Sándor Szalacsi (circa 1951) is one of the first Hungarian internet celebrities. A television recording of him made him famous and travelled the country in a short time.
The 1989 recording was made for Ferenc Bogdányi's amateur film in Kocsord in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, where a local resident, Árpád Fogarasi, built a nuclear bunker in his garden. The director thought it would be worthwhile to make a report about it and set off to ask the villagers for their opinion on the matter. This is how Sándor Szalacsi got in front of his camera. The film was uploaded to the internet around 2002 and quickly went viral, inspiring several music, video, and flash games.
Several of Szalacsi's expressions in the film quickly became catchphrases, such as "good worker", "object", "takes the socks out of the water ", "three hundred thousand/thirty thousand liters ", "no... yes... it doesn't protect against that", " kéremkapcjojaki", "To ask a question?". His figure soon became the motif of the Internet-based digital " folk art " of the turn of the millennium.
Sándor Szalacsi spent 5 years in prison for killing his wife. Since May 31, 2003, he has been living in a loving home in Nyíregyháza , where he was admitted with the help of his fans. In 2010, more than 700,000 HUF were collected for him through voluntary donations, from which he received an electric wheelchair.
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