Surely many Internet users have come across such a concept as button accordion. What this word means is known to many, but not all, so for some this article will be informative.
Most often the word "button accordion" can be seen on various forums, in chat rooms, as well as in social networks, such as "VKontakte". Let's say a group or public exposes an interesting picture or a funny anecdote. At least one of the participants will say that this is a button accordion. What does this word mean, of course, you can ask, but the unwillingness to be ridiculed is unlikely to allow the ignorant to do this. It's easier to find out for yourself. Meanwhile, the information about what the button accordion means in "VK" remains a question that has to be answered.
Definition
If you "are" on the Internet for more than one year, you probably look at different sites. You see pictures, read posts and funny/scary/sad stories, wonder, laugh or feel nothing. Nevertheless, you remember those images or stories that caught your eye. Several years pass, and now you see in one of the VK groups, for example, the very picturewho was once seen on another site or in another group, or in the same one. You know for sure that you saw the image, and not yesterday / the day before yesterday / last week, but a long time ago, several years ago. This is the button accordion, which means "stale" information, a joke or a picture.
So, from the above, we make a full definition. Bayan is a word expressing the disapproval of people of the fact that they are shown information, news, a picture, a joke, etc., which either has been roaming the Internet for a long time, or has already been in the same place before (for example, repeated in a group in VK "same post). This is what button accordion means on the Internet.
Origin
Most words or phrases have an origin, and "button accordion" is no exception. There was once a joke: “They buried their mother-in-law. They broke two button accordions. He fasted so often on the same site that he finally got tired of all the participants. Negative comments flowed like water, among which at some point words like “button accordion” began to appear, which means “again this boring anecdote about these boring button accordions”. Someone picked it up, put it on the Internet, and away we go - this word began to spread everywhere in a slightly modernized sense than it was originally invested in.
Another version, albeit less plausible, but also having the right to exist is this: in order not to write the same word several times, people began to use the sign -//- to indicate repetition. Since these characters are similarbutton accordion, and Internet users, who themselves wrote these signs in writing, began to designate with them information that was unsuitable for "breaking news", the name "button accordion" appeared.
Similar concepts
Synonymous with the word "button accordion" is the phrase "bearded joke". It is this phrase that is closest to its meaning. True, the button accordion extends to larger content. That is, for example, a sad story about a cat seen for the 13th time can be called an accordion, but it cannot be called a bearded anecdote. And a funny story about some dog that appears somewhere almost every day can be called either way.
Bearded joke is a term for a joke that has been known to everyone for a long time. He has such a name because, ridiculing the person who told him, people said that, they say, even their grandfathers laughed at this “funny thing”. And since, when remembering grandfathers, associations with bearded men come, a similar name has gone.
Result
Yes, button accordions annoy many people. But never forget those who may not have seen the famous picture or story. Some rarely access the Internet, so for them most of the information they receive seems new, which means that as long as there is demand, offers will be born. As long as new users appear on the Internet, button accordions have been, are and will be.
