OS Tans and Other Anthropomorphism/Personification

Among the anime-obsessed (Japanese and non-Japanese alike), the internet-specific fanatics form a specific group, whom collectively give substance to new trends, which find there way to mainstream otaku-cultural (otaku = anime obsessed)

Many of these trends born on the internet are anthropomorphism or personification of inanimate objects.

for example, someone, on the internet, began posting character designs for the various versions of Microsoft Windows.

Here we see Windows ME, Windows XP, and Windows 2000

Here's the most recent addition to the family, Windows 7

These characters do not have any other inherent narrative platform other than their specific character designs and illustrations of these characters...

Nevertheless, these characters generate a huge following...