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Polandball, also known as countryball, is a user-generated Internet meme which originated on the /int/ board of German imageboard Krautchan.net in the latter half of 2009. The meme is manifested in a large number of online comics, where countries are presented as spherical or cubical personas decorated with their country's flag, interacting in often broken English. The characters poke fun at national stereotypes and international relations, as well as historical conflicts. The comics style may be referred to both as ''Polandball'' (by convention, even in cases where there is no Poland among the cartoon characters) and ''countryball'' (or, collectively, ''countryballs''). == Background == Polandball has its roots in an August 2009 "cyberwar" between Polish Internet users and the rest of the world on drawball.com. The website, which offers a virtual canvas, allows Internet users to draw whatever they want, and to draw over others' drawings. On the Internet in Poland, an idea was raised to draw the Polish flag on the ball, and thousands of Poles together managed to take over the drawball with a painting of white on top of red, with the word "POLSKA" written in the middle. After co-ordination from 4chan, this was then covered over by a giant swastika. Krautchan.net is a German-language imageboard whose /int/ board is frequented by English-speaking netizens. The beginning of the Polandball meme is credited to ''Falco'', a British user on /int/, who in September 2009 created the meme using MS Paint in an apolitical way to troll ''Wojak'', a Pole on the same board who contributes in broken English, after which Polandball cartoons were enthusiastically drawn by Russians.〔〔 Polandball comics have no defined authors, and anyone is able to make one.〔 This has culminated in the meme propagating across various sites on the Internet, including Reddit〔 and Facebook, where each country has its own subreddit and page, such as USAball and UKball. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Polandball」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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