18 Years Later, The Internet Is Still Begging People to Come to Brazil

About

"Come to Brazil" is an expression associated with Brazilian internet users requesting various celebrities to visit their home country. Due to the phrase being commonly seen on various social networking sites, it is often mocked or posted sarcastically in a similar vein to the Russian phrase Cyka Blyat.

Origin

On April 11th, 2008, Twitter user @cecilab invited French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur to visit Brazil, marking the first time the phrase "come to Brazil" was posted on the social networking site (shown below).

Spread

In June 2009, tweets containing the phrase "come to Brazil" increased dramatically after the Canadian pop star Justin Bieber joined Twitter. On October 21st, 2012, Tumblr user johnnyjoestarrelatable posted a mock music video comment section featuring several "come to Brazil" messages (shown below). Later that year, a question asking "What is 'please come to Brazil'?" was submitted to Yahoo Answers.

In mid 2013, Tumblr users memebeam and kee-vos highlighted screenshots of YouTube videos accompanied by "come to Brazil" comments (shown below). On October 14th, a post asking about the phrase was submitted to /r/OutOfTheLoop.

On March 31st, 2014, Twitter user @QueenNeyde tweeted "come to Brazil" to a feed for the deceased pop star Michael Jackson (shown below). That day, a screenshot of the tweet was posted on Tumblr, where it garnered upwards of 10,600 notes over the next three years.

On October 12th, 2015, BuzzFeed highlighted several "come to Brazil" comments and Tumblr posts mocking the expression. On January 28th, 2016, NY Mag published an article titled "How ‘Come to Brazil’ Came to the Internet."

On July 15th, 2016 the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, half-jokingly invited Pokemon Go to come to Brazil "for the Olympics".

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