May 2, 2021 · 316 votes, 13 comments. 155K subscribers in the IKEA community. A subreddit dedicated to the Swedish furniture store started by Ingvar Kamprad in a…

Nov 27, 2022 · A lot of people make good points here, but also: There was an AMA with an IKEA spokesman who stated that they deliberately marketed it to trans people using less-obvious tactics (astrotufing, people raising awareness of Blahaj in the trans community with the kind of stories that are basically the way people still talk about getting a blahaj).

Jul 29, 2023 · IKEA seems to sell just about anything i see. Is there a name for the mini flags on the meatballs sold at the IKEA store? For example, lingonberry jam isn't sold in my area, but it comes with meatballs. Likewise, the mini Swedish flag is …

Nov 20, 2022 · trans people are often extremely lonely (speaking from experience here) and having a silly looking, huge soft shark that u can hug and squeeze is a good way of coping with that loneliness (it also consists of trans flag colors, which is a plus!)

Ikea produced an advert in Switzerland featuring BLÅHAJ and other plushies with a message supporting the referendum for same-sex marriage. Article about it After that, Tumblr just ran with it, memeing it and a lot of trans people noted the colours were similar to the trans flag.

Oct 30, 2022 · Answer: It started with a viral tweet in 2019 about the allure of that particular toy. It’s huge, and a cutely ridiculous thing to own if you’re an adult, and IKEA names are funny for non Swedes. More and more people started buying the shark, to the point IKEA noticed a bump in sales and sent the original poster a free shark.

Jan 29, 2018 · The Swedish and American Flags should be at half mast, and the California flag should be one flag lengths lower than them.

Went to the ikea near Pittsburgh back in June and there were so many pride flags it was awesome. Candles arranged in a rainbow, pillows, etc.

Feb 12, 2023 · It was used in an ikea ad in support of marriage equality and its colouring is kinda of similar to that of the trans flag is my understanding

Jun 14, 2023 · A business that knows how to capitalize on minorities without being bigotted as fuck. What a rare experience. Ikea: as smart as a normal person Every other business: somehow too dumb to even make money off of rainbow capitalism. Maybe not every for profit pro capitalist person isn't brain dead. Maybe, it's only the majority of for-profit ...