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My mate's bluey edit blew up on TikTok and now he's got a ratbag problem in his comments
Tbh I used to just scroll past Australian memes and think they were all just the same old gags about kangaroos and meat pies. But last week my mate from Geelong posted a 15 second edit of his dog chasing a bin chicken and it got 2 million views overnight. Now he's dealing with all these overseas comments saying it's fake and asking why the bird is called a bin chicken, plus a few locals arguing about which suburb has the worst one. Has anyone else had their normal content suddenly go viral and then get stuck explaining Aussie slang to randoms for days?
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jamesm481mo ago
Ever notice how the internet just picks one random thing to obsess over and then everyone acts like it's the most important topic on Earth for a week? It's like when someone posts a video of their cat doing something mildly weird and suddenly the whole comment section is debating cat behavior like they're all vets. Your mate's bin chicken situation is just the Aussie version of that, we've all got some local thing that looks totally normal to us but sounds insane to anyone else. I've seen it happen with Irish folks explaining what a "yoke" is or Scots trying to describe a chippy queue, the global internet just can't handle that different places have different words for stuff. The worst part is you can't even be mad about it because the confusion is kinda funny, but after the 50th "is that a real bird" comment you start to lose it a bit.
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