part 337 christmas in july miracles

[aphanon_meme]

Meme! I almost thought I would never get to make a new post and say "Meme!! He updated! He really really updated! (which I'm sure most people in the fandom know by now!) In case you missed it JUST LOOK AT THIS. My goodness. A true, real Christmas In July miracle. ...... Wait it's August.

I feel silly now.

ENJOY PART 337!

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Comments

ITT: What opinions/views has the meme changed most on?

[(Anonymous)]

This can be anything from a pairing to a headcanon to a political view.

And I mean in general, since there will always be exceptions.

Re: ITT: What opinions/views has the meme changed most on?

[(Anonymous)]

Bulgaria/Thailand

meme prefers Romania/Bulgaria now

Re: ITT: What opinions/views has the meme changed most on?

[(Anonymous)]

Russia, from what I've heard? I've only been on the meme for about a year now.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Well I've been on since late 2010, so I don't know anything for sure, but from what I backread it looks like this:

2009-2010: Rapetruck!Russia was still common joke and kink fodder. (again, just going by screencaps and backreading with search terms)

2010-2011: I'd say he was most popular at this time, with many namefags being big fans of him. Going the opposite direction, "Russia is vanilla" was a common headcanon in the kink threads, as was "Russia is asexual." Loads of backlash against rapetruck!Russia and villainous Russia among the fandom as a whole, though it was still very widespread and didn't fade as quickly as rapist France. Also, chubbu.

2012: Hmmm. I don't think much changed from the last year, really, other than many of the said namefags left so he wasn't brought up as often. Then again, I didn't care about Russia as much at this time.

2013: This is where things changed with Russia. He got somewhat popular again, but this time we grew out the rapetruck-backlash phase. We acknowledge and embrace him as an asshole. But the same can be said about many characters. Spain, for example.

Just compare isbigboned with snow_n_sunflowers.

Re: ITT: What opinions/views has the meme changed most on?

[(Anonymous)]

Smushnames.

Re: ITT: What opinions/views has the meme changed most on?

[(Anonymous)]

Ableism and rape jokes.

Re: ITT: What opinions/views has the meme changed most on?

[(Anonymous)]

USUK? I remember that during earlier parts, the meme tended to be rather anti-USUK as most people here didn't care for or even disliked the pairing and were grateful there was a place people didn't go bonkers over them.

+1

[(Anonymous)]

yep

I remember some people on fail_fandomanon discussing how they tried and failed to frequent aphanon_meme because of all the USUK hate in 2010. like how I can't frequent fail_fandomanon because of the rusame hate, haw haw

Now USUK is very popular here. I've even come to love it, and I had one hell of a hateboner for it before 2012.

Though I think it's more that we were so adamant about promoting rarepairs. To an extent, we still are.