Vefasızsın Sözlük (2003): A hilarious song about Ekşi Sözlük (Sour Dictionary)

In 2003, a member of Ekşi Sözlük, nicknamed "cyrano", made a hilarious song with Hakan Altun, the composer of many popular Turkish songs today.

Special thanks to robin from Ekşi Sözlük for preserving the song to todays and letting me to upload it here. 💚

Lyrics in Turkish (English translation below, apologizes in case of mistranslations);

login oldum az önce

sevgilim ekşi sözlük'e

karmam düşmüş

mesaj kutum boş

döndürülmüşüm çaylak moduna

hiçbir mesaj yoktu suser'lerden

kimsesiz kalmıştım

yücelmiş entry'lerime bakıp bakıp

defalarca ağladım

vefasızsın sözlük

sen hayınsın sözlük

bomboş duruyor mesaj kutum

kimseler benim entry'mi yüceltmiyor

ceren miyim, emrah mıyım, minibüs mü girdi

(x2)

vefasızsın sözlük

çok hayınsın sözlük

hep bomboş benim inbox'um

yüceltilmiş entry'lerimi gördükçe ağlıyorum

ceren miyim, emrah mıyım, minibüsün girmesini istiyor musun

istiyor musun amına koyduğum

English Translation:

i just logged in

my dear ekşi sözlük

my karma has dropped

my inbox is all empty

i've been reset to rookie mode

there was no any message from susers

i was left all alone

i stared at my upvoted entries and

cried a lot

you're untruthful, sözlük

you're disloyal, sözlük

my inbox is all empty

nobody upvotes my entry

am i ceren, am i emrah, was i hit a minibus

(x2)

you're untruthful, sözlük

you're so disloyal, sözlük

my inbox is always all empty

whenever i see my upvoted entries, i cry

am i ceren, am i emrah, do you wanna hit by a minibus

do you wanna it, you fuck

Some notes about the lyrics:

• On Ekşi Sözlük, there's a "karma system", allowing people to vote the authors' entries and authors gain a score according to the votes they got. Same as Reddit has. The interesting fact is that Ekşi Sözlük started using it a few years before Reddit's launching, and I even assumed that Aaron Swartz (🙏) and/or other founders might be inspired by Ekşi Sözlük for Reddit's karma system.

• Newcomer members on the site are called "çaylak (rookie)". Unlike "yazar (author)" titled members, their entries are not public (only moderators and other members can see them), and they have to go through an approval process, when they prove that they follow the dictionary format, to gain "yazar" title. If an author breaks any rule, they might be reset to rookie mode for a limited time.

• Although it's not an official term in Ekşi Sözlük's slang, every user is often called "suser" (abv. for "sözlük user"). Some people don't like to use it and they prefer to use "sözlükçü (dictionarist)" instead.

• The part of "Ceren, Emrah, and minibus" might be something that used to be in Turkish internet slang in early 2000s. I'm not entirely sure, though.

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Since I'm an enthusiast of Ekşi Sözlük (Sour Dictionary) since late 2019, I've been dedicating myself to make a huge archive for the official and fan-made content of Ekşi Sözlük. Until now, I have been storing what I have collected in my local memory, but recently I decided to make most of my archive (especially multimedia files) publicly available.

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