“Just made it to Germany, and I’ve never felt more inconspicuous in my entire life.” That is how the creator, @greta.div, opens an 11 second video filmed straight to camera. She finishes with four more words: “I fit in here.”
The text on screen sets up the joke before she says it: “In Germany for the first time. Everyone looks like me.” She talks in close up, in a beige sweater, in front of a colorful painted wall with large blue and yellow shapes and a vertical dark pole beside her. Partway through she glances off to the side and then returns to the camera for the last line. The frames show no other person, so the claim about everyone around her rests on what she says and writes.
Her caption adds a twist: “I’m technically not even ethnically German too.” It is tagged with #germany, #oktoberfest and #german. The clip itself does not show a festival, and the tags are the only reference to Oktoberfest.
Because the hashtags point to Oktoberfest, the official guidance from the City of Munich is useful for a traveler who is heading to the same festival for the first time. The city’s Oktoberfest page says the festival grounds and the large and small tents are free to enter, and that the festival has no visitor car parks at the Theresienwiese, so guests are directed to the U-Bahn, S-Bahn or on foot. Bags and rucksacks must be no larger than 3 litres, and no bigger than 20 by 15 by 10 centimeters. Tents take table reservations, which the city says are not strictly necessary, but entry to a tent may be temporarily closed on evenings, weekends and public holidays when it is full. The page also lists a quieter option, the Oide Wiesn, which offers historic rides and traditional music, and says large tents, toilets and walkways have accessible entry and facilities. The page describes the 2027 festival, so dates and the number of tents should be checked each year, but the entry, bag and transit rules are the ones the city publishes.
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