{"id":1288219,"date":"2025-09-02T14:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/not-a-speech-but-a-bite-yanukovych-became-a-meme-hero-after-a-short-address\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:18:16","slug":"not-a-speech-but-a-bite-yanukovych-became-a-meme-hero-after-a-short-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/not-a-speech-but-a-bite-yanukovych-became-a-meme-hero-after-a-short-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a speech, but a bite: Yanukovych became a meme hero after a short address"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fugitive former president Viktor Yanukovych suddenly appeared in public \u2014 after a long silence, he recorded a short address to the media. But instead of a political sensation, something else caught the attention of Ukrainians \u2014 his teeth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Photo-snaps, jokes, and memes immediately began to spread on social media, mentioning everything from premium dentistry to a “guaranteed escape bite.”<\/p>\n

The content of Yanukovych’s speech remained secondary, as netizens quickly focused on the visual part. “A toothy comeback,” “a Hollywood smile \u2014 Moscow-style,” “he finally got it together” \u2014 these are just some of the reactions flooding Telegram and Twitter.<\/p>\n

The most vivid memes were collected by “Pryamy”, and users joke in the comments:<\/p>\n

“Now he definitely won’t bite the hand of the one who feeds him”
“The braces of freedom have been removed, but the shackles have not” <\/p>\n

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Fugitive former president Viktor Yanukovych suddenly appeared in public \u2014 after a long silence, he recorded a short address to the media. But instead of a political sensation, something else caught the attention of Ukrainians \u2014 his teeth. Photo-snaps, jokes, and memes immediately began to spread on social media, mentioning everything from premium dentistry to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":674011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1288219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}