โPessiโ as you might have guessed if you are a football fan, refers to Lionel Messi, the eight-time Ballon dโor winner, know the meaning of the memes and name
Currently, Messi is one of the most popular footballers worldwide, apart from presently being the best player alongside Cristiano Ronaldo. Chances are that even if you arenโt a football fan, you might have heard of his name.
Pessi Is Finished Meaning After Lionel Messi Memes Trend On Twitter
Lionel Messi l The Art of Penalties ๐จpic.twitter.com/K4sIIkLlS8
— Context Pessi (@ContextPessi_) July 1, 2022
Ernesto Valverde got sackedโ
Quique Setien got sackedโ
Ronald Koeman got sackedโ
Mauricio Pochettino got sackedโAll thanks to Ghost Pessi's bad performance.
Manager๐คฆโโ๏ธ sacker Pessi is now looking for a new victim.You never know who is next. pic.twitter.com/BY43Zk509k
— Lord Pessi : The Gayest Bottler Of All Time (@Bfm0028) July 5, 2022
Some football clubs and their weakness ๐ญ pic.twitter.com/WGOhzQMEZy
— Context Pessi (@ContextPessi_) July 4, 2022
Why then does this โPessiโ community keep making fun of Messi by using his name and image? What exactly does โPessiโ even mean? How did it even start as a joke? Let us try to answer these questions to grasp the situation better.
The origins of the word โPessiโ
โPessiโ is a clever combination of the words โpenaltyโ and “Messi“. For those who still donโt get it, the word โPessiโ was initially created to troll Lionel Messi for all his missed penalties, especially back when he was at Barca. Messi had a hard point in his career when he missed a string of important spot-kicks, letting his fans down.
The joke started out as a reply to a long-standing rivalry between the two fan bases of Barcelona and Real Madrid. Barca fans frequently taunted Ronaldo and his fans by calling him โPenaldoโ. This is a dig against the way he scores most of his goals, i.e. through penalty kicks as opposed to open play goals, which are a more standard display of goal scoring ability.
Pessi, the bald fraud
The pun usually comes along with a photo-shopped image of a โbaldโ Messi. Soccer fans commonly criticise players or managers who are overrated or have been apparently โexposedโ to being abysmal at their respective jobs. The term used during this type of criticism is “bald fraud”โsomeone who makes a living in their profession without actually being good at it or doing anything worth the paycheck.
Despite all this, the joke has come a long way away from its original intended meaning. So much so that Messi and his so-called rival, Ronaldo, donโt even play for both these rival teams anymore.
Nowadays, the users use the โPessiโ trolls in less abusive way towards Messi. It has become more of a way of life for the Pessi community on Twitter, most of whom are surprisingly from France. In fact, they often engage in ‘digital raids‘ and attack celebrities’ accounts by spamming them with ‘Pessi‘ tweets for a good cause.
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