2,50 euros started an exposure on two relatively well known german streamers. Abuse in the workplace, abuse of partners and animal abuse are the allegations. German UA-cam is currently on fire in some corners. not so much if you dont follow any of these people
To explain it a little more precisely: It was a donation of 2.50 euros in the chat of a different streamer, combined with an actually harmless question, which unexpectedly led to the end of the careers of two German influencers (Anni The Duck and Unge).
@@klarasee806Fascinating. I'm rarely in those corners so I had no idea and was puzzled about that meme, so thank you both very much for explaining the details.
Struwwelpeter - This would be worth making a video of its own. These are children's stories from 1844 with an educational background that used to be read to little children before they went to sleep. "The picture book, which has been printed since 1845, contains several stories in which children often suffer drastic consequences due to careless behavior, ranging from falling into the water to death." Wiki These are such nice stories like: Friederich, who tortures animals and gets his leg bitten by a dog. Pauline, who plays with fire and burns alive. Three children who mock a Mohr (black man) and are dipped in black ink as punishment. Konrad, who always sucks his thumb and has it cut off by the tailor as punishment. Soup Casper, who doesn't want to eat his soup, gets thinner and thinner and then dies. Flying Robert, who isn't supposed to go out in a storm but does it anyway and is blown away by the wind. And today, very topical again, Hanns Guck-in-die-Luft, who watches the birds while walking and falls into the river. Today it's smartphones. You have to read them to your children. They'll never sleep again, but they'll never suck their thumbs or play with fire again either.
The one with the peas alludes to the play "Woyzeck" by Georg Büchner, it's often read in german schools. It's about a poor soldier who is experimented on by a doctor (he only can eat peas for the experiment), so he can pay for his illegitimate child. He ends up going crazy and murdering the mother of his child.
In the 19th century it was actually quite common for the aristocracy to ask questions about what food actually does to the human body, what contains sufficient nutrients, and in a more practical sense what you could get away with feeding your peasantry before they all die on you. There were also countless fad diets and quacks who claimed that all kinds of insane diets were the holy grail.
5:20 Half the sentence got lost: The classmate sits in the BMW, with her husband and two kids. We're single and sitting in a Skoda, still listening to Limp Bizkit
Plottwist, nur weil seine Frau mit den Kindern im BMW grad an ner anderen Ampel steht und ganz laut Bibi und Tina hören muss. Der Klassenkamerad muss dafür "Beste Kindergartenlieder 45" anhören und hat kein Zweitauto. 😊
8:18 It's because you know basically no German at all. Once you learn a little bit it gets easier because you understand where word boundaries are. That word is basically "Kinder Buch Charaktere". But you wouldn't know that if you don't know that these three German words exist. We just don't like spaces. Waste of space, bad efficiency.
8:16 That may actually be a reference to the theatre play „Woyzeck“ by Hessian doctor, scientist, author and revolutionary Georg Büchner. The main character of that play, Woyzeck, is an abused social outcast soldier of Polish descent who, as part of a medical experiment, is coerced to live on a diet of peas, goes mad and murders his lover. (It‘s required reading in several German states for classes 11 or 12.) For a play written (though unfinished due to Büchner‘s death in 1837 - yes, EIGHTEEN thirty-seven! - at the age of 23 - yes, twenty-three!) in 1836/37, and only published in 1879, that was incredibly progressive.
Thanks for explaining. I'm only half german and went to shool in Luxembourg. I've never heard of that play. I see how that is a pretty impressive piece of literature.
To explain the 2,50€ memes: 3 Weeks ago someone named jamie donated 2,50€ to a streamer and that donation lead to two well known german streamers completely lossing their good reputation and leaving the platform.
@@K__a__M__Iok so to summarize streamer A used to do lots of stuff with streamer B but she stopped, so one guy donated 2,50€ to her asking what happened and Streamer A then proceeded to vent about what a bad person streamer B was, which led to many others joining in and finally telling the truth about Streamer B. Not sure about the dude tho, I know he’s popular but I didnt know he was involved. i’m guessing he defended Streamer B which led to his downfall
@@Cloud-zq3cc Actually, Unge's story had nothing to do with Anni's story, but there are strong parallels: Both are accused of a toxic relationship, both moved to Madeira with their partners, and both are accused of mistreating cats. Because both stories came to light at the same time, it was all boiled down into one sauce and made even bigger.
@@Cloud-zq3cc Streamer B isn't directly involved with the streamer A scenario. Basically, someone (let's call him streamer C) just figured that now was apparently streamer cancelling time and proceeded to make a video about streamer B, accusing him of trying to attempt to socially isolate streamer C after the two had a falling-out (i.e. asking friends to no longer hang out with streamer C). Streamer B then proceeded to post an ill-considered non-apology which just made everyone mad, followed a bit later by a more genuine sounding apology (as well as the announcement that streamer B would go on a hiatus for the forseeable future and seek out the aid of a therapist) which would have been more well-received if he didn't push the non-apology first.
8:18 Der Struwelpeter is a collection of "short stories" for children - about misbehaving children that get punished. The guy in the picture is "der Schneider" - "the tailor", from the story Der Daumenlutscher. He cuts of both thumbs of a child who didn't stop sucking his thumb, despite the mother telling him to stop. The illustration is quite bloody. I got read/shown this book when I was a young kid. About 3 or 4 I guess.
8:10 refers to Georg Büchners play Woyzeck, in which the main character does the things mentioned. It's usually treated in around 10th grade German literature.
Georg von Augustinus is a translation of Gigi d'Agostino into German. Gigi d'Agostini's most famous song was recently used with new, racist lyrics at right wing gatherings. The band Landser (literally: German field soldier) is one of the most successful right wing bands.
14:59 This one is about the saxon accent. The german word Parkett (parquet, wooden floor) in saxon accent sounds like Bargett, which is almost indistinguishable from the french word Baguette. So the saxon master craftsman told his apprentices to put in a wooden floor, and his non saxon apprentices misunderstood and put in baguette floor.
15:00 It's written with a stereotypical Saxony accent and says "Dude! I said parquet floor, not baguette floor!" Both words - Parkett and Baguette - sound the exact same in a deep Saxon accent, a bit like "boah-get". Just like in the Odenwald region of Hessia shirts (Hemden), hammers (Hämmer) and "have we" (haben wir) are all pronounced like "Hämmer". There's a joke from that region where a guy walks into a hardware store asking for shirts and the salesperson replies "Hemmer hem mer kä, awwer Hämmer hem mer." (pronounced like "hammer hammer kay, upper hammer hammer")
14:48 is in dialect, so obviously google can't translate it. In that case it's someone with saxon dialect complaining that they wanted parquet flooring and got baguette flooring (Parkett and baguette are pronounced very similar in that dialect)
There was once a legal case with a travel agency, where the saxon wanted to fly to Bordeaux and ended up in Porto (or the other way round). True story.
@@mercatorjubio3804 😆 There is a town in Saxony called Töpeln. But the Saxons can't pronounce it properly and say Döbeln. So, it was the other way around. The Saxon wanted to fly to Porto and landed in Bordeaux instead.
13:30 it's only funny because they use (correctly) the dative after the preposition "mit - with" but (incorrectly) after the preposition "wegen - because of". The preposition "wegen" requires the genitive - "wegen des Dativs" but colloquial speech/slang often uses the dative instead of the genitive. So, ALL are speaking incorrectly. For English speakers it's difficult to grasp as you only have a few remnants left of your nominal (declinational) system - genitive 's, plural s, some personal pronoun forms I - me, he - his - him, she - her, we - us, they - them.
@@Lylantares years ago while on holiday in italy (in some touristy region) we saw on the menu of a restaurant : *_"Pizza alla casa, Pizza mit alles trauf"_*
2:38 Picture is broken. It should read „BahnhofsVIERTEL“. And someone asking the way to that district of the city… well.. let’s just say, you‘re in most cases better off avoiding that particular part. Lot‘s of drug users. In the less-well-to-do areas, crack smokers are stumbling around all day, craving their next dose, whereas in the banking parts, cocaine lines residue can be found on the toilet seats…
And here I thought it was about the perception of the French as chique and any French food being haute cuisine. Similarly to how the katana is idolised and given mythical qualities by some people on the internet. But yours makes more sense ^^
The 2,50€ Memes: someone called Jamie made a donation to some streamer and asked her if she will make a new collaboration with the streamer AnniTheDuck like she used to. After ignoring the question for years this time she snapped and explained that she is done playing nice and keeping quit and started explaining how abusive Anni is and why she stopped doing collaborations with her. A lot of other people started to share similar storys. Anni was then forced to react to the allegations, because she is a voice actor in the current Garfield movie and Sony demanded a statement. She admitted most of the things she was accused of and basicly ended her career for now. Encouraged by this people also started to speak up against another big streamer, Ungespielt. He also quit after admitting guilt. Anni and Unge were two really big streamers and their career ended because of 2,50€
Lordylord. Don't say that you've never heard of famous composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin (like in "Show-Paan" not "Choplin")? What on earth do they teach you in school?
7:11 that depends on region, depending on where you are people will get upset at a "moin" or even at both of these... there are so many regional ways to say hello in germany...
@15:00: This is saxonian dialect. "P" is somehow spoken like a "B". So Parkettboden (parquet floor) sounds like Baguette. And Mondsch is "Mensch" (human). In Germany sometimes used as a exclamation, to express you are pissed off.
Not only is the katana curved but folded multiple times to get at least 1,000 layers. Just like the puff pastry that croissants are made out of. The reason for the folding of katana steel is that in the past Japanese steel was of very low quality and by folding it you can hammer off more of the slag (parts of sediment from the iron ore that you couldn't get rid off in the smelting process). The reason for folding puff pastry dough is so there's multiple thin layers of butter and dough on top of each other which gives the pastry its puff.
8:11 that is a reference to "woyzeck" a book we german students all have to read during high school. One of its plotlines is the main character selling his body for a sientific experiment where he has to only eat peas for weeks and slowly goes insane
8:47 The Struwwelpeter (messy hair Peter) is a childrens book from the mid 19th century that is widely known in Germany. It features short story that were supposed to be educational. I guess back then "educational" meant "scare the living shit out of those little brats so they behave properly". The character shown in the meme is a barber who cut off the thumb of a boy because he was constantly sucking on it even though his mother told him to stop multiple times. When she left him unattended said barber breaks in and snip-snaps his thumbs off. The other stories are similar graphic. For example Kaspar who refuses to eat his soup and starves to death. To be extra cruel the parents place the soup tureen on his grave. Or Pauline who plays with matches while her parents are out for the evening - I'll never understand why they didn't hire a babysitter but trusted the cats to watch after her - and burns to a pile of ashes. There are also relatively tame stories that don't end as fatal. Like Pillip who wouldn't sit still at the dinner table, falls off the chair and by grabbing the table cloth smashes all the fine china. Or Hans who always stared in the sky and didn't watch his feet. First he trips over a dog, then he falls into a canal but is immediatly saved from drowning by two men. Those characters I just named all made it into the common language somehow: The insult Suppenkaspar (Soup Casper) describes a picky eater, someone who's always daydreaming is called a Hans-guck-in-die-Luft (Hans-look-in-the-air), ADHD was also called Zappelphillip-Syndrom (Fidgety Phillip Syndrome) in the early days and an organisation that helps children with burn injuries named itself Paulinchen e.V. Final fun fact: The book was written by psychiatrist Heinrich Hoffmann after he couldn't find a proper picture book as a Christmas present for his THREE year old son.
0:37 there is currently a controversy in yt germany. One guy spent 2,50 to ask a streamer about a certain streamer/youtuber and as a response a whole lot of mistreatment, violence, animal abuse and other horrible acts where leaked about first the girl (because the 2,50 guy asked about her) and later also about the guy. The online names are: "Annie the duck" and "unge"/"ungespielt"
"ich iel" memes have another level of fun for native Germans since their texts are very poorly translated from English to German. Especially the last one ( 17:13 ): "Ändere meinen Verstand" which obviously translates to "Change my mind" (meaning something like "Change my opinion"). Unfortunately, there are multiple possible translations for "mind". So the German text reads: "Change my intellect".
"einmal mit allem": In german (much like latin e.g.) there are cases for parts of phrases which give extra context on what's the (in)direct object, etc. "einmal mit alles" is nominative case, an exaggerated translation would be "once with THE everything". The grammatically correct way to order something with all extras would be "einmal mit allem" ("I'll have that (once) with everything") which is dative case. But the (technically) incorrect use of nominative here has become a well-known meme, so people complaining are party poopers :D Also if the person is complaining, they should have said "...wegen des Dativs" (which is genitive (possessive, "of the") case, and arguably correct here)
6:48 There's a "rule" in Northern Germany saying: The proper greeting is "Moin". "Moin Moin" is already chit-chatting. It's said that the Northerners don't like to speak much. Especially not to strangers. So it's no surprise their greeting is only one syllable. Moin is the typical greeting around the coastal regions where Lower German is spoken and comes from the Frisian word "mojen" meaning good or nice. "Mojen Dag" means "Good Day" for example. It was shortened to Moin and can be used any time of the day. Quick and simple. "Moin" just says "I wish you a nice whatever time of the day it is right now." In only one syllable. 😅 Northerners also invented the good bye "Tschüss" which is a shortening of Adjüst which comes from the French Adieu meaning "(Be) with God." Just like the Bavarian "Pfüati" is short for "(Gott) behüte dich" (May God watch over and protect you).
13:40 "Please do not play the forbidden hit song by [meme-ified way to say 'Gigi d'Agostino']. We don't need a scandal." --> References a recent scandal where some drunken teens sang along to said song, replacing the text with Nazi slogans. *The village bumpkin DJ who has spent decades playing exclusively 'Landser' past midnight* --> Landser is an outright Nazi rock band. So he sure won't play no French techno. He's far beyond that point. To the right, obviously.
13:06: That one you can only understand if you speak a language in which the object of the sentence can be either dative or accusative case. And the funny part about this is that the normal kid complains that “mit” (with) goes with dative, not accusative, but uses “wegen” (because of) with dative instead of genitive.
The one about the Peas is a reference to Woyzeck, a play that many students analyze in school. The main character is a poor 19th century soldier who does a number of odd jobs to keep afloat financially and support his girlfriend, one of those jobs being that he lives off only peas as part of a medical experiment the local doctor is performing. After the soldier catches his girlfriend dancing with a superior officer, he loses his mind and murders her.
14:46 When you say Katze (cat) with a soft consonant you get Gatze. This pronounciation became popular in several online communities lately. I saw a few Twitch streamers like Lostkittn reacting to pictures of cats that way and it's kinda cute. Now if you translate it this way it means "petting cats" but also "petting Gatzen" (a part of a smalltown in the west of Saxony).
14:58 this is a joke about the different German dialects. The speaker is from the former GDR and wanted a parquet floor, but he got a baguette floor because in his dialect parquet sounds similar to baguette. The Saxon dialect has often given rise to such jokes in the West.
I did not expect to see two Bud Spencer branded things today (the other was a new Currywurst (or just a regular grilled snack shop? Don't remember) place near the main station that was about the size of a milk carton (don't wanna know how hot it gets when you're working in there)) but here we are. Actually didn't expect a single one. Bit surprised you can just do that (I mean, the man is dead but it hasn't even been 10 years).
8:45 It's a character from the story of little suck a thumb. Little suck a thumb kept sucking his thumbs and because that is an expression of masturbation the tailor came and cut his thumbs off. This could be a good moral story, if the masturbation part was actually spelled out. It's a story from "Der Struwwelpeter" picture book, meant to teach kids to be well behaved. 16:10 Which is also a story of Struwwelpeter, funnily enough.
The reason the Katana is the Croissant of swords, is because both, the metal of the Katana and the dough of the Croissant are folded and hammered/rolled out again and again and again. In the Katana case, that makes the material more resilient and also gives it those pretty wave layers. In the Croissant case, the dough is layered with butter so the layers seperate and thus it becomes fluffy cloud of many super thin and deliciously fat soaked layers of delight. Both require a lot of experience and crafting experience to do well :D
the meme with the baguettes: the meme is mocking the saxon dialect. in said dialect baguette and parquet are pretty much pronounced exactly the same. so the text says "i told you i wanted parquet flooring, not baguette flooring".
The baguette floor is funny, because you practically can't distinguish between baguette and parquet in certain German dialects that are mostly spoken in and around Saxony.
16:58 the farmer is speaking bavarian. He says "Lord I cannot pay. The taxes are much too high and absolutely unfair." The response is translated correctly.
9:27: Point before line is actually how the order of operations is taught in Germany. It means that multiplication (·) and division (:) come before addition (+) and subtraction (-). You learn that in primary school. Just that. No fancy PEMDAS bs.
Gatzen streicheln refers to petting cats, since cats is spelled Katzen in German. Gatzen comes from another meme where Katzen was deliberately misspelled.
09:23 the whole thing about discussing what result would be correct in math problems mixing addition/substraction ("strich" = line) and multiplication/division ("Punkt" = dot) goes down to the "Punkt vor Strich" rule (which says that dot-operations have priority against line-operations. So even withous parenthesis, multilication and division allways get treated like they had them). The problem is that this rule was only implemented in german shool around the 70ies. So before that time, the order of operation was just from left to right, no matter what which of the four (line or dot) it was. That's why the older boomer germans never learned it and would treat the problem diffrently (and it not necessarily being a sign of bad education). Of course they could have adapted and correct what they learned, but let's be honest, since they are out of shool and most of them don't actually need to use that base math skill any more, they would not. (Besides that our phones do that job since ages) That said, I wonder how is it in the US (or even other countries too). I don't know if they all adapted to the "new" rule or not.
17:04: The peasant actually says in dialect: “My Lord, I can't pay. The taxes are way too high and totally unjust.” The Lord's response is exactly what the translator tells you.
Well the issue is you can not understand every german since some of them doesn't make sense in other countries except germany itself. It's because the origin or you have to know german grammer or even the different phrasing from different federal states there. Btw. some parts got not correctly translated and half of the text vanished. For exmple the meme at 13:08 , bassically in english there is just one word for everything: "the". the apple, the game, the coffee machine. In germany it's gendered: "der" Apfel (male), das Spiel (neutral), "die" Kafeemaschine (female)
15:25 it's a play of words making fun of a particular German dialect where the words Parkett (wooden floor) and baguette pretty much sound the same. They wanted Parkett flooring not baguette flooring. Badum tsss
13:07 is extremely language dependent. German has substantive cases, and that meme references that. Hard to translate into a language that doesn't really use cases, like english.
6:48 Moin is the greating of the East Frisian. If you say Moin Moin then we think you do a over the top greating. That make us susperious about what you want from us.
5:20 The translation didn't even cover half of the text: At the traffic lights: Next to me my former classmate in a BMW X3 with her husband and two kids. Me next to them, in my early 30s, sitting in a Skoda Fabia, listening to Limp Bizkit. I suppose that means he realises how other people his age grown up, got rich and started a family while he is still the same he was when he finished school way over a decade ago.
5:30 I associate BMW with two kinds of people. Poor people pooling family money to get their status symbol (usually a 3 series) and middle management not having to pay for either car or gas getting their status symbol as a company car (I guess these tend to be from the 5 or 7 series). Neither kind of person is seen in a positive light, usually. I guess the meme was about not growing up (hence the part that didn't translate) but all I see is someone dodging a bullet ^^ Edit: a brand new 3 series can be as cheap as 50k $ (local price converted to dollars, after tax obv.), which may not actually be cheap but that's far from being an expensive car. The 3 series is about the same price as an Audi A4 or a Mercedes C class and 1.5 times the price of a VW Passat or an Opel Insignia (if that). I was shocked, btw, to see how little prices have changed since I was into cars as a teenager, some 15-20 years ago. But I guess that's just bc housing and food price increases have made me expect sth different. 6:25 I'm your age and I simply haven't done a lot of typing (on my phone) in 5 years. It's either voice to text or voice message. Convenience is one thing but I also like the human connection. I simply hate how isolated we are these days and find it sad my friends rarely send me any. 11:45 Pay attention to it also saying "irgendein" instead of using proper declension/the right grammatical case ("irgendeinEN"). This may or may not have been intentional but boy does it fit. Some people speak the stupid, these days. 15:52 I'm sure this is sarcasm but yeah, said no one familiar with 40k lore ever ^^ (fyi: it's literally where the term grimdark comes from, "In the grim, dark future of the 41st Millennium, there is only war" or sth like that) 17:20 That's probably about the perception people have of katanas. Many people big them up to be these mythical implements, the best swords in the world and so on when in reality, they were no better or worse (certainly not in quality) than European swords at the time. And they both were backup weapons, literal sidearms, anyways. Most soldiers throughout recorded history used either spears or ranged weapons primarily. The samurai, for example, would have used bows or firearms. But for some reason (anime and shogun films, most likely), a lot of people just idolise these things. Edit: apparently not. Croissants and katanas are just both layered. Guess that works, too.
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8:10 This is a reference to the story 'Woyzeck' from Georg Buechner, which is read in German lessons in the Oberstufe (secondary school).
2,50 euros started an exposure on two relatively well known german streamers. Abuse in the workplace, abuse of partners and animal abuse are the allegations. German UA-cam is currently on fire in some corners. not so much if you dont follow any of these people
To explain it a little more precisely: It was a donation of 2.50 euros in the chat of a different streamer, combined with an actually harmless question, which unexpectedly led to the end of the careers of two German influencers (Anni The Duck and Unge).
Don't forget the smear campaign
But on the other hand that corner of German UA-cam that calls itself "German UA-cam" is pretty garbage anyways.
@@corncutter yeah, can't deny that
@@klarasee806Fascinating. I'm rarely in those corners so I had no idea and was puzzled about that meme, so thank you both very much for explaining the details.
Struwwelpeter - This would be worth making a video of its own. These are children's stories from 1844 with an educational background that used to be read to little children before they went to sleep.
"The picture book, which has been printed since 1845, contains several stories in which children often suffer drastic consequences due to careless behavior, ranging from falling into the water to death." Wiki
These are such nice stories like:
Friederich, who tortures animals and gets his leg bitten by a dog.
Pauline, who plays with fire and burns alive.
Three children who mock a Mohr (black man) and are dipped in black ink as punishment.
Konrad, who always sucks his thumb and has it cut off by the tailor as punishment.
Soup Casper, who doesn't want to eat his soup, gets thinner and thinner and then dies.
Flying Robert, who isn't supposed to go out in a storm but does it anyway and is blown away by the wind.
And today, very topical again,
Hanns Guck-in-die-Luft, who watches the birds while walking and falls into the river. Today it's smartphones.
You have to read them to your children. They'll never sleep again, but they'll never suck their thumbs or play with fire again either.
interesting, I will write that down!!
EDIT: I had forgot I already did write that down
It this case, the guy is the tailor who cuts off the thumbsucker's thumbs.
@ryanwass That edit is honestly not a good sign. 😂
The one with the peas alludes to the play "Woyzeck" by Georg Büchner, it's often read in german schools. It's about a poor soldier who is experimented on by a doctor (he only can eat peas for the experiment), so he can pay for his illegitimate child. He ends up going crazy and murdering the mother of his child.
die story hatte ich total vergessen...uff...how to delete my memory
In the 19th century it was actually quite common for the aristocracy to ask questions about what food actually does to the human body, what contains sufficient nutrients, and in a more practical sense what you could get away with feeding your peasantry before they all die on you.
There were also countless fad diets and quacks who claimed that all kinds of insane diets were the holy grail.
yeah... we have Woyzeck in school... it is ok... but wouldn't read it if I didn't have to read it for school
@@Starfighter-xu7bq I would, Büchner was a great guy, Friede den Hütten Krieg den Palästen.
@@MrHodoAstartes"were"? 😅 Have you been on the Internet lately? The diet quacks are still quacking and getting richover it, too.
Not only is a Katana bent, it's also made of steel which is folded many times, just like a Croissant is made from folded dough.
5:20 Half the sentence got lost: The classmate sits in the BMW, with her husband and two kids. We're single and sitting in a Skoda, still listening to Limp Bizkit
Yeah I liked that one, totally me
Plottwist, nur weil seine Frau mit den Kindern im BMW grad an ner anderen Ampel steht und ganz laut Bibi und Tina hören muss. Der Klassenkamerad muss dafür "Beste Kindergartenlieder 45" anhören und hat kein Zweitauto. 😊
wenigstens limp bizkit
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@@playerg0ne rolling
The ones with bavarian or saxon dialect need to be translated into german first and then into english.. lol
8:18 It's because you know basically no German at all. Once you learn a little bit it gets easier because you understand where word boundaries are. That word is basically "Kinder Buch Charaktere". But you wouldn't know that if you don't know that these three German words exist. We just don't like spaces. Waste of space, bad efficiency.
8:16 That may actually be a reference to the theatre play „Woyzeck“ by Hessian doctor, scientist, author and revolutionary Georg Büchner. The main character of that play, Woyzeck, is an abused social outcast soldier of Polish descent who, as part of a medical experiment, is coerced to live on a diet of peas, goes mad and murders his lover. (It‘s required reading in several German states for classes 11 or 12.) For a play written (though unfinished due to Büchner‘s death in 1837 - yes, EIGHTEEN thirty-seven! - at the age of 23 - yes, twenty-three!) in 1836/37, and only published in 1879, that was incredibly progressive.
Thanks for explaining. I'm only half german and went to shool in Luxembourg. I've never heard of that play.
I see how that is a pretty impressive piece of literature.
"Moin" is a greeting - "Moin, moin" is jabbering.
And moin moin is only for those who don't know. It's just moin 😄 as far as I learned in northern Germany
@@florianstadler5566very well learned
I always say moinsn (It’s just a crazy version of moin)
Ryan not knowing ICQ makes me feel really old.
Huh? Doesn't have to do anything with age.. in the US barely anyone uses WhatsApp, either.
@@Kloetenhenne well, good point. Might have never been that popular 🤔
Let’s be honest here, ICQ is old
@@Katzekoschi well, strange that Ryan is clearly older than me.. yet, I still know my number.
Yes, has nothing to do with his age, I don’t think ICQ was used much in the US. There were other messaging apps.
To explain the 2,50€ memes:
3 Weeks ago someone named jamie donated 2,50€ to a streamer and that donation lead to two well known german streamers completely lossing their good reputation and leaving the platform.
Yeah, that doesn't explain anything.
@@K__a__M__Iok so to summarize streamer A used to do lots of stuff with streamer B but she stopped, so one guy donated 2,50€ to her asking what happened and Streamer A then proceeded to vent about what a bad person streamer B was, which led to many others joining in and finally telling the truth about Streamer B. Not sure about the dude tho, I know he’s popular but I didnt know he was involved. i’m guessing he defended Streamer B which led to his downfall
@@Cloud-zq3cc Actually, Unge's story had nothing to do with Anni's story, but there are strong parallels: Both are accused of a toxic relationship, both moved to Madeira with their partners, and both are accused of mistreating cats. Because both stories came to light at the same time, it was all boiled down into one sauce and made even bigger.
@@Cloud-zq3cc nope, people got the courage from the situation (which was similar to theirs) to speak out against him
@@Cloud-zq3cc Streamer B isn't directly involved with the streamer A scenario.
Basically, someone (let's call him streamer C) just figured that now was apparently streamer cancelling time and proceeded to make a video about streamer B, accusing him of trying to attempt to socially isolate streamer C after the two had a falling-out (i.e. asking friends to no longer hang out with streamer C).
Streamer B then proceeded to post an ill-considered non-apology which just made everyone mad, followed a bit later by a more genuine sounding apology (as well as the announcement that streamer B would go on a hiatus for the forseeable future and seek out the aid of a therapist) which would have been more well-received if he didn't push the non-apology first.
In some German dialects, Parkett (parquet) and baguette sounds the same. Now he gets a baguette floor instead of a parquet floor.
Even as a German I needed this explanation to understand the meme.
8:18 Der Struwelpeter is a collection of "short stories" for children - about misbehaving children that get punished.
The guy in the picture is "der Schneider" - "the tailor", from the story Der Daumenlutscher. He cuts of both thumbs of a child who didn't stop sucking his thumb, despite the mother telling him to stop. The illustration is quite bloody. I got read/shown this book when I was a young kid. About 3 or 4 I guess.
8:10 refers to Georg Büchners play Woyzeck, in which the main character does the things mentioned.
It's usually treated in around 10th grade German literature.
Alte Wunden reißen wieder auf 🤣
"Der Wind kommt so aus Nord-Sued.."
"Jawohl Herr Hauptmann!"
"Ha ha ha, er ist ein Narr, Woyzeck"
Moral, das ist wenn man moralisch ist
8:46 Ryan really needs to read the Struwwelpeter 😅
Moin moin is too talkative for a northern german 😂 just moin, it means hello
Georg von Augustinus is a translation of Gigi d'Agostino into German. Gigi d'Agostini's most famous song was recently used with new, racist lyrics at right wing gatherings. The band Landser (literally: German field soldier) is one of the most successful right wing bands.
Why are you lying?😮
@@12061988 Why are you lying about me lying?
@@12061988 He isn't.
@@12061988 Why are you lying about me lying?
14:59 This one is about the saxon accent.
The german word Parkett (parquet, wooden floor) in saxon accent sounds like Bargett, which is almost indistinguishable from the french word Baguette.
So the saxon master craftsman told his apprentices to put in a wooden floor, and his non saxon apprentices misunderstood and put in baguette floor.
17:22 Nah, cause it's folded a thousand times or something. :P
13:28 It should be „wegen des Dativs“! But I guess it‘s part of the joke. And if not, it makes the meme even funnier.
der Genitiv ist des Dativs Tod!
15:00 It's written with a stereotypical Saxony accent and says "Dude! I said parquet floor, not baguette floor!"
Both words - Parkett and Baguette - sound the exact same in a deep Saxon accent, a bit like "boah-get".
Just like in the Odenwald region of Hessia shirts (Hemden), hammers (Hämmer) and "have we" (haben wir) are all pronounced like "Hämmer".
There's a joke from that region where a guy walks into a hardware store asking for shirts and the salesperson replies "Hemmer hem mer kä, awwer Hämmer hem mer." (pronounced like "hammer hammer kay, upper hammer hammer")
net nur em Odewald, im badische werd grad so gschwätzt. Wobei än Dail vom Odewald isch jo badisch.
Yes, we have a phenomenal weekend, and even better with a video from you
14:48 is in dialect, so obviously google can't translate it.
In that case it's someone with saxon dialect complaining that they wanted parquet flooring and got baguette flooring (Parkett and baguette are pronounced very similar in that dialect)
It is about dialects (in this case Saxon) that pronounce b as p, k as g, and t as d. And so, the parquet floor becomes the baguette floor.
There was once a legal case with a travel agency, where the saxon wanted to fly to Bordeaux and ended up in Porto (or the other way round). True story.
@@mercatorjubio3804 😆 There is a town in Saxony called Töpeln. But the Saxons can't pronounce it properly and say Döbeln.
So, it was the other way around. The Saxon wanted to fly to Porto and landed in Bordeaux instead.
@@Nikioko Those saxons .... 😆
4:45 We have Dishwashers! 🥲
It got explained to to him three times, last time literally a week ago and he is too stupid to remember
@@alinadornieden8411 forgetful maybe. calling him stupid is pretty rude
@@alinadornieden8411 yeah don't mean he's at least trying
13:30 it's only funny because they use (correctly) the dative after the preposition "mit - with" but (incorrectly) after the preposition "wegen - because of". The preposition "wegen" requires the genitive - "wegen des Dativs" but colloquial speech/slang often uses the dative instead of the genitive. So, ALL are speaking incorrectly.
For English speakers it's difficult to grasp as you only have a few remnants left of your nominal (declinational) system - genitive 's, plural s, some personal pronoun forms I - me, he - his - him, she - her, we - us, they - them.
also making fun of the "Döner mit alles" meme, implying that the intellectuals use the phrase with a wink. still missing "und mit scharf"
@@Lylantares years ago while on holiday in italy (in some touristy region) we saw on the menu of a restaurant : *_"Pizza alla casa, Pizza mit alles trauf"_*
"Starterpack für Männer" was funny... "this would be nice"... "i need this (actually not)"... :D
2:38 Picture is broken. It should read „BahnhofsVIERTEL“. And someone asking the way to that district of the city… well.. let’s just say, you‘re in most cases better off avoiding that particular part. Lot‘s of drug users. In the less-well-to-do areas, crack smokers are stumbling around all day, craving their next dose, whereas in the banking parts, cocaine lines residue can be found on the toilet seats…
7:07 Some Northerners supposedly think saying „Moin“ twice makes you an unbearable blabbermouth.
Moin ist normal. Moin Moin ist schon eine komplette Konversation sagen wir immer 😂
@@Jasses0 Kollegin von mir, wenn jemand „Moin Moin“ sagt: „SCHWÄTZER!“
croissants are made out of many folded layers of dough, katanas are made of many folded layers of steel, therefore they are the same!
and the revolver is the katana of guns
And here I thought it was about the perception of the French as chique and any French food being haute cuisine.
Similarly to how the katana is idolised and given mythical qualities by some people on the internet.
But yours makes more sense ^^
croissants taste better though
The 2,50€ Memes: someone called Jamie made a donation to some streamer and asked her if she will make a new collaboration with the streamer AnniTheDuck like she used to. After ignoring the question for years this time she snapped and explained that she is done playing nice and keeping quit and started explaining how abusive Anni is and why she stopped doing collaborations with her. A lot of other people started to share similar storys. Anni was then forced to react to the allegations, because she is a voice actor in the current Garfield movie and Sony demanded a statement. She admitted most of the things she was accused of and basicly ended her career for now. Encouraged by this people also started to speak up against another big streamer, Ungespielt. He also quit after admitting guilt. Anni and Unge were two really big streamers and their career ended because of 2,50€
Lordylord. Don't say that you've never heard of famous composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin (like in "Show-Paan" not "Choplin")? What on earth do they teach you in school?
is he the grandfather of Chanice Choplin ?
7:11 that depends on region, depending on where you are people will get upset at a "moin" or even at both of these... there are so many regional ways to say hello in germany...
Ryan Wass, This is perfect! I subscribed right away!
@15:00: This is saxonian dialect. "P" is somehow spoken like a "B". So Parkettboden (parquet floor) sounds like Baguette. And Mondsch is "Mensch" (human). In Germany sometimes used as a exclamation, to express you are pissed off.
Not only is the katana curved but folded multiple times to get at least 1,000 layers. Just like the puff pastry that croissants are made out of.
The reason for the folding of katana steel is that in the past Japanese steel was of very low quality and by folding it you can hammer off more of the slag (parts of sediment from the iron ore that you couldn't get rid off in the smelting process).
The reason for folding puff pastry dough is so there's multiple thin layers of butter and dough on top of each other which gives the pastry its puff.
I can not concentrate on the memes because of Ryans epic german! 😁
"gatzen streicheln" sounds almost the same as "katzen streicheln", katzen= cat
Thank you Ryan, perfekt to start my brain on a sunday. Now I'm ready for... my couch!
8:11 that is a reference to "woyzeck" a book we german students all have to read during high school. One of its plotlines is the main character selling his body for a sientific experiment where he has to only eat peas for weeks and slowly goes insane
8:47 The Struwwelpeter (messy hair Peter) is a childrens book from the mid 19th century that is widely known in Germany.
It features short story that were supposed to be educational. I guess back then "educational" meant "scare the living shit out of those little brats so they behave properly".
The character shown in the meme is a barber who cut off the thumb of a boy because he was constantly sucking on it even though his mother told him to stop multiple times. When she left him unattended said barber breaks in and snip-snaps his thumbs off. The other stories are similar graphic.
For example Kaspar who refuses to eat his soup and starves to death. To be extra cruel the parents place the soup tureen on his grave.
Or Pauline who plays with matches while her parents are out for the evening - I'll never understand why they didn't hire a babysitter but trusted the cats to watch after her - and burns to a pile of ashes.
There are also relatively tame stories that don't end as fatal. Like Pillip who wouldn't sit still at the dinner table, falls off the chair and by grabbing the table cloth smashes all the fine china.
Or Hans who always stared in the sky and didn't watch his feet. First he trips over a dog, then he falls into a canal but is immediatly saved from drowning by two men.
Those characters I just named all made it into the common language somehow:
The insult Suppenkaspar (Soup Casper) describes a picky eater, someone who's always daydreaming is called a Hans-guck-in-die-Luft (Hans-look-in-the-air), ADHD was also called Zappelphillip-Syndrom (Fidgety Phillip Syndrome) in the early days and an organisation that helps children with burn injuries named itself Paulinchen e.V.
Final fun fact: The book was written by psychiatrist Heinrich Hoffmann after he couldn't find a proper picture book as a Christmas present for his THREE year old son.
Nice! Ryan have to read that!
5:50 Vers-chicken 🐔 killed me 😂
0:37 there is currently a controversy in yt germany. One guy spent 2,50 to ask a streamer about a certain streamer/youtuber and as a response a whole lot of mistreatment, violence, animal abuse and other horrible acts where leaked about first the girl (because the 2,50 guy asked about her) and later also about the guy.
The online names are: "Annie the duck" and "unge"/"ungespielt"
"ich iel" memes have another level of fun for native Germans since their texts are very poorly translated from English to German. Especially the last one ( 17:13 ): "Ändere meinen Verstand" which obviously translates to "Change my mind" (meaning something like "Change my opinion"). Unfortunately, there are multiple possible translations for "mind". So the German text reads: "Change my intellect".
"einmal mit allem": In german (much like latin e.g.) there are cases for parts of phrases which give extra context on what's the (in)direct object, etc. "einmal mit alles" is nominative case, an exaggerated translation would be "once with THE everything". The grammatically correct way to order something with all extras would be "einmal mit allem" ("I'll have that (once) with everything") which is dative case. But the (technically) incorrect use of nominative here has become a well-known meme, so people complaining are party poopers :D
Also if the person is complaining, they should have said "...wegen des Dativs" (which is genitive (possessive, "of the") case, and arguably correct here)
Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod.
@@klarasee806 Genitiv ins Wasser weil's Dativ ist.
6:48 There's a "rule" in Northern Germany saying: The proper greeting is "Moin". "Moin Moin" is already chit-chatting.
It's said that the Northerners don't like to speak much. Especially not to strangers. So it's no surprise their greeting is only one syllable.
Moin is the typical greeting around the coastal regions where Lower German is spoken and comes from the Frisian word "mojen" meaning good or nice. "Mojen Dag" means "Good Day" for example. It was shortened to Moin and can be used any time of the day. Quick and simple. "Moin" just says "I wish you a nice whatever time of the day it is right now." In only one syllable. 😅
Northerners also invented the good bye "Tschüss" which is a shortening of Adjüst which comes from the French Adieu meaning "(Be) with God." Just like the Bavarian "Pfüati" is short for "(Gott) behüte dich" (May God watch over and protect you).
13:40
"Please do not play the forbidden hit song by [meme-ified way to say 'Gigi d'Agostino']. We don't need a scandal." --> References a recent scandal where some drunken teens sang along to said song, replacing the text with Nazi slogans.
*The village bumpkin DJ who has spent decades playing exclusively 'Landser' past midnight* --> Landser is an outright Nazi rock band. So he sure won't play no French techno. He's far beyond that point. To the right, obviously.
"Georg von Augustinus" made me laugh so hard 🤣🤣
12:52 Choplin??? LOL.
American education at work
I noticed in the last few videos: Your pronounciation of german has definitly improved. Great to see and hear your progress :)
13:06: That one you can only understand if you speak a language in which the object of the sentence can be either dative or accusative case. And the funny part about this is that the normal kid complains that “mit” (with) goes with dative, not accusative, but uses “wegen” (because of) with dative instead of genitive.
The one about the Peas is a reference to Woyzeck, a play that many students analyze in school.
The main character is a poor 19th century soldier who does a number of odd jobs to keep afloat financially and support his girlfriend, one of those jobs being that he lives off only peas as part of a medical experiment the local doctor is performing.
After the soldier catches his girlfriend dancing with a superior officer, he loses his mind and murders her.
You thinking that we do not have dishwashers is such a weird thing.
14:46 When you say Katze (cat) with a soft consonant you get Gatze. This pronounciation became popular in several online communities lately. I saw a few Twitch streamers like Lostkittn reacting to pictures of cats that way and it's kinda cute.
Now if you translate it this way it means "petting cats" but also "petting Gatzen" (a part of a smalltown in the west of Saxony).
Always a great day, when I get my regular dose of memes from you :D
14:58 this is a joke about the different German dialects. The speaker is from the former GDR and wanted a parquet floor, but he got a baguette floor because in his dialect parquet sounds similar to baguette. The Saxon dialect has often given rise to such jokes in the West.
Somehow these Google translations are worse than before.
I think you need to read some comments for more context on some of these :)
It is amazing that auto translate knows how to translate michmich correctly
I did not expect to see two Bud Spencer branded things today (the other was a new Currywurst (or just a regular grilled snack shop? Don't remember) place near the main station that was about the size of a milk carton (don't wanna know how hot it gets when you're working in there)) but here we are. Actually didn't expect a single one. Bit surprised you can just do that (I mean, the man is dead but it hasn't even been 10 years).
8:45 It's a character from the story of little suck a thumb. Little suck a thumb kept sucking his thumbs and because that is an expression of masturbation the tailor came and cut his thumbs off. This could be a good moral story, if the masturbation part was actually spelled out. It's a story from "Der Struwwelpeter" picture book, meant to teach kids to be well behaved.
16:10 Which is also a story of Struwwelpeter, funnily enough.
Ahhh… Zappelphilipp!
Where did you get this masturbation nonsense?
2:33 you sir make the greatest mistake, never call a swabian a bavarian!
The reason the Katana is the Croissant of swords, is because both, the metal of the Katana and the dough of the Croissant are folded and hammered/rolled out again and again and again.
In the Katana case, that makes the material more resilient and also gives it those pretty wave layers. In the Croissant case, the dough is layered with butter so the layers seperate and thus it becomes fluffy cloud of many super thin and deliciously fat soaked layers of delight.
Both require a lot of experience and crafting experience to do well :D
the meme with the baguettes: the meme is mocking the saxon dialect. in said dialect baguette and parquet are pretty much pronounced exactly the same.
so the text says "i told you i wanted parquet flooring, not baguette flooring".
The baguette floor is funny, because you practically can't distinguish between baguette and parquet in certain German dialects that are mostly spoken in and around Saxony.
16:58 the farmer is speaking bavarian. He says "Lord I cannot pay. The taxes are much too high and absolutely unfair." The response is translated correctly.
7:11 Einmal "Moin" reicht. "Moin moin" ist schon Gesabbel 😆
9:27: Point before line is actually how the order of operations is taught in Germany. It means that multiplication (·) and division (:) come before addition (+) and subtraction (-). You learn that in primary school. Just that. No fancy PEMDAS bs.
14:50 "Gatzen streicheln" is a malappropiation of "Katze streicheln" which means "pet the cat" :)
15:05: The meme is about dialects that pronounce p as b, k as g and t as d. And he said parquet floor, not baguette floor.
14:50 Gatzen is a town that sounds vaguely like slurring the word "Katzen"- cats. So "Pet (the town of) Gatzen" sounds something like "Pet cats".
you reading the german is really good. exspecialy the "ch" is pronounced perfectly! Also i love your videos ^-^
Gatzen is the town. It's funny because Gatzen sounds similar to (and is almost spelled the same) as Katzen, which is the German word for cats.
Gatzen streicheln refers to petting cats, since cats is spelled Katzen in German. Gatzen comes from another meme where Katzen was deliberately misspelled.
Look up one of the two godfathers of comic books: Wilhelm Busch . Especially his "Max und Moritz" . "Schwanzglanz" war mir allerdings auch neu. lol
09:23 the whole thing about discussing what result would be correct in math problems mixing addition/substraction ("strich" = line) and multiplication/division ("Punkt" = dot) goes down to the "Punkt vor Strich" rule (which says that dot-operations have priority against line-operations. So even withous parenthesis, multilication and division allways get treated like they had them).
The problem is that this rule was only implemented in german shool around the 70ies. So before that time, the order of operation was just from left to right, no matter what which of the four (line or dot) it was. That's why the older boomer germans never learned it and would treat the problem diffrently (and it not necessarily being a sign of bad education).
Of course they could have adapted and correct what they learned, but let's be honest, since they are out of shool and most of them don't actually need to use that base math skill any more, they would not. (Besides that our phones do that job since ages)
That said, I wonder how is it in the US (or even other countries too). I don't know if they all adapted to the "new" rule or not.
Moin is used in northern Germany as kinda “hello”. Moin moin is used mostly in Bavaria and means strictly Good morning
9:32 Yes, we DO have them over here in Germany as well.
You have 3 chances to guess where we imported them from.
Only a genius could solve that.
Der Dorfdiskusjockel bringt mich immer zum lachen
7:09: The deal of that is that it's just “Moin” in Northern Germany. Whoever says “Moin moin” is a babbler.
14:58 The meme is in a dialect that the translator can't understand. It's says: "I said: Parkett floor, and not Baguette Floor! Man!"
Dieser Komentarbereich ist jetzt deutschsprachiges Eigentum.
0:21 says "Subreddits of villages be like: What was that sound at 3:47 and 28 seconds o'clock?"
17:04: The peasant actually says in dialect: “My Lord, I can't pay. The taxes are way too high and totally unjust.”
The Lord's response is exactly what the translator tells you.
Oh my god I love it when Woyzeck is mentioned
17:23 wrong! The saber is way more curved so the saber is the croissant of all swords!
Well the issue is you can not understand every german since some of them doesn't make sense in other countries except germany itself.
It's because the origin or you have to know german grammer or even the different phrasing from different federal states there.
Btw. some parts got not correctly translated and half of the text vanished.
For exmple the meme at 13:08 , bassically in english there is just one word for everything: "the".
the apple, the game, the coffee machine.
In germany it's gendered: "der" Apfel (male), das Spiel (neutral), "die" Kafeemaschine (female)
8:43: That guy is the tailor who cuts off the thumbsucker's thumbs.
moin is hello in the north but if u say moin moin they know that u are a german tourist and most of them hate it
the choco beans from bud spencer are actual pretty nice
"Moin!" is THE North German greeting. If you say "Moin, Moin!" you are outing yourself as a chatterbox.
15:25 it's a play of words making fun of a particular German dialect where the words Parkett (wooden floor) and baguette pretty much sound the same. They wanted Parkett flooring not baguette flooring. Badum tsss
13:07 is extremely language dependent. German has substantive cases, and that meme references that.
Hard to translate into a language that doesn't really use cases, like english.
6:48 Moin is the greating of the East Frisian. If you say Moin Moin then we think you do a over the top greating. That make us susperious about what you want from us.
0:01 The hallo is so iconic
was great. thank you
I think the katana is the croissant of swords because it's fancy 😅
You really need to join forces with someone who speaks German and can explain the memes to you right away
5:20 The translation didn't even cover half of the text:
At the traffic lights: Next to me my former classmate in a BMW X3 with her husband and two kids. Me next to them, in my early 30s, sitting in a Skoda Fabia, listening to Limp Bizkit.
I suppose that means he realises how other people his age grown up, got rich and started a family while he is still the same he was when he finished school way over a decade ago.
A Katana is made of layered metal, a Croissant Layed bread. :-)
I just realised how complicated words like "Bestandteil" must look for non German speakers.
5:30 I associate BMW with two kinds of people. Poor people pooling family money to get their status symbol (usually a 3 series) and middle management not having to pay for either car or gas getting their status symbol as a company car (I guess these tend to be from the 5 or 7 series). Neither kind of person is seen in a positive light, usually.
I guess the meme was about not growing up (hence the part that didn't translate) but all I see is someone dodging a bullet ^^
Edit: a brand new 3 series can be as cheap as 50k $ (local price converted to dollars, after tax obv.), which may not actually be cheap but that's far from being an expensive car.
The 3 series is about the same price as an Audi A4 or a Mercedes C class and 1.5 times the price of a VW Passat or an Opel Insignia (if that).
I was shocked, btw, to see how little prices have changed since I was into cars as a teenager, some 15-20 years ago. But I guess that's just bc housing and food price increases have made me expect sth different.
6:25 I'm your age and I simply haven't done a lot of typing (on my phone) in 5 years. It's either voice to text or voice message. Convenience is one thing but I also like the human connection. I simply hate how isolated we are these days and find it sad my friends rarely send me any.
11:45 Pay attention to it also saying "irgendein" instead of using proper declension/the right grammatical case ("irgendeinEN"). This may or may not have been intentional but boy does it fit. Some people speak the stupid, these days.
15:52 I'm sure this is sarcasm but yeah, said no one familiar with 40k lore ever ^^
(fyi: it's literally where the term grimdark comes from, "In the grim, dark future of the 41st Millennium, there is only war" or sth like that)
17:20 That's probably about the perception people have of katanas. Many people big them up to be these mythical implements, the best swords in the world and so on when in reality, they were no better or worse (certainly not in quality) than European swords at the time. And they both were backup weapons, literal sidearms, anyways. Most soldiers throughout recorded history used either spears or ranged weapons primarily. The samurai, for example, would have used bows or firearms. But for some reason (anime and shogun films, most likely), a lot of people just idolise these things.
Edit: apparently not. Croissants and katanas are just both layered. Guess that works, too.