Today we decided to tell you about one very popular joke on the Internet - “ be afraid". Let's talk about where it came from, what it means and how to deal with it :). To begin with, perhaps, it is necessary to tell what an Internet meme is.
Memes - most often it's just a picture or some kind of inscription on the background of something, which is very quickly gaining popularity on the Internet, and not only on the Internet. Often, such Internet memes are made against the backdrop of space, forest, water, or something else. Most often, these jokes, if you can call it that, come to us from the West, when it has already lost its popularity there. And, by the way, we don’t live like this for very long either. The average lifetime of such memes is a couple of months, after which they are forgotten and something new is invented.
So the popularity of such Internet memes as “Stoned Fox” or “Stubborn Ptchk” has already passed. Also, such memes most often gain popularity on social networks, since there is a large audience that constantly shares news, links, photos, and so on. Thanks to this scheme, many jokes are gaining great popularity, but, as mentioned earlier, for a short period of time.
Lemur
One of the latest memes is " be afraid", which appeared around August 2013 and still lives to this day, but now its popularity has begun to decrease greatly and lately the "Zbogoy" lemur with a paw is seen less and less.
So where did this internet meme come from? - Here opinions differ, in fact, as always happens. It is impossible to say anything exactly and for sure, but you can find several options for how this could happen. To begin with, there is an option that on the Pikabu portal (who does not know what it is, search for help) one user claimed that with the help of this lemur he often put up with his girlfriend. It is not clear, however, how it helped him, and he could not explain where the photo itself came from. But for users this is not necessary, they eat everything. After that, it was Pikabu users who began to promote this Internet meme. After getting into contact, any meme can achieve popularity.
It is also believed that in the animated series "Penguins of Madagascar" one of the penguins, named Morim, who was a servant of the king, was often nervous. Maurice himself was a pessimist, and the king - Julian - an optimistic lemur, constantly told him this very phrase - "Be afraid." Perhaps due to speech defects of the Russian translator, or simply for some other reason, our people heard exactly this phrase, which they successfully promoted on the Internet.
But it is quite possible that this lemur from the meme is as old as other memes, it was just that it had not been noticed before. All such memes came to us from foreign communities, where they have long lost popularity. Therefore, it is impossible to say exactly and for sure where exactly this meme came from, but so far it is alive. Of course, he will soon be exchanged for another meme hero, but still " be afraid» dear reader. 🙂
Members of social networks call everything that spontaneously gains popularity in the Internet environment a meme, starting from a funny phrase of a famous politician, ending with any information that did not leave users indifferent to it.
Memes are spread on the Internet in all possible ways - by e-mail, instant messengers, forums, blogs, etc.
Most often, memes do not carry a semantic load, but at the same time they can easily replace long expressions. P The attractiveness of a meme lies in its popularity. A stale meme quickly turns into a “boyan”, and a person using outdated memes on the Web is called a “boyanist”.
How did the meme come about?
The term "meme" was first usedOxford professor Richard Dawkinsin his book The Selfish Gene in 1976. In it, he calls a "meme" a unit of cultural information that can "reproduce". The word "meme" in the book is analogous to the gene, which is the unit of cultural transmission.
The most popular memes of 2013?
Among the users of "Yandex" the most popular memes in 2013 were "Talking Hamster", "Mexican Epandos" and "Harlem shake".
What do popular memes mean?
A meme that consists of a picture of a lemur and the caption "Uzbagoysya" ("calm down"). One of the first memes with a lemur and the caption "get out of the bag" was posted on the Pikabu portal. With his help, the author calmed his girlfriend. Many liked the picture, and the meme quickly spread across blogs, social networks and image boards.
Talking Hamster- a video in which a repeater toy teases a traffic police officer. In fact, the video is a viral advertisement. It was posted on March 1 by the viral marketing agency Smetana, on the sixth day the number of views exceeded 4 million.
Mimimi- an interjection that expresses tenderness. This is how the lemur squeaks in the cartoon Madagascar.
At the moment I would like to talk about the most popular memes today. One of these is the lemur. “Fuck out” is an Internet meme that appeared back in 2009, but it only gained its popularity at the end of the summer of 2013. As a rule, this meme consists of a picture of a lemur and the caption “take it easy” (it means, calm down in different ways). There is a main version that the hero of the meme King Julian, from the cartoon Madagascar, has a congenital speech defect. True or not, no one cares anymore. Everyone is just happy with this meme and that's it. The most important thing is that this Internet has become popular in everyday life. For example, if you tell someone to calm down, then he may be offended, but saying “be afraid” becomes simply comical.
A meme is a unit of information that is transmitted from one person to another, in the form of a message, picture, mail, and the like. The main thing is that it pleases everyone and that's when the meme will become popular. In a particular case, the picture of the meme “be afraid” appeared in 2009, but at the peak of popularity it was only four years later. The reasons may be different, no one paid attention to this, there was no need, and so on. But it should be understood that the popularity of a meme directly depends on the public.
The internet is currently experiencing a boom in memes. Every user has viewed or added memes at least once in their life. If more recently, in order to create a high-quality cheerful picture and sign it, it was necessary to be able to use graphic programs. Now, everything is much simpler, some sites (adamem) have a constructor available. It is with its help that everyone, even a beginner, can easily create and create for the benefit of humor.
It often happens that we are not happy with the situation, and we are ready to talk about it, but we cannot for obvious reasons. Constructors give us the opportunity to create memes, such as “get out of the bag” and let them convey to other people what we have boiled. Do not forget that memes are only positive. If you quarreled, then you need to send a couple of funny pictures on the topic of the current situation, and everything will pass, or at least defuse the situation.
Memes have become so popular that they are divided into categories. Each category has its own theme and history. This, in turn, makes it possible to save time and view only those memes that you like the most.
The Internet has become a second reality for us, with its own culture, its own rules and laws, in which everything spreads very quickly, as, in fact, in real reality thanks to the same Internet) So the “Uzbagoysya” meme spread instantly and even managed to to get, to which he can only answer "Uzbagoysya")
Where this came from, it is unlikely that anyone will now determine for sure, but let's try)
6 versions of the origin of the meme "Uzbagoysya"
Version 1. So says King Julian from the famous cartoon Madagascar. However, everyone who specially reviewed this cartoon says that there is no such thing. maybe not all versions of the translations were looked at?) After all, Julian really has a speech impediment ... and someone could translate it that way.
Version 2. Once upon a time there was a dude and he had a very nervous girlfriend, and even with a speech impediment, or maybe the same dude had a speech impediment, and not his girlfriend, or maybe it was not a speech impediment, but a banal cold and stuffy nose. And somehow, after another quarrel, he took and drew her the same lemur with the same “Uzbagoysya” in order to somehow cheer up and calm the girl.
Version 3. Like many things with us, everything comes to us from the decaying west) First there, then here, there is no word “Uzbagoysya”, of course there is not, but ... something similar could be. Well, the padonkaff language superimposed on top, in which mangling is accepted, made it) from the usual calm down, the same “get it wrong”)
Version 4. Everything happened without the rotting west, it’s just that the Russian language itself rotted, or maybe it didn’t rot, but it just develops like that. However, apparently, this branch of development did not take root and, according to the theory of evolution, will soon decline.
Version 5. Once upon a time there was a dude who had a narrow bag (well, it’s kind of fashionable to say so) and somehow when he was going somewhere very quickly with a friend, he couldn’t stuff some thing into his narrow sum and was very nervous because of this , to which a friend eventually gave him, but you Uzbagoysya, dude)
Version 6. Once upon a time there was a programmer and he had a UZ Daewoo Matiz with a bunch of bugs, for which he nicknamed him an uzbag (the fact that he was an Uzbek - a matiz, not a programmer, also immediately played). Well, friends, in the end, when he was nervous because of his car, they comforted him with the nickname “Uzbagoysya” obtained from the nickname Matiz)
And what about the lemur?
Okay, you say, okay, so be it... but why a lemur? After all, only in the version about Madagascar there is a lemur? Ok, I answer ... more precisely, look at the picture)
Peace of mind, right?
By the way, the Factor 2 group has a song called Uzbagoysya, see the video)
And here are the lyrics from the song:
I'll live you, get away, get away, get away.
I'll live you, get away, get away, get away.
What are you, a restless dagaya, dagaya, dagaya.
Do you have an opinion? Write in the comments!
be afraid— a meme-advise with a stoned lemur that asks you to calm down.
Origin
The meme has been circulating the web since the fall of 2013. The picture is completely uncomplicated. It depicts a lemur with an outstretched paw and an indifferent frozen physiognomy. The meme appeared when this image was adorned with phrases that begin with the word “be afraid…”.
Here, the "Padonkaf" manner of distorting words is associated with the image of the lemur Maurice from the cartoon "Penguins of Madagascar", which lisps terribly. This meme came up with a certain young man. Every time his girlfriend got nervous, he sent a picture to calm her down immediately. Soon the physiognomy of the lemur appeared on public display and began to gain immense popularity among Internet users.
Meaning
This meme is used in cases where a situation of acute conflict is brewing and it needs to be immediately defuse in order to avoid negative consequences in the future. The picture has several interpretations. Therefore, in the remake version, the “get out of the bag” meme is most often ridiculed by someone else’s unreasonable anxiety or panic.
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