Cala boca Galvão (2010)

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“Cala boca Galvão” means “Shut up Galvão” in Portuguese. The phrase became an international trending topic after Galvão Bueno’s remarkable comments about the bands featured in the opening ceremony of the 2010 World Cup (June 11th) in South Africa.

Origins

Carlos Eduardo dos Santos Galvão Bueno, or Galvão Bueno is a well known and notorious sportscaster in Brazil. During the opening ceremony of the 2010 World Cup, Galvão Bueno was criticized on Twitter through the Tweet “Cala Boca Galvão.” The phrase means Shut Up Galvão. The phrase was retweeted seriously and non-serious as well. The phrase itself started to trend on Twitter and the non-Portuguese speaking Twitter world took notice.

Many non-Portuguese speaking Twitterers noticed the message was trending. Several decided to keep the phrase alive and said that “Cala Boca Galvão” was part of a campaign to save the Galvão bird (which is not a real bird). A Twitter campaign was launched claiming that if the phrase “Cala Boca Galvão” was Tweeted, then ten cents would be donated to save the bird. A YouTube video was launched to aid the spread of the hoax.

Another false story created on the topic was that “Cala boca Galvão” was a new single by Lady Gaga.

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Scornful_Luigi
Sep 03, 2010 at 10:39AM UTC , Scornful_Luigi wrote:

Another good meme, but only for Portuguese speakers.

MemeAddict
Jul 17, 2010 at 09:04PM UTC , MemeAddict wrote:

Cala boca Galvão even found its way into a TED talk. Ethan Zuckerman basically explains the whole meme in the first 3 minutes:

http://www.ted.com/talks/ethan_zuckerman.html

Victor Tamietti
Jun 29, 2010 at 01:03AM UTC , Victor Tamietti wrote:

“cala boca Galvão” is not a new phrase to us, Brazilians. Its been more than 16 years that no one can stand Galvão Bueno, still, He is the official from the biggest brazilian Tv channel. This year we only got twitter on our side. As thousands of Brazilian yelled CALA BOCA GALVÃO, we reached worlds TT, and everyone started asking “whats cala boca galvão” then the video was made.

Rede Globo used the Video as the real cause of Cala Boca Galvão, trying to make things look better for Galvão Bueno, but He just can’t shut up.

glhrm
Jun 26, 2010 at 04:07AM UTC , glhrm wrote:

This is so great! one of the best brazilian memes (along with Tenso), because it’s worldwide, not just a local thing.
We need parts of that NY times page added to this article.
Some graphs would also be nice.

Chris Menning
Jun 25, 2010 at 05:32PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Bart Simpson is in on it: http://sobreisso.com/2010/06/25/cala-a-boca-galvao-nos-simpsons/

Xyphos
Jun 23, 2010 at 02:05AM UTC , Xyphos wrote:

well, I’m not really sure, but I read in a magazine (“Veja”) which is one of the most important ones in Brazil, that with each tweet, you would be helping with 0.10 dollars, and not 1 US$… I’m not pretty sure, but you should try to discover

Fernando Fontanella
Jun 23, 2010 at 01:06AM UTC , Fernando Fontanella wrote:

I can help with this too.

We need this confirmed, it’s huge and still growing.

j d
Jun 19, 2010 at 11:21PM UTC , j d wrote:

Oops, I did not see this article.

franco alencastro
Jun 19, 2010 at 04:15AM UTC , franco alencastro wrote:

This is just… win-filled.
I can help writing the article.

Omiyage
Jun 19, 2010 at 02:59AM UTC , Omiyage wrote:

yea the NY times article has pretty much everything covered if someone could update

here are some videos of Galvão Bueno on its finnest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMsTBxMuEWE

I could work on a translation another time, but its a compilation of blunders on air

And this is the official response of Galvão to the “Cala a Boca Galvão” campaign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2EtwVNNYeM

Tiago Wakabayashi
Jun 17, 2010 at 08:51PM UTC , Tiago Wakabayashi wrote:

i laughed a lot the foreigners believing in “save galvão” and “new lady gaga single”

Paulo Vasconcelos
Jun 16, 2010 at 06:45PM UTC , Paulo Vasconcelos wrote:

The New York times website has posted a article about this meme. Check it out.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/nyregion/16about.html
Also the fake video of the “Instituto Galvão”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdTadK9p14A

Van Aleph
Jun 15, 2010 at 03:57PM UTC , Van Aleph wrote:

More memetic content plz

go_baby_gogo
Jun 15, 2010 at 03:20PM UTC , go_baby_gogo wrote:

Well, what’s happening is that brazillians started tweeting ‘Cala Boca Galvão’, and foreigners got confused about it. Brazillians decided to joke that it means “Save Galvao”, Galvao being a rare bird. A youtube video was made, by brazillians, using the name of environmental entities from the government, to make it seem legit.

People believed it and started tweeting #CALABOCAGALVAO, thinking they were saving a rare animal. Meanwhile, brazillians ROFL :D

Some people also thought it was a new Lady Gaga Single, and there’s speculation about it.

I’ve also heard that a big newspaper from the USA made an article about Cala Boca Galvão, thinking it was the environmental campaign, but haven’t foud it yet.

G1drake
Jun 14, 2010 at 10:47PM UTC , G1drake wrote:

GOD LORD , i hate Galvão Bueno.

F3lip3Almeida
Jun 14, 2010 at 05:53PM UTC , F3lip3Almeida wrote:

Theres a whole lot to add, if you let me edit it, the movement became heavely viral sice the world cup begins

Alice-chan
Jun 14, 2010 at 01:16PM UTC , Alice-chan wrote:

You’ll have to add more memetic content.

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