And my day today is like this: coke penis and brass musicians, paired with flat earth conferences. Roooooobert!

Again and again I find myself in the situation where people ask me what I actually do for a living. In about 2.93% of all cases I am lucky and these people can immediately relate to the term “Mimikama”. In the remaining 97.07% of all cases, I get stuck because I have to somehow explain to these people what I do all day.

I usually resign and break it down by saying: I hang around on the internet all day and somehow I get paid for it. That's true too. My day really consists of being confronted with claims, headlines, and crass statements all day long. The bad thing is that sometimes it really doesn't work out of the skull.

Coke penis

Really, do you know that too? A BILD title from April 11, 2018 reads: “DRUG DEATH AFTER SEX Chief doctor is said to have killed his lover with a coke penis” You read this, frown and think to yourself: What the hell is a coke penis? And do you have to take something from it to create such a headline?

With respectful humility, I think to myself that someone really knows their stuff when it comes to creating headlines. I'm just wondering what the same content would look like in complicated police report German. I'm looking for other media reports, hardly anyone has mentioned a coke penis, but many are reporting on this case. “Drug death after sex: investigations against ex-chief doctor” says MDR .

However, as shown in the search results, the coke penis is more of a tabloid favorite. In Austria, too, the BILD title was adapted and the tabloid Today the headline “Chief doctor is said to have killed his lover with a coke penis”. Well, dear Today editors, in my opinion, the BILD colleagues managed to do it a little more clearly.

By the way... a little bit of information for the author of the article: In the headline your chief physician is 38 years old, then in the text he is 42. Drugs do a lot to the body, but binary aging is not included.

But it doesn't matter...

Today was somehow tabloid day at Mimikama. I scroll through our inquiries in the email inbox and again see a question regarding a BILD article. The headline and the pictures in the article alone are awesome shit, but nothing for Mimikama. This butcher hotel is not fake.

“HERE THE GUESTS CUT DOWN THEIR PIGS THEMSELVES - PICTURE in Germany's first butcher hotel” Guys, I'm melting in grace before the title AND the first picture in the article ( you have to look at it ). I don't know, does this have anything to do with coke penises? How did you come up with this idea?

<gedankenszenario>

Photographer like: “Hey, now put your knives into the pieces of meat in front of you.”

Man with knife on the left: “Should I laugh too?”

Photographer: “Take your pick, but please wear the Ender’s hat clearly. Oh and …. BRASS BAND, please position yourself neatly behind both of them!”

Brass band: “Shall we play something?”

Photographer: “Can photos play sound?”

</gedankenszenario>

I keep scrolling. No, a butcher's hotel, where Florian Silbereisen has already been, is not a real Mimikama topic. It's not fake either.

Relax a little...

I'm like, "Hey, after the shock of the headlines, I'm going to scroll through Twitter to chill out a bit." I know, this train of thought alone is wrong. Chilled scrolling through Twitter. A tweet from Gavin Karlmeier is distracting me a little.

Real! Who the hell doesn't use the highest suction power on a vacuum cleaner? Now please don’t anyone tell me “Yes, but the curtains… doesn’t anyone think about the curtains?” While I'm still reaping the benefits of the low wattage setting, my email inbox says "PLING!" A TV station asked whether someone from the Mimikama team would like to travel with them to a three-day flat-earth conference in Birmingham as part of the filming. I forward the email to my VT specialist colleague Ralf with the words “Fancy Birmingham?” further. Such topics are too far away for me...

Carmen Geiss

I would rather dedicate myself to Carmen Geiss. So not her directly… but one of her status reports on Facebook. You know, we've been wondering for days why we're getting so many inquiries about the old Marcel Hohmann fake. And then you see something like this:

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I mean, apart from the fact that Facebook no longer looks like it does in the picture, the Marcel Hohmann fake is one of the oldest stories we've covered so far. My stomach is growling. Somehow I forgot my bread and butter dough at home today. My colleague Kathrin can help out and gives me some of her carrots. I'm slowly becoming more relaxed again.

It just occurred to me: Am I actually the only person who sees a visual similarity between Luca Modric and Beatrix von Storch? Is there perhaps already a meme ?

Coke penis. These are the reasons why I always find it difficult to explain to others what happens to me all day long at work.


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