#i recommend the campus tv fake episode titled 'die alaska seelachs verschwörung' on that

[autumncalls]

Well there kinda is a story behind the Bielefeld conspiracy. It started at a student party in 1993 because one guy (Achim Held) met someone there from Bielefeld and after everybody else said that they had never met someone form there before he exclaimed that he doesn't think Bielefeld even exists. They started elaborating on the theory and in 1994 Held took it to the internet to make fun of conspiracy theories and then it really started to spread. Also in 2019 the city of Bielefeld offered 1 million euros if a person could really proof that the city doesn't exist. Obviously nobody succeeded, no money was paid but there is now a memorial in form of a foundling commemorating the Bielefeld conspiracy in the old town.

A quick insight into German (Millennial) meme culture (inspired by the blast to the past this uquiz gave me):

Bernd das Brot (a depressed bread puppet, originating from a children’s parody on advertising shows, later getting his own show)

The Bielefeld conspiracy: Bielefeld is a city in western Germany with about 300,000 inhabitants; there is also a running gag that Bielefeld doesn’t actually exist. The origin of that joke seems to be extremely random, there isn’t really a big story behind it. 

Germans like to argue about name and gender of their food. Ask a group of German people what they call the inside of an apple, or what gendered article to use for Nutella, and watch them yell at each other for half an hour.

The song from the Superperforator commercial (from a parody on Western movies that gets way more credit for being LGBT rep than it deserves (the song’s a bop tho))

Gays in Space (a parody on Sci-Fi movies that gets way more credit for being LGBT rep than it deserves)

A coke commercial with the keeper of Germany’s national football team lead to the “maybe it’s not […], maybe it’s Manuel Neuer” meme

This super weird opening to a porn which I am going to translate real quick: “This is the fuse box we always have problems with, can you look at it?” “With pleasure, but why is there straw lying around?” “And why are you wearing a mask?” “Mmmh… give me a blowjob then.”

Bravo, the biggest German youth magazine, is infamous (amongst other things) for cheesy photo love stories, failing gloriously at using authentic German youth slang. This panel is the origin of “alles bäm?” (”all bam?”), a greeting nobody ever used before, but for a while everyone used it ironically after that.

Once a year every school in Germany holds a sports competition called ‘Bundesjugendspiele’ (Federal Youth Games). Participation is mandatory. It literally serves no purpose. You’re not even competing against other schools. Based on your score you either get a ‘Participation Certificate’ (’you participated but you’re also a loser’), a ‘Winner’s Certificate’ (you participated and didn’t win shit, but we want to make you feel better about yourself’), or a ‘Honors Certificate’ (’you can now brag about how good you are at sports’). Everyone hates it. Ask a German about Bundesjugendspiele and see their eyes go blank from hot fury and/or unprocessed childhood trauma.