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·
    1 year 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.

    • federalreverse-old@feddit.de
      8·
      1 year 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.