Estatua De Gallardo

About

Estatua de Gallardo refers to an hommage statue of the Argentine football coach Marcelo Gallardo. The sculpture became a viral meme on social media on May 2023 due to unusual details in the groin area giving the appearance of a bulge. Fans of the coach posted ironic memes mocking the statue's genital volume on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Origin

On May 27th, 2023, Argentine football coach Marcelo Gallardo was honored with a 26 feet (8 meters) statue located in front of the Monumental Stadium de Núñez in Buenos Aires. Twitter^[1] user @sariskleit shared the moment (seen below) in which Gallardo's statue was revealed, garnering 6.4 million views and 19,200 likes in five days.

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Jokes about the statue's genitals immediately appeared on social media after the sculpture was revealed to the audience. For instance, on May 27th, 2023, Twitter^[2] user @PasionRiverRP posted an image of the Wall Street's Bull statue and Gallardo's statue with the caption in Spanish "The Bull of Wall Street became the 2nd statue with the largest genitalia in the world after the presentation of the Gallardo statue." The post (seen below) garnered 1,949 likes and 280 retweets in five days.

Other ironic memes were posted on Twitter mocking the statue. For example, on May 27th, Twitter^[3] user @El9deNepal uploaded a censored version of the statue's image to ensure his account would not get banned on the platform. The post (seen below, left) garnered 207 likes and 34 retweets in five days. Also on May 27th, Twitter^[4] User @De_Kerusa posted a The Simpsons meme with the caption in Spanish "Mom do not go to see the statue of Gallardo!" The post (seen below, right) received 717 likes and 113 retweets in five days.

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