Comparatively to the rest of the internet, it seems like there are a lot more Germans here. I’ve always assumed it was just because I was on a German instance and was in a sort of echo chamber (join feddit.org btw 🥳), but I just checked Fediverse Observer and it’s the 2nd largest country by users. Additionally, the German instances seem to be the biggest non-English ones.
Why is this?
Gotta say, I love reading the German memes in /all, even if I have a kindergarten-level understanding of German.
I love the serendipitous use of kindergarten, with it being of German origin :)
I thought it was planned, haha.
No idea WTF is happening on ich iel half the time but it seems hilarious.
I don’t speak or read German but every once in a while a meme will have a critical mass of words I understand because of their proximity to English, and the German 100% amplifies the meme.
Neither have I, and I’m German. But that’s part of why it’s so appealing
Zangendeutsch is killing me though. I’m a native English speaker living in Germany and it’s difficult not to internalize fake internet German
In my experience, the mental effort spent trying to understand the German in a meme makes the comedic payout better
I fully agree, lol. I browse ich_iel with reading glasses and a dictionary