Bayan what is slang - What is a button accordion in youth slang, definition

Surely many Internet users have come across such a concept as a button accordion. Many people know what this word means, but not everyone, so for some this article will be educational.

Most often, the word “accordion” can be seen on various forums, in chats, as well as on social networks, such as VKontakte. Let’s say a group or public post an interesting picture or a funny joke. At least one of the participants will say that this is a button accordion. Of course, you can ask what this word means, but the reluctance to be ridiculed is unlikely to allow those who don’t know to do so. It's easier to find out everything yourself. Meanwhile, information about what the button accordion means in VK remains a question to which we have to look for an answer.

What does the expression mean?

In most cases, in discussions on social networks and forums, this word can be seen not in the messages themselves, but in the comments to them. Moreover, it is used most often in a negative context. The word “accordion” can mean in different situations on the Internet:

• bearded anecdote or joke;
• a meme that has been circulating on the Internet for several years;
• some sad story that has already appeared on many sites;
• news that everyone has known about for a long time.

That is, “accordion” on the Internet is a word that expresses the dissatisfaction of users of an Internet resource with the demonstration of old information presented as something new and interesting.

Sometimes even relatively recent information is called “accordion” on Internet forums. This could be, for example, a joke that appeared on the Internet just a few days ago. But users do this only if they have already heard this joke somewhere.

The person who presented outdated information on the forum may be called an “accordion player” by the participants in the dialogue. Reposts, that is, copying jokes, memes and stories from one source to another, and especially with links, in most cases are not considered a “accordion”. Internet users may also call very old information “accordion”.

Stories of the emergence of a new meaning of the word “accordion”

Youth, teenagers are a special social and age group, with their own status in society. And of course, the tongue. It is often filled with such expressions that you can’t immediately guess what it means. What does the word “bayan” mean in youth language? How did a musical instrument change its meaning? There are several stories about this:

• In August 1999, an old joke about a mother-in-law was published on the website anekdote.ru: “They buried the mother-in-law - they tore two button accordions...” The joker was called an accordion player, and the joke “dangled” for a long time on one of the forums. As a result, the joke fell “off topic”, and the word “accordion” began to mean a banal, outdated joke.
• In the good old days, even before the invention of computers and keyboards, people wrote with ballpoint pens. If you had to rewrite identical phrases, you wrote it only at the beginning of the page or line, for example. And then they put the -//- icon, indicating repetition and visually similar to the button accordion.
• Many people know how to play or remember the game of dominoes. Knuckles with identical numbers on both halves were called doubles. And the domino denoting 6/6 was nicknamed “accordion”. Maybe with the development of the Internet, someone remembered this and called repeatedly repeated information a button accordion. What do you think of this version of events?
• Here's another historical fact. During the Russo-Japanese War, the cruiser Bayan was sunk in battle. In memory of this, the tsarist government ordered the construction of seven similar ships. But even then there was unfinished construction. Construction ended after seven years, the new cruisers were already outdated. But the old sailors, at the sight of the familiar silhouette, exclaimed: “Look, Bayan!”

But still, the starting point for using the word “accordion” as a joke with a beard was given in the show “Plus One Hundred and Five Hundred.” The host of the show, Maxim Golopolosov, used this expression in his “disclaimer.” After this, the word firmly settled in the vocabulary of young people - the most numerous users of the World Wide Web and is currently actively used on social networks. Thus, “bayan” is more likely not youth slang, but Internet jargon.

To preserve historical truth, we should remember the Polish master of twentieth-century aphorisms, Wieslaw Brudzinski. The association of old news, a bearded joke, a tired joke with a musical instrument is not new. Here is his aphorism. “In art: if you say it once, they won’t notice; if you say it several times, they’ll shout “Hurdy organ.”

One more meaning

Most often, the word “accordion” on the Internet thus means a bearded anecdote or an old joke. But sometimes it is used on forums and chats and in a slightly different context.

Internet users can use this slang expression in response to messages that contain some new information for them personally, but at the same time describe events that happened quite a long time ago. Eg:

- Hello, I heard that Zhenya is pregnant - in her fourth month.

- Bayan!

Definition

If you have been on the Internet for more than one year, you probably look at different sites. You see pictures, read posts and funny/scary/sad stories, are surprised, laugh or feel nothing. However, you remember the images or stories that catch your eye. Several years pass, and now you see in one of the VK groups, for example, the same picture that you once saw on another site or in another group, or in the same one. You know for sure that you saw the image, and not yesterday/the day before/last week, but a long time ago, several years ago. This is bayan, which means “stale” information, joke or picture.

So, from the above, we derive a full definition. Bayan is a word that expresses people’s disapproval of the fact that they are shown information, news, a picture, a joke, etc., which has either been circulating on the Internet for a long time, or has already been in the same place before (for example, repeated in a group on VK "same post). This is what accordion means on the Internet.

Where did the expression come from?

There are several versions of the origin of the word “accordion” in the meaning of outdated information. Today it is used in many forums, blogs and chat rooms. But the first to start using it were the regulars of the Auto.ru website.

An old joke about how “they buried their mother-in-law and tore three button accordions” on the forum of this resource was published by users so often that in the end they even began to ban people for it. As a result, the expression “accordion” on this site acquired the meaning of information that is well-known to everyone, has set one’s teeth on edge, and has become boring.

Since the Auto.ru forum is very popular among the people and is visited by millions of users, the new slang word was soon picked up by many and spread throughout the Internet. It is believed that the impetus for this expression was given, among other things, by the popular host of the show “+100500” Max +100500, who once used it in his dialogue on air.

A similar situation was repeated with many other famous jokes - about a bear and a car, a grandfather and an egg, etc. They were also very often published many times on popular forums. However, only the word “accordion” eventually caught on as slang.

For some time on the Internet, the word “Canada” was used in the same meaning as “bayan”. The reason for this was the endlessly repeated story on the Internet about a Canadian emigrant about deer, snow and parking lots. However, this word, unlike “accordion,” did not become too popular among forum regulars. Today, only sometimes some Internet users use the expression “Canadian button accordion.”

Bayan in youth slang

Youth slang is a separate topic for conversation, since guys use this expression very often. The word bayan began to be actively used after Max +100500 used it in his disclaimer.

It is young people who most often use the word to express their emotions, opinions or indignation. However, jargon began to be often used in everyday life - in relation to outdated information, news, history, or simply in a story about some old thing.

And here is a video that tells the story of the origin of this slang expression:

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Outdated musical instrument

Of course, it is hardly worth looking for the roots of the slang word “bayan” in ancient Russian history. But it could also become popular among Internet users due to associations with such a character as the storyteller Bayan.

It was in honor of this ancient Russian singer that a popular musical instrument with bellows was once named. This is where the old expression “bayat” came from, meaning “to speak”, “to tell”.

The word "bayat", of course, is outdated. The same can be said about the musical instrument bayan. The Internet remark “accordion,” as we found out, always sounds disdainful and mocking in relation to something already outdated.

[edit] Bearded joke

Long before the advent of these Internets of yours, there was a term called a bearded joke

, which somehow hints at his age. Telling bearded jokes in polite society was a shameful thing, and the tellers of such jokes were subjected to public censure, ridicule and the cutting of their tie (“This joke is wow with such a beard,” “Yes, my grandfather [didn’t] laugh at this joke”), and in case of relapse - contempt and ostracism. If you shorten the term, you get BoAn, which symbolizes.

The bearded joke, the accordion and the classics should not be confused. Bayan, as we found out, is a common joke that has become too

common when all listeners have heard it more than once. A meme that has just passed the peak of its media activity and has begun to decline. The news is in the hands of a slowpoke. Classics, perhaps, were once a button accordion, but have already left the genre of anecdote and do not pretend to belong to such. Now this is a catchphrase, a common response to a typical situation, a phraseological unit - anything but an anecdote. It is used in its place and for its intended purpose, and the joke itself is considered a classic - familiarization with it occurs in deep childhood and forever. Only the alternatively gifted would think of telling it as an anecdote, and only they would think of calling an appropriate reference to the classics a “accordion.” And finally, the bearded joke is a completely third phenomenon, if it was good and useful and has been well forgotten - it once again pops up and amuses noobs who are not yet familiar with it. Sometimes it can even be repeated as an accordion, if there were a lot of noobs, and the anecdote is too epic. These are the semantic memological subtleties relevant to Uyutnenky, which 95 percent of those who use the word “accordion” radically don’t give a fuck about.

How to use the expression

Of course, you need to use Internet slang on the Internet, as in any other place, correctly. This will ensure that the initiator of the dialogue will be understood by the other participants. The ability to communicate competently, including online, is certainly a sign of education and good manners.

The word “accordion” is used, of course, most often on the Internet in various thematic forums. That being said, there are several rules for how to use this common expression. Firstly, if someone in the thread has already written that the information that appeared on the forum is a “bayan”, of course, there is no need to repeat it.

Topics on such resources rise to the top depending on the number of user posts. And of course, the information provided to readers should always be fresh and new. Otherwise, a repeated message about the “bayan” may also become the same “bayan”.

Secondly, a user who discovers that a joke, meme or story presented by a topicstarter is outdated, after writing the word “accordion”, must provide convincing evidence of this.

It would be best to provide other participants in the dialogue with a link to the topic that contains the same information. In this case, messages that appeared on the forum no more than three days before a similar topic should not be considered a button accordion.

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