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Both Russia and the US have a strong tradition of "demotivational posters", shared online.

I've assumed this is because both countries had the non-lamp shaded version first.

Do any of you all live somewhere that has demotivational posters as a common meme, but never had the propaganda poster?

Hispanic countries didn't have them (some were Russian backed) but we love the demotivational posters. Dark humor is pretty commmon in spanish countries.

I might have been too young to see/notice the motivational posters, but here in Australia both the motivational and DEmotivational posters became unironically popular at around about the same time.

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