Around noise: purple poultry

What is this sticker and why do they all use it?

On February 1, a set of stickers with a strange purple bird appeared on Facebook messenger. He immediately became popular, and then completely turned into a meme. "Medusa" tells that this is in the purple bird and what has white nationalists have to do with it.

What kind of purple bird?

This is a dove. He was drawn by the illustrator Sid Well from the USA. In September 2016, Warler offered Apple a set of TRASH DOVE stickers for a stickerstore in Imessage. In early February 2017, stickers also appeared on Facebook (in the Russian version of the messenger, the set is called “pigeons-decadents”). Animated stickers (move when hovering a cursor); Most often, Facebook users use a dove, shaking their heads.

Why is there so much noise because of a bird?

The popularity of TRASH DOVE is associated with the Thai Facebook segment, where, according to some reports , stickers with a violet dove appeared first of all. Its popularity in Thailand is explained by the fact that in Thai the word "bird" means not only a bird, but also an unhappy lonely person. True, Warler herself in an interview with Thai publication did not mention this. “He [means] what you want,” said the artist.

In early February, the pigeon-decan captured the American and European Facebook segments. Unlike Thais, English -language social networks did not just post him in the comments, but also turned it into a meme (even the corresponding group appeared).

The amount of TRASH DOVE in the comments grew so rapidly that the purple bird began to annoy many Facebook users. In some cases, group administrators began to ban those who use this sticker.

And users are younger - come up with memes in which the bird is killed.

A deed-decadan is waiting for the fate of the Frog Pepe?

In mid -February, the war for the purple bird began on social networks and on imageboards. Users of the image of the right -wing views announced the intention to “remove” the pigeon from mass culture. In the same way, they “removed” the frog Pepe, who first began to be associated with white nationalists, and then was completely equated in the United States with a symbol of hatred (which, however, did not prevent him from appearing on Twitter Trump).

The anti-fascists also decided to assign a meme, but the “alt-right” are much more active in their intentions-and take the number of images.

Violet bird - a universal meme

The bird is unlikely to become as popular as Zhdun, although the pigeon-decan, of course, has a meme potential for all occasions. It can be used in a variety of situations - both to describe your emotions, and to rethink the story about the handshake of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump.

Anya Spilkovskaya