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Explorer-chan / Explorer-tan

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Updated Aug 28, 2018 at 11:14AM EDT by Jill.

Added Aug 27, 2018 at 04:45PM EDT by Don Caldwell.

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Explorer-chan and Explorer-tan are moe-anthropomorphized depictions of the Internet Explorer web browser.

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Origin

On March 7th, 2013, the Collateral Damage Studios Facebook[3] uploaded an illustration of a moe-anthropomorphized illustration Internet Explorer browser (shown below).



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On May 12th, 2013, the Collateral Damage Studios Facebook[1] page posted another moe-anthropomorphized illustration of the Internet Explorer browser (shown below). The post has since been removed from the page. The character was subsequently adopted by Microsoft Singapore as Inori Aizawa, a mascot for the 2013 Anime Festival Asia event.



On November 6th, 2013, the internetexplorer YouTube channel uploaded a clip of Aizawa battling robots (shown below).



On January 5th, 2018, the Inori Aizawa illustrations were submitted by Redditor Holofan4life to /r/Animemes.[4] On August 13th, Twitter user @Merryweatherey[5] tweeted a comic featuring a moe-anthropomorphized Internet Explorer browser (shown below). Within two weeks, the tweet garnered more than 40,000 likes and 13,000 retweets.



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