“Mom’s businessmen”: who are the darkroom workers and why did this word become a meme

They say that everyone has a crazy friend named Nastya. But with an even greater degree of confidence we can say that everyone has “a clear acquaintance who drives a Daewoo Matiz, who doesn’t work, but makes money.” Recently, such guys have been called dark guys. Read our material about why and why they are ridiculed.

The dictionary of thieves' jargon says that a "thieves" is a buyer and seller of stolen goods. In the 90s, such people really existed, but over time their “powers” expanded. Fraudsters, schemers and simply speculators began to be called dark people. For example, those who sold masks at exorbitant prices at the beginning of the pandemic, or tried to get rich from pop-its and simple-dimples, ordering them from China and selling them at exorbitant prices in their homeland.

Also called darkers are bookmakers, cappers - people involved in sports betting, and anyone who promises quick money on the Internet. In a word, burglars are all those who try to hit the jackpot quickly, easily and without straining, and do not always use legal methods to do this.

But these are not exactly the dark people who started making memes about on the Internet. “Meme darkies” are a special subspecies...

Nowadays you can find a lot of memes about dark people on the Internet. Even if there are separate pages dedicated exclusively to them. And all because too many “mother’s businessmen” have recently divorced, who “rose up in crypto”, make money, but sometimes, with whomever it happens, they ask their parents for money for gasoline.

It is precisely these dark-spotters that have become a meme subculture. There is nothing wrong with trying to start your own business, but their methods are so failed and naive that it even becomes funny. In most cases, burglars live in debt, pouring all their free money “somewhere” - either into crypto, or into bets, or into other dubious enterprises. And they are just waiting for the big jackpot to hit.

We are willing to bet that among your friends there are also such dark-sellers. You may not have noticed this before, but if you take a closer look at the person, all the “clarity” immediately emerges. So, what separates a meme darker from any other person? His slang necessarily contains the words “jump”, “solve questions”, “cough”, “even topic”, etc.

The technician is constantly “moving about on business”, but at the same time does not work anywhere. Business usually means meetings with “brothers” who are also in the know. “Something here, something there, quietly, in short.”

You can also identify a darker by asking what his favorite director is. 9 out of 10 will answer: Guy Ritchie. My favorite films, of course, will be “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” “Snatch,” “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “The Gentlemen,” and my favorite TV series is “Peaky Blinders.”

The darkman usually drives a Daewoo Matiz or a “nine”. But not because there is no money for BMW! No! I just “took it to save myself from burning.” It’s the same with the iPhone - why do you need the latest model if the four is as reliable as a Swiss watch? By the way, about the clock. The darkroom guy has them too. And this is also something very “reliable”, but at the same time inexpensive.

In general, we can say that these guys are stuck somewhere in the 90s, but in a modern way. All their attempts to “make money” usually end in epic failure, but they do not give up, but continue to “stir up something.” Darkmen live, as a rule, with their parents, eat in canteens, dress in the market, rest... they don’t rest anywhere. Against the backdrop of stories about fabulous wealth and unrealistic growth, all this looks so ridiculous and funny that it was inevitable for dark-skinned people to become heroes of memes.

Here are a few of the most memorable: