For those who don’t understand the meme, the French Google Translate meme refers to memes in which names of various people and fictional characters are pronounced in French using Google Translate’s text-to-speech function, with a “french” photoshop(or drawing in my case) of that character then shown, accompanied by accordion or traditional French music. This meme originates on October 23rd, 2019, TikTok user “austin.burnman” posted the 1st iteration of the meme in which he used the text-to-speech function of Google Translate to generate the French pronunciation of a inappropriate word. In the second part of the TikTok, “austin.burnham” edited himself next to the Eiffel Tower holding a wine glass, with the video set to accordion music. The TikTok received over 1.5 million likes within three months, with an iFunny repost gaining over 30,400 smiles (The iFunny version of likes)in the same period of time (3 months). The format did not see significant use outside of TikTok until on December 27th, 2019,when Twitter user “riseofanida” posted an Anakin Skywalker version of the meme using a photoshop of Anakin wearing a beret and holding a baguette instead of the lightsaber. The video received over 1.8 million views, with the tweet gaining over 40,600 retweets and 104,700 likes. In the following days, “riseofanida” posted more photoshop of Anakin presented as a citizen of various countries. Unfortunately, the meme died before I could get my hands (well, stubs since I have no hands) on it. All of the information I used here can be found at “Know Your Meme”, for this specific one it can be found here:
