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GUIDE TO EPIC BRAZILIAN MEMES
The Internet is full of epic awesomeness and youPIX/SF is here to celebrate it. youPIX is the largest festival of Internet culture in Brazil, and is now hitting the road and landing in San Francisco on October 24th for a one-night fun trip inside the Brazilian Intertubes.
youPix has held more than 9 events since 2009; the most recent youPIX Festival (August 2011) drew more then six thousand people! It was the largest internet party ever held in Brazil.
Hosted by Bia Granja (youPIX curator) and Jamie Wilkinson (Emmy Award-winning software developer & Internet culture researcher, creator of VHX.tv, Know Your Meme, Star Wars Uncut, Fat Lab and much more), youPIX/SF will bring the most influent bloggers and internet thinkers from Brazil to provide you with some insights (and questions) about how Brazilian Internet users – among the most active and influential in the online world – function.
Joining a youPIX Festival is like jumping live into the Internet or surfing the web outside the browser. Internet memes, personalities, and fans come together for celebration, discussion and a live immersion in this epic revolution called Internet culture.
So… KEEP CALM, grab a towel and come have fun!
VEM, GENTE!* :)
*check out “VEM, GENTE!” on the BRIEF GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING BRAZILIAN EPIC MEMES
What about a trip inside the hidden wonders of Brazilian Intertubes? Fun, fun, fun! The best memes, the funniest virals and other bizarre stuff that makes Brazilians LOL and much MOARRRRRR! :) Presented by @biagranja, curator of youPIX.
Brazilian Internet users are among the most active and influential in the online world. How does our Internet work? What motivates our users? What kind of content are we producing, sharing or liking? Rosana Hermann, one of the most influential bloggers and Internet thinkers in Brazil, will provide us with some insights (and questions) about it.
Come watch the most fascinating videos you’ve never heard of, hand-selected by a panel of web-depth plumbing experts committed to bringing you the finest in weird, unique, cute, unsettling, surprising, and crazy that the Internet has to offer. Safety not guaranteed. Hosted by Jamie Wilkinson (Emmy Award-winning software developer & Internet culture researcher, co-creator of VHX.tv, Know Your Meme and Star Wars Uncut).
How does networking powered by Facebook Shots (made of special Brazilian cachaça*) sound? EPIC FUN TIMES! To go with that, click here and download the special “New Brazilian Singers” mixtape created by Maestro Billy.
*recipe will be online soon. :)
Bia Granja is the co-creator and curator of youPIX, the largest Internet Culture Festival in Brazil. Considered to be one of the most influential person on the digital area in the country, her Twitter profile gives a clear vision of her – “a person that is twitting when should be working… or vice-versa”. Also, she is a columnist at some of the most relevant media in Brazil: Folha de S. Paulo/UOL (largest newspaper/web portal), SPFW, Bluebus, among others.
Rosana knows her way around the internet: she is a university professor (scriptwriting), a journalist, writer, Twitter addict and one of Brazil’s most popular bloggers (Querido Leitor). Also, Rosana has a B.Sc. in Physics, is Innovation Manager at R7.com (one of the biggest web portals in Brazil), is on the jury for The BOB’s Award (which she won for Best Portuguese Blog in 2008), content manager of Skype’s blog, dog lover, married and mother of 2.
Jamie Wilkinson is an Emmy Award-winning software developer & Internet culture researcher. His work focuses around open-source, pop culture and the propagation of information & ideas online. He is co-creator of Know Your Meme and part of the team behind Star Wars Uncut, a crowdsourced recreation of Star Wars that was awarded an Emmy for Interactive Media in 2010. Wilkinson is also a founding member of the Free Art & Technology (FAT) Lab and teacher of the “Internet Famous” class in Parsons graduate design & technology program.
+ more to come soon! :)
October 24, 2001 (6:00 – 10:00 pm)
Barrel House, a wine cask storage storage facility built in 1906, which now fosters a new breed of company-meets-pop-culture–savvy presenting fun, free events in San Francisco and bringing the creative community together for good.
80 Tehama St (between Malden Aly & 2nd St), San Francisco/California.
youpix [@] sixpix.com.br
youPIX/SF is totally and awesomely free for the public. \o/
Just click on the form below, register and wait for the email confirmation. :)
There are almost 80 million brazilians online (40% of the population) and our Internet users are among the most active, social and influential in the online world. What kind of stuff have been making brazilians LOL? Here you’ll find a brief guide to understanding some of the most epic memes and virals of Brazilian Intertubes. Have fun! :)
“Vem, Gente!” – expression used to urge people to do something
Free translation: COME ON, PEOPLE!
Example: Jamie Dubs will be at the youPIX/SF. VEM, GENTE!
Origin: http://migre.me/5JOP0
“Aham, Claudia, senta lá!” – expression used for 2 situations: 1) when you want to arrogant with someone or 2) when you want to say someone is talking bullshit.
Free translation: Ok, Claudia, take a seat!
Example: Ariana Huffington and Michael Arrington are BFF. Aham, claudia, senta la!
Origin: http://migre.me/5JOV6
“Vixe!” – exclamation used when something is frustrating, tense or intense
Free translation: Oh, shit! or Son of a bitch!
Example: Google+ just passed Facebook in total users. VIXE!
Origin: http://migre.me/5JQ5e
“Puta Falta de Sacanagem” – expression used as a replacement for “unfair”
Free translation: F*cking lack of Immorality
Example: Lady Gaga is bigger then LOLCATS on the web. Puta falta de sacanagem!
Origin: http://migre.me/5JQkE
“Vou xingar muito no Twitter” – expression used to say one will say bad things about something on Twitter
Free translation: I’m going to rant on twitter!
Example: Rebecca Black has been excluded from VMA. Vou xingar muito no Twitter.
Origin: http://migre.me/5JQkE (same as “puta falta de sacanagem”)
“Significa” – expression used to imply someone is gay
Free translation: You know what that means!
Example: Mark shaves his legs…. SIGNIFICA!
Origin: http://migre.me/5JR08
“Vao se foderem” – expression used to say “fuck you” but with deliberate mistakes in the form (“Vão se fuder,” would be the correct form).
Free translation: Go fucker yourselfs
Example: They leaked my naked pictures on the web. Vão se foderem!
Origin: http://migre.me/5JRd0
“Todos Chora” – expression used to say one is sad (truly or not). The correct verb would be “choram” (plural).
Free translation: Everybody cry
Example: Tumblr is off-line again . Todos Chora!
Origin: http://migre.me/5JR5D
“CORRÃO” – deliberate misspelling of “corram” (“run”)
Free translation: RUM (run)
Example: The new iPhone is coming out today. CORRAO!
Origin: unknown
“Bons Drink” – ironic expression used to pretend to be a snob
Free translation: Goods drink!
Example: I am here at my beach house having some BONS DRINK!
Origin: http://migre.me/5JS2V
“…só que ao contrário”- expression similar to NOT! in English
Free translation: … but the opposite!
Example: Britney Spears is a great singer… só que ao contrário!
Origin: unknown
Dorgas – its DROGAS (Drugs) spelled wrong and it is used to say that something is nonsense or stupid
Free translation: durgs
Example: Christina Aguilera misspelled the lyrics… DORGAS!
Origin: http://migre.me/5KacV
Tenso – it’s a mix between “Kurt Cobain Reactions” and “When you see it, you will shit bricks” that means a situation is tense. IT can be used as a set of images or individually as a slang.
Free translation: TENSE
Example: I have an exame tomorrow and can’t get out of the internet and study. #tenso
Origin: http://migre.me/5JU54
“Fica, vai ter Bolo” – sarcastic expression used when you don’t want someone to go away or something to be over
Free translation: Stay, there will be cake
Example: The class is not over yet… Fica, vai ter bolo.
Origin: http://migre.me/5Kaap
Mamilos (“Nipples”, 2011)
19 second video shows a 16 years old boy talking about something controversial… and he shows his nipples. Example of nonsense Brazilian humor. “Nipples” became a synonym for controversy.
A Banda Mais Bonita da Cidade (“The most beautiful band in town”, 2011)
neo-hippie band formed by 11 musicians produced a long-take video clip with only 8 phrases that you can’t get out of your head.
INRI Cristo (2010-2011)
a self-declared reincarnation of Jesus, INRI Cristo produces mystic versions of Lady Gaga’s, Justin Bieber’s, Katy Perry’s and other pop songs.
Sou Foda (“I’m f*cking awesome”, 2010)
videoclip of the funk song “I’m f*cking awesome”, the lyrics talk about “bitchery” and other unnapropriate stuff for the age of the singer (16 y.o.).
Stefhany do Crossfox (“Crossfox Stefhany”, 2009)
a singer from Brazil’s northeast created a version of “A Thousand Miles” which mentions a Volkswagen car (Crossfox) and became viral because people thought it was an ad.
Pedro, me dá meu chip (“Peter, give me back my chip”, 2009)
a girl gets mad with her boyfriend when he won’t give her mobile chip back and starts to scream in front of his apartment.
Dança do Quadrado (“Square Dance”, 2008)
clip launched by Kibeloco, the largest humor blog in Brazil, which shows a three oddball guys doing crazy dancing on little squares.
Cacete de Agulha (“Damn you, needle”, 2007)
a person that is being interview on TV gets hurt by a needle and shouts: Damn you, needle!
Jeremias Muito Louco (“Jeremias very crazy”, 2006)
a man is arrested after driving absolutely drunk and at the police station gives the craziest interview ever where he says things like “if I could, I would kill a thousand people” or “it was the dog (devil) that made us drink”.
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