| has gloss | eng: Preved is a meme in the Russian-speaking Internet which developed out of a heavily-circulated picture, and consists of choosing alternative spellings for words for comic effect. The picture, a modified version of John Lurie's watercolor Bear Surprise, whose popularity was stoked by emails and blogs, features a man and a woman having sex in the clearing of a forest, when suddenly a bear comes out, and with paws raised, says "Surprise!" in the original version, or "Preved!" (a deliberate misspelling of privet, – "hi!") in the Russian adaptation. In keeping with another popular trend of image manipulation, the iconic bear (dubbed (a misspelling of – bear)) has been inserted into many other pictures where his appearance adds a new dimension to the joke. |
