Not German but sometimes browse ich lel and have it translated. However I’m yoo old or out of the loop to get what’s going on with all the fish/sturgeon memes in there.

Any help is appreciated.

  • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de
    25·
    2 years ago

    I think this post started it. It’s a quote from “Werner”, an old german cartoon movie. The german word for sturgeon is Stör. But “stören” means to be annoying or disturbing. A lot of sturgeons got posted to c/ich_iel and it got really annoying. Because of that, Stör-memes are not allowed on ich_iel from tomorrow. Mission accomplished I guess.

    Edit: Actually, this post started it. It’s a wordplay on the word Erster (first), but written Erstör.

    • föderal umdrehen@feddit.de
      8·
      2 years ago

      And before that someone complained in a feedback thread that there were no sturgeon memes on !ich_iel. On r/ich_iel, fish memes have a somewhat longer tradition which I think started with someone noticing a fish called “Huso”. Since “Huso” can also be used as an abbreviation of “Hurensohn” and that is of course r/ich_iel’s favorite word, it was exploited quite a bit, giving rise to other fish memes.

  • Blizzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    WTF does “ich iel” mean anyway?

    Edit: ooooh! Thanks, now it makes sense.

  • RandomStickman@kbin.social
    9·
    2 years ago

    One of my favourite browsing the feddiverse is sometimes memes from there floats up and like once in awhile I could guess the meme and it’s hilarious

  • amio@kbin.social
    61·
    2 years ago

    They’re running it into the ground sort of like Reddit killed rage comics, but significantly quicker.

    • Ilikecheese@lemm.ee
      141·
      2 years ago

      Which, you know, would probably be enough information to someone who spoke German, but then again if someone spoke German, they probably wouldn’t be asking this question to begin with.