1/8
I'm intrigued.
>>89541390
>use the newspaper as a textbox
Brilliant.
>>89541446
8/8
What did you think? Make sure to post your most favorite Gondolas!
>>89541463
who's house did he wonder into?
>>89541463
But whose house was it?
>>89541463
BUT WHO WAS HOUSE
>>89541492
But he's unarmed.
all my gondolas are /wsg/ webms
>>89541519
But not unfooted.
>>89541519
You don't need arms to kill
I like it
Will there be any more?
>>89541473
>>89541474
>>89541488
>>89541492
I couldn't say: someone's girlfriend drew them this comic, and I just found it randomly and had it saved.
>>89541560
I don't know, I can't find Katya
The world needs more gondola. If you end up finding them again tell them we approve
>>89541463
Gondola is the purest meme. He is love and he will never be taken from us, unlike a certain green frog.
>>89541840
>He is love and he will never be taken from us, unlike a certain green frog.
He was always with us anon, and we just tugged a little harder to bring him back home.
>>89541952
>a little
:----DDDD
So pure
Gondola is the next stage of meme evolution.
>>89542171
THICC
>>89541840
Normalfags don't like Pepe anymore
>>89542139
first Finnish thing we've seen him do so far, unless there's some pic of him chugging a bottle of hard liquor or committing suicide
>>89542320
Well, in their defense, Pepe has become less a funny meme and more a totemic incarnation of occult power.
>>89542349
I think pepe is the first meme that actually trascended memery. He's a third stage, the 48 chromosome being of fictional existance, the next dimension of our understanding. The post-meme.
More than an idea transmitted by the vox populi, developed beyond its inception and context into a brand and meaning of it's own, of which it's ability to spread meassures his existance, he no longer spreads through people, he becomes the vox populi and molds it. He is unobiquitous, spread to the maximum potential as a meme, and the meaning he is assigned is not set by his spread but by the certainty of it's self. Everyone sees what they want to see in him, but everyone knows he is pepe, and the resistance against him is an inertia that revitalizes him and rebirths him, he no longer gets stale and dies, he's not a joke, whener a pepe gets posted, we are the joke, we are the meme.
>>89542349
>>89542699
Pepe's a symbol of the individual's agency forming a collective willpower.
Pepe is basically Ultra Comics in our own Earth.
>>89541463
My favourite Gondolas are the ones with animation and music on /wsg/
God, we've come a long way since Pedobear.
Best gondola reporting in. Sad and bitter but true edition. Sad cunts have been warned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4ehgnTjVg
>>89542349
Someone needs to update the pepe timeline.
>>89542341
Gondola is italian??
Gondola is the ultimate human. He represents our journey in understanding life; which is meaningless. Our eternal struggle against ourselves.
Gondola isn't supposed to be sad, he is supposed to be melancholic.
He is not suicidal, but accepts life as it is and experiences it as an observer.
Gondola is a wanderer who sees the world in a state of eternal melancholy, unable to do anything about it but move from place to place.
Gondola himself is an abstract form, and the combination of gondola and the landscapes he frequents (be it photography, painting, or digital) represent the unexplainable melancholy of the artist behind him.
Gondola is the embodiment of wu-wei, and its artistic ethos is wabi-sabi—the mindful appreciation for beauty in both the everyday and the sublime through the acceptance of transience and imperfection. Gondola art is the authentic and compassionate exploration of the human condition.
Gondola is your inner child.
>>89541536
and that's gondola at its comfiest
>>89543009
So is Gondola the Road Warrior?
>>89543359
Yes, but created in a Finnish Image board out of a Finnish meme by some italian and given an Italian name
Its like this video right here https://youtu.be/q8Zca5vsUFE
>>89541463
Gondola is CUTE
>>89541463
I think it would make a good kid's book
simple and comfy with some good artwork
>>89541463
that room doesn't even look comfy at all
>>89543432
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4ehgnTjVg
Nedroid Edition Gondola
>>89544255
The pinnacle of gondola's travel
gondola is cute
Thanks a lot for the storytime
It was nice to be introduced to Gondola this way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ_QCUZVNAw
EBIN DRED :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
BENIS :DDDDDDDDDDD
>>89541347
this comic is surprisingly well colored.
>>89547710
>Gondola thread
>Posts Spurdo
This thread is supposed to be comfy and not degenerate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idoFDCapw6U
>>89549416
My heart
>>89542171
THIG UNF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laJcoUnKIlU&spfreload=10
>Get reminded that /wsg/ exists
>>>/wsg/1515294
Remember Pedobear?
kuma->pedobear->spurdo->gondola
There are more things in heaven and earth, Anon, than dreamed of in your memes
>>89555529
We are the meme-makers, and we are the dreamers of memes.
>>89554866
thats nice theres a gondola booru
i hope some anon saved my gondola doodles from way back
gondola
Tinseltown edition
contemplate
Gobdy cuyt
>>89541463
I like gondola but I'm worried comics like this would end up commercialising the mene.
>>89541463
im saving this to make a book i can read it at night to the kids i'll probably never have.
>>89567892
Although I have the same worries about gondola becoming too popular, i would prefer it to go this melancholic and comfy direction rather than trying to make it wacky like the material pepe, wojack, or spurdo are in.
>>89568113
Well to be fair spurdo Sparde was originally supposed to be whacky, and was meant to a parody of Finnish kids who butchered the pedobear meme in their language.
GONDOLA IS CUTE
CUUTEE
>>89568164
Also Pepe is from fucking boys club, which is whackier than 90% of pepe memes
>My gondola folder is nearly 600mb
wew
Although this is my first time ever seeing Gondola, I like how he just fits into anything.
He's so simplistic, that it somehow makes him fit into anything.
>>89568113
>gondola becoming too popular
You faggots weren't even there when it first spread to /int/ from ylilauta. It was a magical until some faggot admitted to being a mod from reddit and created a link on "/r/4chan". I still have some really rare oc from those sweet times
stuff like this makes me kinda sad there'd never be any serious analysis of meme evolution
hell look at tony kornheiser's "why", im sure there's some people who don't even know that most of the "image with word caption" reaction image started with that
but then i think of the alternative and it's probably better this way
I have made a gondola oc but it's at my home. If this thread is still up i will post it
It was KC tier and it was on 4chan
Fresh oc
>>89569829
bernd please
gondolas is love gondolas is life
>>89542041
>Gondola battle regalia
>>89569859
I like how I can't tell if that's a waterfall into the hotspring or a really tall gondola.
Not so fresh OC
>>89544255
Man, gave me the feels.
>>89568206
>>>/wsg/1515294 here, filled two threads of my gondola collection (200+ webms) before some autismo got them scrapped. I know your pain.
>>89567892
There's nothing wrong with normies being comfy, anon. The commercial appeal of gondola is already borne into every instagram-perfect cozy holiday marketing generations anyway. Comfy as it exists here isn't too far from it as you'd like to think.
>>89568113
Gondola is also silly and wacky too. At least in it's initial finnish varieties, the humor of gondola is just as apperant as the 'melancholic' appeal. >>89550579 Simplicity doesn't have to equate to feels, but can be funny and rewarding in it's own right.
Nice comi, OP. Would enjoy more.
Why the lack of arms?
>>89573543
Symbolism for non-action, the fourth wise monkey of "do no evil"
Gondola is pure and innocent, we must always protect him.
sleb tite, bubers
Also a fresh oc
>>89576654
Nice but shouldn't the shack and Gondola have a shadow as well?
>>89576832
Yes, i'll correct this right away
>>89547710
>spurdo
>>89541840
Now that you mention it, without Pepe we wouldn't have spurdo, and without spurdo, no Gondola
>>89552519
as ridiculous as this sounds, this image really touched me for some reason. maybe I'm finally getting art
>less than 3 gifs
digusting
>>89582101
>>89542993
Pedobear. Spurdo. Gondola. All exist as different facets of ourselves.
I'm honestly glad Pedobear lived as a meme should, to have his time in the spotlight and then fade into retirement. Can you imagine if he'd come a few years later? He'd have suffered Pepe's undying fate. Memed to death.
>>89582101
They're not the same without the music
Pls don't die Gondola. I need your comf now more than ever.
Gondola is starting to transcend memes, I think.
why can't we meme magic Gondola's real
>>89586684
Because he's just too comfy.
>>89586684
>Make Gondola plusie or something
>Seek a really comfy place and put Gondola there
>Take a picture
>Gondola is real now.
>>89587022
Better to just draw Gondola onto/into a background
>>89541347
>2550 fuckin pixels wide and 3300 tall
Why would anyone share a simple comic with such an absurd resolution
>>89587217
Maybe to get a printout and put it on your wall or something?
gondola gondola
literally a meme of a meme of a meme
how deep will this go /co/
>>89587592
Well, as it morphs from one to the next it becomes more abstract in both appearance and name.
So ultimately, I think it will just be a straight brown line named after the Azerbaijani for piston ring, or something.
>>89587592
I don't think we can't go past Gondola in this particular path. It's the culminnation of this road, the peak of its evolution, the ultimate memeform.
>>89588046
>Pedobear wanted what he couldn't (or shouldn't) have and actively sought it out
>Spurdo was a tryhard and a failure, but met his constant failure with good humour
>Gondola simply is
I think you may be right.
>>89588293
>ID
>Ego
>Super Ego
Developed in the same order it does in humans
pottery
>>89589014
>Calvin & Hobbes-stylistic comic with Gondola
never knew i wanted this
What is it about this guy that makes him seem so much cuter than similarly bad ms paint drawings? I had the same reaction when I saw him. You'd think he would seem gross or something.
And the name, man. He doesn't even parody anything or refer to something. He just is.
>>89591348
>He just is.
That's a nice way to describe the Gondola. The character is that nice.
This must be one of the few memes I genuinely enjoy, the Gondolas make me feel relaxed.
>>89591348
ED has a very tame article about him
its interesting that a crude corruption of something that is already a crude corruption something else can be so beautiful
Is this /v4/'s Magyar friend?
>>89591348
Well a Gondola in non-meme terms is that basket you're in when you go ballooning.
So in a sense, Gondola takes you places, and moves you.
>>89594336
He's a meme the same way "why did the chicken cross the road" is a joke.
He's an anti-riddle.
>>89574077
We internalize the world the same way by ourselves: movement and looking at things. That's why we have dreams about getting from here to there and dreams about creating and doing anything are rarer; when you see a PC in your dream, you don't imagine typing and using a mouse, you just see it work. So, gondola is appealing for the same reason adventure games and walking simulators are appealing.
I love Gondola, but i'm italian and all the times i read his name i always reconnect to pic related, because "Gondola" is the type of boat you'll find in Venezia
>>89596552
Gondola was created by an italian anon on Ylilauta
>>89596567
I didn't knew this, but i still can't comprehend why name it this way, maybe because he can carry us in his trips? Or was that just a random decision?
>>89596604
The purpose of Gondola is to walk around and appreciate the beauty of the present moment, just like people do when they're riding on a gondola.
>>89543432
I wonder how Wander and him would wander.
>>89587022
I will throw money at someone to do this
I want a Gondola walking simulator like Yume Nikki.
>>89596686
Now i'm beginning to understand the concept, thanks anon, have a nice day
Would you have a pet gondola? What things would you do with it?
>>89596686
I'm amazed I've managed to ignore this thing for so long. It's actually pretty neat.
>>89587022
>>89598494
MADMAN
A
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>>89598494
>Gondola taking a selfie
Beautiful.
>>89598494
I love him?
>>89598816
Yes
>>89595359
is that loss
>>89542341
Gondola is my spirit animal.
>>89601630
>make metal statuette of gondola
>pay spacex or whoever to shoot it into space on a trajectory that will take it out of the solar system and into the cosmos
>a gondola spend eternity silently traveling the cosmos
>>89596686
Wow!
Gondola is the purest witness to the end, unclouded by fear or expectation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ_QCUZVNAw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rENSYXvVI2s
>>89608050
NOOO GONDOLA!!
gondola is eternal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xmiy-10aq8&index=3&list=LLo95OuyyzlRBKSNt9Ke3dzg
>>89541463
I'm really feelin the comfy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65xkFLCQLmw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_Xpw-Msnc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxl2v5X2nzs
>>89587592
Gondola was never a meme. It's an artform.
>>89547622
Jesus, Anon, I'm not ready for this
Can't believe it hasn't been posted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1lAoYYV3CA
>>89541446
>gondola lifts his leg 180 degrees to shield his eyes from starlight
hahaha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H17eBXdVL4w
Do you think Gondola can learn Geppou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZVzOgrvB2A
>>89544255
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yveA_vO22ys
taco gondola, fresh from the taco oven.
>>89569859
Thats some artistic vision.
>>89598494
I love this thread.
>>89598494
I'd buy that. No, seriously.
>>89541408
Poster
I wish we could have sound webms so this could be a real nice Gondola thread.
>>89543159
I feel like Dat Boi needs to be in there somewhere
>>89580786
Spurdo came before Pepe didn't he?
>>89542017
I fucking love this image
>>89616420
Look at the shape of Spurdo's head. He's a combination of Pepe and Pedobear.
>>89615408
I could recognize Shameless from miles away
>>89582351
Nah it would have been the same. Pepe has lasted because he's the most versatile and relatable.
which one of you whores posted this beautiful comic on funnyjunk
>>89617667
There's always one
haha benis
>>89541463
>What did you think?
Doesn't need all those words.
>>89598494
Where is he, a graveyard?.
>>89619670
Looks like the holocaust memorial in Berlin.
I really liked this one
https://youtu.be/5Xmiy-10aq8
I didn't know a meme could ever be this comfy, thanks Anons
>>89620563
That was unreasonably comfy.
Never truly understood Gondola's appeal until this thread.
In celebration, a quick tribute.
>>89603268
Best ending
Gondola is love, Gondola is life
>>89541463
I love you, OP.
>>89541463
how the hell did this turn into spurdo sparde?
>>89541463
5 / 5 bretty eb1n
can make a book for children out of this
>>89541463
Are your children retarded?
Who reads a book 8 pages long?
is this a fucking hardcover?
Finland is mene superpower btw.
>>89542349
hes a fuckin' frog, ya idjits!
>>89543432
well he looks like crap.
did the person drawing him have brain damage or something?
>>89624012
You goddamn fool the timeline goes Pedobear------->Spurdo--------->Gondola.
>>89619670
He's in a comfy place.
>>89610395
Studio Ghibli x Gondola is comfy as fuck
>>89620563
Amazing
Best thread on /co/ right now
I-It's impossible! How can this be...? A 225 replies thread an not even a trace of shitposting!
I don't understand, this goes against the laws of physics..
>>89628098
It's the power of Gondola
>>89541347
>>89541463
If you try sometimes
You'll find
You get what you need
>>89541840
Gondola is literally perfect and I love him
https://vtt.tumblr.com/tumblr_oktlp8Z20z1vn05sj.mp4#_=_
>>89630640
Good thing we have a bumb limit of 500
>>89616487
Nope. Spurdo predates Pepe as a meme, boi.
>>89541463
SLEEP TIGHT, GONDERS
>>89541463
breddy gud
>>89592728
delete this fucking garbage
>>89597270
I would sit around with gondola and watch the world collapse upon itself
>>89597270
Travel with my gondola, after all they're nomads.
>>89541463
I liek the sotry
>>89547622
>23 years old
>never been loved
>great friend disowned me, been even lonelier after that
>useless college degree
>future is bleak, wage-slaving in some repetitive meaningless job is what's in line for me
>still have all this dreams
>deep down know that pheraps i'll never fulfill them
>Grandma died recently
>Parents broke up, they are both terribly depressed now
>Girl i loved more than anything loves another man (and dating him)
>Women dislike me
>watch that video
>break up in tears
>>89591348
He's simple to make and has long legs.
He will go everywhere and experience everything, solitude is his companion.
He is always alone, but never lonely and he seems to enjoy the things around him.
His only expressions are Intrigue, Curiosity and Joy.
He's not human but he embodies our greatest trait, Wonder.
>>89541463
>Cute
>Good art
>No pandering
>Meaningful and deep
10/10 - the metroid prime of citizen canes
Does anyone else here kind of want to be Gondala?
I kind of want to be in his place in the pictures. Go out into the world, to the dark cities, to the deep lakes and high mountains, to the world filled with light and shadow, and just... be.
>>89591348
There is little meaning to him, just a strange little creature.
Pepe showed personality from the start which they gets subverted and generally messed around. Something like pedo bear has an obvious role.
Gondola is just a strange little creature, making him do something bad isn't shocking, you can't really subvert or corrupt what he is cause there isn't something to do that to. You dress pepe up like a nazi and you make him angry or happy, gonders would just be making that face in a neat hat
Gondola is a strange creature.
>>89633191
someone put gondola in this pic
>>89636426
I hope this is good enough
>>89636857
My new wallpaper.
Has gondola become a sort of strange international outsider art movement?
Spawned from a Finnish imitation of a Japanese meme. Named by an Italian, and propagated on an american message board full of anonymous strangers.
Used as a symbolic stand-in for the everyman in images ranging from absurd derivative memes, to genuinely expressive works of art.
Bump for comfy
>>89637765
Fem-Gondola a cute
I declare this thread as the comfiest thread in/co/ right now
This thread has been fucking great.
>>89637765
Gondola is.
Found the artist (or rather someone pointed it to me)
http://imgur.com/gallery/DqfHH
She goes as Paperisfood on Reddit and Twitter.
You're all wonderful people but no one in this thread seems to have posted my favourite gondola.
https://youtu.be/BYlYfcv1EoA
https://youtu.be/mjON8l510Vg NES is the superior version IMO
see you in 4 months when this is the new pepe
>>89641445
>>89641327
>>89641445
Gondola has been around for a long time.
>>89641799
You who I called brother, how could you have come to hate me so.... is this what you wanted?
>>89640845
WHAT'S THE SONG NAME
>>89641845
The Fantastic Adventures of Gondola HD(SNES)
Found an old tablet drawing I did. Decided to finish it.
>>89637765
Nah, Gondola is just a cuter version of the greatest gift the Finns have ever given the world
>>89603268
We need to fund this.
Gondola is the greatest thing the human race has ever created. We have a moral duty to ensure he outlasts us.
>>89643970
Gondola cartoons already exist you fucktard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An_lXhNWjMw
>>89643970
You know, it would be possible to do that.
People have made their own home made space rockets before and launched them.
>>89632273
everything is going to be okay Anon, all suffering is temporary
>>89633191
It's funny if you think about it. Western culture is obsessed with doing and achieving. Always thinking about the future and neglecting the present even though the present is the only thing that we can perceive. What else is there besides the raw experience of the present? The future and the past are only concepts that help us enjoy the present but it seems we have forgotten about this fact.
I have been researching this topic lately and I found this lecture from Alan Watts. He can communicate the idea of why we love the concept of Gondola better than I ever could. If you are interested here is the video. It's quite long but I believe it is worth the time. (put it on 1.25 speed it is slowed down for some reason).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuZEfUCMESs
>>89644545
Future is just a bunch of upcoming present moments, if you make your future good your "the present" will be good.
>>89580786
But that's wrong, you retard.
>>89622629
Good.
>>89630827
You seem to be ignorant about Pepes my friend.
Picrelated was the first Spurdo mutation to become popular, you can clearly see how it's a crossover between Pepe and early Spurdos (badly drawn BedoPears).
>>89544255
>Hope 998
Anyone got that comic that explains the evolution from Pedobear to Gondola through DRRRR DRRRR DRRRRRR
>>89650717
>DRRRR DRRRR DRRRRRR
Delet this!
>>89651486
Jesus fuck Pops that shit is dark