From QQ:
New Internet Meme “Loneliness Group” Receives Popular Support
“What I am posting is not a post, but loneliness”, “what I am using is not a mobile phone, but loneliness”, “what brother is doing is not sleeping, but loneliness”. Starting from July, this kind of phrase began taking over various major BBS forums, and what more, those people who adore this phrase have also been named “Loneliness Group” [寂寞派, jìmò pài].
Where did the “loneliness” sentence come from? With regards to this, it is currently popularly rumored that at the beginning of July in Baidu Tieba there was a person who suddenly posted a photo of a man eating noodles with the accompanying text: “What brother is eating are not noodles, but loneliness!” Not long after, netizens copied this sentence, starting many various types of loneliness parody/mischief.
There are other names for the “Loneliness” netizens including “Loneliness Party” [寂寞党, jìmò dǎng] and “Loneliness Religion” [寂寞教, jìmò jiào].
Comments from Sina:
shangheng654558:
What brother is embarrassing is not a himself, but loneliness.
wenlong_wenlong:
What brother is earning is not money, but loneliness.
问鼎中原人:
What brother is inhaling is a cigarette, what he is exhaling is loneliness!
飘泊山之巅:
What I have falling in love with is not a woman, but loneliness.
看似很美:
What is falling outside the window is not rain, but loneliness.
天涯默客:
What 300 million netizens watched was not a solar eclipse, but loneliness.
看似很美:
Loneliness, your mom wants you to go home to eat.
夜落桥:
The lover of the prince is not a princess, but loneliness.
夜落桥:
What the casual forum depends on is not the moderator, but everyone’s loneliness.
垂直:
What he is eating is not loneliness, but noodles!
轩轩的家763:
China football: What you are playing is not football, but loneliness…
垂帘花影:
What I am working is not overtime, but loneliness.
周祯杰:
What your mother gave birth to was not you, but loneliness!
四点和尚:
What brother is is not bored, but loneliness!
wjq19860:
What the above replies are are not farts, but loneliness.
hetong:
What I speak are not words, but loneliness. What is filled in the sky is not air, but loneliness. In the tears I quietly weep flows loneliness. Loneliness follows me, and I too cannot separate myself from loneliness.
juju311402:
What brother is spending is not money, but loneliness. What brother drinks is not alcohol, but loneliness…
舞法舞天7:
What I am getting is not soy sauce, but loneliness.
What I am doing are not push ups, but loneliness.
Jia Junpeng, who calls you to go home to eat is not your mother, but loneliness.
与与2046:
What brother is laughing at is not you guys, but loneliness.
紫燕轻舞320:
During this weekend I took some time to come browse, and everywhere I browse is still loneliness.
What is being announced is not a contest, but loneliness…
The best “loneliness” sentence in the comments below will win a new chinaSMACK t-shirt (coming soon!). You can use English or Chinese. Up to you. Please use your real email address with your comment or I cannot contact you if you win.
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First!
Is that a Weeaboo on the pic?
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=Weeaboo&redirect=no
This is not first, but loneliness
I wasn’t too slow, but temporarily lost in loneliness
What’s wrong? A little loneliness won’t make you pregnant!
What I want is not a T-shirt, but loneliness.
No way! I still want the T-shirt!
What I have on my butt is not a hemorrhoid, but loneliness.
What you gave me wasn’t an std, but loneliness
What I’m waiting for is not a Google Voice invitation, but crazy loneliness!
We are all lonely deep inside…*heart broken*
What if deep inside is not a broken heart, but loneliness.
When I saw Hungry Girl’s blog, it wasn’t love…but loneliness…
what this is is not “emo” but loneliness.
what is loneliness is not loneliness, but loneliness
I have just been masturbating because of loneliness
ChinaSMACK is not a website, but loneliness.
Piano Man – Billy Joel
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday
the regular crowd shuffles in
There’s an old man sitting next to me
Makin’ love to his tonic and gin
He say, Son can you play me a memory
I’m not really sure how it goes
But it’s sad and it’s sweet and I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man’s clothes
[Chorus]
Da da da de de da
da da de de da da da
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man
sing us a song tonight
Well, we’re all in the mood for a melody
And you’ve got us feelin’ alright
Now John at the bar is a friend of mine
He gets me my drinks for free
And he’s quick with a joke or to light up your smoke
But there’s someplace that he’d rather be
He says Bill, I believe this is killing me
As the smile ran away from his face
Well I’m sure that I could be a movie star
If I could get out of this place
Da da da de de da
da da de de da da da
Now Paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had time for a wife
And he’s talking with Davy who’s still in the navy
And probably will be for life
And the waitress is practicing politics
As the businessmen slowly get stoned
Yes, they’re sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it’s better than drinking alone
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man
Sing us a song tonight.
Well, we’re all in the mood for a melody
And you’ve got us feelin’ alright.
It’s a pretty good crowd for a Saturday,
And the manager gives me a smile
‘Cause he knows that it’s me they’ve been coming to see
To forget about life for awhile.
And the piano sounds like a carnival
And the microphone smells like a beer
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
And say “Man, what are you doin’ here?”
Da da da de de da
da da de de da da da
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man
Sing us a song tonight.
Well, we’re all in the mood for a melody
And you’ve got us feelin’ alright.
When I try to access Facebook, what I see is not censorship, but loneliness
What brother in the the net bar is jerking off to is not trashy amateur porn, but loneliness.
Am I the only one that thinks that’s not a guy eating loneliness, but a girl eating loneliness?
What?? You mean that’s not a girl???
Billy Jean is not my lover, she’s loneliness…
I was feeling loneliness until I saw a Billy Joel song quoted in full. Now I feel nauseousness.
看有什么关系？ 看也不会怀孕，看是寂寞。
It’s not an interest in China that brings me to Chinasmack, but loneliness.
here is something for the trend.
Of course its copyrighted by me. :p
In a dream when it seems that your life is wrong
and your place it seems that your life is prone
to attract what you see and what it seems to be
uncontrollable fate between love and the sea
it rises with the tide
it bares a great mark
that the moon itself is pulling your life apart
and you can’t escape because what you seem to see
its nothing but fate playing your life’s melody.
you can hear the tune but you can’t pluck the strings
its like you can’t control the things that make you bleed
making you think about what you hate the most
sadness and loneliness embodied with no hope
tragedy after tragedy with no way to cope
lost inside myself because I just don’t know.
These are not party pants, but loneliness…
Spend less time with imaginary friends in cyberspace and more time IRL and things might improve slightly. Have to go,, my gf just put Britney on and I have to go stop it immediately.
Loneliness Group, your mother asks you to go home for dinner!
FUCK YOU FAUNA AND YOUR LITTLE BITCH BABY CHINASMACK, but it’s just loneliness…I guess?
I think the original image is inspired by Haruki Murakami short story “Year of spaghetti”
You can read it here (the translation)
http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/people/efros/personal/murakami.txt
The last sentence in that essay read “Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that
what they were exporting in 1971 was really *loneliness*?”
台湾不是独立，是寂寞。
Taiwan is not independent — it is lonliness.
我做的不是拼错，是寂寞。
I didn’t misspell it. It is loneliness.
It’s nice that this sound great in every language I know. :D
What Edison took were not photographs, but loneliness.
Staying up one extra hour so you can order McDonald’s breakfast menu delivery instead of ‘the usual’ Big Mac with 2x cheeseburger chaser seems like a good idea at the time, but when you wake up, you will realise that it’s actually loneliness.
what chinese want is not one triple member family but loneliness
too much pressure on one point:
______
\ / grandparents
\ / parents
\/ one-child
Are these guys really lonely or they are really saying they are bored? If they are bored from the netcafe, maybe they should get more sunlight and experience the real world eh?
http://www.chinasmack.com/pictures/students-having-sex-public-street-broad-daylight/
What this girl is feeling is not an orgasm, but loneliness.
…and more specifically:
What sister’s clitoris feels is not stimulation, but loneliness.
what a brother is posting is not loneliness, but shit.
What the brother feels about 1.3 billion Chinese is not family, but loneliness.
This is not loneliness but an entire generation of spoiled fucking brats, GROW UP!!!!
That isn’t an obese man crying to himself while masturbating absentmindedly to the history channel…
But loneliness.
So is Akon’s song ‘Lonely’ going to be China’s new national anthem?
What I dump every day is not shit, but loneliness :D
台湾寻求的不是独立,而是寂寞。
我在网上寻找的不是虚幻的祖籍国中国，是寂寞。
台湾寻求的不是独立，而是寂寞。
我在网上寻求的不是虚幻的祖籍国，是寂寞。
我不是在上班，我上的是寂寞
The secret of the universe if not 42, but loneliness.
Retarded emos should not be judged by bad hairdos, but loneliness.
It’s not wondering about who’s won this competition that’s brought me back to this thread, but loneliness.
你看的不是中文,是寂寞
So Who was the winner?
These kids are just trying to be EMO.
Not a picture. It is but loneliness.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rzganoza/3864612098/