“Un gros bandeur des states” meme: meaning, origin and common card

What does the “Un gros bandeur des states” meme mean?

The line teases, without malice, a character presented as an oversized American: everything is bigger, louder, stronger. People use it on a friend who comes back from the United States with the accent, on an over-confident tourist, or on a fan of everything across the Atlantic. The humour comes from the casual register and from repetition, which users stretched into ten-minute loops of the same phrase.

Where does the “Un gros bandeur des states” meme come from?

YouTube videos carry this title in several forms: “GROS BANDEUR DE STATES 10MIN VERSION”, which lasts a little over ten minutes, plus other edits about “bandeurs de states” uploaded by creators such as Kimjo. “States” is the French casual shorthand for the United States. The original source of the line and its date of birth could not be established with certainty; it is mainly seen in looped form, a common way to turn a quote into an in-joke for a community. Card number 3667 keeps the original wording.

How to use the “Un gros bandeur des states” meme

• About a friend back from New York: “Look at this gros bandeur des states.”
• Teasing a fan of American culture: “You’re in full gros bandeur des states mode.”
• Under an oversized video: “Gros bandeur des states, ten-minute edition.”

The “Un gros bandeur des states” card in MyMemeCards

Number	No. 3667
Rarity	Common
Collection	Memes FR pack
Fame	50/100 · #753 of 3501
Recycle value	5 MemeCoins (15 in Shiny)
Suggested by	@ralouille

How to get the “Un gros bandeur des states” card

Every pack holds 5 meme cards, the first 3 of them Common; Un gros bandeur des states comes out of the Memes FR pack as a common card. The pack odds say what each rarity weighs.

Your first pack is free and needs no account. After that a new free pack lands every 10 minutes, up to 3 waiting for you. You can also buy the card with MemeCoins on the market, bid for it at auction, or trade it — and a double recycles into 5 MemeCoins.

The reprint of the “Un gros bandeur des states” card

The “Un gros bandeur des states” card was reprinted as Rare (No. 4,379). A reprint is the same meme printed again, with a number of its own and a higher rarity than its first printing, which was common. Its face reads “Reprinted card · Higher rarity”.

Every printing is dealt in the packs of the Memes FR pack, each at its own rarity: the higher it is, the rarer the card is to pull. Copies of the first printing already pulled stay as they are, and any printing counts toward completing a set.

MyMemeCards reprints a meme when it deserves more than the rarity of its first printing, such as a classic that became iconic after it came out: the reprint gives it a place among the most sought-after cards without taking anything from the players who already had it.

Memes like “Un gros bandeur des states”

More cards of the Memes FR pack

Every card of the Memes FR pack →