10 main memes of 2021 – reactions to what is happening in the world or Russia

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov denies that the head of state has a residence on Cape Idokopas. “I am not familiar with the investigation. However, I can tell right away that this disc is old. Many years ago we already explained that Putin does not have any palace in Gelendzhik, ”he said.

9. “Tula Gingerbread” – an employee of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

In Tula, the local department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations accepted the Tula Gingerbread. He was presented with a certificate and a medal. Gingerbread is a mascot (life size puppet), which not only looked one to one like the “Vatnik” meme, but also just quite ugly. And people did not pass by this image …

8. The ship that blocked the Suez Canal.

On March 23, the container ship Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal and caused a collapse of global cargo transportation. The stuck ship cost the world economy $ 400 million an hour. At the same time, a small excavator was sent to dig out the ship. It was he who became the “hero” of most memes.

7. Sailing behind the head of the Crimea.

In June, people on social networks could not calm down for a long time because of a fragment of the Crimea 24 TV channel. In Kerch, where there was a flood, the head of the Republic of Crimea Sergey Aksenov was traveling by boat through the flooded city. At the same time, three men floated behind him. It looked as if the bodyguards or some service personnel did not have enough space in the boat with the authorities, and they accompanied him on their own.

Meme reaction to video …

6. September elections in Russia.

The three-day voting, which the authorities called the election, ended on September 19. Officially elected by State Duma deputies and governors or local parliaments. In addition to the usual accusations of rigging all elections this year, accusations of “drawing” the results of electronic voting have been added.

It is unlikely that the state news agency wanted to joke, but it turned out funny.

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– Masha Borzunova (@mborzunova) September 20, 2021

5. The seizure of the Ryanair aircraft by the Belarusian authorities.

On May 23, at the Minsk airport, after landing an allegedly mined Ryanair plane flying from Athens to Vilnius, an oppositionist, founder of the NEXTA Telegram channel Roman Protasevich was detained, who was included in the list of “persons involved in terrorist activities” by the Belarusian KGB in November 2020.

At the same time, the authorities of the Republic of Belarus explained their actions by a certain letter from Switzerland, which claimed that the plane would be blown up by Hamas militants. The act of air piracy and “excuses” for Lukashenka were “reforged” by users of social networks into memes.

4. “Bulgarians admired”.

In the outgoing year, Russian propaganda widely used a technique that social networks call outright “manipulation” and “information fraud aimed at mentally retarded citizens.” If you use a search for the word “admired” in the news, you will find something like the one in the screenshot above.

Most often, such a verbal construction is found in the titles of projects of the MIA “Russia Today”. It is done this way: “Kremlin bots” write comments on the websites of foreign media, and propagandists pass them off as the opinion of local residents.

Two whole related memes were born on social networks about admiring foreigners invented by Russian propaganda. The first one is about admiring Bulgarians. Their abundance among those discouraged by the successes of Russia was especially striking. Then the meme was modified. The construction of the propagandists began to be used as a template for satire on Russian “achievements” or absolutely ridiculous things. Although it is difficult to think of more ridiculous headlines of info-state employees.

3. QR codes.

QR code is officially the word of the year in Russia. Unsurprisingly, it has become one of the most popular in jokes and memes.

2. Europeans traveling to Russia to be vaccinated with Sputnik and forging certificates.

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Another reason for jokes and memes of the covid-vaccine theme was the statement of Vladimir Putin. The President of the Russian Federation said that Europeans come to Russia to get vaccinated with the Russian Sputnik V, preferring it to vaccines from Pfizer or other manufacturers. And then they also buy fake vaccination certificates for their countries.

The people were not silent…

1. The day the internet went down.

In the past year, a unique event took place – the Internet broke down. On October 4, 2021, the largest “drop” in Internet services in history happened.

The collapse of the foundations of the global Internet, as expected, caused not only a wave of panic, but also jokes and memes. Tried especially on Twitter.

The social network almost did not suffer, and its users with might and main mocked other services or simply laughed at the situation. Moreover, there was nowhere else to do this.

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— ???????? (@Voices_00) October 4, 2021

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– Bogo Vítaly (@Hipichay) October 4, 2021