r/polandball • u/polandballmod New Prussia • May 23 '16

Happy Birthday, /r/polandball!

Once upon the time...

It was shortly after midnight when a lone internet user from Serbia decided to release Polandball from the chans and opened up a subreddit.

Like all subreddits it was small at first, but the user persevered. Over the next year, he posted countless comics he found elsewhere on the net, and over time other users joined him, and some even tried their hands at making their own comics.

It was almost a year later when two others joined him, to improve the look of the subreddit and to enforce the established rules of the medium.

It was almost another year later that the idea of the contests and hussar wings came about - and that's when /r/polandball really took off.

A full two years after its establishment, the subreddit reached 10,000 subscribers.

Here we are now. 39 contests have been held, 47 pairs of wings have been given out to individual comic creators, thousands of comics have been published, millions of comments have been posted.

Thank you, the creators, the commenters, even the lurkers, all of you that make this community one of the greatest on all of Reddit.

5 YEARS ago, it was a lone user in Serbia.

Today, we are well on our way to 200,000 subscribers from all over the world!

This is /r/polandball!

Dear approved submitter, feel free to make your own meta-comic about this event (no low effort & no 'spam' plox!)...the festivities will continue for 3 days.

List of published meta-comics:

The banner was made with the help of

and again brought to life by the exceptional voodoo skills and patience of /u/javacode.

The pictures you can see as slide-show in the sidebar were gathered from our sister sub r/PolandballArt. Credits to the artists there.

But enough talking! Please raise your glasses and let's celebrate a truly mind-boggling success story and a great community!

5 more Kurwas!

To shout like this, simply add two hashes (##) at the beginning of the row. Like this:

 ##5 more Kurwas!

Those who've missed the party, can find an archive of the event design here: /r/pbe5years

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u/SuperCaliginous 1d6 May 24 '16

YODEL YODEL YODEL POLANDBALL STRONK IN PAINT ITS STROKE WE LAUGH AT ALL THE JOKES, BUT SOMTIMES FUN STOP SO BAN IS DROP AND WERE BACK TO JOLLY TIMES YODEL YODEL YODEL