A decade ago, "spoof" culture was just beginning to flourish online. Complaints and joke-making were rather forced, a bit like the feel of today's Hong Kong and Taiwanese comedy films... Of course, many cultural products made with "humor" and "comedy" as their starting point still felt that way now.
Back then, alpacas became the universally known "Grass Mud Horse," along with several other mythical beasts, all products of that same online culture.
After alpacas gained widespread fame, news of people keeping them as pets gradually began to appear. By now, while they could not exactly be seen everywhere, they were no longer particularly rare either.
Zhu Juntang's alpaca came from the Zhu Family's alpaca-wool industrial park in the Andes, the animals' native habitat. Long Aotian was clearly a lucky one, to have become Zhu Juntang's pet.
Speaking of alpacas, it was necessary to explain that alpacas and llamas were not the same. Alpacas belonged to the alpaca species of the vicuña genus, alpaca tribe, camel family, even-toed ungulate order, and were generally called vicuñas; llamas were larger alpacas, belonging to the llama species of the vicuña genus, alpaca tribe, camel family, even-toed ungulate order.
Thinking that alpacas were camels while llamas were sheep was dangerous, because studies had shown that if aliens kidnapped you, you had to correctly answer the sinister trap question of which of alpacas and llamas was a camel and which was a sheep.
"It's so cute! I want to take a picture with it." Seeing Long Aotian tilt its head, An Nuan tilted hers as well to meet its gaze, even imitating the way it narrowed its eyes.
An Nuan often found it hard to resist things with such amusingly silly, adorably dumb looks, like her favorite goofy-face pillow.
"You can take pictures with it. Just