Who is Zhdun, what is “vzhukh” and why everyone around is singing “The ice between us is melting” - you can learn all this from this guide to the most popular memes, which was obtained based on the analysis of tons of funny pictures from social networks.
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1. Zhdun
Probably everyone who has ever used social networks has come across pictures with Zhdun. However, not everyone knows the history of the origin of this meme. The picture shows a sculpture by Dutch artist Margriet van Breefort called Homunculus Loxodontus, which translates to “elephant-shaped man.” The strange creature combines the features of a seal and an elephant and depicts a patient sitting in line to see a doctor.
Adaptations of this meme are accompanied by witty captions: “I clicked something and everything disappeared,” “Should I have saved the source?” and dozens of others.
2. Salty handsome
The flamboyant chef Nusret Gokce is the manager of the Nus-Et steakhouse in Dubai. Nusret is an excellent cook, and this is expressed not only in the taste of the dishes, but also in the way the cooking process itself looks. Every gesture of the chef shows his love for his work and remarkable artistry.
Nusret's popularity was brought by his manner of salting steak: the cook takes a pinch of coarse salt and lets it “drip” onto the meat up to the elbow. This gesture with an elegantly raised hand became the basis of the meme.
3. Ukraine and VKontakte
On May 16, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko issued a decree on new sanctions against Russia, including limiting access of Ukrainian users to Yandex, social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. Of course, there are many ways to bypass such blocking, but this does not stop some users from being indignant, and others from making funny pictures on this topic.
The most popular was the shot from “Fast and the Furious” with cars driving away at a fork. One of the cars depicts the VKontakte logo, the other shows the flag of Ukraine.
4. Drake Dance
This meme has already acquired a substantial beard, but new pictures continue to pop up on social networks to this day. The dance from the Hotline Bling video became a popular meme in America in an instant: users made hundreds of Coub videos, substituting different music for the performer’s movements.
Drake's expressive facial expressions gave rise to meme pictures on the RuNet. A template with two objects and Drake's reaction to each of them became popular. The first object causes rejection: the artist frowns and shields himself with his palm. Drake likes the second one: he breaks into a satisfied smile.
5. Be like Petya
“Be like Petya” is a meme that came to Russia from the Western Internet. The original image with primitive graphics and smart Tim was uploaded by an anonymous user back in March 2010. The storytelling style was picked up by Australian airlines, and hundreds of adaptations appeared on the Internet, but with Smart Bill. The original contained the following text: “Tim is on the Internet. Tim sees something that bothers him. Tim walks by. Tim is smart. Be like Tim."
Pictures with smart Petya give users simple life advice. They are pretty obvious, but each of us can name at least a couple of people who do not follow these tips.
6. Keyod Ewumi
Keyode Ewumi is an actor whose face is often seen on social media. The image itself is a still from the show The Hood Documentary, where the character Keyoda talks about his girlfriend: “I think Rachel is beautiful because she can use her head well.”
As a rule, Keyod gives advice that is more likely to make you smile than to be truly useful.
7. Harold Hiding the Pain
Harold is a character discovered by users on the stock photo site Dreamstime. A good-natured smile combined with suffering in the eyes ensured the success of photographs with an unknown elderly man.
Initially, the story of a kind old man who was forced to take pictures as a happy grandfather gained popularity. Over the years, pictures of Harold were used to show painful or awkward feelings with a fake smile on his face.
8. Mr. Dudets
An image of a skull playing a trumpet became popular on the RuNet last fall. According to legend, Mr. Dudet will bless with calcium and strong bones everyone who writes: “Thank you, Mr. Dudet!”
The first documented image of Dudts dates back to 1995, after which he was forgotten for almost 20 years. New life Dudets found in 2016 thanks to “Dvach”. One image of a skull playing a trumpet was enough to turn the discussion thread into an endless string of "Thanks, Mr. Dude!" Thus, anonymous people discredited any dialogues in the topics of the Dvacha forums. Dudets became popular and leaked into social media.
In addition to its classic use, the meme often appears in music videos. The most popular video was where Dudets played a composition by Australian DJ Timmy Trumpet.
9. The ice between us is melting
This line from the viral Mushroom song has been so common on social media in recent months that a petition has even appeared on Change.Org against the widespread use of this phrase.
It all started with the group's official video, released on March 10. It spawned dozens of parodies, lines from the song are played out in funny pictures, Instagram users shoot videos to the hit “Mushrooms”, using the appropriate hashtags.
10. Supermind
The expanding brain meme appeared on Reddit as a variation of the Whomst meme. The fact is that many English-speaking users confuse who and whom. The Superintelligence meme pictures are a series of comparison images with the corresponding brain size for each. In this case, as a rule, the most adequate option corresponds to the smallest brain. Thus, in the adaptation of the Whomst meme, the use of who and whom in speech belonged to people with small and medium-sized brains, and those with superintelligence corresponded to the use in speech of the non-existent forms whom’st and whomst’d.
11. Sergey Druzhko
Many people remember the pseudo-documentary program “Inexplicable, but true” and its eccentric host Sergei Druzhko. St. Petersburg resident Nikita Afanasyev and his friend once remembered her. Friends decided to feel nostalgic about their childhood while watching a program about supernatural phenomena. The show itself seemed boring to them, but the host’s out-of-context and dramatic phrases amused the young people.
One day Nikita decided to answer his friend with Sergei Druzhko’s phrase “Are things really that bad?” For this he a quick fix I cut out this moment from the program and uploaded it to the video files of the newly created VKontakte public page. The discovery came at the right time: dozens of other phrases from “Inexplicable, but true” were uploaded to the public, and the number of subscribers soon amounted to tens of thousands.
The original public page was closed due to copyright problems, but the author’s work is still alive. More and more video clips with Sergei Druzhko for all occasions appear, and the presenter himself did not resist the sudden popularity and launched the “Druzhko Show” on YouTube.
12. Cat Vzhukh
The peak of popularity of this meme has already passed, but on the social network you can still come across pictures with a wizard cat.
A photo of a cat wearing a festive hat appeared on the English-language Internet in 2013. The image also spread on the RuNet, but the meme acquired its usual form only in 2016. An anonymous user cut out an image of a cat, placed a magic wand in its paw, and drew magic in the form of clumsy outlines of a spray bottle in Paint. And the meme was finalized by adding the phrase “Blow” by a user under the nickname Man-In Gabba.
Pictures with a wizard cat are accompanied by captions about some sudden action, performed as if at the behest of a magic wand.
13. Mined sneaker
Whether to laugh at this meme or not is a moral question, the answer to which we will leave to you. After all, the reason for the inadequacy of some Internet celebrities is usually sad. But the facts are unshakable: the thief in law, who survived an assassination attempt by detonating a booby-trapped sneaker, enjoys success on social networks.
The original video was released on the YouTube channel of a user under the nickname Gor Hakobyan in early May. The author was driving along a country road and saw a man sitting in the mud. Having asked what happened to him, the operator did not even suspect that he had stumbled upon an “authority” whose slipper had been mined by ill-wishers.
14. Come on, tell me
The basis of the meme was the facial expression of actor Gene Wilder from the 1971 film “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” In 2011, the phrase You must be new here was added to the frame from the series, which translates as “You must be new here.” In Runet the remark changed to “Come on, tell me...”. What follows is a phrase appropriate to the context.
Sometimes the text in the pictures with this meme deviates from the template, because the expression on Gene Wilder’s face already indicates that the sender does not believe the recipient of the message. By sending a picture with this meme, you seem to be telling your interlocutor: “I know you’re lying to me, but keep going...”
15. Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen
Piko Taro is a fictional character of Japanese DJ and comedian Kazuhito Kosaki. In the popular video, Pico sings a song about putting a pen and an apple, a pen and a pineapple, and an apple pen and a pineapple pen together. Some will say that this makes little sense. It is true, but the funny video sequence, the haunting motive and the lightness of the composition ensured the video’s place in the top of YouTube and became the basis for many parodies.
The meme did not remain in active Internet rotation for long, but new videos continue to appear on Piko Taro’s YouTube channel, gaining millions of views.
Memes: NAVALNY
No money, but you hold on
The phrase of our Prime Minister has already become firmly entrenched in Russian folklore. How to justify yourself in any situation? To quote one of the top officials of the state. In general, this phrase was said in Crimea to console a lady who could hardly live on 8 thousand rubles a month.
According to the editors, this is the loudest meme of 2016-2017.
Whoosh!
The cat in the cap, which makes a magical “buzz”, has become a real Internet star. A small VKontakte group correctly calculated the composition of a popular meme: cats, magic and banter.
The best memes of this summer.
Dratuti
Greetings from the hero of the program “Town” Yuri Stoyanov and the plywood pig created a meme popular on the Internet, which was happily picked up by TV shows and screen stars: “Dratuti everyone who watches us on the Internet” (c) Ivan Urgant
Russian did it
Remember how, in response to any bad news, adults said: “All the Americans did this!”, Now, they say the same thing about us. But we are simple people - Clinton accuses us of anything, but it’s funny to us. Look, the memes arrived with the official hashtag #RussianDidIt.
“Of course I won’t do this”
You can joke about mystical programs forever. But Sergei Druzhko was able to make his face iconic not only in the “Inexplicable, but Fact” program, but also became famous on the Internet. The usual phrase in one of the episodes: “A strong statement, I won’t check it, of course,” has become a cult among lazy and funny users of social networks.
John Travolta
A perplexed and confused expression is generally close to the Russian spirit. Especially when it is necessary to emphasize the internal WTF. Then another popular meme with John Travolta from the movie “Pulp Fiction” will come to the rescue.
When at the clinic I asked: “Who’s the last one?”
Willy Wonka's Healthy Skepticism
It is unlikely that those who are now in their early twenties know that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been filmed more than once, and that Willy Wonka is not only Johnny Depp. But everyone knows the incredulous meme with a man in a top hat and a bow tie. Actor Gene Wilder became famous for his role in Mel Stewart's 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but is now better known as the "Of course I believe you" meme.
“I float wherever I want”
Despite the general irritation, vapers have by all indications become an isolated subculture, they even have their own memes - “It’s not prohibited by law, I vape wherever I want.”
Memes are a great thing to lighten up the lives of social media users. They are able to unite the community of Internet users and express emotions no worse than usual emoticons. They can contain a certain wisdom, emphasized by light irony. Today we invite you to remember the memes that once became Internet classics.
The trollface appeared in September 2008 and resembled a face drawn by a child. A Deviantart member created it in Paint.
This face soon began to appear on image boards, gaining fame. So the funny face turned into a meme.
Sad Keanu Reeves. Paparazzi captured the actor in 2010. Keanu was sitting on a bench in the park and chewing a pie.
The artist looked very sad. However, thanks to this, memes with his image became very popular on the Internet.
Photoshoots involving Reeves could appear for any reason. Often the authors of the pictures placed several strange characters in one photo, which amused the people even more.
A stubborn fox. This exhibit was Adele Morgan's failed attempt at making a good scarecrow. In 2011, a woman decided to work with the carcass of a fox caught in a trap. Before that, she had to create stuffed animals. The result was an absolutely insane crooked fox.
For a year, the unsuccessful copy lay in the box, after which its photos appeared on e-Wow. The stuffed fox got 330 pounds (almost 27,000 rubles). The new owner of the stubborn animal is British producer Mike Boorman.
What kid? The meme originated in 2011 from an educational children's video. The kids had to learn how to use the toilet.
At the same time, children sit on the toilet and sing a song dedicated to poop. After which they say goodbye to her.
After a couple of years of wandering around the Internet, the meme reached Russian users.
Disaster girl. The photo of the girl against the backdrop of the fire was taken in 2007 by photographer Dave Roth while he was walking with his daughter. Firefighter training was taking place nearby, and my father did not miss the opportunity to take a cool photo. The photo quickly became popular. The girl Zoe was nicknamed the arsonist and was later edited into photographs of various disasters. Nowadays, Zoe is 18 years old, but she is not shy about her funny photo.
Bear in the bushes. A cheerful bear is appropriate in many cases.
Cheerful Leo. In 2010, Leonardo DiCaprio was filmed on the set of the film Inception when he went on a break, emerging from the image of the depressed thief of other people's secrets and dreams, Cobb.
The meme is the opposite of sad Keanu Reeves.
Also, cheerful Leo looks good with cheerful Daniel Radcliffe and funny animals.
Successful child. In the photograph a little boy keeps his fist clenched, showing that he has overcome some very difficult situation.
In the original photo, the boy squeezes sand in his hand and is about to eat it. The photo was taken and posted on Flickr in 2007.
Later, delving into this story, Internet users learned that the boy's name was Sammy, and at the time of filming he was 11 months old. Moreover, the popularity that came to Sammy Griner helped his family raise money for an operation for his father.
Figures with the image of the successful boy were even released in the USA. He became a real celebrity.
Now Sammy is 12 years old, and few people can recognize him as the cheeky tomboy he used to be.
Yao Ming. A photo of Chinese basketball player Yao Ming was turned into a meme because of his interesting facial expression.
Girl with soap bubbles. The original photograph was first published on August 22, 2009 on the 4chan imageboard. Who is the author of the photograph and what its background is is still unknown.
A funny girl in a yellow raincoat became the heroine of the Internet space already in 2009. Since then, she has run away from everyone - from bears, from bombings, and from dinosaurs.
Grumpy cat. A sullen cat named Tardar Sauce appeared to a wide audience in September 2012. His photo was posted by the owner on the Reddit website.
At first the photo was considered a fake - the cat was too comical. The characteristic grumpy appearance did not fit at all with the typical cute faces of cats. It turned out that Tardar Sauce had congenital dwarfism and an overbite, but the audience still loved him.
Meme about Karl. The meme came from a screenshot from the American TV series The Walking Dead. In original we're talking about not about anything funny at all: main character, Rick Grimes, learns that his wife died in childbirth, begins to cry and scream, and his son Carl, in shock, just stands there and is silent.
The episode aired on November 4, 2012. Within 10 days, the first joke appeared, playing off this episode. IN new version Rick allegedly finds out that his son is gay.
You can’t just take it, and... A shot from The Lord of the Rings, where Boromir says: “You can’t just go into Mordor.”
Suspect dog. This series of memes does not have an ancestor, but any dog with a characteristic squint looks appropriate in any dialogue where it is necessary to show doubt.
Facepalm (hand). The meme expresses emotions well if you see stupid or mediocre material. A lowered head with a hand covering his face very clearly explains to anyone - “you did it very, very badly.” The gesture became popular when performed by the captain from the American TV series Star Trek.
Famous politicians also use the gesture. For example, one such incident occurred when the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Alexander Tkachev, made a mistake with geography, which caused Russian President Vladimir Putin to laugh.
Johnny Catswill. The cat’s owner posted the photo on the imgur website on March 31, 2013, signing it: “Sorry for the selfie, guys” and adding the hashtags #nomakeup #poser #ginger #whiskers #YOLO. The cat was in an unremarkable room and, playing with its owner, tried to grab his camera.
Then they made a photoshop out of the photograph, parodying Johnny Knoxville in the show “Jackass,” where he and his friends staged on themselves various experiments.
For some time, until January 2014, no one paid attention to Catswill, until this meme was picked up on the RuNet.
The number of photo collages featuring a cat who seems to be about to do something crazy is simply endless.
Almost weekly, new Internet memes appear on social networks: on a nationwide, and even global scale. Anything can become an Internet meme: starting from an awkward phrase famous politician, ending with an unusual video. That is, everything that spontaneously gains popularity in the Internet environment, sometimes despite common sense. Let's take a look at the most popular internet memes of 2012.
1. “Who are you? Let's goodbye!"
A video where Azerbaijani meikhanists and Talysh singers sing the song “Who are you? Let's goodbye!" became a real sensation on Youtube. The title phrase from the video was quickly picked up by social networks, and to date the video has received almost 6 million views! Moreover, from this meme another popular political meme was born: “Putin, who are you? Let's goodbye". The meme entered global Twitter trends.
2. Gangnam Style Single by South Korean rapper PSY
“Gangnam Style” can easily be called one of the most popular memes of the year. In the video, the rapper dances funny in different places to Gangnam. The idea of a funny dance was picked up by all social networks: not only videos began to appear with recordings of gangam style users dancing, but also various kinds of pictures. "Gangnam Style" was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the video with the most a large number of"likes" in YouTube history. In November 2012, the number of likes exceeded 5 million, and the video clip views exceeded 700 million. The only video that was able to overtake “Gangnam Style” in these indicators: the video “Baby” by Justin Bieber.
3. Zhirinovsky
A shocking politician is always at the top of popularity thanks to his eccentric behavior and straightforwardness of phrases. During the election race, a meme depicting Zhirinovsky’s gestures, where he spreads his hands in bewilderment, became popular. And he is still popular!
4. Cats
To say that the “cat” theme became fashionable only this year is incorrect. She has been on the wave of popularity for a long time, and is constantly gaining momentum. Perhaps the most popular “cat” pictures this year were photographs of the short-haired Snoopy, pictures of an adorable kitten taken by Ben Torode, and the grumpiest cat on the Internet, Tard. Meanwhile, there is even a joke among SMM specialists: “If you want to get a lot of likes, attach a photo of a cat to the text.”
5. “You can’t just go and…”
The English meme has invaded the Russian Internet. The picture shows one of the heroes of The Lord of the Rings, Boromir, making a characteristic gesture. The phrase in the picture always begins the same way – “you can’t just take it and...”, and the ending is invented by Internet users themselves.
6. Putin's tears after the election results were announced
We should not forget that 2012 can be called politically tense: after all, no one canceled the presidential elections and rallies. During the election race, a huge number of popular memes appeared dedicated to the presidential candidate. It is impossible to give all the examples; there are too many of them.
7. Video “Should Putin be buried?”
“Should Vladimir Putin be buried? This topic is now being actively discussed on the Internet, and presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov proposed this idea...” Maria Bukhtueva, presenter of the Krasnoyarsk television company TVK, began one of the news stories with this phrase, confusing the names Lenin and Putin. “The slip is obviously based on Freud,” RuNet users noticed and began spreading the video and, of course, the phrase itself.
8. Photo of Barack and Michelle Obama hugging
Russian Internet users are concerned not only with politics home country, but also events in the international arena. The tweet of the newly elected US President, which became the most popular of all time on Twitter, contains only three words: “Four more years” (“Four more years”), as well as a photo of Barack and Michelle Obama hugging. Within nine hours of being posted, it was retweeted more than 600,000 times. The photo, published on Obama’s Facebook account, managed to gain almost 3 million likes in eight hours and became, according to Facebook representative Vadim Lavrusik, the most “like-intensive” image on the social network. In Russia, the meme, oddly enough, also became popular, albeit not as widely as in the United States.
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