Polandball
Polandball or countryball is a user-generated internet meme which originated on the /INT/ board of German imageboard Krautchan.net in the latter half of 2009.
Polandball has it roots in an August 2009 cyberwar between Polish internet users and the rest of the world on drawball.com. The website, which offers a virtual canvas, allows internet users to draw whatever they want, and to draw over other's drawings. On the Polish internet, an idea was raised to draw the Polish flag on the ball, and with assistance of thousands of Poles, they managed to takeover the drawball with a painting of white on top of red, with the word "POLSKA" written in the middle. After co-ordination from 4chan, this was then taken over by the drawing of a giant swastika.
Krautchan.net is a German-language imageboard, with its /INT/ board being frequented by English-speaking netizens. The beginning of the Polandball meme is credited to Falco, a Brit on /INT/, whom in September 2009, created the meme using MS Paint in an apolitical way to troll Wojak, a Pole on the same board who contributes in broken English, after which Polandball cartoons were enthusiastically drawn by Russians.
The premise of Polandball, which gained in popularity in the wake of the crash in Smolensk which killed Polish President , is it represents Poland and its history, relations with other countries, and stereotypes, and which focuses on Polish megalomania and national complexes.
Polandball can also include comics on other countries, but by convention these comics are still referred to as Polandball,<ref name="gazeta" /> although the comics can also be referred to as countryballs.<ref name="KYM" />
Polandball has it roots in an August 2009 cyberwar between Polish internet users and the rest of the world on drawball.com. The website, which offers a virtual canvas, allows internet users to draw whatever they want, and to draw over other's drawings. On the Polish internet, an idea was raised to draw the Polish flag on the ball, and with assistance of thousands of Poles, they managed to takeover the drawball with a painting of white on top of red, with the word "POLSKA" written in the middle. After co-ordination from 4chan, this was then taken over by the drawing of a giant swastika.
Krautchan.net is a German-language imageboard, with its /INT/ board being frequented by English-speaking netizens. The beginning of the Polandball meme is credited to Falco, a Brit on /INT/, whom in September 2009, created the meme using MS Paint in an apolitical way to troll Wojak, a Pole on the same board who contributes in broken English, after which Polandball cartoons were enthusiastically drawn by Russians.
The premise of Polandball, which gained in popularity in the wake of the crash in Smolensk which killed Polish President , is it represents Poland and its history, relations with other countries, and stereotypes, and which focuses on Polish megalomania and national complexes.
Polandball can also include comics on other countries, but by convention these comics are still referred to as Polandball,<ref name="gazeta" /> although the comics can also be referred to as countryballs.<ref name="KYM" />
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