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Medved 1. Animated bear from the Russified picture "bear surprize", greeting a couple having sex with the word "Hello!" it is in this form (through the "e" and "d") and by this the padonkaf that gave rise to the jargon; 2. Just any bear; 3 A cool, strong, respected, charismatic subject for a bastard. 1. Hello, bear! 2. Let's go to the forest to see the bear 3. Well, you're a master! Monster! Bear! Internet meme, Computer slang, Youth slang, Slang bastards

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Hello Medved

In the previous chapters, we talked about words related to the Internet or computers. However, it is no less interesting to follow how the most common words behave in the Albanese language. I think that if there were elections for the main word in the Albany language, then, most likely, the most common greeting would win. It makes no sense to whip up intrigue, since everyone knows this word. This transl. Its fate is remarkable, for it demonstrates the amazing possibilities of communication on the Internet and the mechanisms that make word, expression, picture, or whatever, super popular on the Internet. I haven't gotten to the chapter on Internet memes yet, but hello, perhaps the most outstanding Internet meme in the history of the Russian Internet. True, a meme should be considered not only a word, but also a word together with a picture. I will postpone the conversation about memes until the corresponding chapter, and now I will tell the story of the glory of the word. transl.

Once again, you have to start with linguistic morality. We certainly don't know who first wrote the word. Hey in such an exquisite way, and we will never know. Legend has singled out one person, and he fully deserves it. He was not a pioneer hello, but it was he who gave impetus to his unprecedented takeoff. It all started in America. In 2006, American primitivist painter John Lurie (John Lurie) painted watercolor drawing Bear Surprise. It depicted a couple of lovers having sexual intercourse in a meadow, and a humanoid bear, humanly standing on its hind legs and waving its front like hands. Obviously, the bear has just caught the lovers, because he says: Surprise!(that is, "Surprise!"). The exclamation, as in the comics, is drawn in a cloud to his mouth. Actually, that is why the drawing is called in translation into Russian - "Bear surprise".

Next, Russian history begins. Roman Yatsenko from Donetsk under the nickname Lobzz publishes on 3 February 2006 on the website dirty.ru in the special section "Leprozorium" ( leprosorium.dirty.ru) a text about wild animals illustrated with a drawing by John Lurie, but replaces the English exclamation in the photograph "Surprise!" Russian greeting, recorded with distorted spelling: "Hello!" Further "Leprozorium" for technical reasons stops working for some time, but the drawing has time to be published in other places, including in the LiveJournal. It is perceived as a drawing by an unknown Russian artist and instantly becomes popular. Already on February 15, a community appears in LiveJournal ru_preved, where photos from known, and there is someone there mugz(nickname on dirty.ru), or mixmugz(nickname in livejournal.com), without much success nominates candidates for authors.

But on February 17, in the comments to someone else's post Lobzz finally restores justice, pointing to the authorship of John Lurie and, in part, to his own. He writes referring to mugz:

I wonder what the site itself dirty.ru the fight against the new jargon begins. On March 9, the founder of the site, Jovan Savovich, publishes the following text:

In connection with the situation around the opening of the Iranian oil exchange and the looming default in the United States, we have here small changes in the rules regarding the issuance of shovels to users. Until now, moderators have issued a shovel for a week for any rule violations that are not enough for a regular ban. Now everything will be a little different, as in Iran

* Small mockery of the Russian language, meaningless comments and questions that did not make sense to ask - a shovel for two days.

* Prolonged language abuse, transliteration and very meaningless comments - a shovel for five days.

* Podonkovsky slang and similar garbage, as well as meaningless comments on an industrial scale - a shovel for a week.

* Any mention of the word "preved" is a shovel for two weeks.

But stop the victorious tread preveda is no longer possible. This year hello nominated for the ROTOR award in two nominations at once: "Impact on offline" and "Disappointment of the year" - and wins in the first. O before articles are published in the magazine "Ya" (with very important facts concerning authorship), in Computerra, a series of articles on Lente.ru, materials in other publications. This word appears on banners, T-shirts, outdoor advertisements. About money earned on hello, tell legends. Domain preved.ru, bought for $ 20, is resold the next day for one and a half thousand, but the buyer does not remain for nothing. Moreover, the use of the word was detached from Luri's drawing. This greeting has ceased to be a part of a complex verbal-pictorial meme, but has become an independent word and, as I said at the very beginning, the most striking symbol of the Albanese language.

Curious attempts to raise the shield and the word hello and to begin with, find its author. Searches take place on the same site dirty.ru, apparently, according to the principle "where else!" Someone with a nickname is declared as such lunix, who wrote on July 15, 2003:

HELLO BORING INTERNET PEOPLE!

But without the support of fine arts and luck, as is the case with known, the word has a chance hello Hardly ever. The search for the author turns out to be a waste of time, it is not interesting to anyone. For the sake of fairness, it must be said once again that the first uses of both distortions were recorded earlier, as evidenced by both search engines and the Pulse of the Blogosphere. For example, in LJ in 2002 there is a phrase Hello Mitya. In 2003, the phrase was noted in the blogosphere: Hello, as they say in the modern world. She certainly means that hello albeit limited, but already in use.

Linguistically hello more interesting than hello because both possible spelling mistakes are made in it, which do not affect the pronunciation of the word: instead of unstressed and written e, and instead of the final T written etc. Sophistication also lies in the fact that this spelling is the opposite of phonetic writing. An illiterate and naive native speaker rarely makes such mistakes. The most interesting linguistic observation I made in 2006-2007, when I drew attention to the fact that in the oral speech of students who greeted each other, sometimes it is hello, although this is contrary to Russian pronunciation norms. We do not pronounce a distinct sound [e] in an unstressed position, but at the end of a word - a voiced [d]. This "unnatural" pronunciation meant that hello broke through from written speech into oral speech and became a full-fledged sign, different from the usual Russian word Hello. Another interesting feature of this greeting can be considered the fact that, on the one hand, it is formally a typical example of orthoart characteristic of the padonk counterculture, on the other hand, it is not associated with this culture in any way, perhaps because it immediately became a common property.

Yet we know how worldly glory goes. Peak frequency in the blogosphere for a word hello fell on that same 2006. Since 2009, a rather sharp decline began, and it continues to this day, which indicates that the word is out of fashion.

In Albany, the faithful companion of internet greetings hello became a common noun bear, common, except for the absence of a soft sign at the end. Let me remind you that Luri's drawing was called in English Bear Surprise. By analogy, the name almost immediately stuck to the Russian version Hello Medved, for example in the community ru_preved, created on February 15th, this phrase appeared the very next day. It should be noted that the distortion of the word here is unconventional for orthoart, since bear pronounced differently than bear. In the early 2000s, a pseudo Georgian fable with the word bear, which supposedly imitates a Georgian accent.

However, these were isolated mentions. Why is the title of the Russian version of the picture next to a normal anti-literate word hello a strange word came up bear? Perhaps the only explanation connects the loss of the soft sign in bear with the resulting rhyme with the word transl. This is confirmed by the exchange of remarks on blogs of this type:

Hello, I'm a bear!

Hello, I'm your grandfather.

hello, atled!

Both the explanation itself and this kind of "poetic" games appear already in February 2006.

Medved was more related to drawing than transl. Medved was directly associated with the image of a bear in Luri's picture, that is, it was an exemplary meme. This is evidenced by the emergence of a special emoticon bear in the form of a latin capital letter Y, similar to an upright bear with raised paws. It had its peaks of popularity associated with the political conjuncture (more precisely, the counter-conjuncture). Individual peaks in popularity bear are explained by its rapprochement with the symbol of "United Russia" and with the name of Dmitry Medvedev.

In conclusion, it makes sense to tell about an important episode in fate bear, a lot that contributed to its popularity outside the Internet. On July 6, 2006, the so-called Internet conference of President Vladimir Putin took place. In form, it was a videoconference, but questions to it, in particular, were collected through the Yandex website (the other part of the questions was collected by an English company Air Force, which also broadcast the conference). On the Yandex website, you could ask questions and vote for them.

As a result, two purely network questions won by a wide margin:

How do you feel about MEDVED? 28 424

Is the Russian Federation going to use huge combat humanoid robots to defend its borders? 26602

However, the presenters never asked them, and shortly before the end of the conference, one of the presenters, Alexander Gurnov, said the following:

And before asking my last question, I would like to apologize, probably, to hundreds of thousands of Runet subscribers who will not hear an answer to their questions today, it is simply physically impossible. Although such rating questions as, for example, is it true that our borders will be guarded by huge fighting humanoid monsters (20 thousand questions on this topic), how the President relates to the magazine "Bear", also more than 20 thousand, why are there such traffic jams in St. Petersburg and how to deal with them - were not asked today. And I apologize again, the program time is running out. Nevertheless, I think that colleagues who know Russia so well will understand that in the end we could not help but prepare a philosophical question. Mikhail, 55 years old, writes: “I read on the Internet, what you, Vladimir Vladimirovich, are asked about, and was amazed at the content of the questions. Really important questions are significantly inferior in popularity to frivolous ones. The Internet is the territory of young and relatively successful citizens, continues Mikhail. "Is there a future for a country whose youth is so superficial?"

The presenter thus not only criticized the "subscribers of the Russian Internet", but also in a shameful way confused Medved with the Medved magazine, which, as in the well-known anecdote, is not even his namesake. Hardly many "subscribers" were satisfied with this communication.

Hello Medved- the distorted phrase "Hello, Bear". It arose in Runet in the wake of the popularity of the Padonkaff language. Also a meme is a picture with a drawn bear that says: "Hello."

Origin

In 1976, the word "hello" was used by the writer Yevgeny Popov in the story "A living living man" ("Hello, comrade!").

The word "Preved" became widespread after the Russian adaptation of the film "Bear Surprise" by John Lurie appeared on the Dirty.ru website. A landmark post was posted on February 3, 2006 by user Lobzz.

The original painting depicts an anthropomorphic bear that found tourists having sex in nature. The bear lifts its front paws up and says: "Surprise!"

Someone replaced the original line with "Preved". And this led to the emergence of one of the most ancient memes of the Runet.

"Preved" and "Medved" generated a new wave of popularity of such distortions. Most often they were used in online communication, but some memes went offline as well. Such errativs include, for example, "Krosavcheg", "Kagdila" and others.

The bear has become a symbol of such erratic communication. They began to photograph Luri's picture, add new words, and "hello" and "bear" became inseparable from each other.

The English-speaking environment also has its own memes-erratic. The most famous of them appeared in 2003.

Facts

In 1999-2002, there was a pro-government movement MEDVED (Interregional Unity Movement) in Russia. In 2002, on the basis of this organization, the United Russia party was created. All this, along with the well-known Internet meme, has influenced the fact that the word bear is often associated with the name of Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia from 2008 to 2012.

During the Internet conference of Vladimir Putin on July 6, 2006, the question “ PRIOR, Vladimir Vladimirovich! How do you feel about MEDVED?". Although in the end the question was not asked to Putin in the original version, the question was asked “ how do you feel about the magazine "Bear"».

The phrase "hello bear" belongs to the category of memes, i.e. ideas and images transmitted from person to person, moreover, mainly "living" on the Internet. This is one of the rare memes, the history and even the date of birth of which is reliably known.

The meaning and use of the expression "hello bear" On the Internet, bears are often called people who use mainly sites located in the .ru domain zone - in other words, runet.

The distorted word "bear" is yet another mockery of stereotypes from the category of "Russian, vodka, matryoshka, balalaika" that have long become boring. Nevertheless, people fell in love with the bear so much that it turned into an independent meme, moreover, very often it is used in the form of an image, i.e. draw a funny bear and add a variety of inscriptions to the picture. As for the word "hello", this has already become a traditional distortion, which has gained incredible popularity along with "author zhzhot" and "handsome". Hello Bear is a widespread way to say hello to a Russian person, subtly noting the "secrecy" of the language used and the attitude to one Internet group. The story of the birth of "Bear" Like most memes, "Hello Bear" was born spontaneously and gained popularity only because Internet users liked the proposed image, and they began to use it in a variety of contexts. For the first time, the meme appeared on one of the large sites, the participants of which were having fun by creating photojacks - funny collages based on pictures suggested by users. On February 7, 2006, one of the participants decided, instead of demonstrating an amazing level of Photoshop proficiency, to get off with the simplest option for creating a collage, and replaced the inscription "Surprise!" to "Preved". The picture did not gain popularity immediately. At first, she occasionally appeared on blogs and social networks, but over time, when a sufficient number of people saw her, she suddenly found popular love. Immediately after that, the funny rhymed phrase "Preved Bear" became popular, which people loved so much that it began to appear even on mugs and T-shirts. It is interesting that the author of the picture with an anthropomorphic bear, on which the first "Preved" appeared, was not identified straightaway. For a long time, Internet users believed that they were dealing with a drawing of a child who is no more than 10 years old and who has no artistic talent and can only boast of a child's inherent passion for drawing. It turned out that in fact the image belongs to John Lurie, an American actor and, concurrently, an artist, whose works were recognized as controversial at least, but ideally suited the role of memes.

The effect "hello"

Those who know - have already understood what will be discussed, well, those who have not guessed yet - either are not at all familiar with the Internet, or are completely behind the times.
Anyway, let's start in order ...

"Horror!"

In addition to traditional forms of communication, such as email, chat, text and video conferences, today the virtual world of the Internet connects its visitors with personal live journals (something like a diary that is kept every day) and entertainment portals, where everyone is not only can leave a comment, but also take a direct part in filling the content of the blog. And where more than two people constantly gather, there should appear, if not a party, then exactly its own rules, traditions, habits and even language.

The fact that the virtual jargon that has formed in parts in Live Journals, blogs and the international non-commercial computer network Fido, has gone beyond the Internet, is noted by more than one media outlet. More and more often you can hear "zhzhot", "cool", "respect" on the air of radio stations. Whether it is good or bad, no one dares to say (these words have not yet reached the guardians of the purity of the Russian language outside the world wide web), one thing is indisputable - the living (progressive, if you like) has become cramped in the vast expanses of the Internet, and it is conquering new territories ...

Oh, it was already creepy. I imagined such a terrible beast - huge, black and shaggy. Here he crawls out of the hole and with his dimensions covers the yellow sun ... Horrible!

"To the masses!"
- "Hello!" You know, when I left on a business trip for the last time, I left a trap for a bear in the closet ... Imagine, I come - and immediately run to the closet, I look: the crossover is sitting!
- Who? Lover?
- No ... Bear!

Walking through various blogs and live magazines, I suddenly constantly came face to face with a ridiculous bear in an equally ridiculous picture ... Today, the "forest beast" is cited on more than 2,000 sites and 300,000 pages. The Google search engine produces 1,330,000 results per query. In order to look into all the corners of the Russian-speaking planet, “preved” took only 14 days.

The watercolor created an incredible sensation. The proud march "bear" inspired many to create their own. Several communities immediately appeared, where "author" collages on the bear theme began to be posted. A new smiley "Y" has appeared, stylizing a bear with outstretched paws in greeting. The idea was immediately picked up by advertisers, spicing up their slogans with "warnings." 1500, bought a day earlier for $ 20. The new owner Konstantin Rykov (LJ rykov) immediately began distributing "messages" to the population in the form of e-mail @ predev.ru. "Preved" took to the streets with the protesters, got on the banners of congratulations. Today you can buy T-shirts, caps, watches and even condoms with the symbols of a brazen bear.

All the symptoms of a widespread epidemic are evident ...

"Caution, contagious!"

In search of information about the authors of the picture, which turned the entire Russian-language Internet upside down, and the source of this infection, the path led me to lukomnikov 1).
- Herman, why did you become interested in the rate of development of this epidemic and with such persistence began to look for those who infected everyone with bear disease?

- So I myself also infected. I was one of the first - most likely the second Livejournal user to post this picture on my blog. She came to me more or less by accident - a link to it (marked "author unknown") was sent to me in the comments in connection with some conversation about profanity on the Internet. I am a writer, text-centric and until recently very rarely placed images in my live journal, but this picture struck me so much that I immediately placed it on my main page. A day later, an epidemic began, and I began to closely monitor its development.

I am a poet and I work with language. I have always been terribly interested in the life of the language - the real life of the language, after all, it is completely mysterious. How and why do language changes take place? How do new words appear? Where do jokes come from? Who comes up with the proverbs? How do the texts that are usually called folklore arise and spread? These and similar questions have tormented me since childhood. And then suddenly - just by chance (or not by chance, God knows) it turned out that I myself found myself in the epicenter of the birth of a whole new cultural mythology (comparable in scale, for example, to Mitkov's mythology, which was rapidly developing in the second half of the 80s) ... And that this is so, I immediately felt and from the very first days followed very closely, since all this was unfolding on the Internet (mainly in LiveJournal) and search engines provide such an opportunity. I followed and gave reports. In the very first days, he predicted that the bear with the "preacher" would become a symbol of the entire Russian-speaking LJ - and so it happened. And of course, I tried to find the author.
As a result, I was involved not only in the plot, but also in the denouement of the original story of the "preveda". I was the first to clearly announce the authorship of the painting and its Russian alteration in LJ, accompanying this entry with other paintings by this artist. This information then swept through hundreds of blogs and news feeds, sparking a new wave of warning.

- Why do you think the word "preved" is being quoted outside the Internet?

I think there are a lot of things that have come together. First of all, it is important to understand that this is a word-quote, it is inextricably linked with the corresponding picture, its plot and, in addition, the environment itself, in which this picture literally became a symbolic one in a week, and this environment is LJ, that is, Russian-speaking the Livejournal sector of hundreds of thousands of personal blogs. That is, "hello" is not just an illiterate spelling, it is a kind of password, a greeting from the "initiates".
An “initiate” in this case is simply a person who has seen a picture with a “preacher” and laughed at it. The moment a person sees her for the first time and laughs, he seems to undergo initiation.
The picture is indeed very powerful in the original, and the Russian version has strengthened it many times over.

"Author, author!"

Most likely, the first time I met this masterpiece under the title "Children's creativity". Therefore, when later my beloved asked me why everyone was running around with this bear, I didn’t hesitate and answered: “Yes, this is a child who drew a card for dad on February 23rd.” This is how rumors are born ...

And there were many rumors. “What kind of person is this author? Who is he - a child? A naive outsider artist? Sarcastic stylist? Or some completely different one? Or a mixed type? " - asked German Lukomnikov, Mahmud Mukhtarovich Otar-Mukhtarov ("a young talented poet", as he writes about himself on a "private home personal page", where "informers and counters of visits are lined up by height"). And there would be no peace if one day a modest comment appeared on the dirty.ru website:
mugz: Hello! The author of the picture with a bear is John Lurie. In the original it says "Surprise!" It seemed to me that "hello!" is more relevant to the topic of the post about "sudden bear" and I corrected it a bit. I hope the author is not offended.
Posted by Lobzz on 02/17/2006 at 11.21

It turned out that the bear with the "hello" had two progenitors. "Luri's authorship was a fantastic surprise for everyone," says German Lukomnikov. " looked so organic on it that it never occurred to anyone that it was a rework and that the original had a completely different word, and even in a different language (“SURPRISE!”). Thus, the creator of the picture appeared in all this the story is as unexpected as its character. Although the user of the site Dirty.ru Lobzz is no doubt at least a co-author - without the replacement of the word he made, this 'bomb' would not have exploded. "

Ya Magazine contacted Lobzz. Under the nickname was a 28-year-old guy - Roman Yatsenko.
- Novel, finally reveal the secret of the birth of a "great" masterpiece:

- "Medved-Preved" was born on leprosorium.dirty.ru. It happened on February 3, 2006 at 12.12 Moscow time. I conceived a post about sudden wild animals that could be found in the forest by users of the "most popular Russian blog" dirty.ru. Quite by accident, I came across a watercolor painting by John Lurie and realized that there was no better illustration for my post.

The only roughness was the incomprehensible and boring "Surprise!", Which was eventually replaced by a perky "hello!" The word blended very organically into the picture. The post itself did not arouse keen interest among the residents of Leprosoria, and “preved” had all chances to remain buried in the archives, if not for one incident. Mugz took this picture to another forum and the epidemic began.

The popularity of "preved" and I was pleasantly surprised, I could not even imagine that such an innocent illustration to such a naive post would cause SUCH a stir.

- Why do you think the word "preved" has gained such popularity and is beginning to be quoted outside the Internet? The release of counter-culture to the masses? Or (do not be alarmed) some kind of cultural revolution, when there is a desire to break the established, old, and, developing other traditions and rules, create a new, progressive?

- It can hardly be called a cultural revolution. This is foolishness and should not be taken seriously. When in the crowd someone says “hello”, “crossover!”, Those who know what they are talking about involuntarily begin to smile, because this stupid watercolor painting with a copulating couple and a sudden “bear” rises before their eyes. If you see a photograph, painting or sculpture, the hero of which threw up his hands, then immediately there is a desire to add "Hello!"

"Preved" is like a new toy for a child. He will soon get bored, stop causing a smile, start annoying and die a natural death, or some other phenomenon will appear that will drive the "bear" into the shadow. In any case, "hello" has already become an event, and I am glad of my involvement him.

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