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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That sharks are transgender?

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

I once asked what the shark is about. Their name is Blåhaj and the patron saint of the Blåhaj Zone Lemmy.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

See. This is how it's done.

IRON YOUR DAMN FLAGS PEOPLE!

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why are there no trans flags in any of the ikea stores i went to

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[–] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 90 points 1 day ago

Yeah they might be onto something ;-)

“Ihr habt BLÅHAJ zum Symbol gemacht. Wir schwimmen mit Stolz an eurer Seite. Danke, Trans Community!”

"You have made BLÅHAJ a symbol. We swim alongside you with pride. Thank you, Trans Community!"

Pride in Leipzig Germany, 2025

sauce: https://chaos.social/@wyldtom/114760714727302452

[–] ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 124 points 1 day ago

A while back they had a German ad with a closet filled with blåhaj

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 85 points 1 day ago (1 children)

... How could they not? The blåhaj thing has been going on for years lol

[–] Distoorted@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you put å in a wrong place haha

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

apology not accepted, i expect you to show us your new citizenship within the year.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 2 points 7 hours ago

God dammit, I wanted to move to Ireland.

[–] clucose@lemmy.ml 53 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why is this shark a symbol, because of the same colors?

[–] clucose@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Seeing all the upvotes, I assume I cracked the code.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes. The doll has become a trans symbol.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I know that it is a trans symbol, but I couldn't find out why. Is there an actual reason or was it just chosen randomly?

[–] Hoimo@ani.social 2 points 15 hours ago

From what I can tell, bit of both. It started as a meme on Tumblr, gained popularity because it's easily available worldwide (wherever there's an Ikea), and became gay because Tumblr big gay. The colors nicely matching their

socks
made it more popular among a certain subset of the community, and now everyone agrees it's a symbol of trans (support).

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago

I’ve finally learned what blahaj represents. That’s awesome.

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