Talk:Soviet brainrot

Requested move 5 July 2026

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (non-admin closure) Sophisticatedevening^(talk) 17:51, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

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This is called "Soviet brainrot"

Soviet brainrot → In the Soviet Union (meme) – In RS the term "Soviet brainrot" is applied only to Cheburashka (indeed it was :-). For the today's meme, I see it only in the social media. --Altenmann >talk 00:17, 5 July 2026 (UTC) — Relisting. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 03:36, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose move. The proposed title is easily confused with the "In Soviet Russia, X does you" meme. O.N.R. ^(talk) 09:02, 5 July 2026 (UTC)

  I explicitly named the page for that reason. Even if "In Soviet Russia" meme didn't exist, the phrase "In the Soviet Union" doesn't really allude to the type of content in question, while "Soviet brainrot" is way more precise and descriptive. Dabmasterars [RU/COM] (talk/contribs) 10:39, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

  Well, it is not called so. Of course, maybe, after some iterations of citogenesis.... As I wrote, Cheburashka is rightly called a Soviet brainrot, because it originated in the USSR, just like Italian brainrot originated in Italy. --Altenmann >talk

• Support as an improvement on the current, apparently inaccurate/unsourced page title. Belbury (talk) 11:58, 5 July 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose per my comments above, and I also found a source that states the term. Dabmasterars [RU/COM] (talk/contribs) 21:33, 7 July 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose any move for now until the concept of Soviet brainrot is documented more in Wikipedia. It seems to be an emerging thing, and so rushing into a premature page move isn't ideal. I will say that In the Soviet Union (meme) is a more confusing title than the current Soviet brainrot and also that since there is nothing at In the Soviet Union, technically that should be the move target, but without the disambiguator it's even more confusing imo. Newbzy (talk) 03:39, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Removed images

I removed images which were generated and posted on commons by an unknown person, because they are not discussed in sources, hence no evidence they faithfully represent the phenomenon; basically, "LLM-OR". --Altenmann >talk 15:50, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

We can judge for ourselves whether a picture faithfully represents the article subject, though, as we do for most images on Wikipedia. Belbury (talk) 16:06, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Correct, in undisputed cases. For quite some time I have been struggling with random artists trying to insert their vision of Slavic gods into Wikipedia. Just the same, one can LLM-generate lots of weird pseudosoviet pics. How do we know, is it a brainrot or simply caricatures of the Soviet Union? Or look here. And I mentioned the danger of citogenesis: Wikipedia will skew the "natural" Soviet brainrot. --Altenmann >talk 16:59, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

P.S. And I regularly fix misguided captions in Wikimedia Commons. --Altenmann >talk 17:03, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Having no lead image makes the page kind of empty, though. It could maybe be replaced with images from sources that talk about the meme. The images are AI-generated by the definition, so they're not protected by copyright anyway.

Edit: found this, feels like a decent substitute. The TV screen is de minimis. Dabmasterars [RU/COM] (talk/contribs) 20:42, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Looks good. --Altenmann >talk 21:02, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

The images

To me, the images look like they were generated by Google Gemini AI Loc863 (talk) 22:24, 29 July 2026 (UTC)

An article about AI-generated images featuring AI-generated images. Who would've thought! Dabmasterars [RU/COM] (talk/contribs) 22:29, 29 July 2026 (UTC)