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From year 2013 to 2020 a certain style of humor dominated south america but the war would change everything… (a lot of this is in spanish so you will probably have to use a translator to get details from sources)

THE ORIGINS

so first we will talk about the humor that dominated before the war: “momos” which is a bastardization of the word “memes” now i’ll have to explain to you what a momo is and what groups (mainly on facebook) created them, so a “momo” is a meme but it has some key characteristics:

-it uses phrases from cartoons and movies

-it usually has bad grammar on purpose

-uses a lot of jargon like the words “But” “when” “papu” “elfa”

now we are going to talk about the groups that created and shared these “momos” as this is important to understand the war itself, these were groups usually on facebook that shared these “momos” and were referred to, oftentimes in a mocking way as “autistic groups” and “polemic groups”, they were characterized for their polemic humor and “wars” and “raids” to other groups, tons of these groups existed and here is a list of some of them:

-Secta moa: the first one of these polemic groups and could be considered the father of all the others that came out later, it was created in 2010 and was closed in 2017

-Legion holk: One of the most controversial group, created in 2014 they styled themselves as the enemies of “seguidores de la grasa” they famously said that they were behind a school massacre and shared CP so overall pretty nasty folks.

-Seguidores de la grasa: the most important polemic group and the most popular one, below i talk about it.

“SEGUIDORES THE LA GRASA”

which translates to “Followers of the grease” were a group on facebook and the most famous and influencial of these “polemic groups” that created “momos”, it was created in 2013 by “mr graso” (mr grease) and rose up to become very famous on facebook gathering at it’s peak more than a 750 thousand followers on their page, these groups while fun had a lot of problems like racism, sexism and bullying and this is what eventually led to their downfall, from now we are going to refer to “seguidores de la grasa” as the grease.

THE RISE OF “PANA FRESCOS” AND DOWNFALL OF “POLEMIC GROUPS”

By late 2018 and 2019 the polemic groups were slowly losing popularity and entering an era of downfall and degeneration, in 2018 facebook did a purge and various groups were affected by it with civil wars sparking in various groups, this series of events led to the decline of momos and divergence on humor styles but the nail in the coffin was when the grease raided a group known as “super conchetumario world”, the users of this server were not happy and seeing the lack of action by the admins they decided to become anti-grease which meant forsaking the “momos” and any jargon and reference to the grease, it was a prime time to do so with the weakening of all the groups and led to the creation of “Los panafrescos” in fact we have the post that created the “Panafrescos” here translated:

Now trought all of this you might have been wondering what a “panafresco” well i’ll show you.

THE “PANAFRESCOS”

panafresco would be roughly translated as “chill pals” and they were a shitpost group that sprung due to negative feelings against the grease, they were characterized by memes like “el pana miguel” and “sentado de pana” among many more and like a mongol horde they crashed in conquering all social media plataforms in a very short time and popularizing memes agaisnt momos and the grease and generalizing hate to it’s members.

you got to think of it as an actual war with fronts and fighting between groups:

the facebook front: given that panafrescos originated there and groups on facebook were already on decline it was very easily taken with various groups being raided and abandoning the posting of “momos” instead starting to post shitpost to avoid being ridiculed, with the main groups of the grease and legion holk down there was no strong bulwark to defend

instagram front: instagram was one of the fronts that resisted the most agaisnt panafrescos led by the very big group known as “legion momo traficante” but facing the relentless raids from various panafresco groups and the fact that instagram decided to penalize the “legion momo traficante” page it all evetually led to the panafrescos defeating the polemic groups in instagram and winning that front

memedroid: memedroid is interesting because it was already at war with the grease, with it’s user wanting to eliminate their influence on the website, panafrescos saw this opportunity and allied with the anti grease users in memedroid managing to drive them off easily

youtube front: the grease had a lot of influence in youtube with various compilations of it’s “Momos” being posted by their channels but they lost influence as the “shitpost compilations” created by the panafrescos gained more popularity and views and comment sections were toxic too, insulting anyone that supported the grease and so that front was gained too

there was minor fighting in reddit but it was very small, and so like that all influence the grease had was removed by the panafrescos, it’s last remaining vestiges fled to twitter which was safe from panafresco influence and so is that how it ends? with panafrescos dominating with the same memes for 2025? is this how it all ends? Well not really…

DOWNFALL OF THE PANAFRESCOS

With all conquered the panafrescos memes became very popular with the most famous one being “El pana miguel” but the panafresco reliance on only a handful of memes led to their downfall, people started critizing them for overusing the same memes just as they had critiziced the grease for doing the same and the community also quickly became toxic and had a lot of the same problems the grease had specially racism and sexism and with their lack of centralized leadership the panafresco empire fell apart just as fast as it formed creating various splinter groups that did shitpost their own way abandoning the core memes of panafrescos.

CONSEQUENCES

The war which lasted from very late 2019 to early 2021 had lasting impact on the style of humor in south america with even to this day shitpost still being the most common type of humor, the old “momos” from the grease however took on a more ironic approach as nostalgics who remembered the old times of the grease created memes that were a bit of a syncretism between momos and shitpost as in that they mocked the overall structure of the original “Momos”.

the grease meanwhile had a bit of a resurgence in the later years after the war and is still alive in twitter and in the hearts of many people but is not taken as seriously as it once was and most “momos” people post are the syncretism on momos and shitpost i described above.