group whose only purpose is to fight 'jejemon'.....the group is called 'jejebusters'.....well, maybe i'm wrong in saying that all they want is to fight 'jejemons'....maybe they have others like ensuring that the young really learn how to spell right....but the point is, their creation is an indication that the 'jejemons' have arrived...
so when did the craze start?......i don't know.....they got their name only recently....but i know they've been around for a long, long time already....here is a little secret....when i was in 4th year high school in the province we love having shirts printed whenever there are occasions.....foundation day, intrams, seniors' week, feast of the patron saint of the barangay, feast of the patron saint of the town.....and most of the time, we have our names printed at the back......some of our classmates, instead of having their names spelled correctly will intentionally change it to look 'good'....i cannot remember the exact spelling but here are some examples that were possibly used at that time.....kha-ren....lho-rraynne....oh there's one that i remember....but i won't mention the real name so you'll have something to think about....seychelle......
oh, by the way, can you guess how my name was spelled?.........
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