Polandball

It is a black comedy meme satirizing the national image that started on September 29, 2009 on Krautchan /int/ . The reason it is not called a series is because the work is not created by a fixed author, but by different users from various communities creating individual works in their own styles. Therefore, there is no official author or fixed setting, and only a general consensus on character traits and settings is formed based on the accumulated cartoons drawn. Reddit has set rules to prevent the collapse of the setting , and other communities also basically use Reddit's rules unless they are transformed to the level of Countryhuman and the genre is completely separated. Reddit strictly follows the rules to the point that only verified users can upload cartoons, but other communities often apply them more loosely, such as by simplifying some of the rules.

Characters are expressed by personifying each country, and it is common to draw the country's flag on the ball. And the country's unique characteristics and historical relationships with neighboring countries are expressed in the characteristics of each country's characters or used in the development of events. In addition , elements such as memes that users find funny are added. For example, Poland, the main character, implicitly uses the red and white colors of the Polish flag because of the story behind the birth of the Polandball meme. It is expressed as an overturned ball. Additionally, in cases where there is a record of civilian massacre or oppression, such as Serbia or North Korea , and the emblem on the flag is biased to one side, the emblem is sometimes expressed as an eyepatch to reflect the character of the country .

On the other hand, although it is not a rule, when expressing a country's line, the line is written on the background, and then a line in the color representing the country is roughly connected to the line to use a speech bubble instead.

In addition, one of the universally accepted characteristics of the Poland Ball series is that most countries, excluding English-speaking countries , often express their lines in their native language or Broken English, a mixture of Internet slang and native language. Reddit recommends using this kind of broken English by applying certain rules. A representative example is expressing you as yuo. Meanwhile, even in the English-speaking world, dialects are significantly reflected depending on the region. In particular, the dialects of Scotland , Australia , and Ireland show significant differences from general English. Or, even if the dialogue is in English, if the character's country uses the Latin alphabet, only a few letters may be changed to imitate that country's language. For example, in Germany, O is written as Ö, or in the Roman Empire, u is written as V. there is.

The Polandball Wiki sees an Italian animator named Bruno Bozzetto uploading a video called Italy vs Europe in 1999 as the beginning of 'expressing a country or a national group with a ball'. The content of the video is a video comparing the daily life of ordinary Europeans and Italians. Unlike the Pole Ball, it has a mouth rather than eyes, and the limbs move in and out.


' Drawball.com '[2] was a site with the intention of drawing pictures together with other users on a round canvas, and like an internet picture room shared by everyone around the world, more and more people came together to draw their own flags or symbols. Then, in August 2009, Polish Internet sites Wykop.pl and and PokazyWarka decided to turn this round canvas into a Polish flag, and thousands of Poles flocked to Drawball to draw a Polish flag with POLSKA written in the middle on August 15th. succeeded in making


In response, users of sites such as 4chan made a sabotage operation to reverse the color, and eventually changed it to Hakenkreuz after several sabotage operations. Since then, many similar vandalisms have occurred by 4chan and netizens in other countries.

Krautchan was a German site where netizens from all over the world came in and chatted in English, Wojak (Bojak)'[3] A Polish user, named, was criticized by people for frequently making mistakes in English grammar when writing.

British user FALCO (Falco) who saw this[4] On September 29, 2009, in order to make fun of Wojak, who used poor English, he drew and uploaded an upside-down Polandball cartoon using Paint, a software built into Windows , while using poor English.

Since then, Polandball cartoons with various international prejudice or international relations were drawn, and Polandball and its spin-off countryballs became very popular and later spread worldwide through sites such as Reddit and 4chan beyond Krautchan. went out

After the first cartoon, most of the early episodes had Poland as the main character, and they often started with Poland reminiscing or imagining the past and ended in melancholy at the end. For example, while recalling the past when Poland defeated the Soviet Union in the Soviet-Polish War and defeating the Ottoman Empire in the Second Siege of Vienna, or imagining discovering a unicorn, or imagining advancement into space, other countries pointed out and scolded . The expression of being heard or conquered. Originally, on an American or British site, the story of Germany making fun of Poland or France would be a story that was not good because it reminded them of World War II. Since then, it has developed into a meme that makes fun of not only Poland balls but also other countries' balls. Polish user Wojak was so disliked on German sites that a meme criticizing Poland became popular and spread to other sites as well.

As the meme spread to some extent, the rules of each country were established. Poland , the main character , also had rules established by many episodes written by writers. An example of one episode is as follows. While a huge meteorite is heading towards the earth, other countries succeed in leaving the earth, but Poland alone fails to go to space, and there is an episode of frustration saying "Poland cannot into space . "[5][6] After this episode, this sentence became a kind of meme and is widely used.[7] The image of Poland, which tries hard to advance into space but is often frustrated, is also derived from this.

As the world view of this meme was gradually established and expanded in this way, community users in each country began to draw other countries as the main characters, eventually becoming a global meme satirizing not only Poland but also countries around the world.

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Countryballs. These are balls from other countries that were derived in October 2009 as the Polandball became popular.

Perhaps because the characters are simple, there are YouTube and other channels specializing in explaining history or current events through Polandball or even creating animations. There are many more besides those listed below. However, be careful because most of them are made in foreign countries and there are no Korean subtitles. There are quite a few people who make such videos in Russia and Ukraine, so there are quite a few videos in Russian .

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There was a game called Country Ball Warfare that implemented country ball as a TPS game , but development was stopped due to technical difficulties . Developer Homepage .

In June 2016, a high-quality RPG genre game called Polandball World passed Steam Greenlight, but development was virtually halted as there was only a fundraising notice posted in 2017 and no updates were made.

It also exists as an io game. Its name is Kugeln.io . http://kugeln.io

It is also available as a smartphone game. Its official name is Polandball: Not Safe For World . You can customize your ball. The approximate content is to protect the earth from terrorism, imperial squares, zombies, and monsters. There is also an emu war .

A 3D RPG game called Bang-On Balls was released in October 2023 . You can buy it on Steam for 32,500 won. The player's ball is always fixed in a round shape no matter which flag is selected.[10]

In Armored Warfare, there is a Polandball avatar, a Polandball skin strong for the PL-01, a light tank made in Poland, and a Polandball decal. strong skin

Countryball: Europe 1890 was also released as an Iranian historical strategy game. Note the item.

Recently, a game called Polandball: the Black Apocalypse was released. A demo version is currently available.

It's easy to think lightly, but this content deals with a very sensitive subject comparable to religion , politics, and sex, so you need to be very careful about it. Since all existing countries appearing in the Polandball are a reflection of real countries with people and governments, there are many cases where people like or dislike the country and its people due to distorted depictions or high-level expressions. This is why there are many works with the phrase "not to be taken seriously".

Some Polandball creators draw nationalistic cartoons that do not fit the frame of satire, or make brain- deadly racist remarks that are not simple jokes, and then call them satire . The standards for this are ambiguous, and if the administrator and the user in question are friendly, it is often overlooked, so there is a lot of backlash on Reddit and other Polandball communities.

In order to prevent this, there are cases where racial jokes or stereotypes are completely banned outside of Reddit, but the problem is that this will corrupt existing memes and lose satire.

However, this is not just a problem with Polish balls. The state is a very comprehensive concept that includes not only the government that governs the country, but also the territory, culture, and the people of the country, and the simplification of the satire is naturally different for each person who accepts and the work that deals with national humor is difficult in this problem.

On Kickstarter, a user was working on a project to turn Polish balls into dolls. And the user's project was successful, so you can buy the dolls from the link below, but there are not many types. Poland ball purchase site. Since it is an overseas site, you need a card that allows international payments. [11] It is said to be made in Hong Kong . different dolls[12]

On July 15, 2017, Reagan, one of the US administrators, died. #

At Christmas 2017, the top screen of the Pole Ball was changed, and there was a description of the Pole Ball from 1 to 12. This is a parody of a carol called The Twelve Days of Christmas . In number 3, there are three French hens, in number 5, there is a scene in which Korea makes five golden rings into the Olympic rings , and in case number 7, seven countries sinking in water due to global warming are drawn...

It was featured in the Chosun Ilbo on February 12, 2018, and is problematic because the picture was stolen without the artist's permission. tweezer

It came out in the form of a pole ball when explaining England, France, Italy, and Germany on the British Gibraltar side of the variety show Guys Crossing the Line .

World of Tanks History Webtoon In the 15th cut of episode 38 , Poland appears along with the map of the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania .