27 Nov

Memeriffic! Having Fun With The Baku 2015 Mascots

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This week the mascots for the 2015 Baku European Games were released. And they’re so cute!
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Jeyran (deer) is a female deer/gazelle (despite having antlers – only male deer have antlers) and Nar (pomegranate) is a boy with a pomegranate for a head (?).
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Maybe Nar is a girl? The eyelashes seem feminine.

Social media users did not disappoint! These mascots were quickly made into memes! There have been so many of them that I can’t keep track of all of them. But here are some of the best.

(Many of these are via a post on Minval.az)

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Jeyran presents dolma!

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Jeyran as Conchita West.

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Nar versus Bruce Lee.
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Here’s Nar playing kamancha (and a subtle other play on words).

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Jeyran and Nar are celebrities!

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Jeyran is being picked up.

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Nar in a police lineup.

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And getting a little inappropriate.

But some were more explicitly political…

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“Woman, behave yourself!” (Thanks to a Twitter friend for a better translation.)

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Here’s Jeyran and Nar detaining Popular Front member Asif Yusifli, who was kidnapped earlier this week.

 

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And there was an entire series featuring the N!DA members, currently in prison.