【海外の反応】「Dead Dove: Do Not Eat」って何？海外オタク圏の謎タグ、元ネタがくだらなすぎて草

It’s a reference to a scene in Arrested Development (I think). There’s a brown paper bag in a fridge that has “dead dove do not eat” written in sharpie. A character opens it to find… a dead dove.

Basically it means that you need to pay attention to the tags, because everything tagged will in fact happen in the fic and you shouldn’t expect otherwise. While it can go with anything that’s tagged accurately, it’s often used in darker works to say “you get what you clicked on, you have been warned”.

It’s from arrested development. Gob is a magician and accidentally killed a dove as soon as he bought it so he stores it in a paper bag in the fridge hopeful that he can return it later. Michael, his brother, sees the bag in the fridge that says “Dead dove (do not eat)” and opens the bag to find a dead dove. He says “I don’t know what I expected” after looking in the bag, which is a pretty common meme

It came from an Arrested Development joke. There is literally a dead dove in the freezer in a brown paper bag labeled Dead Dove (do not eat), but the characters keep opening the bag like there is gonna be something else inside. But it is in fact a dead dove. This has now been used on fanfiction labels to essentially say “this is a very clear warning and if you open and read anyway, that’s on you.”

If your talking about the Ao3 tag, it basicly means "Take the content warnings seriously".

For example, a lot of stories might tag "Excessive violence" when the story contains something relatively tame like a character being shot in the head. With enough of that, people start to take the warning less seriously, and might be blindsided by reading a story with a graphic first-person scene of a character burning to death, even though it's tagged with "Excessive violence". Dead Dove lets someone know the story is serious about the content warnings it has, and not to brush them off if you don't want to read the things its warning about.

(Also, it's named after a scene in a TV show where a character goes into his office's fridge to grab his lunch, sees a bag labeled "Dead dove do not eat", opens it out of curiosity, and finds a dead dove.)

It’s a reference to Arrested Development. A character opens the fridge and sees a bag labeled “Dead dove, do not eat!” He looks inside the bag and says “I don’t know what I expected.”

So it’s now used as internet shorthand for “I warned you what’s in this, if you’re not going to like it, leave now, because it contains exactly what I said it contains.”

In Arrested Development, one of the characters found a bag labelled "dead dove, do not eat". He opens it to find a dead dove, exactly like the label warned. (His reaction, "I don't know what I expected", is also a common meme.)

As a tag, it's a reminder that you should read the other tags and description to see what you're considering opening, and if you don't like that sort of content you should move along, because if you open it you'll be exposed to something you don't like, and the creator doesn't want to see you complaining about the thing they warned you about.

Some people use it to mean "read the tags, like *seriously* you need to read them," and other people don't know the original context and will use it as a catch-all for highly sensitive topics like graphic rape or torture. Like sometimes you'll hear people in fandom spaces reference "dead dove content" without actually giving any specifics, and they're usually referring to those things.

It's from Season 1, episode 2 of Arrested Development.

The character GOB has a dead dove ('do not eat' is printed on the bag) in his freezer and his brother Michael comes upon it, opens the bag and says "well I don't know what i expected."

Give it a watch. It's silly.

Here is the original clip:

Dead Dove Do Not Eat

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