CountryHumans

Countryhumans or sometimes CountryHumans (often abbreviated as CH) refers to a fandom based around characters portrayed as humans but with Sphere heads and a human body. It is related to Polandball, an Internet meme-comic created back in 2009 which the Countryhumans fandom is heavily based on towards Polandball due to it’s Spherical appearances, and Scandinavia and the World, due to each character portrayed with human bodies.

Since its first appearance on the Internet in April of 2017 and later into it’s fame in the ending of the year 2018, the fanbase has had it’s subject and is well-known to Controversy due to its sexual relationships between historical and modern-day countries, most notably USSR and Third Reich, or representations of terrorist organizations such as ISIS. Many users of other communities, especially Polandball users, call Countryhumans as a “Disgrace to History”.

Countryhumans has had many spin-offs including Planet-humans, characters as planets, Social-media humans, characters portrayed based on Social Media applications, Flag-heads, which portrays characters with actual Rectangular heads based on the size of a countries’ flag, and Pride-humans (LGBT-humans) based of LGBT & Homosexuality.

Background
The background/history of Countryhumans is one of the most interesting part about the fandom, however it’s also very debatable. Please note that this section of this article is edited the most, so you’ll see many changes in the upcoming days or so!

The origin of the fandom’s is extremely difficult and confusing to find. The most notable fact was that the fandom was based of Polandball, a community formed in 2009 where countries are portrayed as balls on horrible quality comics. Many of it’s comics are mainly historical and sometimes offensive. It’s also widely acceptable that it was based of the Japanese manga, Hetalia, since it’s characters are personifications of Countries themselves.

The widely acceptable fact was the fact that the fandom is Russian, since it’s believed that the fandom was first formed on the Russian Social Media Site, VK, in 2017. Many are sure that it’s true since many of the oldest appearance of any Countryhuman artworks where made by Russian Artists (some of them Ukrainian) or the character Russia is seen the most. However, no accounts or any works are found. Outside of the Russian community of the fandom, a YouTube video was discovered. Uploaded in April of 2017, it features what it appears to be World War 2 characters dancing around, with their faces covered with flags. In November of that same year, a YouTube creator uploaded a video of countries of East Asia in a Animation Meme-style. This video itself was widely accepted by many as the first ever appearance of any Countryhuman character.

The origin of term Countryhumans itself is also debatable. There are many theories on when the term was first coined. One of these was the fact that a Facebook user named “Country Humans” (Spaced) was formed in July 2014. Formed in Argentina, the account posts characters of Latin American Countries (Mainly Argentina and Chile, who these two has since gained popularity in the middle of 2020) drawn as human/anime characters. The problem is that the characters aren’t formed in the way where their heads are circule and their faces is covered with the flag of that country. But this is one of the earliest appearance of the term being used on the Internet. In a now-deleted November 2014 DeviantArt Journal, the creator of the journal used the term Countryhumans, with the description telling those who were in this “Fandom” are targeted by the user itself. (As like a Death Threat).Other than that, it’s still debatable on when the term was first used.

Ech0chamber, a Newsground artist who used to be active on DeviantArt, did post a drawing of the Axis Countries on September 25, 2016, considering it the first time any of the Countryhumans characters first appeared. However, Ech0’s DeviantArt was permanently banned in 2019, and it’s impossible if she changed the image since Deviants are allowed to change the image of that particular post without just reposting the image.

On April 4, 2021, fellow r/CountryhumansCringe user u/PhotographOk7968 discovered an image of what it appears to be the first ever appearance of Countryhumans. Created on May 3, 2011, The image includes the United States what it appears to be shooting Iran. The image itself included the date of creation and ‘Incent 2800.’ The redditor explained that they had the image saved on his Computer back in 2014 by a 4chan user, where the image was removed from the site somewhere in 2015. The difference between the image is that while the heads are covered by the country’s flag; the arms, hands, and necks aren’t colored with the flag’s color.

Aside from it’s discovery, Countryhumans first gained its popularity in Russia between November & December of 2017, whereas the character, Russia, is consider as one of the most popular & important characters of the fandom. Starting at the end of 2020, many Asian countries (particularly the countries in Southeast) and Latin American countries has since gained many attention.