It is often coined in response to events, the influence of the mass media and foreign culture, and the desires of users to simplify and update the Chinese language.
It includes content relating to all aspects of social life, mass media, economic, and political topics and the like.
Internet slang is arguably the fastest-changing aspect of the language, created by a number of different influences—technology, mass media and foreign culture amongst others.
(Lower-case letters spell words which are changed into Chinese characters).
Latin alphabet abbreviations (rather than Chinese characters) are also sometimes used to evade censorship.