Explorer-chan / Explorer-tan
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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).
Spread
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.
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.
Search Interest
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
Top Comments
Nedhitis
Aug 27, 2018 at 05:32PM EDT
A-Train
Aug 27, 2018 at 05:09PM EDT