# Russian Butt Slapping Championship Russian Butt Slapping Championship, also known as Russian Spanking Contest, is an object-labeling image macro taken from a May 2019 Generation Iron Russia slapping event in which a green-haired woman winds up to spank blonde Instagram model Anastasia Zolotaya[1]. By early 2020, Reddit and Twitter accounts were labeling the two women and the referee between them to joke about anything hitting, liking or targeting something else[5]. ## Origin The source clip was uploaded to YouTube by Generation Iron Russia on May 25, 2019, as part of a mixed-gender slap championship video that cycles through several bouts[1]. Around the 4:25 mark, a green-haired contestant squares off against Instagram model Anastasia Zolotaya, who went on to win the match[2]. By April 2020, that upload had passed 2.6 million views, 30,000 likes and roughly 2,700 comments[2]. The meme itself emerged a few weeks later when a cropped screenshot of the wind-up moment began circulating as an object-labeling template. The earliest documented example is a 9GAG post from June 13, 2019, captioned about a dog eating something, which collected close to 1,700 points and 35 comments[6]. The underlying video creator is Generation Iron Russia; the fan who first turned the still into a meme is unconfirmed. - **Platform:** YouTube (source clip) / 9GAG (early meme spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2019 ## Overview The template is a single still frame from a Generation Iron Russia slap contest, cropped to show three figures: a green-haired competitor cocking her hand back, a male referee in the middle, and blonde contestant Anastasia Zolotaya bent over waiting for the hit[1]. Posters label each figure, so the green-haired woman becomes the thing doing the slapping, Zolotaya becomes the thing getting hit, and the referee is sometimes labeled as a bystander or enabler[4]. The joke works best when the three labels set up a short chain of blame or desire, which is why early examples ran it as a relationship or self-deprecation gag. Variants also plug the still into other formats, including a Will You Press the Button? crossover posted on Instagram by illegal._.memes in December 2019[3]. Tone is almost always juvenile and relatable rather than political, with office life, dating, and school common targets[5]. ## How It Spread After the June 2019 9GAG post, the format moved onto Instagram meme accounts. On December 11, 2019, illegal._.memes paired the still with the Will You Press the Button? layout, earning 72 likes on a smaller account[3]. Ten days later, on December 21, 2019, Infiniti shitposting account g35_shitmemes posted a straight object-labeling version that collected 329 likes[4]. Reddit picked up the template in early 2020. User 24hawkman posted an edit to r/me_irl on March 19, 2020, which climbed to nearly 20,000 upvotes and over 100 comments and became the format's biggest documented hit[5]. The next day, Twitter account MGAG tweeted its own labeled version on March 20, 2020, logging 178 likes and 70 retweets[7]. Know Your Meme catalogued the format shortly after, grouping the 9GAG, Instagram, Reddit and Twitter examples together under the Russian Butt Slapping Championship entry and noting the alternate name Russian Spanking Contest[2]. New uploads tapered off through 2020, but the still is still reused occasionally as a reaction image when posters want a three-way object label with a clear hitter and target. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Russian Butt Slapping Championship? It is an object-labeling image macro built from a 2019 Generation Iron Russia slap contest still, in which a green-haired woman winds up to spank blonde contestant Anastasia Zolotaya with a male referee between them[2]. ### Where did Russian Butt Slapping Championship come from? The source clip was uploaded to YouTube by Generation Iron Russia on May 25, 2019, and a 9GAG user posted the first documented meme edit on June 13, 2019[1][6]. ### What does Russian Butt Slapping Championship mean? Each of the three figures gets a label so the hitter, the bystander and the person getting slapped stand in for something being targeted, enabled or liked[4]. ### How do you use Russian Butt Slapping Championship? Posters typically caption the green-haired woman as the thing doing the hitting and Zolotaya as the thing being hit, with office life, dating and self-deprecation among the common subjects seen in examples such as the r/me_irl post by 24hawkman[5]. ### Is Russian Butt Slapping Championship still popular? The format peaked between late 2019 and spring 2020 on Instagram, Reddit and Twitter, and new uploads have tapered off since, though the still is still reused as an object-labeling template[7]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIKElkQxJ8U]() 2. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/russian-butt-slapping-championship]() 3. [https://www.instagram.com/p/B59EyznpM8X/]() 4. [https://www.instagram.com/p/B6WAZsVnhwp/]() 5. [https://www.reddit.com/r/me_irl/comments/flftac/me_irl/]() 6. [https://9gag.com/gag/a2ZXMyO/after-two-days-she-said-the-dog-took-it]() 7. [https://twitter.com/My_MGAG/status/1240954881256513536]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/russian-butt-slapping-championship Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library