Gigakubica

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About

Gigakubica is a series of memes based on a September 2019 viral video of formula-one racecar driver Robert Kubica in which his car is digitally altered in size to appear unnaturally large (similar to Big M8).

Origin

On September 25th, 2019, YouTuber Kaka Projects published the video "GIGAKUBICA." The video features racing footage of a digitally-altered formula one racer made to look extra large. The post received more than 338,000 views in less than three months (shown below).

Spread

That day, Redditor ^[1] RussellSuperFan shared the video on the /r/formuladank subreddit. The post received more than 200 points (98% upvoted) in less than three months. Days later, Redditor^[2] Akashic101 shared the video on the /r/youtubehaiku subreddit, receiving more than 4,600 points (96% upvoted) and 75 comments in less than three months.

On November 3rd, Redditor^[3] Poleani posted an image of Gigakubica on the /r/formuladank subreddit. The post received more than 1,700 points (99% upvoted) in less than three months (shown below, left).

On November 10th, Redditor^[6] Maxcon18 posted an image entitled "Gigakubica terrorising a city." The post received more than 3,800 points (99% upvoted) in less than two months (shown below, center).

Two weeks later, on November 17th, Twitter ^[4] user @Odemzz tweeted a skull cow isn't real meme using an image of Gigakubica. The post received more than 4,400 likes and 600 retweets in less than one month (shown below, right). The joke was originally posted on /r/formuladank^[5] on September 26th, 2019.