Wan2's comic blog which is the most popular personaility blog in Taiwan's biggest blog website WRETCH.
"Wretch (Chinese: 無名小站) is a Taiwanese community web site, in Chinese, it's name means Anonymous Lil' Site or Nameless Lil' Station. It is the most famous web blog community in Taiwan with thousands of users registered now. Wretch provides free album, blog, and bbs hosting services. Four languages, including English, are available. A more extensive VIP version is offered. It is the top visited site in Traditional Chinese languages and the second in Taiwan after Yahoo! Taiwan according to Alexa." (wikipedia)
The blog was launch in October 2004, similar as other blogs, Wanwan2's comic blog was set up for Wanwan (blogger) recording her daily life. It is a Chinese blog as well as a art blog.
It became famous because of the cute cartoon character "Wanwan" (As shown in the picture). Actually Wanwan is the nickname of the blogger, she named the little cute figure Wanwan which as same as blogger's nick name because she is a artist and she created a simple cute figure which could represents her and use it to record her daily life.
As time goes, more and more people showed their interesting of her simple images and numbers of them use those images as MSN pictures. Many of my friends and I now are using her images (such as the left one) to express my daily moods and it is kind of fashion.
Wanwan2's comic blog has well designed which has pinky cartoon background with orange and light yellow navigation and blogging background. 'Cute' is the theme of the whole blog.
Wanwan's blog currently is a business rather than a personal journal blog, because as the growth of viewers and fans (More than 30 thousands perday and totall visiters currently is 102999127), Wanwan's pictures are published as a book. Therefore if you visit her blog today, her image journal may still, but you could find that there are many different categories of pictures which specially for different purpose such as MSN pictures. Does not like before, Wanwan's blog is much more like a business rather than a journal blog. And what I found that Wanwan is drawing a picture for her audience but not for herself. I can't see many personal feelings expect "I am happy, I went to ....". Before Wanwan became famous, audiences could read some articles which written by her, but now all things are about image althoug images are more easy to understand, but she is losing something.
Due to the situation of Wanwan2's comic blog which is a business, some of the author's pictures are under copy right, they are no more as free as before which people could download or use. The author Wanwan as famous as her figure now, and people sometimes can see her in some TV advertisement. In the future, the figure Wanwan may become a specific cartoon character as "Hello Kitty" and it is not surprise that if there is a company which own by Wanwan.
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