Meme: I'm pregnant

The joke of Japanese netizens has become popular in the West

In mid-October, a local meme quickly gained popularity in Japan: social media users began drawing hands with a positive pregnancy test onto the faces of famous anime characters. A few days later, the West joined in the fun.

Initially, photoshopped photos of pregnancy tests and surprised faces of famous characters were published with the tag #妊娠検査薬コラ (Japanese for “Photoshop with a pregnancy test”), but later its English version #pregnancyannouncement also appeared.

The meme originated on the Japanese imageboard Futuba Channel (2chan) back in the summer, but it became truly widespread and attracted the attention of the media and blogs only in mid-October.

After the first wave of anime characters, heroes of Western culture began to appear on the Internet: from Valve head Gabe Newell to actor Jack Nicholson from the film The Shining. is distributed online For inexperienced Photoshop users, a ready-made template , for which you only need to select a suitable frame (where it was cut from remains unknown).

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In Russia, the meme was actively supported by popular video blogger Stas Davydov.

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Ultimately, netizens went meta and showed a pregnancy test looking at a pregnancy test.

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Vadim Elistratov,
TJournal

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