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One Babushka Said(Одна Бабушка Сказала(Odna Babushka Skazala), aka One Grandma Said) is an old meme from ex-USSR countries. Also used in versions – One Women Said, One Babushka In The Courtyard Said, Some Babushka On Bazaar Said.

Origin

Babushka is the mother of father(or even mother of mother!) and also waifu of Dedushka(Grandpa)^[1] The word Babushka came from old slavic word Baba, which means either disrespectful way to call woman, or just Babushka(old woman, not disrespectful). Only in XVII century respectful Babushka dominated over Baba, but Baba still exists.^[2] Therefore this meme is very old, older than even babushka.

Worth to mention that Baba means Father in Turkish, haha(lol).

Overview

But let's talk about meme itself. Babushka(s) were always notorious for gathering together in the yard, collecting and discussing news, just like some lads on youtube right now in present time. Sometimes they talked about about actual real news, but mostly they were talking about strangers, supernatural activities and that some Ivan had sexy time with some woman(even if he had no sexy time with that woman).

Reception

Public had different reception of Babushka podcasts. Before XX century everyone believed to them, but since XX centure their credibility started to fall, to the point they were considered untrustworthy and even fake news. Accessibility of education played an important role in redpilling crowd.

So yeah, about meme itself

So when someone quotes this news source it's implied that imformation is unchecked and most likely just a rumor. Now also used as "I heard in some news", "some guy in Twitter said", "It's from youtube". Very often used in internet fights, because who would ever tell lies in the Internet?

Some news sites allow you to create your own news, which helps a lot in the internet fights and allows you to prove that anime gives lung cancer. Could be used on Wikipedia since everyone can change information and not everyone bothers to check recent changes.

Examples

• Some babushka once told me the world is gonna roll me
• Smoking vape makes your boner permanently soft
• Actor Morgan Freeman has passed away
• I head as some guy in KFC told, that his wifes son said, that he heard that some guy on TV said, that he saw in some magazine that Pewdiepie died

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