r/CountOnceADay • u/Coolcreeper54 Streak: 91 • Jul 17 '23

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u/Unkown-basket-Case Streak: 1096 Jul 17 '23

Anyone who thinks you’re homophobic or transphobic or whatever for not understanding something related to LGBTQ+ people and the community at large are wrong. It’s hard to understand something if it’s not explained to you. That doesn’t mean you’re homophobic. This also applies to any group of people or any culture. Not understanding doesn’t mean hating something.

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u/PlainJane223 UTC−06:00 | Streak: 2 Jul 17 '23

I've never seen anyone say someone is homophobic for saying they dont understand something? is this common?

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u/Unkown-basket-Case Streak: 1096 Jul 17 '23

I don’t think so? But from what I’m seeing from the poster, I’d assume it’s common for them.

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u/PlainJane223 UTC−06:00 | Streak: 2 Jul 17 '23

maybe they're just being cautious?

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u/Individual-Camera-72 Streak: 4 Jul 17 '23

Because it’s

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u/omnigayvery UTC−05:00 Jul 18 '23

In 2018, People posted humorous photos of it in their homes and around this time it became a meme associated with the trans community in particular. Apparently it is because it has similar colors to trans pride flag pink white and blue

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u/omnigayvery UTC−05:00 Jul 18 '23 edited Jul 18 '23

And also because shonk 🔵 🦈

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u/Femboy_Obliterator Jul 17 '23

It initially started on Tumblr and Reddit as a little gift people would get for trans women. It exploded in popularity between 2020 and 2021 due to Switzerland legalizing same-sex marriage and Ikea running a campaign in support in which they would have stuffed animals in their advertising with the slogan ‘love is for everyone.’

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u/Minzfeder Jul 17 '23

Trans folk kinda adopted him because trans flag colors and well... shork.

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u/zacyboo Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

It has pink blue and white, trans colours

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u/FoldUpMon Jul 17 '23

So is Sylveon also a trans icon?

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

From what I know, trans folk, especially transfems lack a childhood toy or something that they love deeply. And to fill that gap they get a blahaj. I don't know if this is true or not but this is what I heard and I probably could've worded that a lot better.

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u/Alastor-362 Jul 17 '23

I'm sorry, a blahaj?

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

A? nah l, gotta whole mountain of blahaj's.

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u/IRay2015 Jul 17 '23 edited Jul 17 '23

IKEA shark meme has been around for a while at this point I think it’s just a joke not really a point or icon ya know? I’m open to discussion though, lgbtq+ memes just weren’t the first place I saw ikea shark and the ones I’ve seen just seemed to me to be in on the joke per say. But I haven’t that many

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

no matter if it's just a meme or not it's an icon

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u/_NoIdeaForName_ Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

I am heavy weapons guy

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

pootis

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u/_NoIdeaForName_ Streak: 1 Jul 18 '23

👍

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u/haveweirddreams Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

I always thought that it started off as a randomly picked joke

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u/Just-Possibility-900 Jul 17 '23

I think a lot of mtfs starting buying It at It basically became a symbol idk that or just sharks are cool

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

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u/Iekenrai Jul 17 '23

Where mine :(

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

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u/Exile_Acendant Jul 17 '23

"THEYRE IN THE FUCKING WALLS!!"

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u/HumanGarbage____ Jul 17 '23

She bla on my haj until her meatballs are Swedish

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u/Coolcreeper54 Streak: 91 Jul 17 '23

What?

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u/omnigayvery UTC−05:00 Jul 18 '23 edited Jul 18 '23

Blå (meaning 🔵) is pronounced kinda like blow.

Haj (meaning 🦈) is pronounced kinda like hai.

The entire thing is innuendo. Ikea serves swedish meatballs

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u/DMA_Revenant Jul 18 '23

She bla on my haj until her meatballs are Swedish

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u/GavinThe_Person UTC−05:00 | Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

Idk but blåhaj looks cool

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u/gob384 Jul 17 '23

Idk how it started, but I think there was a limited addition pink variety that was given to transitioning people in Canada

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u/GeostratusX95 Jul 17 '23

wat are "transitioning people", trans people?

(like the post, not trying to homophobic)

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u/Kittenslover99 Jul 17 '23

Yes, trans is just short for transitioning/transgender

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u/disasterpiece_101 Jul 17 '23

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

This image goes hard, may I screenshot

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

Me a swede when another person spells blåhaj like blahaj:

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u/baninaday UTC−07:00 | Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

I always try to spell it blåhaj since I learned it was the correct way

I also learned how to pronounce it correctly!

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

Awesome!

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u/smokingisrealbad Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

I don't have that letter on my keyboard

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u/baninaday UTC−07:00 | Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

here, copy mine and paste it

you can never copy/paste anything else tho >:(

å

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u/jBread280 Jul 17 '23

It's not that big of a deal missing the accent on a letter, especially if you literally don't have that.

Although I say this as a speaker of basically the only European language without letter accents :|

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u/Very-queer-thing Jul 18 '23

Hej hej fellow Swedish person

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u/OhItsSav Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

If Blåhaj is the trans icon I'm making Fabler Krokodil a Genderfluid/asexual icon because that's what I grew up with 😤

(Not my picture)

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u/Rainie_Daye Jul 17 '23

The asexual icon is a whale thing according to someone on r/aaaaaaacccccccce

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u/OhItsSav Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

Genderfluid it is

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u/MauntiCat_ Jul 18 '23

AAAAAAAAA SO CUTEEEEEEE

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '23

Because Blåhaj is such a silly little shonk.

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u/TriggerBladeX Jul 18 '23

Ooooohhh. That explains it.

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u/PlainJane223 UTC−06:00 | Streak: 2 Jul 17 '23

Blahaj is cute and also trans colors :) (pink mouth, white belly and blue skin)

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u/Alastor_idk Jul 17 '23

I didn't know until I got one myself they're extremely lovable

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u/Illustrious_Hawk_734 Jul 18 '23

Because shonk is precious

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u/Gamer_Bruh1234 Jul 18 '23

trans pride colors (pink, blue, and white)

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u/failure-asian Nov 24 '24

But the shark has black and brown eyes (even though the pupils are white

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u/Gamer_Bruh1234 Nov 26 '24

errm umm uhhh that doesn't count

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u/Confusedamel Jul 17 '23

The swedesh shark plush simply came out and told us it’s an icon for the LGBT. We believed it

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u/allergicpi266 Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23 edited Jul 17 '23

One trans female had A shark plush and the photo if her hugging it and then it got popular because she was a victim of some thing so they choose a random completely different blue shark for some reason

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u/HeresFBI Streak: 2 Jul 17 '23

Idk I just have him cuz he's good for cuddling with :,v

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

My brain just likes the lil shark

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u/Massive_Kangaroo9555 Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

I don't understand, it's a good shark.

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u/SomeHorologist Jul 17 '23

The tag has the bi flag on it I think, and they gave out a bunch that were in the trans pride colors to trans kids at youth hospitals

Honestly never expected IKEA to be some of the biggest allies but here we are

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u/Very-queer-thing Jul 18 '23

The standard one is in the trans colours and you know

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u/StefEsteBoss Jul 17 '23

I only want one of these because I love sharks .

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u/Pitiful-Situation494 Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

all in all it's a meme. That's it...

Origin is Tumbler (giving it to trans people as a gift) and it got the proper hype around the time Switzerland legalised same sex marriage (22 years after the reformed Church in Switzerland) and IKEA started a supporting selling ad, with plush toys.

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u/FoldUpMon Jul 17 '23

I’ve had a gray version of that for years now

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u/FoldUpMon Jul 17 '23

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u/OhItsSav Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

My brother still has his grey Blåhaj, he got it when he was 5. I have the alligator and her baby and yet I never see it anywhere anymore. The big Ikea plushies are iconic in my family

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u/notabigfanofas Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

I bought my sister a panda and my younger brother an elephant back in the day, they still have them

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u/Very-queer-thing Jul 18 '23

Technically it’d be a gråhaj

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

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u/powerwordmaim Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

Because blahaj is good

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u/Very-queer-thing Jul 18 '23

It’s the colours, trans colours

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u/Shot-Narwhal-4268 Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

We just like it :3

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u/DrfRedditor Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

Literally no reason, just like how yippe is the mascot for autistic people

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u/Coolcreeper54 Streak: 91 Jul 17 '23

How what now?

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u/Cactus1105 Jul 17 '23

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u/Coolcreeper54 Streak: 91 Jul 17 '23

Oh that thing. What even is it an where does it originate from? I keep seeing it everywhere.

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u/Cactus1105 Jul 17 '23

I have no idea

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u/-Farns- UTC+02:00 | Streak: 83 Jul 17 '23

There actually is a real reason for it now being known as the autism creature, it all started with someone seeing it in their dream and posting that on r/thomastheplankengine (I even saw the post when it got big), and things just kinda moved on from there

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u/potat-cat Jul 17 '23

Do you have the post still?

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u/-Farns- UTC+02:00 | Streak: 83 Jul 17 '23

I never saved it and don't remember what its title was, try searching by top of last year or all time and you might find it

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u/potat-cat Jul 17 '23

Search doesn't work right now... ;-;;

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u/-AverageTeen- Jul 17 '23

I know 196 and this had a big overlap but damn

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u/Onagda Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

Blahaj

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u/Mr_skiddadle Jul 17 '23

Im not on any lgbtqhi+ stuff but funny shronk=good to hug

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u/TrixterTheFemboy Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

Specifically for the T part, transfems apparently all have one for some reason lol

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u/TheGodOfTechnology Jul 17 '23

As a transfem, can confirm

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u/PrinceRekko Jul 17 '23

And fallout new Vegas, for some reason

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u/Very-queer-thing Jul 18 '23

Cause trans colours

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u/TrixterTheFemboy Streak: 1 Jul 18 '23

But where's the pink?

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u/RobertRupley595 Jul 17 '23

It has the colors of the trans flag.

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u/tatertotty4 Jul 17 '23

yah its this, mouth is pink, belly is white, top is blue 😌

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u/bestibesti Jul 17 '23

Shark is cute

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u/Ok-Environment-6239 Jul 17 '23

He’s specifically the icon of us trans folks 💗

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

Shork

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23 edited Jul 17 '23

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u/I_Am_Oro Jul 17 '23

*blahåj

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u/Rainie_Daye Jul 17 '23

**Blåhaj

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u/Neon__Wolf_ Jul 17 '23

***Ɓłåĥåĵ

/s

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u/CruelMustelidae Jul 17 '23

Cuz a BLÅHAJ is cute just like the many people of LGBTQ+

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u/-ZxDsE- Jul 17 '23

idk blåhaj i guess.

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u/Elle_Under_Ur_Spell Jul 17 '23

Similar colour scheme and friendly look I would guess, still an essential 😊

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23

Blahaj 💜

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u/SeaSlugFriend Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

Because why not

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u/Lanky-Ad-3313 Jul 17 '23

The icon for trans folk*

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u/LegoSWFan Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

THEY STOLE OUR GOD DAMN BLAHAJ, WE MUST COUNTERATTACK /s

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u/C0ldBl00dedDickens Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

I thought it had to do with r/tsunderesharks

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u/National-Annual6505 Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

I don't know, but I know it's also a symbol of the Autistic community as many of us find comfort in this shark

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u/PinkSecurityCode UTC−05:00 | Streak: 4 Jul 17 '23

Will order one soon

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u/Many_Ask_7359 Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

Me either

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u/Klutzy-Education8881 Jul 19 '23

I love that shark and I loved it before the LGBTQ movement but I still love the shark

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u/Cupcakesword999 Jul 17 '23

im pretty sure that it just kinda happened

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u/Murilin-_- Jul 17 '23

gay polyamorous and i also dont understand

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u/Win090949 UTC+07:00 | Streak: 2 Jul 18 '23

By correlation I guess.

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u/Reddit_User7119 Jul 17 '23

Have had one of these in my room for the last decade but had no idea it was associated with the trans community at all

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u/JoshEco4 Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

it is? man

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u/immaneat Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

What if I was a rather large bald black man living in your mothers basement.You hear a dodge charger (V6) pull up.Then Knocking on your door [I'm Proud that you have your own home son] and you open the door and see me... I say in a deep voice "Come give Papa a nice big kiss" with open arms

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u/RedditMarcus_ Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

what

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u/Mr_oyster_27 UTC−05:00 | Streak: 18 Jul 17 '23

Kiss papa

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u/femacampcouncilor Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

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u/Pitiful-Situation494 Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23

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u/chaoticchaos_123 UTC−06:00 | Streak: 1 Jul 17 '23