{"id":1478,"date":"2013-12-07T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/text-mode.org\/mon-is-one-of-the-most-popular-ascii\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T00:06:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T23:06:50","slug":"mon-is-one-of-the-most-popular-ascii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1478 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?attachment_id=1479'><img width=\"128\" height=\"60\" src=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_m5elneFyHl1rpiyaso1_12801.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?attachment_id=1480'><img width=\"128\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_m5elneFyHl1rpiyaso4_r1_5001.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?attachment_id=1481'><img width=\"128\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_m5elneFyHl1rpiyaso5_r1_4001.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?attachment_id=1482'><img width=\"128\" height=\"92\" src=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_m5elneFyHl1rpiyaso3_r1_5001.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/text-mode.org\/?attachment_id=1483'><img width=\"128\" height=\"74\" src=\"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_m5elneFyHl1rpiyaso6_r1_5001.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><em>Mon\u0101<\/em> (\u30e2\u30ca\u30fc) is one of the most popular ASCII characters. Along with e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/text-mode.tumblr.com\/post\/20057179967\/giko-giko-cat-giko-cat-giko-cat-or-giko\">Giko Cat<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/text-mode.tumblr.com\/post\/19568570649\/soy-sauce-warrior-kikkoman-was-created-at-the\">Soy Sauce Warrior Kikkoman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/text-mode.tumblr.com\/post\/24065075471\/pedobear-is-an-internet-meme-that-became-popular\">Pedo Bear<\/a>, he appeared at 2channel.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The character is often accompanied with certain catchphrases popular on the site, such as omae mona! (\u201cI know you are, but what am I?\u201d) and kimee! (\u201cGross!\u201d). Mona is the collective property of the 2channelers\u2014no single person owns the copyright. But when music label Avex tried to commercialize Nomaneko products, 2channelers fought back with everything from legalistic nitpicking to death threats<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unlike Giko Neko, Mon\u0101 has been entirely created on 2channel from a troll thread. In it, some user constructed the Mon\u0101 character with his keyboard and had him say a standard complaint about Internet forums: \u201cYou people have too much free time\u201d. The first post following up to this simply copied and pasted the artwork and said, \u201cYou too!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mon\u0101 (\u30e2\u30ca\u30fc) is one of the most popular ASCII characters. Along with e.g. Giko Cat, Soy Sauce Warrior Kikkoman and Pedo Bear, he appeared at 2channel. The character is often accompanied with certain catchphrases popular on the site, such as omae mona! (\u201cI know you are, but what am I?\u201d) and kimee! (\u201cGross!\u201d). Mona is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[439],"tags":[1416,288,19,289,181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23050,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/23050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/text-mode.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}