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Unter is the German word for under while Über can mean above

I didn't get it. Thanks for explaining it!

That's the joke.

Über is the joke?

Uber is going Under

Well what's happening with all the rats leaving the ship it feels more like the "Der Ubergang"

For non-German speakers, its a pun on the German name of the the movie Downfall (Untergang), infamous for it's Hitler in the bunker clip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall_(2004_film)

>infamous for it's Hitler in the bunker clip.

Interesting side-node about 'infamous'. Just because a movie depicts a terrible event or subject (Hitler in this case), it doesn't mean the move itself is 'infamous'. The movie (i.e. the artists) didn't do a terrible deed (e.g. completely misrepresent Hitler as innocent), so in this case the movie is simply "famous for it's Hitler in the bunker clip".

I think it's more infamous because the clip has been used memetically as a joke on other people/things freaking out about stuff. So the movie's not infamous but the clip is.

But it's still just famous because it's used in a humorous context. When I think of all of the combinations of those clips I've seen, I think of them in a funny way, not a bad way.

Maybe those clips are really offensive to some people, in which case they would be infamous to the offended.

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