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More than ten days ago, a developer created a "original god player indicator" on Greasy Fork, a forum site that provides expansion scripts for C-end users. According to the public information left by the developers, this expansion script is mainly applied to the comment area of bilibili's video, and users who install the tool can identify whether the speaker is an original player.

▲ source: screenshot of the website

The way of identification is also very simple, after the screening of the expansion script, qualified netizens will be marked with the words "original player" after their avatar and nickname.

▲ source: screenshot of bilibili's comment area

As soon as this expansion script was released, it aroused a strong response from gamers. In Greasy Fork, a relatively minority user script forum, the original player indicator has been installed tens of thousands of times, and in feedback, many users call it "the best script of the year", "this great invention is second only to the first law", "a few words can bring the ultimate spiritual enjoyment".

Not only that, because the developer said he was playful and not very good at iterative updates, but some users did find some bug in use, many developers who were willing to participate emerged on the forum, some of whom created the "original god player indicator upgrade version", and some invented platform-wide versions of scripts suitable for bilibili, Weibo and Zhihu. There will be Arena of Valor, tomorrow's Ark, the new three-phase power and other hot games are included to support the identification of more gamers.

In the user interface that uses the extension script, each netizen's nickname is tagged with colorful tags, and the indicator also displays prefixes such as "ordinary", "rare", "epic" and "hidden" for the number of groups with different tags.

Users with no tags detected by the indicator will be marked as "ordinary | pure good".

▲ source: the indicator of the upgraded version, which gives netizens colorful labels.

The "indicator" production contest, which began in the game circle, is not over here.

In response to users' need for identity recognition in other areas, more and more types of indicators have appeared on the forums of extension scripts, including V-circle indicators to identify virtual anchors (Vtuber), rice circle indicators for star fans, Apple / Huawei users, lottery forwarding participant indicators. ..

Anonymous developers quickly produced expansion scripts with a wider range of applications. In a script called "component indicator", users can identify different network groups by customizing keywords. In other words, this "indicator" is a "marking machine for netizens" that can be used by users individually.

Only from the point of view of technical implementation, the making of indicators is not complicated.

It mainly uses crawler technology to read API data of social platform, by mining comment areas and users to publish dynamic content, according to certain matching rules for screening. This crawler technology was first used in Internet search engines and has been used by big data to obtain users' personal information and resumes in recent years. the abuse of it by some companies has also contributed to industrial chaos such as the diversion of Internet financial loans and violent collection.

Although with the development of AI technology, many Internet platforms have turned on intelligent anti-crawler features to protect users' privacy, but for social media platforms, users' updates, comments and likes, as well as public information such as avatars and nicknames can still be easily accessed by crawler software.

On the one hand, the technical implementation cost and user acquisition cost of the expansion script are infinitely low, on the other hand, the degree of fragmentation of the Internet world intensifies, so the crawler "gets rid of" the shackles of commercial purposes and climbs into the hands of tens of thousands of netizens.

In the first popular "original God player indicator" to expand the script comment area, there have been a lot of users who have negative feelings about the original God game and its players, and in many user interactive conversations, also began to align based on their favorite game positions.

▲ image source: screenshot of Greasy fork forum

On the whole, there are not many such "alignment" for the game content itself, and more often use the game as a tag to group and classify strangers on social media. In fact, the reason why many users need a "netizen indicator" is to find a label-like explanation for strange netizens on social media who express views contrary to their own views, talk about content they don't like, or have had a dispute over an issue.

Among the people who use indicators to tag netizens, a considerable number of users want to block unwanted tag content and social accounts.

"Thank you. I really need this. It would be better if I could block out the speeches of this group."

"can you change it to block id and content? I don't care if it is, but I just don't want to see it."

"one-click blocking function is required, and it would be even better if it can be blocked automatically."

And the expansion script that can successfully achieve this demand is also quickly produced.

In fact, blocking and blocking have already become essential functions on today's head social media platform. Take Weibo as an example, many adjustments have been made only on blocking, including whether the home page is visible, to whom the post is visible, and who can participate in the comments, users all have relatively subdivided rights to choose. Even for the content posted by strange netizens with zero interaction, Weibo also sets up the function of blocking keywords.

But it seems that these features launched for the purpose of preventing cyber violence are not enough for many users.

Many users who used such indicators posted that they traced back to what netizens said they did not like in the past, and unexpectedly found that these netizens had been tagged with some kind of tag.

▲ source: a screenshot of a netizen's speech

Some interesting changes have also taken place, which on the one hand makes them more certain that their aversion to certain ideas or content is correct, on the other hand, it also deepens their aversion to a tagged group.

And many netizens are obviously not satisfied with just identifying the "enemy".

Some netizens have observed that some online online enthusiasts have launched witch hunts on social media such as bilibili and Weibo, and they don't care what content and opinions netizens have expressed. instead, they focus on finding groups labeled with some kind of indicator and carrying out indiscriminate attacks.

An absurd example is that in the early version of the original God indicator, because of the imperfect script, all netizens' posts containing the words "original" and "God" would be labeled with the indicator. As a result, in some question and comment areas called "restoring the Shenzhou spaceship" and "the source of infection is haunted", it is clear that the content has nothing to do with the game, but there is a group behavior of gamers or team building or alignment.

Of course, many users think that tagging netizens with indicators is just for fun, and with the proliferation of installation script users, a large number of data requests sent to social media servers may have attracted the attention of the platform. for the abuse of crawler technology, developers are at risk of being sued by the platform, and users' accounts may also be blocked.

▲ image source: a tagged video blocking script / network screenshot applied to bilibili

Looking at the popularity of such indicators, it is easy to reassure people that the biggest transformation of people's minds by the Internet in recent years is tagging. The platform of the mobile Internet era, whether it is short video, information, takeout, travel or e-commerce shopping, as long as there is a user account, the platform system classifies users by tagging, and then recommends preferred content or services through algorithms.

Now it seems that netizens are beginning to treat each other in the same way.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: ID:pinwancool, author: Shen Danyang

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