• @Sylvartas
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    185 months ago

    It’s an in-joke within the community. These messages are shared on the Internet, and you can only use preset phrases and words (e.g “behold, ___!” here). From day one, people have been calling turtles and other cute critters dogs.

    • @makyo
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      95 months ago

      Yep this is it, and I could be wrong but I believe there is no preset phrase for ‘turtle’ so I guess people decided that was the closest thing.