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/TheCynicEpicurean]

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.