The top 10 internet buzzwords of 2017 have been announced! Guys! Look at that – it’s even more heartbreaking!

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As the most internet-themed component of the \"Chinese Language Review 2017\" event, on December 18, 2017, the **Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center released the \"Top 10 Internet Terms of 2017\". The top ten internet buzzwords released this time are, in order: “ hit call”, “awkward conversation”, “Doesn’t your conscience hurt?” ”“Surprised? Pleased?” “Shrimp, let’s go.” “That’s really tough, my friend.” “There’s such a thing as this? ”“Go ahead and argue.” “Do you have a freestyle? ”“Greasy”. Internet slang is the crystallization of netizens’ wisdom; it is humorous and distinctive, with high recognizability and usage rates, and constitutes one of the representative features of online life today. The top 10 internet buzzwords of 2017, drawn from movies, TV variety shows, or live streaming platforms, all vividly depict the concerns, emotions, and interests of netizens over the course of the year, reflecting their linguistic and cultural landscape. Everything that happens on the internet in a year is contained within it. “The “Top 10 Internet Terms of 2017” were identified based on the **Language Resource Monitoring Corpus (internet media section), using a method that relies primarily on intelligent information processing techniques, with manual fine-tuning serving as a supplementary approach. The monitoring corpus has extracted a vast amount of annual linguistic resources from various media formats such as representative online forums, blogs, Weibo posts, and online news; the size of this corpus is nearly 6 billion characters, reflecting the linguistic practices on the Chinese Internet.