A closer look
Residents of a small Austrian village officially grew so exhausted by English-speaking tourists stealing their town signs that they formally changed the municipality's name from Fucking to Fugging in the year two thousand twenty. For decades, unbearable travelers would go out of their way to visit the tiny rural settlement just to take crude photographs in front of the municipal markers, resulting in thousands of euros in stolen public property and an endless parade of giggling backpackers disrupting the peace of local farmers. The fact that an entire community had to legally alter an innocent geographic designation that existed for nearly a thousand years just to stop millennials from making bad jokes on social media is the ultimate indictment of global tourist culture
