Polandball

Polandball, also known as Countryballs, is an internet meme, genre of geopolitical satire, and art style. They are primarily used in webcomics and videos in which countries and other political entities are personified as anthropomorphic balls bearing the design of their national flag—these figures are generally referred to as "countryballs". Polandball comics usually feature plots that satirize international relations, historical events, and stereotypes associated with featured countries, and are primarily created with widely available graphic art software such as Microsoft Paint, though comics created with more advanced software are often intentionally made to look crudely drawn. The name "Polandball" is derived from the comics' origin as a means to troll a Polish user on the image board Krautchan named Wojak, who often spoke in broken English. Notably, in the early comics, Poland was drawn with an inverted Polish flag (resembling the flag of Indonesia or Monaco), which is now considered a defining feature of the genre. After the initial strips that were focused on Wojak, other users on the board began to create their own comics featuring other countryballs and exploring real-world geopolitical relationships and history. The Polandball meme then spread to other parts of the internet, spawning large communities on social media sites like Facebook and Reddit, while "Countryballs" videos have grown and continue to be popular on YouTube.