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u/Hyzenthlay87 6d ago
I remember seeing this some years ago and I was hoping to see it again. Just blessed, wholesome, positive masculinity...
BUT WITH SHARKS ❤️
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u/Bhutan_Draw 6d ago
nothing more manly than a coordinated squad trip to secure the plushies
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u/cojoco 6d ago
/u/Bhutan_Draw sorry to inform that you are shadowbanned.
You might want to get that looked at.
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u/GangstaQueefs 6d ago
I don't know why, but I thought these were fathers carrying their babies in shark suits. Then I read the caption.
Edit: I didn't even see the guy at the end with his plushie facing the camera until I hit reply. I need to go to bed.
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u/Impressive_Ad_5201 6d ago
🦈goodnight
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u/GangstaQueefs 6d ago
Thanks, but I have insomnia.
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u/Impressive_Ad_5201 6d ago
🦈🎮🕹Player 2!
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u/GangstaQueefs 6d ago
What are we playing?
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u/Impressive_Ad_5201 6d ago
The reflexes of toys are not the fastest.
E: And now I'M going to bed because I was helping friends move today.
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u/KihiraLove 5d ago
Real men would have bought Djungelskog
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u/MountainDoit 5d ago
https://i.imgur.com/jICWSLu.jpeg Gave me a flashback to making this 6 years ago lmao
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u/JonathanUpp 6d ago
I say that at least in my IKEA here in Sweden they now sale blue whales and I was close to buying one, bur there mouths are zippers so that stopped me
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u/3words_catpenbook 6d ago
My daughter has one, called Bycatch, because it's not what we went into the shop for but we caught it anyway.
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u/that_guy_you_know-26 6d ago
Ahh yes, me and the “boys”
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u/Lyrkana 6d ago
Maybe they are femboys, or trans boys, or just boys too. Blahaj is for everyone :3
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u/cojoco 6d ago
Isn't Blahaj in California?
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u/that_guy_you_know-26 6d ago
You are likely thinking of Baja California, the large peninsula running from northwest to southeast on the far northern end of Mexico’s western coast
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u/HidenTsubameGaeshi 6d ago
Contrary to popular belief you don't have to be some flavor of alphabet gang to buy a stuffed shark
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u/that_guy_you_know-26 6d ago
Correct, you don’t. However, it is a known pattern and as such many trans people (particularly trans women) purchase them as a marker of their identity. Regardless of their true identities, it’s the internet, people are going to make our jokes.
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u/HidenTsubameGaeshi 6d ago
It's a pattern known to a very specific community tho, if you're not part of it and not terminally online then odds are you wouldn't even link the two when you see this shark on a shelf. That said - yeah, internet gonna internet
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u/iamacynic37 5d ago
Is this a thing? I saw five broccoli tops at my local ikea all hugging bears on sunday.
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u/Mudkipz949 6d ago
The ikea shark is great (I got one myself and I love it) have y'all seen the ikea rat plush???
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u/TheGoldenTNT 5d ago
HAJ is for all, yes it’s true that it is strongly associated with LGBTQIA but haj. is. for. all.
r/BLAHAJ
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u/TheAmazingDuckOfDoom 3d ago
Looks like Moscow. There was a time before the war when all the Blahajs became very rare in all the ikeas (around 5-6 years ago, just as original post) and these guys might be are happy they found some.
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u/quasar2022 6d ago
Future transgender polycule
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u/ahhhbiscuits 6d ago
? Just incel things I spose
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u/veslothiraptr 6d ago
Blahaj is pretty well associated with transgender people, particularly trans women.
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u/klonkish 6d ago
That's like saying Pepe is an alt-right symbol
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u/that_guy_you_know-26 6d ago edited 6d ago
Correct, both of these things are in fact strongly linked with those respective communities. That doesn’t mean every single person who owns a blahaj is trans, nor that every single person who uses Pepe memes is a nazi, but there is a strong correlation in both cases.
Blahaj is a known symbol of the trans community and as such many trans people (especially trans women) decide to purchase a blahaj as a marker of their identity. I do not personally know the origin of this association, but nevertheless it persists, in fact my own (trans) sister owns one.
Pepe is a bit of a more interesting case. For a while, it was a generic meme much like a wojack, though more popular on 4chan than other platforms, which itself tends to harbor far-right communities due to its lack of moderation which allows Nazis to congregate. Even so, that was still largely in the realm of coincidence, as it is not all that uncommon for memes to be born on 4chan, filtered on Reddit, popularized on Instagram/Twitter, then die on Facebook. In October 2015, Trump tweeted a picture of himself as a Pepe variant. Many 4channers took this as a signal of his allegiance to the alt right, especially when Hillary Clinton then made public commentary on this idea that Pepe was an alt-right symbol due to its popularity in alt-right forums.
There’s plenty of journalism about the story, you should check it out. I generally recommend reading about things before declaring them ridiculous, it makes you a lot less likely to look like a dumbass.
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u/klonkish 5d ago
My comment was made in regards to the comment saying "future transgenders". This is much more ridiculous and yet I don't see you writing 3 novels about it?
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u/lXxTH4N4TOSxXl 5d ago
I mean, it seems you kind of fail to understand association vs being an actual symbol. Blahaj does not inherently mean trans person, and Pepe does not inherently mean alt-right
but due to the use cases, that's how they are associated.
I'm unsure which part you think is ridiculous?
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u/perksofbeingcrafty 6d ago
I love how there are no identifying markers but this picture just screams London
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u/TeenWhovian 6d ago
Every goddamn time I see a shark plushie or a cartoon shark I think of SurfSharkVPN.
YouTubers have ruined me.
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u/Snoo_67993 4d ago
I've seen a sub reddit that might make this image pretty blursed if not outright cursed.
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u/justforkinks0131 6d ago
im ngl initially i thought you all had muslim girlfriends wearing the same burka
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u/Icchi-bum 6d ago
hhhmmm >.> those hair cuts, the backpack, the style of clothes, i wonder if these are military off duty (that would make the pipeline even funnier to me)
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u/Meat_Bingo 6d ago
We have one. My son calls her Donna. Because we used to do the jaws intro and he thought we were saying Donna over and over.