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Russian Cat Translations

Russian Cat Translations

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About

Russian Cat Translations refers to a trend on Tumblr in which pictures of cats in humorous situations are uploaded with captions written in Russian. Then, another user reblogs the photo with the Russian text translated to English, usually revealing something humorous.

Origin

The Russian source for many popular posts is Tumblr user markv5,[1] a Russian Tumblr user who began posting mostly photos of cats in January of 2015. One of the first posts of makv5's to be popularly translated into English a picture of a cat in a watering can uploaded November 27th, 2016.[3] On January 5th, 2017, Tumblr user alexyar[4] provided a translation of markv5's caption, "another proof that cats are liquid." The post gained over 150,000 notes (shown below).


tunnels-end: iloveyoukendricklamar: markv5: KMAKOCTb... He help water the plant @alexyar the Russian text says: another proof that cats are liquid

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Several translated markv5 posts have grown into popular examples of the meme. For example, a post of theirs from August 9th, 2017[8] has gained over 39,000 notes (shown below, left) and a post reblogged and translated on July 16th, 2017,[9] has gained over 61,000 notes (shown below, right).


markv5 corey-has-returned Russian-detected English 04) ▼ like that all these different kinds of cats have become friends, despite such obvious differences between them Mne nravitsya, chto vse eti raznyye vidy koshek sdruzhilis, nesmotrya na takiye yavnyye razlichiya mezhdu nimi Open in Google Translate Feedback gucciballs Follow 19:28 markv5 sergeantbabylegs English Spanish French Russian-detected English Spanish Arabic Translate xArise, soon milk will be pa3AaBaTb 6yAyT!... distributed! . 4)ノ

In addition to markv5, Russian Tumblr user mockwa[5] has also been the source of many popular posts in the meme. According to Meme Documentation, [2] this trend picked up in May of 2017, as people began either directly translating posts or posting screenshots of them entering the text in Google Translate. These posts also began featuring other animals. Two popular posts from that time were translated by moonlandingwasfaked[6] (shown below, left) and alonelypotatochip (shown below, right),[7] which gained over 59,000 and 29,000 notes, respectively.


c9h13nczstyj: blessed alonelypotatochip mockwa B napke n they painted the benches in the park"

Various Examples


mockwa: "He stole our sausage" (via tubbs-rights-activist) napoleanbonafarte: markv5: "Seven meows left" Oh my f------ god markv5: I accientally google image searched before google translating and Russian English Spanish Russian - detected English Spanish Arabic Translate × Koula c ManeHbK M Λ 0 A cat with a small face 0 23/5000I ☆04) Koshka s malen kim litsom we-kant-even: English Russian Spanish ▼ Translate Dogs of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose except collars markv5: Spanish English French Russian-detected German English Spanish · Translate *A little defender Malen'kiy zashchitnik markv5 "Did no one teach you to knock? This is occupied!"

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External References

[1] Tumblr – markv5

[2] Meme Documentation – Explained: Russian cat meme

[3] Tumblr – markv5 post

[4] Tumblr – alexyar

[5] Tumblr – Mockwa

[6] Tumblr – moonlandingwasfaked

[7] Tumblr – "alonelypotatochip"https://memedocumentation.tumblr.com/post/164226724320/alonelypotatochip-mockwa-%D0%B2-%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8

[8] Tumblr – markv5 August 9 post

[9] Tumblr markv5 July Post":https://corey-has-returned.tumblr.com/post/163055264096/markv5-%D0%BC%D0%BD%D0%B5-%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%81%D1%8F-%D1%87%D1%82%D0%BE-%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%B5-%D1%8D%D1%82%D0%B8-%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5-%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D1%8B

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