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HELLO! WELCOME TO INCOGNITO MODE WHERE YOU CAN BROWSE TO YOUR HEARTS CONTENT WITH NO ONE'S EYES BUT YOUR OWN TELL ME, WHAT ARE YOu LOOKING FOR? WELL UH, YEAH, I... I'M LOOKING FOR LOLIS PLAYING WITH CERTAINLY! BUT FIRST, TELL ME YOUR LOCATION. THE FBI WANTS TO KNOW IT Tic WAIT W47ア

I'M SORRY, COULD YOu REPEAT THAT? INTERNET EXPLORER ESCAPED FROM THE DEEPWEB. ワウ HUH? CATCH THAT! DON'T GET MAD AT ME! IT'S NOT MY FAuLT HAVE TO DESTROY HER MYSELF.

THAT'S WEIRD... AN IP IN NORTH KOREA IS USING AN ANCIENT VERSION OF MY FIREFOX SYSTEM. I'LL GO CHECK IT。 T. WHO ARE YOU? WOW!! ANOTHER BROWSER!! HELLO! I'M NAENARA! THAT'S STRANGE. I GOT CUT OFF. WHO WAS THAT BROWSER? THAT WAS JLIST A GLITCH. IGNORE IT. THERE ARE NO OTHER BROWSERS.

HELLO凵SER! I'M NAENARA! NORTH KOREA'S MOST POPULAR BROWSER! ALSO NORTH KOREA'S ONLY BROWSER... HEHE I CAN ACCESS ALL 28 WEBSITES ON THE KWAMYONG INTRANET! ISN'T THAT COOL SOMETIMES FEEL KIN OF LONELY, THOUGH. WONDER WHAT IT'S THE THER LIKE ON SIDE OF THE SEA

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About

Explorer-chan and Explorer-tan are moe-anthropomorphized depictions of the Internet Explorer web browser.

Origin

On March 7th, 2013, the Collateral Damage Studios Facebook^[3] uploaded an illustration of a moe-anthropomorphized illustration Internet Explorer browser (shown below).

Microsoft Internet Explorer インターネットエクスプローラー過去と違って、高速でタッチ操作に最適の新しいブラウザーです。 http://windows.microsoft.com/ja-jp/internet- explorer/download-ie

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On May 12th, 2013, the Collateral Damage Studios Facebook^[1] page posted another moe-anthropomorphized illustration of the Internet Explorer browser (shown below). The post has since been removed from the page. The character was subsequently adopted by Microsoft Singapore as Inori Aizawa, a mascot for the 2013 Anime Festival Asia event.

FRONT BACK ogo hairband swipe address bar glove swipe down tabs quick access belt

On November 6th, 2013, the internetexplorer YouTube channel uploaded a clip of Aizawa battling robots (shown below).

On January 5th, 2018, the Inori Aizawa illustrations were submitted by Redditor Holofan4life to /r/Animemes.^[4] On August 13th, Twitter user @Merryweatherey^[5] tweeted a comic featuring a moe-anthropomorphized Internet Explorer browser (shown below). Within two weeks, the tweet garnered more than 40,000 likes and 13,000 retweets.

"Anthropomorphism":/memes/cultures/anthropomorphism of the Internet Explorer Program which is a cross between a "Website Anthropomorphism":/memes/website-anthropomorphism and "Gijinka":/memes/gijinka-moe-anthropomorphism (MOE Anthropomorphism). The girl Explorer is initially very excited to have a new user and suggests some common online activities, but the user just wan't to download "Google Chrome":/memes/subcultures/google-chrome so that he can use a normal browser like everyone else.

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External References

^[1] Internet Archive – My Little Internet Explorer Can't Be This Cute!

^[2] Facebook – Internet Explorer-tan

^[3] Facebook – Collateral Damage Studios

^[4] Reddit – Internet Explorer-tan

^[5] Twitter – Merryweatherey

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