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By Njambi Mungai (@njambie)
Last night marked the most devastating, heartbreaking and shocking defeat in a World Cup semi-final for the Brazilian team.
With Germany scoring 7 goals to a measly 1 goal from the Samba boys, the digital fans had endless pun fodder to last a lifetime. According to Twitter, the German versus Brazil game is the most discussed single sport game ever with 35.6 million tweets.
During this time, Saba Saba went international, Samba boys became Saba boys, Brazil became Bra7il, Jamaneni became Germaneni and #NeymarWhileYouWereAway became a trending topic.
Kenyans took to the hashtag with hilarious tweets:
@brianTheMista: Teacher: How many days are in a week? Students: Brazil! #Neymarwhileyouwereaway
@ItsDemoray: #Neymarwhileyouwereaway "Yes!!! We won! We won!!!....Its only halftime."<< became true."
@NdundaTheo: #NeymarWhileYouWereAway ati Al-Shabaab claim responsibility in last night's massacre in Bra7il...... Germaneni #BrazilvsGermany Samba woes
@ItsAdamKe: #NeymarWhileYouWereAway the #SabaSaba after party was held in Brazil.
@MeisKavuu: And baba had been talking about saba saba but y'all didn't read in between the lines #Neymarwhileyouwereaway"
@SteveWoods_Nai: Girls who wear #Brazilian weaves have no #goals in #life...hahaha #NeymarWhileYouWereAway
@MelvinAquarius: #NeymarWhileYouWereAway FIFA has announced a new tournament called Brazil 7's to be played every seven years
@Johari_Pro: #NeymarWhileYouWereAway we Experienced A "Samba Saba" Storm.......
@emmwirichia: #NeymarWhileYouWereAway #Germany started being sponsored by 7 Up"
@njaunewton: #NeymarWhileYouWereAway Brazil called for dialogue
And then there were the viral memes
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