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Bad Singing (Planetballs)

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"What, Earth? Your people sing the same song and it's totally fine."


Have you heard of Polandballs? They're basically spheres decorated as a country's flag and eyes, and act as a country's stereotypical behaviors. It's one of the most cute and playful ways to make jokes about history and geopolitics since they're cute abstract balls (Fun exceptions: Kazakhstan the rectangle, R E I C H T A N G L E, Venice the octopus, and Nepal the bitey boy), so it lightens the tension in what are otherwise very serious situations. I've also seen them used in serious video essays such as with the videos from Kraut or CallMeEzekiel (both on Odysee, btw), and they're also engaging. What I'm doing in this artpiece is a derivative style called Planetballs, which instead talk about astronomy, and as someone who loves space and the cosmos, I also find these jokes hilarious. They can be expressed in less fun ways, though, where artists want to force a political statement which ruins the joke, for example. I really get annoyed when that happens, since it's usually just overdone talking points like one-dimensional USA-bashing (when I'd say Europe isn't much better outside of food or urban planning). These jokes are a minority of what you can find with Polandball posts, though, and you'd have a nice time exploring other works related to it. Overall, it's fun to see that the internet as a community instead of one single person has made an artstyle that fits so well with expressing history and geopolitics.

If you want to see Polandballs or Planetballs for yourself, I would recommend the Icariaball channel (https://vid.puffyan.us/channel/UC2WbOWf6K-6tX8LiBfHqQ), since they have the best artstyle and the most varied amount of countries they depict in their videos. There's also Ido Ball (https://vid.puffyan.us/channel/UCxNfSsnu44T6o4ar72T-Q8g), which I've recently discovered and deserves more love, so watch their short videos.


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