sup memesters and soccer fans. sooo world cup 2010 is close upon us and i thought this is a great opportunity for us to beef up on football-related memes.
for those less familiar with the games, FIFA world cup has long been the most viewed sport event in the world and needless to say, this makes a very memely occasion for the interwebs. of course, given its high fidelity nature, they’re less likely to be long-lasting memes, but nevertheless worth documenting. See Google Insights result for World Cup.
so far, we’ve covered less than half a dozen football-related memes in the database:
1. documenting football-related memes in the weeks leading up to world cup 2010. with sufficient info & media, these entries will be expedited for confirmation.
2. monitoring memetic activities and online buzz during this month-long event. if you frequent football-related forums and websites, this should be an easy task & we’d love your help.
3. community voting on the most memorable moments of world cup 2010, which will be then turned into an episode in august (or i hope).
I don’t know that much about Soccer/Football though. I’m just not that into sports. So I probably won’t be able to help you out very much on this Meme Brad. I will add Photos if I find them though.
nice set, @vlad! i believe you’re already helping out :D. i wouldn’t call myself a big sports fan either, with the only exception being soccer/football. IT’S GAMETIME BROSKIS!
When it comes to sports, I know almost nothing.
Except that I can tell when the San Jose Sharks are winning whenever my brother yells GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL.
I hope Switzerland do well. Oh yeah! I think we might have a possible meme forming over here in the UK! Football songs for england are being put onto Youtube thick and fast, and most are very funny!
Great thread Brad, i’m so excited for the World Cup to start. I’m a huge football fan so its going to be great getting to watch it every night and day!
Here’s an overall summary of soccer-related trends for this morning:
Twitter: nothing yet.
Google Insights: nothing yet.
Google Hot Trends (USA): Dominated by MTV movie awards and WWDC coverage.
Reddit: same
Digg: same
Buzzfeed: Racist World Cup costume: http://www.buzzfeed.com/scott/racist-world-cup-costume
Okay, so World Cup fever has yet to hit most of the trending topics lists, and the news that most people in this corner of the globe are looking at has to do with last nights MTV Movie Awards (Will Smith called for Amber Lamps, Sandra Bullock kissed Scarlet Johannsen [sp?] and people said “fuck” uncensored a lot). The news of Stuart Cable’s death is pretty big, and there’s some game called SS3 that people are tweeting a lot about.
I spoke too soon. Just now the terms “Tanzânia” and “Felipe Melo” broke through to #9 and #10 respectively on Twitter Trending Topics. Both terms are used within the context of soccer, and the majority of those tweets are from Brazil.
If there’s one thing we know so far, it’s that Brazil loves their memes, and many sources are projecting them to win the World Cup, lending credence to the memes=performance hypothesis.
La Cuauhtemiña has to make a comeback at this world cup. It’s been 12 years since Blanco played a WC for Mexico and he has to show the world his trademark maneuver. France 98 wasn’t enough for La Cuauhtemiña, SA 2010 will be the event where it will be a massive online hit since there are a lot more poeple on the internet now. For those who don’t know what La Cuauhtemiña is here’s a vid.
It is literally the best and worst thing ever to come out of a world cup.
We had this meme in Brazil some days ago, about Tulio Tanaka, a player of the japanese team (but born in Brazil) that acidentally broke Drogba’s arm in a pre-cup game. Since Drogba is the best player from Ivory Coast, direct adversary of Brazil in the group, Tanaka became sort of a hero, and went on brazilian twitter TT (with jokes pretty much like Chuck Norris, but mostly soccer related).
It’s too early, but it may well become a meme in the next days (especially if it’s confirmed that Drogba is out).
Just search for Tulio Tanaka on Google and Twitter and you’ll see the buzz on this case. The meme on twitter even got a mention on the news here
YESSS. I do remember Blanco and that move from World Cup 98, but never knew what it was called! Don’t know if you watched it, but Mexico vs. S Korea was a really brutal game and I definitely remember trying to copy that trick in gradeschool.
@brad: our teacher let us watch the the game at school. It was like the last week of second grade so it didn’t really matter to her since we were the advanced kids in a Mexican school. That summer I attempted Cuauhtemiñas all the time during pick up games in the street. I’ve been a Blanco fanboy since I was 7 years old.
The game was pretty brutal. If I recall, the whole group had some agrro and hot tempered teams. Mexico vs Netherlands (which ended with an amazing goal by Blanco) was a pretty violent game as well.
BTW it was dubbed the “Blanco Bounce” by the Brit media.
That means that the World Cup is currently holding 13/20 of the Hot Trends on Google in the US.
Google Insights Rising Searches for the last 7 days: World Cup is #9 out of 10.
Twitter Trending Topics:
9/10 topics currently trending on Twitter are related to the World Cup. There are a lot of celebrities in South Africa for the World Cup, and their names are trending because of this.
Nothing big that’s world cup related on Digg or Reddit so far, but they may have to wait until more matches happen. One thing is for sure, people are excited about it starting.
I’ve spotted a potential phenomenon coming from the 2010 World Cup :
In South Africa, supporters can use what look like trumpets, which are called Vuvuzela in order to “make noise”. But, it also has a kind of annoying and irritating sound.
oh definitely potential, tomberry. also noticed the extremely loud buzz/drone, i imagine it’s a big handicap for all the players too. will keep on the look out.
It seems to be exploding like crazy. The British were favorite in that match and to see the Americans playing well a sport they, by the rest of the world’s prejudiced view, are not considered to be usually excelling in, seems to have hit a chord on US websites.
As far as I understood, the 1-1 score can’t be entirely blamed on the goalkeeper alone, but Green’s mistake had an huge impact on the public.
I’m waiting to see if the 4chan’s trend as described in the entry will be carried over to other websites (as a manner similar to Kanye’s interrupt).
Well, I don’t know if this can be considered a soccer meme (much less really a meme) but, currently on Twitter in the top of trend topics of world is CALA BOCA GALVAO. Some people think galvao is a bird in extinction and the Twits will support some bird foundation of galvao birds, or a new song of Lady GaGa about brazillian birds.
But what many don’t know is that “Galvao” is actually a sports commentator in Brazil (of soccer games obvious) called Galvão Bueno and is the most hated sports commentarists in Brazil, and “Cala boca Galvao” true meaning “Shut up Galvao”.
I don’t know of one great meme that has come out of this yet, but so far Something Awful has had some pretty funny World Cup conversation, with a few images.
