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The article is dedicated to a new network genre - the someecard as a component of the Polish-speaking and Russian-speaking mimetic Internet discourse. The main task of the research is to reveal the principal features of someecards as an Internet genre. For this purpose, we address a number of issues related to the appearance of this genre and its place among other hybrid genres. The functions of a someecard are set - genre-forming features, features of themes, manifestations of genre creativity and the availability of genre links.