By Oska Lee, posted Dec 25, 2012 at 4:06 PM, 2,175 views,

Hilarious Wry Neck Cartoon Becomes Chinese Internet Hit

Recently, a group of wry neck cartoons are getting popular in China’s internet. So why all these cute little character are crooking their necks ? A giant asteroid made a flyby of Earth two weeks ago. The near-Earth asteroid ‘4179 Toutatis‘, which is about 3 miles wide, came within 4.3 million miles of our planet — or about 18 lunar distances — at its closest point. Many people worry that if the asteroid hit the earth, it is the end of the world. A Chinese cartoonist think that if everybody just crook their neck, this will let the Earth tilt, then the asteroid will not hit the Earth. He started to create a series of wry neck’s cartoon characters base on the silly theory …

The young Chinese cartoonist has created a number of familiar cartoon characters with wry neck. We have Super Mario’s neck get crooked, Batman’s and Iron Man’s neck are crooked, and even Communist Chairman Mao has a crooked neck too. The series of the wry neck cartoons have drawn a lot of attention on Chinese social network and it soon to become an unique avatar for web user. We are simply saying, the wry neck might just save our world !

SOURCE: weibo @so7os