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User-generated internet meme

The character of Poland, represented as a ball coloured like an upside-down Polish flag

Countryballs, also known as Polandball,[a] is an art style and net meme used in some online comics in which countries are typically personified every bit imperfect spherical characters (there are some exceptions, such every bit Nepal, Israel, Kazakhstan, Singapore and Bermuda) decorated with their state'south flag. The characters often interact in broken English, and the dialog typically uses regional and/or national variations, depending on the region the character represents (e.g., France'southward cleaved English is interspersed with French words). The comics poke fun at national stereotypes, international relations and historical conflicts.

Background

A grouping of Countryballs characters

Countryballs have their roots on drawball.com, a website that immune Net users to depict any they want on a round sail called a "drawball." In August 2008, thousands of Polish netizens took over the unabridged drawball with an analogy of the Polish flag. The circular canvas constrained the flag in such a way that information technology became a literal "Poland ball."[1] [2]

The beginning of the countryballs format proper is credited to Falco, a British user on the High german imageboard Krautchan.net who used Microsoft Paint to create a meme of Wojak – a Polish Internet troll on the same board who contributed in cleaved English. After this, creating countryballs cartoons became popular amongst other users on the board, particularly Russians.[1] [3] [4]

Popularity

The manner soon grew in popularity on the cyberspace as a whole as a meme, having dedicated communities on platforms such as Reddit[four] [v] [vi] and Facebook.[7] [8] [9] The popularity of the fashion has been attributed to the ability of the drawings to tell short stories of nations in a easily understandable way, ofttimes with a big amount of jokes and comical undertones, with the characterization of a group lending itself towards a short comic format.[10] [11]

Themes

Poland

A Countryballs comic, which is an extension of the "Poland cannot into space" [sic] catchphrase. The comic references Poland joining the European Space Agency in 2012.

The premise of countryballs is that they correspond the country and its history, foreign relations and stereotypes,[3] [12] focusing on megalomania and national complexes.[ii] [13] With the exception of Anglophone countries, the dialogue of countryballs tends to be written in broken English and Internet slang, reminiscent of the lolcat meme, and past the end of a drawing, Poland is typically seen weeping.[ane] [2]

Polandball's depiction of Poland portrays a number of stereotypes. These include bad English language use by Poles, blaming others for its failures in particular given the backdrop of repeated invasions by its neighbours (such as the 18th-century partitions and Globe State of war Ii), Polish propensity for telling tales of the glorious by, and the perception of Poles equally "slow-witted" and "psycho-Catholic".[14]

Some Polandball comics ascend from the premise that some countries can wing into space, whilst Poland cannot.[15] [16] One of the primeval Polandball comics begins with the premise that Earth is going to exist struck by a giant meteor, leading to all countries with space technology leaving Earth and going into orbit effectually the planet. At the end of the cartoon, Poland, even so on globe, is crying, and in broken English pronounces the canonical Polandball catchphrase "Poland cannot into space".[iii] [17] In this humorous style, other countryballs put a halt to all discussion with Poles on which country is superior.[one] [3] [12]

Other countries

Countryballs can also include comics on other countries: these comics are sometimes even so referred to as Polandball comics,[1] although they are more commonly also referred to as countryballs.[four] States, provinces, and other such divisions can likewise be used; multinational organisations such as the European Matrimony, NATO and Un,[eighteen] and "Planetballs" are also mutual.

There are various other established conventions. For example, the Great britain most ofttimes wears a monocle and a top hat, often holds a cup of tea, and often talks nigh when it was a superpower.[19] The U.s. is oft depicted wearing big black sunglasses. Coats of arms in the upper hoist side are nigh often eyepatches, which often depict Austria-Republic of hungary, which had ii coats of arms on its flag, bullheaded or otherwise wearing tinted spectacles. Montenegro is oft depicted as very sleepy and lazy, referring to real-world "Lazy Olympics".[20]

The simplicity of countryballs, together with its recognition of globe history and a focus on current affairs, makes the meme suited to commenting on international events.[eighteen] Amongst events which have been covered by countryballs and have been noted in the media, are the Senkaku Islands dispute,[21] the 2013 papal conclave which saw Jorge Mario Bergoglio beingness elected as the new Pope,[22] the Revolution of Dignity,[eighteen] [17] [23] the 2014 Crimean crunch[five] and problems relating to Filipino workers in Taiwan.[24] During the 2021-2022 Russo-Ukrainian crunch, Ukraine became the chief character in some comics.

The countryballs meme fifty-fifty extends beyond countries. As an instance, "Pluto cannot into planet" [sic] refers to the demotion of Pluto. Other common themes include the colonization of Mars, jokes about Uranus'south name, and the Sun's red giant stage. This such variation is chosen "Planetballs".[25]

Assessment

A report on the Russian radio station Vesti FM noted a post on Livejournal which asked readers to list five images that come to listen when thinking of Poland or Poles. The five pages of responses, illustrating the complex and often difficult historical ties betwixt Russia and Poland, recalled subjects including False Dmitriy I, Tomek in the Land of the Kangaroos by Polish author Alfred Szklarski, Czterej pancerni i pies ("Four tank-men and a dog"), Russophobia and Polandball.[26] [ unreliable source? ]

Wojciech Oleksiak, writing on culture.pl, a project of the Smoothen government-funded Adam Mickiewicz Plant which has the aim of promoting Shine language and civilization abroad, noted that due to anyone being able to create a Polandball comic, the being of the meme has created new opportunities for people to express their personal views on race, faith and history. In describing Polandball as the Net meme par excellence, he farther stated that comic plots can be "rude, impolite, racist, abusive, or simply manifestly dumb", whilst also noting that the politically incorrect nature of the comics add to the attractiveness of the meme.[27]

At the same fourth dimension, Oleksiak notes that Polandball comics often employ exaggerated Shine stereotypes, such as Poles not being as adept in English every bit other nationalities, and Poland itself beingness a land full of dull-witted hyper-Catholics. On the other hand, he admits that some stereotypes employed in Polandball comics, such as Poles telling stories about the nation's glorious history and dwelling on a deep rooted martyrdom, are by and large true; whilst the stereotype that Poles hold many national complexes and blame external forces for their own failures, is truthful, just somewhat justified.[27]

Oleksiak further notes that from Polandball, Poles can learn to have "a sense of sense of humor about our long-time grudges".[27]

In pop civilization

A game called Polandball: Tin into Infinite was released in 2016 on PC and on eighteen June 2020 for the Nintendo Switch.[28] An online multiplayer third-person shooter chosen Countryballs: Modern Ballfare released on Steam in June 2021 for Microsoft Windows.[29] A 3D RPG game called Bang-On Balls: Chronicles was released on March 3, 2020 for PC.

See as well

  • International relations
  • Pearls Before Swine (comic)
  • Social commentary
  • Editorial cartoon
  • Political humour
  • Flags
  • Broken English
  • Culture of Poland
  • National personification
  • Hetalia

Notes

  1. ^ The style may be referred to both as Polandball by convention, even in cases where Poland is not present, or countryball (or, collectively, countryballs.)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Orliński, Wojciech (sixteen January 2010). "Wyniosłe lol zaborców, czyli Polandball". Komentarze (in Polish). gazeta. Archived from the original on 1 January 2012. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Zapałowski, Radosław (fifteen February 2010). "Znowu lecą z nami w... kulki" (in Polish). Cooltura. Archived from the original on eleven October 2014. Retrieved half-dozen August 2014.
  3. ^ a b c d Kapiszewski, Kuba (5 Apr 2010). "Fenomem — Polska nie umieć kosmos" (in Polish). Przegląd. Archived from the original on 5 Baronial 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  4. ^ a b c Plomlompom, Nils Dagsson Moskopp Erlehmann & Christian Heller (2013). "MS-Pigment-Comics". Internet-Meme : kurz & geek (in German) (1 ed.). O'Reilly Verlag. pp. 86–88. ISBN978-3-86899-806-1. Archived from the original on 28 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  5. ^ a b Ryan, Emmet (4 March 2014). "Polandball is Reddit'south answer to Crimea crunch". The Sunday Business Post. Archived from the original on 6 December 2019. Retrieved viii November 2014.
  6. ^ "r/polandball". Reddit. n.d. Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved eighteen March 2022.
  7. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on ten April 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2020. {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as championship (link)
  8. ^ "Polandball 2.0". www.facebook.com. Archived from the original on half-dozen March 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  9. ^ "POLANDBALL". www.facebook.com. Archived from the original on 6 September 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  10. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on xiv August 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2020. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived re-create as title (link)
  11. ^ "Polandball is of Reddit: How r/polandball Transcends Memes through Advisedly Curated Geopolitical Satire « INC Longform". Archived from the original on 28 September 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  12. ^ a b Cegielski, Tomek (12 April 2011). "MEMY. Legendy Internetu" (in Polish). Hiro.pl. Archived from the original on 15 April 2011. Retrieved v Baronial 2014.
  13. ^ Kralka, Jakub (11 May 2012). "Polski internet to potęga, po co te kompleksy?" (in Polish). Spider's Web. Archived from the original on 5 August 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  14. ^ "Polandball – A Case Study". Civilisation.pl. Archived from the original on 28 September 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
  15. ^ "Mirosław Hermaszewski – pierwszy Polak westward kosmosie". PolskieRadio.pl. Archived from the original on 6 March 2022. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  16. ^ Chiaro, Delia (23 November 2017). The Language of Jokes in the Digital Age: Viral Humour. Routledge. ISBN9781351379953. Archived from the original on 28 August 2021. Retrieved 28 Baronial 2021 – via Google Books.
  17. ^ a b Камышин «может в кантриболз». Infokam (in Russian). seven August 2014. Archived from the original on viii November 2014. Retrieved 8 Nov 2014.
  18. ^ a b c Fisher, Max (25 July 2014). "Everything you need to know about the Ukraine crisis". Vocalization Media. Archived from the original on 22 January 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
  19. ^ Hoffman, Steven (2 May 2015). "How Polandball can of taking over internets". Krakow Mail service. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 2 Apr 2016.
  20. ^ Beswick, Emma; Burnett, Stephanie (22 August 2018). "Sleepy Montenegrins win 'Lazy Olympics'". Euronews. Archived from the original on 6 Dec 2021. Retrieved 6 Dec 2021.
  21. ^ "Japon, Chine, vers une nouvelle guerre froide". France Civilisation (in French). nine March 2013. Archived from the original on 8 Nov 2014. Retrieved viii November 2014.
  22. ^ "Wybór Franciszka okiem internautów" (in Smooth). Onet.pl. 14 March 2013. Archived from the original on 17 September 2014. Retrieved 6 August 2014. Alt URL Archived 18 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  23. ^ Аниматор из Камышина нарисовал мультфильм о «заболевшей» Украине. Argumenty i Fakty (in Russian). Volgograd. 6 August 2014. Archived from the original on 8 Nov 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  24. ^ "台灣最美麗的風景是人 真的嗎？ (Taiwan is i of the virtually cute landscapes, really?)" (in Chinese). Apple Daily (Taiwanese edition). 31 July 2014. Archived from the original on iv Apr 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
  25. ^ Polandball (2014). "Pluto is irrelevant". Country Balls . Retrieved eighteen March 2022. {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: url-condition (link)
  26. ^ Klava, P. (25 August 2013). Польша у россиян ассоциируется с Лжедмитрием и Польшаром. Vesti FM (in Russian). Archived from the original on eight November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  27. ^ a b c Oleksiak, Wojciech (9 June 2014). "Polandball — A Case Study". Culture.pl. Adam Mickiewicz Constitute. Archived from the original on 6 August 2014. Retrieved half dozen August 2014.
  28. ^ "Polandball: Can Into Infinite for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Game Details". Nintendo. Archived from the original on 21 June 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  29. ^ "Countryballs: Modern Ballfare Review". GamesMojo. 25 Nov 2021. Archived from the original on 25 Nov 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2021.

External links

  • Polandball subreddit

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