Am I really watching Brazil [Baxi] or Shanxi tonight?
The World Cup is too dangerous, a five-time champion abused like that. Now I admire the true wisdom of the Chinese Football Association in choosing not to participate — smart move!
These are just two of the many entertaining reactions netizens had after they bore witness to Brazil's chastening 7-1 defeat to Germany in the wee hours of the morning. The internet was instantaneously awash with innumerable new memes from around the world delighting in Brazil's anguish, but here's a taste of some of the more unique contributions from web users in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
This web user played on the simplified characters for the final four teams to predict their final standing: Germany 1st, Argentina 2nd, Netherlands 3rd and Brazil 4th
Another play on words, this graphic uses homophones for the countries' names to predict the tournament’s outcome, with Germany (Deguo) passing (guo) and Argentina (Agenting) stopping (ting) in the final matchup.
The Brazilian upset provided a golden opportunity for everyone to indulge their love for Hong Kong virtuoso Stephen Chow’s classic football comedy Shaolin Soccer, as screenshot after screenshot perfectly mirrored the tragicomedy of the World Cup:
"What? Forty-nil!"
"No! It’s teamwork. It’s no way for just one to play soccer."
“I think we should show off our real power”
“Please don’t play like this, I really want to play soccer!”
“I’m not scared, it’s all an illusion!”
Calling the Brazil coach to ask what on Earth just happened
Tearfully recalling Brazil's 2002 triumph over Germany to win the World Cup
"Brothers, five is enough!"
A new national flag for Brazil
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