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148 points

I still don’t know what ich_iel is and at this point I’m too afraid to ask

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It’s the German version of me_irl. Stands for “Ich _ im echten Leben” and is a direct translation of the English

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Aww, thanks! Consider me slightly more educated than when I awoke this morning :)

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Happy to help

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29 points

it is only me_irl in name though, it is a general meme / conversational community with the obnoxious (and over used to death) in joke that is zangendeutsch.

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5 points

Oh my god, you’re woke!

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27 points

Omg I was reading it as “ich lel” not “ich iel” this whole time 😅 thanks

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9 points

I’ve internally been saying “eesh eel”

… which now seems like calling it "me earl’

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7 points

It also incorporates c/memes, basically

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11 points

Bless you sir or madam, you know not how long I have suffered

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43 points

It started as a German version of me_irl (hence the name “ich im echten Leben”) and developed a culture on its own including bad translations from English and other insiders

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21 points

It’s mostly ramen, cows and trains now.

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10 points

“War’s schon immer.”

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As in “ze motorboat hovercraft is full of iel”?

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6 points

Hovercraft, but yes

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I blocked that both on Reddit and here at the very beginning, without knowing what iel means, the posts were mostly unsympathetic and irritating.

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