Poorly Prepared Polar Bear
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Tags: 9gag, advice animals, polar bear, mmovies21, relatablequote, stroop_wafel,
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About • Origin • Spread • Various Examples • Search Interest • External References • |
About
Poorly Prepared Polar Bear is an advice animal image macro series featuring a picture of a polar bear in a helmet made out of a garbage pail and various captions characterizing the bear as an absent-minded individual. Upon its introduction via 9GAG in late October 2016, the advice animal character spawned a handful of jokes illustrating humorous situations for which the bear is hopelessly unprepared.
Origin
The still image of the polar bear comes from a video posted by Mmovies21[1] on August 30th, 2015 that finds a polar bear playing with the bucket on its head. Buzzfeed[2] covered the video on September 24th, 2015.
On October 29th, 2016, screenshots of the story was tweeted by @RelatableQuote[3] and gained over 8,000 retweets in two days. The following day, 9GAG user stroop_wafel posted it as an Advice Animal with the caption "Brings a Knife To a Gun Fight."[4] The post gained 22,155 points in one day.
![Original BRINGS A KNIFE TO A GUN FIGHT](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/186/581/7d7.jpg)
Spread
Following stroop_wafel's post, Poorly Prepared Polar Bear became a popular trend on 9GAG, as users debated the quality of the meme and what it should be called. Many users claimed the meme was forced, [5] while others debated if it should be called "Noob Bear" or "Bearly Prepared Bear."[6]
Various Examples
![A New Meme ANEW MEMEWAS BORN POORLY PREPARED POLARBEAR](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/186/591/ac1.jpg)
![One Does Not Simply ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY BECOME A MEME WITHOUT HAVING A NAME](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/186/588/2e9.jpg)
![Civil War POORLY PREPARED POLAR BEAR NOOB BEAR](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/186/589/1bf.jpg)
![Zoolander Reference POORLY PREPARED POLAR BEAR SO HOTRIGHT NOW MEMEFUL.COM](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/186/590/9e2.jpg)
![When the Teacher WHEN THE TEACHER ASKS YOU TO ANSWER A MATH QUESTION IN FRONT OF THE CLASS mematic.net](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/186/593/6ab.jpg)
![Brought a Calculator to an English Test | BROUGHT A CALCULATOR TO THE ENGLISH EXAM imgfip.com](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/001/186/594/898.jpg)
Search Interest
External References
[1] Youtube – Fun!Polar Bear HERO ranger! しろくま仮面は止められない
[2] Buzzfeed – This Polar Bear Loves To Wear A Bucket On Her Head
[3] Twitter – @RelatableQuote
[4] 9GAG – Poorly Prepared Polar Bear, the rise of a meme.
[5] 9GAG – Almost every Poorly Prepared Polar Bear I see
[6] 9GAG – Let the wars begin
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Tags: 9gag, advice animals, polar bear, mmovies21, relatablequote, stroop_wafel,
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