Talk:Spiders Georg
Add topic | A fact from Spiders Georg appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 April 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
[edit]- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle (talk) 10:51, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
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- ... that "'average person eats 3 spiders a year' factoid actualy just statistical error"?
This might make a good quirky hook.(?) Source: Baker-Whitelaw 2013, citing Mikelson 2001
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Alignment Problem
- Comment: Okay, I know we usually frown upon regurgitating meme references as DYK hooks, but in this case, the hook is actually 1. verifiably true and 2. pertinent to the story as a fact. So, if some leniency could be applied to put this in the quirky slot, I'd be grateful :)
Created by Theleekycauldron (talk). Self-nominated at 23:40, 19 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Spiders Georg; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
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@Theleekycauldron: Good article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 14:44, 20 March 2023 (UTC)Antitypos
[edit]Given that Tiidenberg et al. (or, more likely, their copy editor) unmangled the deliberate errors in the "We Georg" quote - "the average person spends 0 hours per month. We Georg, who live in caves & spend over 23 hours on Tumblr each day, are outliers and should not have been counted" - is it worth having the original as well (or instead) ? DS (talk) 03:06, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
- https://www.tumblr.com/facts-i-just-made-up/115105258743/acutelesbian-according-to-usa-today-the-average DS (talk) 03:07, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
- Considering that nearly every iteration of the Spiders Georg meme replicates the spelling errors of the original on purpose, I think it's important to include them here, too. If it were a simple one-time, mistake, perhaps not, but it's an integral part of the joke at this point.
- 47.232.40.11 (talk) 19:54, 3 June 2025 (UTC)
Spiders Georg Spiders/Second
[edit]Spiders Georg eats over 41k spiders a second, according to what Quixotic_Delights commented. SirPineapl (talk) 11:49, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
yellow submarine
[edit]it is mention that people applied this to we all live in a yellow submarine but living in a yellow submarine is a binary statement the average being brought up by a single individual doesn't make sense when talking about living in a yellow submarine needs to be explain how people have applied this to "we all live in a yellow submarine" Rguyr (talk) 23:57, 21 April 2025 (UTC)
Relevant?
[edit]I remembered a high note-count post that ends up referencing Spiders Georg. Is this worth including? I feel that it effectively showcases the prevalence of Georg in the Tumblr community.
Addition: Another post explicitly talking about Spiders Georg, building on it even more.
Apologies if this isn't constructive, I'm new to Wikipedia and haven't quite figured out how it all works yet. 47.232.40.11 (talk) 19:52, 3 June 2025 (UTC)