#meme explained

[my4lg1c-p1err0t]

So, the underwater filter:

I do see people curious about users drowning a post... Mainly? Its done to distinguish stuff from the dashboard. Images on here are a “seamless” part of the post, so it was harder to tell what was screenshot. The color palette feature made this a little less of a problem, plus the place really isn’t as buggy as it once was.

The filters were released on the mobile app in early 2019 (If you feel like they were older than that, it might be the gif stickers from 2017.) There are 12 total—some glitches, rainbows, mirrors, etc. Water happens to be the first one… we also love a bit of absurdity.

[sparkles-oflight]

Kris: VAMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS

Me, finishing the sentence: A PORTUGAAAAAAAAAAAAL

[my-skull-is-full-of-sunken-ships]

Single space (врагу - for an enemy, в рагу - in a stew) turns the line "I wouldn't wish for an enemy a conversation partner like you" into something that Hannibal would've said.

[xsunsetdawnx]

For the three of you that don’t know…

Here’s the iceberg meme explained

[majimemegoro]

peepee man, EXPLAINED

@jojiattack @legallyblindgamer727

It all comes from here: https://youtu.be/1_lxqkU2blY?t=3h33m48s

Basically Sagawa makes an offhand comment implying he forreal drank pee at some point. 

he totally doesn’t say he likes drinking pee. the meme is just exaggeration + the hilarious fact that Sagawa really did canonically consume urine.

[useless-catalanfacts]

Bueno, pues molt bé, pues adiós

#buenopuesmoltbépuesadiós has become the 2nd worldwide trending topic on Twitter and people are making memes with this sentence. Here’s why.

After the terrorist attack in Barcelona, journalists from outisde Catalonia have come to our country to report about it. The Catalan government and police realease all their statements and posts in social media accounts in Catalan (our local language), Spanish (the language of the state), and English, and sometimes in French as well.

So here comes the meme

Major Trapero (or Traphero, as some people call him now), chief of the Catalan police, was doing a press conference and was answering the journalists’ questions when a Spanish journalist demanded that he answers only in Spanish. Trapero said “When they ask me in Catalan, I answer in Catalan, when they ask me in Spanish, I answer in Spanish”. The Spanish journalist got mad and threatened to leave the room if he didn’t answer it all in Spanish, and Trapero, very calmly, said “bueno, pues molt bé, pues adiós” which is a sentence mixing both languages that means “well then, very well, bye, then”.

We’ve finally found the perfect answer when they tell us we don’t have the right to speak our language in our own country.

[my-skull-is-full-of-sunken-ships]

I think it's time to start a thread called 'Random Russian Shit' because why not, and first things first, this is a meme:

The meme reads: 'Don't touch anything in the refrigerator; it's for New Year's.' Let's break down step by step why it's hilarious, and unfortunately, we'll have to talk politics to understand it.

1. The phrase itself is a meme on its own. New Year's Eve in Russia is the biggest holiday of the year, basically our Christmas. And preparations start long before the final days of the year. So, if in the middle of December (or earlier), you look in the fridge and see chocolates, tangerines, sparkling wine, caviar, canned peas, or something like that – you're not allowed to eat that. Your mom will surely tell you exactly this: 'Don't touch it; it's for New Year's.' (Не трогай, это на Новый Год)

2. The man holding the sign is Nikolai Patrushev, the Secretary of the Security Council and probably the closest person to Putin. He is one of the ideologists of the war in Ukraine, and some believe that if something happens to Putin, Patrushev may become his successor.

3. Patrushev is a conspiracy theorist and a fan of alternative history. He often likes to write articles and present 'reports' on these topics. In one such report, conspiracy theorists noticed that Patrushev consistently spoke about Putin in the past tense for a considerable part of the speech. This led to the theory that Putin has already died, and his body is lying in the refrigerator (until better times), and Patrushev is now running Russia on his behalf.

4. Putin himself succeeded the previous president, Yeltsin. It happened that Yeltsin announced during his New Year's address to the citizens about the end of his career and the appointment of Putin as his successor (which created another meme, a quote "Я устал, Я ухожу" - I'm tired, I'm leaving - that Yeltsin actually never said).

The famous phrase + refrigerator + New Year + successor = 'Don't touch Putin in the refrigerator; we'll take him out for New Year's, so he can announce me as his successor.' Or, in short,

Don't touch anything in the refrigerator, it's for New Year's

[my-skull-is-full-of-sunken-ships]

Yesterday events were wierd af, so I brought you memes about Prigozhin's military coup in russian.

We'll start with the telegram channel called "Peduza" - it's a satirical media (named after Meduza - popular independent media in Russia) that makes fun of the news and events in Russia. Here's the first post:

[Russian Ministry of Defence: we have to admit that Ukrainian counteroffensive started in an unexpected place]

And another one that will need a little bit of explaining:

["Russia is here forever" banners started to appear in Moscow.]

Context of the joke is this: when Russian troupes occupied Kherson, "Russia is here forever" banners were all over the place:

But as you may know, the city was freed in November 2022 and those banners were whether took down or replaced with these ones:

[Russia is here till November 11th]. So now phrase "Russia is here forever" actually means "Russia isn't here for long"

Back to memes:

I hope you recognized the big guy - Lukashenko, self-proclaimed president of Belarus, deus ex machina of yesterday's events, who negotiated with Prigozhin and convinced him to back off. Small dudes in his hands are Russian minister of defence Shoigu (on the left) and Prigozhin himself (on the right). The word "мырытес" is intensionally wrong spelled (and also stylized to look Belorussian) "make peace" (миритесь). The original meme looks like this:

Where "ебитес" is also intentionally wrong spelled "fuck" ("now fuck", if you will). The origin of this meme seems to be "now kiss" that exists in English segment of the internet.

And at last this one:

[- Wagner mercenaries going back to Ukraine

- Russians who bought plane tickets for 100k rubles]

(when shit happens, many Russians just pack their bags and leave the country, so of course prices go so high up that only people with money can afford flights outside of Russia in those days. 100k rubles now is about 1200 USD but also keep in mind that most of the people in Russia (especially outside of Moscow) make less than 350 USD per month)

That's it for today, hope you had some fun reading this!