It's Swedish(?) for "blue shark." I don't know how, or why, but Ikea started selling stuffed blue sharks and they got incredibly popular in the trans community and is like their mascot.

Blahaj is a shark.

More specifically a stuffed shark plushie sold by IKEA.

The word supposedly means blue shark, or shark in Swedish, but I don't speak the language, so take that as you will.

Also supposedly, the shark being a rather gentle pastel blue and pink, which matches the trans flag, it became a favorite symbol within segments of the trans community, a sort of mascot. While I can't guarantee that's why it became a symbol, it is definitely popular among the trans community. Enough so that I don't know any trans people irl that don't partake in the knowledge and joke of it, and we're half a day's drive from the nearest IKEA store.

It's a fairly popular gift for trans folks that are coming out, or making a significant step in transition, or even just because.

Well, it is pronounced "blow high" (or something pretty close). And to continue the fun facts, English used to have the word "haye" which is related to the Swedish word, but we stopped using it in favour of "shark". Since it sounds like a greeting (as does "high" for that matter) as well as a common feedstock for animals (hay), we'd probably use the alternative "hayefish", with or without the 'e', if we hadn't dropped it altogether.

Blå = blue Haj = shark

Blue shark. Also known as the great blue shark in English.

shark pillow from ikea. he is soft and he loves hugs

as blahaj.zone and lemmy.blahaj.zone run on different servers, and both were unreachable at the time of my op, i really meant dead, not down