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[–] cowboycrustation@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Basically people noticed the colors of Blahaj were similar to that of the trans flag. They'd take funny pictures of Blahaj in weird places. After the meme took off, IKEA made a couple of references and leaned into it, which made it even more of an icon.

[–] foofiepie@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah cool thanks. :) So Blahaj has been adopted and embraced. Is the name a classic IKEA thing?

[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 6 months ago

Yes, just like basically everything else IKEA sells, Blåhaj it's Swedish. Means "blue shark".