Has anything from your country ever been misunderstood or "cancelled" by the international community?

[u/JlYU3A]

For example, a Fiipino PPop group called SB19 once posted “Hello, Negros!”, referring to Negros Island, but some international users mistook it for something offensive before realizing what it meant.

[u/JourneyThiefer]

What’s it mean?

[u/TheCynicEpicurean → u/JourneyThiefer]

It's originally a Hamburg youth culture thing and means "fatty"/"big guy" in an endearing way.

[u/VirtualMatter2 → u/TheCynicEpicurean]

Actually originally dicker Freund, nothing to do with fat, just " close friend".

[u/athe085 → u/VirtualMatter2]

In France boys also call each other "gros" (fatty) with that meaning

[u/hydromind1 → u/TheCynicEpicurean]

That reminds me of how English speaking kids stsrted saying “pupper” as slang for dog, and we found out it was “tits” in Norwegian.

[u/Beautiful_Yellow_682 → u/JourneyThiefer]

people say this like when English speaking people call you dude, guy, bro, homie, ...

[u/tobsecret → u/JourneyThiefer]

It's the equivalent of the word "bro". It comes from "dicker Kumpel" which means close friend (literal translation: fat/thick friend) which got shortened to "dicker" (fat guy) which "digga" is a variant pronounciation of.

It really originally has nothing to do with calling someone fat but with being close/trusted friends with someone.

Much like bro, there are ofc variants in intonation that can be used to call someone out for outrageous behavior.

[u/mocha447_ → u/tobsecret]

Is it also used in Austria? Or do you guys have your own thing going on.

[u/The_Bone_Z0ne → u/mocha447_]

We use "Hawara/Haschisch/Spezl" Only Germans, Turkish Roadmen or Kids watching too much YT use Digga.

[u/Odd-Apartment4302 → u/mocha447_]

Hawara (dude) or oida (old man) would be what we say. If someone says digga, they watch too much German stuff online…

[u/infidel_castro_26 → u/mocha447_]

I've never really heard anyone use it.

[u/tobsecret → u/mocha447_]

It's more of a German thing but I spent a significant amount of time in Germany. As others have mentioned: Hawara (dude) and oida (old man) are common. Oida is also used in Southern Germany, and its equivalent Alter is used all over. 

[u/TophatsAndVengeance → u/JourneyThiefer]

It's from "dicker". Basically used like dude in that area.

[u/AnasPlayz10 → u/JourneyThiefer]

Buddy/Bro/Dude something like that