I am a journalist for the Ukrainian media Novyny.sk. We write articles for Ukrainians who are temporarily in Slovakia. We write about the main news and events in the Sk, but last week we launched a new column where we take Slovak memes (often from this subreddit) and explain Slovak humor to Ukrainians. No matter how strange it may sound, but it helps the newly arrived Ukrainians to integrate into the Slovak society. You can read articles here:

https://novyny.sme.sk/c/23161753/haa-unm-xaptyotb-cnobakn-uboro-tnxhr.html

https://novyny.sme.sk/c/23159123/haa-unm-xaptyotb-cnobakn-uboro-tnxhr.html

If any of you have any ideas what memes should be shown to Ukrainians in order to understand the Slovak mentality, then write to me in DM. I will be very grateful to you.

24 comments

  3. I do not know if it helps, but definitely check other sites than reddit that are somewhat popular, not only Zomri, but Cynicka obluda or Emefka.

    Then there are also popular caricaturists like Shooty ([https://dennikn.sk/tema/shooty/](https://dennikn.sk/tema/shooty/)), but that are not memes anymore.

    Common topics that are made into memes are politics, search for example for “Andrej Danko” or “Milan Uhrik” + “meme”. The first one is common for his inability to construct grammatically correct sentences or words in a funny way, second one once said “I have no opinion on Jew during WW2, I am not a historian” and this statement, when modified in some absurd way, is source for many memes, e.g. “I have no opinion on protests, I am not a protestant”. The joke is in the similar words “protest” (literal protest) and “protestant” (member of the protestant Christian church)

    For further inspiration check here: [https://fici.sme.sk/t/4607/memcyklopedia](https://fici.sme.sk/t/4607/memcyklopedia)

    If you have any specific questions just ask 🙂

  4. I remember when I was in school, probably year 2010-2011 and memes became hit (trollface memes) My classmate told memes will be here only for a Limited time and ppl will soon forget about them.

    Now we are here, memes are helping ppl to integrate into society. What a wonderful time to be alive.

  10. Well, you are expressing an EU value which most do not realise, nor actually think about. That is the strength we have united, but separated in our sovereign nations, where we can respect the separation but be fully embracing and respecting of one another in their home.

  13. Love what you’re doing. Also check out Zomri, Osratenews, also if you can check out r/2visegrad4you. Might seem like a strange subreddit at first but it is just ironic memes. Also do you have any plans to share any ukrainian memes/humor with Slovaks? That would be really cool as I can’t say I know a single ukrainian meme.

  15. Apart from the ones that were mentioned, I suggest checking Druhybazarikpiko on Instagram. They post absolute gems from Facebook market and messenger conversations. Also Keby som mal meme is great, Supaspicybois or Wugabo post memes often too but these both might be a bit harder to understand or quite weird lol without knowing the context but you’ll see!

  16. I never before war see that luxury cars like have Ukrainians. They have more luxury cars like people in Switzerland. How it’s possible? Corruption?

  17. I also follow “Skromne”. Slovak meme authors are active mainly on Facebook, that’s the place to look for them.

  18. My personal favorites are memes regarding our former politician Slota. He was openly very anti-hungarian and has famous qoute “Do tankoch, zrovname Budapest” (which is, with a butchered slovak roughly “to the tanks, we will storm the Budapest). Needless to say, i have seen many great memes making fun of him. Maybe worth mentioning

  19. Haven’t seen Dano Drevo (Harry Potter parody) mentioned, very popular among younger gen, mainly uni students, most ukrainians don’t know about it, but we quote lines from the parody at any given time.

Leave a Reply