W H A T I S J E J E M O N

What is Jejemon? According to urbandictionary Jejemon are individual with low IQ's who spread their idiocy around the web by typing s0mEtHiNg lYk dIs. Jejemon spend most of their time infront of computer lurking social networking site like facebook and friendster.

Many people, specially in social networking and online communities in the Philippines are experiencing the Jejemon phenomena.

But still, many are asking, what is a jejemon? Is jejemon the new jologs? While many would agree, some would refute this and say that the jejemon belongs to a completely new breed of people.

The word Jejemon basically comes from the word “Jejeje” – a word commonly used to denote laughter. The letter J here is pronounced as an H, thus it’s further etymology to the colloquial – “Hehehe”.

Secondly, Jejemon is an offshoot of the subculture popularity of Pokemon and while the latter means “pocket monsters”; Jejemons are often seen as “Jejeje monsters” for their ability to turn off and annoy people with their “foreign” style of writing.

Jejemon language example: “miSzMaldiTahh111 here EoW pFuOh! PuNtah TyO0 ZtArBuckKzz! Jejejejeje!”

It’s interesting that Jejemons are typically being discriminated in Philippine culture and yet, an earlier and original form of language – Leet is actually a globally accepted form of writing, specially in the intellectual geek community. And even Google has it’s own Leet Page.