Jia Jun Peng, your mother wants you to come home for dinner! (2009)

I’m immediately interested in this.

First, you don’t have to embed the pics into the explanation of the meme, you can submit them in the photos section.

Second, you have only stated about where it originated and its growth in one forum. Do you have evidence of its spread to other places in the internet?

Third, the title seems too centered around one idea of the proposed meme. I say you should rename this article simply as “Jia Jun Peng”.

I’ll start uploading pics for this entry and I’m going to research more about it. Very nice entry, but it needs plenty more info before it can be confirmed by the admins.

It seems this meme is actually properly called, “Jia Junpeng”. It says so on the Wikipedia article for it. I’ll lurk some moar.

Hum, then, will it be merged with this ?

Ah, I didn’t know there was an article for this already. Merging is fine, but this article has more info in it.

I really look forward to researching this supposed meme.

Since its foreign, we may need some Chinese members of KYM to confirm Jia Junpeng’s memetic spread in Chinese websites.

Now that I’m learning more about it, it seems that this meme sparked in fame just recently and just in China.

Here’s an article about it from a newspaper called Beijing Today that reveals that Jia Junpeng was made by a CEO of a company that promotes the internet on behalf of various big-name brands named Huang Lianghua: http://english.qianlong.com/attachment.db?54877118

I’ll continue looking around for any info about its memetic spread in Chinese websites.

This article states that Jia Junpeng was made up by KPMEDIA (Huang Lianghua’s company) to help WoW become popular again and to get people who haven’t played it to play it: http://www.buzztrend.cn/?p=277

It seems Jia Junpeng alone is not memtic enough. It seems his memetic essence centers around with people creating the “Jia Junpeng Family”. I’ll look more into this.

Holy cow, there’s even a Chinese song dedicated to this phenomenon:

You may not understand it, but this site says that it’s a song about Jia Junpeng: http://enovatechina.com/blog/?tag=jia-junpeng

Here is the original thread which is completely Chinese: http://tieba.baidu.com/f?z=610537635&ct=335544320&lm=0&sc=0&rn=30&tn=baiduPostBrowser&word=%C4%A7%CA%DE%CA%C0%BD%E7&pn=0

And of course, the LA Times article about the phenomenon is one of the most interesting reads out of all the source websites I’ve supplied: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-china-internet-fad5-2009sep05,0,2198509.story

Jostin, from another article that can be seen in the other entry, there is a controversy about Huang Lianghua being the one that launched this catchphrase.

Several people and other companies accused him of taking the fame out from the original anonymous poster.

I want to correct something I stated earlier. Jia Junpeng’s memetic traits center around his fake family, yes, but he’s also memetic in the sense that he is often called by a family member (usually the mother) to do something. The formula for the phrase is usually, “Jia Junpeng, your X [ wants/is calling/is looking for ] you to Y.” with X being the family member and Y being the action that is to be done.

Wow, this is bigger than I thought. Great article!

Also, Tomberry is right. It is widely accepted that Huang Lianghua was the creator of Jia Junpeng but several other people, such as a rival advertiser by the name of Fang Weicheng, are unsure whether to believe this or not because they think that Lianghua only did this to benefit from the popularity of the internet meme.

Interesting, I just watched this movie today. Now I see this. XD

Oh – looks like I missed all the conversation! Glad this was of interest. China has millions of young people living in internet cafes, so its a great place for meme spotting!