This document outlines scope, workflows, sources and tips for collecting memes related to Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Memes! What are they?
In practical terms, here are the three elements of a meme we are looking for in an image or a video:
Format:
Languages:
Examples of memes:
In selecting video memes we are looking for : the same three elements
Examples of video memes:
Please avoid items that are:
The following meme types will be collected, but might not get publicly displayed:
If you are not sure about any of these categories, don’t worry, please go ahead and submit your meme, we’ll curate the collected memes before we publish them on the wall. Also, do not hesitate to post a question on SUCHO Slack in the memes_collection channel!
With so many memes available for collecting, it is not realistic to completely avoid duplication, but we can try to reduce it. To that end, please:
Here are some suggested strategies for finding memes.
Social media (Facebook, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Instagram, Twitter, etc., see some suggestions below):
The web at large: search the web for specific meme types or memes on specific topics, for example:
These are some suggested hashtags:
#русскийкорабль
#русскийвоенныйкорабль
#аясейчасвампокажу
#всенетакоднозначно
#Чернобаевка
#паляниця
#восемьлет
#z
#zапобеду
#концерткобзона
#кобзон
#русскиесолдаты
#русскаяармия
#украина
#намнестыдно
#мненестыдно
#мырусские
#putin
#standwithukraine
#ukrainewar
To work with images and video from Telegram channels, you’ll have to install the Telegram software. When you hover over a post, hit arrow that will appear in the upper-right under the timestamp, like so:
Then in the window that pops up, hit the up arrow in the box in the upper right, and then choose “Copy link” to get the link to put into the form.
You can download the image, and/or screenshot it (especially if the text is outside the image in the post itself).