In the Russian -language segment of social networks, a short text attributed to the famous satirist is popular. We checked whether Zhvanetsky wrote something like that.
In the characteristic work of Mikhail Zhvanetsky Irony Manner, the text reads: “Previously, smart ones controlled the world. It was cruel. Smarts forced stupid to study. It was hard stupid. Now the world is controlled by stupid. This is honest, because there are much more stupid. Now smart people learn to speak so that it is clear stupid. If the stupid did not understand something, this is a smart problem. They used to suffer dumb. Now smart ones suffer. There are fewer suffering, because there are fewer and less smart. ”
This observation (both in a text format and in the form of demotivators or short videos) is distributed signed by Zhvanetsky to Facebook (individual publications were scored at the time of writing this analysis 8100, 7600, 5400, 2500 And 1100 repostov), VKontakte (1600 repostov), on YouTube (523 000 views), c Telygram (140,000) and other social networks.
Satir writer Mikhail Zhvanetsky in his long career wrote several hundred miniatures and published many books. Until the last year of life, he continued to give Concerts.
Nevertheless, “verified” did not find traces of Zhvanetsky attributed to either published print media, nor on authoritative sites, or in many video recordings of his performances on YouTube. In some rollers This text reads a voice behind the scenes, and the face of Zhvanetsky from different performances is shown in the frame. The satirist has its own monologue About smart and stupid, but it sounds completely different (“I sometimes want to shout:“ Hey, stupid, gather under my banner! ””). In separate video Even fragments of this monologue are combined with someone’s viral text. One way or another, there is no reason to attribute this quote to Zhvanetsky.
Moreover, the analysis of social networks shows that this text is attributed to Zhvanetsky Started only in 2022 (satirist died in 2020), but before that he is generally I did not meet online. Back in early February 2022, the statement could detect without indicating authorship, but in the middle of the month it was already actively attributed to Zhvanetsky - for example, on a popular site ANEKDOT.RU.
The earliest post that contains a viral quote (with a slightly different ending) and which was able to find “verified” appeared on January 18, 2022 at 21:53 Moscow time in the accounts of the user Arte Golikov (@hozar) in “Live magazine" And DREAMWIDTH. The next day already in his Telegram channel And on Facebook page He explained his own thought, “diluting” the text with other phrases:
“I read a long text. It was written by scientists. The text is about smart and stupid. Previously, smart ones controlled the world. It was cruel. Smarts forced stupid to study. It was hard stupid. (The dog named the news found a bomb. The news scattered throughout the village.) Now the world is controlled by the stupid. This is honest, because there are much more stupid. Now smart people learn to speak so that it is clear stupid. If the stupid did not understand something, this is a smart problem. (A son was born in a family of skeletons. They called Kostyan.) They used to suffer dumb. Now smart ones suffer. There are fewer suffering. The world has changed for the better. Now, when you write, he must try to be understood. Write in short words. Dilute scribble with jokes. Oh, a wonderful new world! (There was a fight at the sale of the organs. I barely managed to take my legs off.) The article opened my eyes. Now I will become popular. Now on this channel there will be only understandable texts. ”
The long text that Golikov was talking about - posted back in 2016 fast Facebook users Alexandra Polyshkoova about trends in the level of education, clip thinking and other signs of our time. It was the conclusions that Polyushkova made on the basis of the data she presented that produced Golikov to write his text about smart and stupid. The latter in a compressed form was dispersed over the network and relatively soon found the author in the person of Zhvanetsky-apparently, due to the similarity in the manner of presentation or the presence of his monologue about smart and stupid people.
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