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 polandball memes hosting a huge circular canvas on which anyone can draw and collaborate on larger artworks with other users. In mid-Augusta large group of Polish netizens on Wykop, 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. The meme has officially developed differently than many other internet memes in that it has a strong community of followers across many websites, but is not always completely known or understood outside of its communities. Regardless, Polandball has become a staple of many websites to depict international events.

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.

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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. The way the eyes are drawn is the main way of expressing emotions. The beginnings of Polandball can be traced back to a UK forum user who used the nickname Falco.

Polandball memes

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.

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On Krautchan, the meme became so widespread that the managers and moderators of the website established markers for the anonymous users' home countries using countryballs instead of flags. National personifications. Polandball Uploaded by Soup King. Unreliable citations may be challenged and removed. Retrieved 2 April Early webcomics — This is so that the community surrounding Polandball can return and participate in it regardless of any real offense taken to the viewer. These people have destoryed the CountryHumans Fandom and are truly hated. Spider's Web. This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject , potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral. Wojciech Oleksiak, writing on culture.

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.

There are really two main groups of this: people who like CountryHumans , and people who don't. Polandball Uploaded by Evilthing. University of Ostrava. The reason why it is so controversial, is because of all the ships. Alberto Barbosa. The Polandball community on Facebook often had to deal with bans due to politically incorrect humor often targeting Islam , or "Kebab", as called in the community or the display of the swastika since it's part of the Third-Reich-flag and thus of the Third-Reich-countryball as well. Various video games and alternate history works have been based on the meme. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate , is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. The circular canvas constrained the flag in such a way that it became a literal "Poland ball". Other symbols of Liberty. Retrieved 2 April