From Russia with Love
Slowly but surely, 6.86 is coming to an end. The supply of meaningful topics to discuss is also depleting, leaving little potential for high quality original content. However, in this time of need and desperation, a new form of creativity always arises.
Memery is an integral part of Dota. It knows no boundaries, does not care about nationality, race, gender or age, and makes us a truly international community, kappa. This blog post will be dedicated to sharing some of the best memes from the Russian region. Without further ado—Dotabuff’s Shitpost, from Russia with Love.
“Everything into ArtStyle”
V1lat is probably one of the best hype-casters, not only in Russia but also internationally. Think Tobi on steroids. It is also not a secret that in more important matches his hype-casting can take the better of him, since he will vehemently support CIS teams, making for a very emotional and colourful cast.
This clip is one the highlights of his casting career and has already transcended into memery. It roughly translates into:
“EVERY BOAT, EVERYTHING INTO ARTSTYLE, MINUS ARTSTYLE, KURONITY REMOVES ARTSTYLE, GOBLIN IS ULTYING, THEY NEED TO TAKE AT LEAST ONE DOWN, WALL IS GOING DOWN, OHOHOH WHAT A NICE WALL FROM THE FAT BASTARD, THEY ARE TRYING TO DO SOMETHING, KILL NO ONE, PHOBOS IS ULTYING, TAKES DOWN NO ONE, LOST’S CREEPS ARE TRYING TO DO SOMETHING INSTAKILLED BY KUNKKA! THEY ARE ALL IN A TORRENT ALL 4 OF THEM, DENDI TPS OUT, THEY TAKE DOWN LOST, TAKE DOWN PHOBOS, TAKE DOWN GOBLAK, JUST LEAVE, THIS IS NOT EVEN A FUCKING GAME, THIS IS JUST... FUCK THEM”
There are countless versions of this meme, yet the better ones have surfaced around the time of the switch to Source 2 and Dota 2 Reborn.
“EVERYTHING REBORN, EVERYTHING INTO CLIENT, MINUS SOURCE 1, REBORN REMOVES SOURCE 1, GABEN IS ULTYING, THEY NEED TO TAKE AT LEAST ONE BUG DOWN, FIXES ARE GOING DOWN, OHOHOH WHAT A NICE UPDATE FROM THE FAT BASTARD, THEY ARE TRYING TO DO SOMETHING, FIX NOTHING, GABEN HATERS ARE TRYING TO DO SOMETHING, INSTAKILLED BY COMMUNITY, THEY ARE ALL DISCONNECTED FROM A BUG, ALL 4 OF THEM, SUPPORT IS USELESS, BETTER TO TP OUT, THEY TAKE DOWN SOURCE 1, TAKE DOWN USABLE UI, TAKE DOWN MY CONFIGS, TAKE DOWN MY 2007, JUST DELETE, THIS IS NOT EVEN A FUCKING GAME, THIS IS JUST... FUCK THEM.”
“v1lat it is me, your mother”
“V1LAT IT’S ME, YOUR MOTHER. I HAVE WAITED A LONG TIME TO TELL YOU THAT, BUT I CAN NO LONGER HIDE THE TRUTH. YOU ARE A FAILURE. ALL THOSE TWITTER SUBSCRIBERS AND TWITCH VIEWERS IS ME AND AS A PROOF I AM GOING TO SPAM THIS MESSAGE FROM EVERY SINGLE ACCOUNT, JUST WATCH”
“[caster] is beyond god(2gd)-like, someone fire him!”
A more recent copy-pasta that has been getting more momentum. For the most part it is an outcry from the community about some questionable casters on dota2ruhub team. However, it is rarely more than an innocent joke and is generally spammed only at times of noticeable blunders by inexperienced Russian casters.
“how to counter Barathrum”
A random question presented to the Russian Minister of Mass Communications during a live interview: “how do you counter Barathrum?”. The answer was surprisingly on point: “why counter him at all? Easily dealt with by spiders”.
Nicknames
Unlike in China, there are only a few unique nicknames given to players by the Russian audience. Most of them, however, require too much background knowledge to be relevant as a separate entity.
That said, there are nicknames given to certain heroes and some subsets of players which could be of interest.
For example, we tend to call bad players either “Rак” which translates into “Crayfish” or “Dno”, which translates into “Bottom”.
The history behind the nicknames is completely lost, and there are only speculations available at this point. The first one might be related to the non-Dota related meme of Putin being a crab (misheard string of words). The second one might have originated on iCCup back in Dota 1 days, where the lowest division was denominated “D”, which has later transformed into “Dno”.
There are several interesting nicknames given to heroes. For example, it is not uncommon to hear people refer to Tidehunter as Watermelon, Slardar as Herring, and Skywrath Mage as Rooster. Undying is often referred to as “Bomzh” (Hobo), mainly for the way his model looks in both Dota 1 and Dota 2.
Not fully related to nicknames, there are also several misconceptions about the gender of heroes among the Russian players. For example, Enigma and Pugna are believed to be female, despite their appearances. This misconception mainly comes from how female Russian names generally end in a short “a” sound (think Katya, Masha, Natasha etc.).
This is a Russian Channel!
DotaWTF channel was among the most popular channels in the Russian region, ever since it started in 2013, and it is not uncommon for the YouTube comment section for its videos to be filled with Russian comments.
It is unclear whether there was ever a misconception about the channel’s origin, but the meme has grown big enough for many people to actually believe it was a Russian channel.
“Run, Goblak, Run!”
Probably one of the more obvious memes, the “Run, Goblak, Run!” is nonetheless interesting due to its persistency. The Shanghai Major has a created a lot of questionable “content”, but Team Spirit’s introduction is probably one of the best things coming out of this tournament.
Final Thoughts
Translating memes is a complicated task. The amount of cultural background related to and required to understand memes is immense. That said, hopefully this blog post has provided some insight into what memeing is like in Russia and the CIS region. There are a lot of genuinely funny gems in every region—share yours!
Awesome post, thanks a lot! Reading about Russian memes from an english speaker's point of view is very fynny.
nice shit-posting bruh
@Party
> But pls tell why russians play on eu west servers
ez, they don't play on russian servers because these servers are full of russian players.
ВСЁ КОРАБЛЬ,ВСЁ В АРТСТАЙЛА МИНУС АРТСТАЙЛ,КУРОНИТИ УБИРАЕТ АРТСТАЙЛА, ГОБЛИН УЛЬТУЕТ,ЗАБРАТЬ НАДО ХОТЬ КОГО-ТО,СТЕНКУ СТАВИТ,ОЙОЙОЙ КАКАЯ ХОРОШАЯ СТЕНА У ТОЛСТОЙ СКАТИНЫ,ПЫТАЕТСЯ ЧТО-ТО СДЕЛАТЬ НЕУБИВАЕТ НИКОГО,ФОБОС УЛЬТУЕТ НИКОГО НЕ ЗАБИРАЕТ ЗДЕСЬ КРИПЫ ЛОСТА ПЫТАЮТСЯ ЧТО-ТО СДЕЛАТЬ ИХ ТУТЖЕУБИВАЕТКУНКА!НА ТОРРЕНТ ОПЯТЬ ВСЕ,ВСЕ ЧЕТВЕРО ПОПАДАЮТ НА ТОРРЕНТ,ДЕНДИ УХОДИТ ПРОСТО С ТП,ЗАБИРАЮТ ЛОСТА, ЗАБИРАЮТ ФОБОСА,ЗАБИРАЮТ ГОБЛАКА,МОЖНО ЛИВАТЬ,ЭТО БЛЯТЬ НЕ ИГРА, ЭТО ПРОСТО ПОШЛИ ОНИ НАХУЙ БЛЯТЬ
хуй[h u i] - you teamate
How can Broodmother counter SB? .-.
If russian plays bad - Fucking russian
If another countries play bad , but in their team any russian guy - Its because i play with fucking russians
If another countries play bad vs russia - fucking russian luckers
In every situations russia is bad((((( WhY?((((9
Dota 2 is a team game. Thus how would you expect a team of 2 russians 1 greek and only 2 players speaking English to cooperate and work together ... whilst at the same time u are facing a team with 5 speaking english members
PUTIN VODKA BALALAYKA
English kurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrwa
This is an example of a blog where the blogger has no other idea and say fuck it lets make a blog for mother russia
Lmao what was this article?
We play on EU West, because your servers are practically more stable in term of packet loss. I`m apologising for those Russians who play on EU, while don`t knowing English at least ar school level. From Russia with love.
У Шейкера нет прокаста.
Sven - svin - свин (pig)
Treant - derevo - дерево (tree)
Bristleback - ej - еж (Hedgehog)
Pnoenix - fenya - феня
Juggernaut (yurnero)- Yura - Юра (this is russian name)
Spirit breaker - bara - бара
Broodmother - bruda - бруда
Queen of pain - kvopa (QoPa) - квопа
Leshrac - leshiy - леший (wood goblin(???))
HeyGuys
you know socks is running out of shit to write about when it gets to translating russian memes from 2012
We got similar things in Poland, "Rak" means in our language Crayfish but also cancer, same with heroes with "a" letter at their end.
But Bomzh (Hobo, homeless) is not an Undyuing. Its Bounty hunter, and this name came also from Dota 1
So many removed comments wp nazi moderators
Vengeful spirit=vengA, traxex=traksA, necronomicon=necrA, courier=kurA, furion=fUra/furA, potm=potmA, and so on.
RAK just literally translates to CANCER . HOW COULD U BE SO BASIC OP .
Продам гараж
Sang King=Скорп (Scorp-Scorpion), Nyx, Weaver=ЖУК(Juk), Zeus, KOTL, Necrophos- ДЕД(DED), Barathum-БАРАН(BARAN), Night Stalker - БАЛА, Баланар(BАLА, Balanar), Lycan=ПЕС (PES-DOG), Brewmaster-ПИВО,АЛКАШ(PIVO, ALKASH), Bristleback-ЁЖ(EJ),
Ок, товарищи вы пока посидите почитайте, а я погнал покатаю пабчик на Рашке, бывайте гамбургеры
Nice work, surprised to see "From Russia with love" on db's main page. And one another example: Phoenix - kuritca (chicken)
ГОБЛАЧИНА, БЕГИ, БРАТ
Всем привет нашим иностранным братьям)
Vsem hello, dear comrades
Wraith King - [Vrach King] - doctor king or leoric or skeleton.
Shadow Fiend - SF or Never or Negr.
Bounty Hunter - BH or Gondar or Krysa.
Divine Rapier - [Divan] - sofa
Riki - Krysa Ebanaya
Nyx Assassin - a'noob a'rak - a - noob, a - rak
Arc Warden - Pyos or G'noll
Witch Doctor - Chumnoi Doctor - чумной доктор or wd
Someone delete this psot for the loves of god
I'm Russian and i'm not actually getting the idea of this post. It's, errr, useless in any possible way, no?
I think english or chinese, or whatsoever players have their own nicknames for characters and stuff, no?
This "meme post" is just ridiculous.
why they don't like our memes ? idi na hui
And as always with our kind a shitton of hatred towards OP with no clue what's the post about.
Btw nice shitpost. We really fucking need 6.87. Even dotabuff went crazy.
АХАХАХАХАХАХАХ Я ПОНЕЛ ЧТО НИЧЕГО НЕ ПОНЯЛ
Цицаты великих русских мемов
This is pretty cool
Please make another shitpost of pinoys :D
Suka Blyyyyat
What the fuck is that?
easily the worst article ive seen on dotabuff, 0 relevance to the game this kind of shit makes me less likely to check the dotabuff blog from day to day.
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Should have put "The Play" with V1lat's commentary instead of the last 2 clips.
Make one for SEA server please!
Учите русский, тупоголовые европейцы!
I like russians in general, but in dota they just want me to kill myself. Please play on your own fucking server.
Actually my second day in a row the English-language Arab ruins of the game with a score of 0 12. Go also write an article
“EVERYTHING DELETED, EVERY COMMENT GETS REMOVED, MINUS RUSSIANS, REBORN REMOVES RUSSIA, MODERATOR IS IN RAGE, THEY NEED TO TAKE AT LEAST 80% OF COMMENTS DOWN, COMMENTS ARE GOING DOWN, OHOHOH WHAT A NICE REMOVE FROM THE FAT BASTARD, THEY ARE TRYING TO DO SOMETHING, FIX NOTHING, MODERATOR HATERS ARE TRYING TO DO SOMETHING, INSTAKILLED BY RUSSIAN COMMUNITY, THEY ARE ALL HATE MODERATOR, ALL RUSSIANS, CYKA IS USELESS, BETTER TO CALM DOWN, THEY TAKE DOWN ALL COMMENTS, TAKE DOWN EVERYTHING, TAKE DOWN MY COMMENT, TAKE DOWN MY 2007, JUST DELETE, THIS IS NOT EVEN A FUCKING FUNNY, THIS IS JUST... FUCK THEM.”
RUSH B, CYKA BLYAT !