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Megafon Telefon Gianluigi Buffon or Megaphone Telephone Gianluigi Buffon is a French-language brainrot meme in which a male text-to-speech voice says "Megafon," "Telefon," and "Gianluigi Buffon" (an Italian former professional footballer) that was popularized on TikTok in early July 2024. The meme is part of the same trend consisting of the Toilettes Ananas Nasdas and Bitcoin Burger IbraTV memes, which focus on videos combining and rhyming random French words with celebrities.

Origin

In early July 2024, the phrase "Megafon telefon Gianluigi Buffon" began making the rounds online, with TikTok^[1] user @schweinsteiger2010 posting the earliest known iteration of the meme on July 4th, 2024. The post (seen below) garnered over 1.9 million plays and 299,000 likes in a week.

Spread

The brainrot meme was quickly spread on TikTok, where users posted images combining the French words with pictures of former Italian footballer Gianluigi Buffon. For example, on July 8th, 2024, TikTok ^[2] user @marvinnine posted a video about the meme (seen below, left) amassing roughly 1 million plays and 116,000 likes in two days. On July 7th, 2024, TikTok^[3] user @levon4iegiazaryan posted a video (seen below, right) comparing the Mallboro with the "Megafon telefon Gianluigi Buffon" meme, which amassed over 3.4 million plays and 471,000 likes in three days.

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