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[[File:Polandball.PNG|thumb|200px|User-generated representation of Polandball.]]
'''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 [[country|countries]] are presented as spherical [[persona]]s that interact in often [[broken English]], poking fun at national [[stereotypes]] and [[international relations]]. The comics style may be referred to both as Polandball (even in case 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|Polish Internet]], an idea was raised to draw the [[Flag of Poland|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 "[[Poland|POLSKA]]" written in the middle. After co-ordination from [[4chan]], this was then covered over by a giant [[Nazi swastika|swastika]].<ref name="gazeta">{{cite news|url=http://wyborcza.pl/1,86116,7462232,Wyniosle_lol_zaborcow__czyli_Polandball.html|title=Wyniosłe lol zaborców, czyli Polandball|last=Orliński|first=Wojciech|authorlink=Wojciech Orliński|date=16 January 2010|publisher=[[Gazeta Wyborcza]]|language=Polish|accessdate=25 March 2012}}</ref><ref name="cooltura">{{cite news|url=http://www.elondyn.co.uk/newsy,wpis,7731|title=Znowu lecą z nami w... kulki|last=Zapałowski|first=Radosław|date=15 February 2010|publisher=[[Cooltura]]|language=Polish|accessdate=22 March 2012}}</ref>tworzůno uod używoczůw reprezyntacyjo Polandball.]]
'''Polandball''', znůmo tyż kej '''countryball''', je to tworzůny uod używoczůw [[internecowy mem]] kery mjoł anfang na mjymjeckij tabule do rysowańo Krautchan.net kajś na miće 2009. Mem mańifestowoł śe we srogij nůmerze necowych [[kůmiks|kůmiksůw]], we kerych kreje bůły przedstowjane kej kuglate perzůny kere uobyczńe godały we łomanyj [[angelsko godka|angelskij godce]] a lachoły śe ze nacyjowych sztereotypůw a mjyndzynacyjowych relacyji. Styl uůnych kůmiksůw do śe uopisać kej abo Polandball (nawet jak ńi ma we ńich żodnygo nawjůnzańo do [[Polska|Polski]]) abo countryball (abo, we mnogij nůmerze, countryballs)).

==Tło==
Polandball mjoł korzyńe we wrześńu 2009, jak zaczła śe "cyberwojna" polskich używoczůw Interneca ze wszyjskimi używoczami ze inkszych nacyji. Neczajta, na keryj szło uůnaczyć wirtualne rysunki, dozwolała używoczom rysować co ino chcům, a tyż szkryflać po rysunkach kere wćepły tam inksze używocze. We polskim Internecu powstoł kůncept, coby rysować [[fana Polski|polsko fana]] na [[bal]]u, wtynczas tyśůnce Polokůw do kupy sztartło rysować bale uobmalowane we polske farby, nale na uopy: czyrwjůno na wjyrchu a bjoło na spodku, ze sztichwortem "POLSKA" na miće. Ńyskorzi używoczy na serwiśe [[4chan]] sztartli na ńij malować srogi [[hakynkrojc]].<ref>[http://wyborcza.pl/1,86116,7462232,Wyniosle_lol_zaborcow__czyli_Polandball.html Wyniosłe lol zaborców, czyli Polandball]</ref><ref>[http://www.elondyn.co.uk/newsy,wpis,7731 Znowu lecą z nami w... kulki]</ref>.

Krautchan.net is a German-language [[imageboard]] whose /INT/ board is frequented by English-speaking [[netizen]]s. The beginning of the Polandball meme is credited to ''Falco'', a Brit on /INT/, who in September 2009 created the meme using [[MS Paint]] in an apolitical way to [[troll (internet)|troll]] ''Wojak'', a Pole on the same board who contributes in [[wikt:broken English|broken English]], after which Polandball cartoons were enthusiastically drawn by [[Russi(contracted; show full)[[sw:Polandball]]
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