Polandball memes

Polandball, alternatively known in general as countryballs, is an internet meme that consists of user-created cartoon comics, artworks, and communities. It satirizes countries and their political relations, polandball memes, personified as balls excluding a few countries with simple eyes and their flag as their skin sometimes their clothinginteracting with each other mostly in poorly-written English Unless it is polandball memes English speaking nationand exhibiting personalities derived from national and international opinions and stereotypes of them, polandball memes.

These user-generated cartoons typically follow the lives of ball-shaped creatures representing different countries also known as Countryballs and "international drama" surrounding their diplomatic relations. Drawball is a popular website hosting a huge circular canvas on which anyone can draw and collaborate on larger artworks with other users. In mid-August , a large group of Polish netizens on Wykop. Alarmed by a sudden flood of red and white, Drawball users in communities like New Schoolers [5] , 4chan responded by making counter moves, including an attempt to sabotage the takeover by flipping the color schemes [7] to resemble a Pokemon creature. However, the battle didn't last long and by August 15th, Drawball canvas read "Polska. Then, any post was followed by the icon of a small ball with big eyes representing the poster's own country flag. As stated in the Russian Lurkmore wiki:.

Polandball memes

Countryballs , also known as Polandball , [a] is a geopolitical satirical art style , genre, and internet meme , predominantly used in online comics strips in which countries or political entities are personified as balls [b] with eyes without pupils, decorated with their national flags. Comics feature the characters in various scenarios, generally poking fun at national stereotypes , international relations , and historical events , with them moving about by walking or jumping. Other common features in Countryball strips include non-English countries speaking in broken English —with vocabularies of their national languages included— political incorrectness , and black comedy. Strips are generally created using Microsoft Paint or more advanced tools, often made to intentionally look crudely drawn. Countryballs date back to an August incident on drawball. Falco created the strips using Paint in September , where they gained popularity among other users on the board, particularly Russians. Countryballs continue to be popular on the internet, with the Facebook community reaching over , members by July , [1] and several other communities being created on Reddit , VK , Telegram , YouTube , Twitter. It has also been the subject of research by various institutions, as well as positive and negative commentary for both their simplistic and offensive nature, with some feeling they could allow readers to learn about unknown events. Various video games and alternate history works have been based on the meme. The origin of Countryballs can be traced back to drawball. On the website, users could freely draw on a circular canvas called a "drawball". The circular canvas constrained the flag in such a way that it became a literal "Poland ball". The creator of the modern Countryballs format is often attributed to Falco, a British user of the German imageboard Krautchan. Notably, Poland was drawn with an inverted Polish flag making it look like the flag of Indonesia or Monaco , which some have debated on whether or not was intentional, or Falco being unaware of its color pattern.

However, the battle didn't last long and by August 15th, polandball memes, Drawball canvas read "Polska. Archived from the original on 9 December Infokam in Russian.

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Polandball, also known as Countryball, is an Internet meme that was created on the German imageboard krautchan. The memes have the form of web cartoons often converted to animation in which individual countries are displayed as ball-shaped characters, who often use broken English and make fun of national stereotypes or international relations. Despite its satirical nature, the hashtag polandball is considered to be neutral. One of the characteristics that define Polandball cartoons is the way their eyes are presented. The spherical characters do not have any pupils, eyebrows, or mouths, nor do they have arms or legs.

Polandball memes

Polandball, alternatively known in general as countryballs, is an internet meme that consists of user-created cartoon comics, artworks, and communities. It satirizes countries and their political relations, personified as balls excluding a few countries with simple eyes and their flag as their skin sometimes their clothing , interacting with each other mostly in poorly-written English Unless it is an English speaking nation , and exhibiting personalities derived from national and international opinions and stereotypes of them. The subculture and comics can be referred to alternatively as Polandball even if Poland does not appear in the comic itself or countryballs.

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Polandball Uploaded by Evilthing. Login Now! For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. Discussions Discord Server. Read View source View history. Russians espoused it the most, themselves creating their own stereotypes of drunken enjoyment and obsession with making fun of Poland. As stated in the Russian Lurkmore wiki:. Add a Comment. Polandball Uploaded by Firey JR. Like 1. The comics became famous enough to eventually warrant their own active sub-reddit [19].

The Polandball Wiki is a community encyclopedia project about the Polandball meme. The Polandball Wiki is operated by Wikitide and is currently maintaining over 10, articles along with , edits combined. Main page Recent changes Random page Administrators' noticeboard.

Polandball Uploaded by Bilbo Swaggins. Portals : Comedy Countries Internet Poland. Countryballs date back to an August incident on drawball. Pierwszy Polak w kosmosie" [Miroslaw Hermaszewski. On the website, users could freely draw on a circular canvas called a "drawball". Katya Lischina. Retrieved 25 November This is so that the community surrounding Polandball can return and participate in it regardless of any real offense taken to the viewer. However, the battle didn't last long and by August 15th, Drawball canvas read "Polska. Don't worry, all ships are banned from current Wiki. This does not mean that Polandball is non-offensive - rather, it is as offensive as possible while remaining innocent of what it talks about. Like 1. Archived from the original on 15 April Retrieved 6 August February