Chat app Line has recently celebrated the second anniversary of Line Creators Market. On Thursday last week, Line held a forum on creating original Line stickers and invited creators of famous Line stickers from Japan, Thailand and Taiwan to share their experience designing Line stickers.
Line also announced the 14 Line stickers designed by Taiwanese that are ranked among the top 100 most popular Line stickers in the world. Of all 14 stickers designed by Taiwanese, the sticker set “the Haughty Smelly Cat” is the fourth most popular in the world.
Since it was launched in 2014, the Line Creators Market has released nearly 240,000 original stickers for download in Taiwan. At present, Line has over 57,000 creators of original Line stickers around the world and Taiwanese account for nearly one percent of them. The number of Taiwanese creators shows the nation has endless creative energy.
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(Translated by Tu Yu-an)
通訊軟體LINE原創市集最近歡慶上市兩週年，上週四舉辦原創貼圖講座，邀請日、泰、台知名貼圖創作者分享創作經驗。
LINE並公布全球百大貼圖榜中，共有十四組台灣貼圖上榜，其中「臭跩貓愛嗆人」更勇奪全球百大貼圖排行榜第四名。
LINE原創市集自前年推出共有近二十四萬組原創貼圖在台灣上架銷售，目前全球超過五十七萬創作者，台灣創作者就占近一成，展現台灣豐沛的創作能量。（中央社）
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