Why you call those "weird"? I love those animations.
And "Chinese CFC" is CivClub,
the abbreviation is CC, the address is
www.civclub.net/bbs
Now let me tell you a story about the "weird" animal-ish smily-type things
Actually, the things have a name----兔斯基(Tusiji or Tuzki).
兔斯基创作者叫王卯卯,是北京广院动画系毕业的小姑娘,平时沉默寡言,在生活当中情绪激动的时候总想用夸张的动作表示自己的想法,可是又不好意思这么做,于是就把这些动作画成这只兔子。后来这些兔子在网上传来传去,人人都用兔子表达自己的夸张动作,这是王卯卯所始料未及的。
现在,原始的动画兔子已经被人们广为润色和修改,几乎中国的每个论坛都有兔斯基的表情形象。
Tusiji was created by Wang Maomao who was graduated from Animation Department in Communication University of China. Wang Maomao was a quiet girl at ordinary times. Once something moved her, she would rather do some exaggerated acts. While she was too shy to do what she wanted. So, she created those animated rabits to express her thoughts. Unexpectedly, her rabits was conveyed from one website to another, everyone like her rabits so much. Now, the original animated rabits has bee polished and re-created by many many people, almost pop forums present Tusiji, the lovely animated icons.
Here are some Tusiji,