Editing IKEA (section)

==In popular culture==
In 2018, the company's plush toy shark "[[Blåhaj]]" was widely used in an [[internet meme]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Samson |first=Anna |title=A toy shark from IKEA has blown up on TikTok as creators say it provides them with a unique kind of comfort and community |url=https://www.insider.com/ikea-blahaj-shark-toy-tiktok-viral-videos-2022-3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810140933/https://www.insider.com/ikea-blahaj-shark-toy-tiktok-viral-videos-2022-3 |archive-date=10 August 2022 |access-date=18 July 2022 |website=Insider}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Yap |first=Mae Yen |date=20 January 2020 |title=Someone created a Twitter account of the IKEA shark going about life and it's adorable |url=https://sea.mashable.com/culture/8683/someone-created-a-twitter-account-of-the-ikea-shark-going-about-life-and-its-adorable |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211030172418/https://sea.mashable.com/culture/8683/someone-created-a-twitter-account-of-the-ikea-shark-going-about-life-and-its-adorable |archive-date=30 October 2021 |access-date=18 July 2022 |website=Mashable SEA}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=26 October 2018 |title=People Around the world are obsessed with this Plush Shark from IKEA |url=https://mymodernmet.com/toy-shark-blaha-ikea/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220719035620/https://mymodernmet.com/toy-shark-blaha-ikea/ |archive-date=19 July 2022 |access-date=19 July 2022 |website=My Modern Met}}</ref> with social media users posting humorous photos of it in their homes.<ref>{{cite web |title=People are rearranging IKEA Shark plushies to make them do human things |url=https://mothership.sg/2019/12/ikea-shark-plushies-human/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220718192454/https://mothership.sg/2019/12/ikea-shark-plushies-human/ |archive-date=18 July 2022 |access-date=18 July 2022 |website=mothership.sg}}</ref>

IKEA has been referenced a number of times in novelty music. In 2003, American musician [[Jonathan Coulton]] released the song "IKEA" on the album [[Jonathan Coulton#Discography|''Smoking Monkey'']]. In 2005, British musician [[Mitch Benn]] with the band [[The Distractions]] penned the [[novelty song]] "Ikea".<ref>{{Cite web |title=IKEA, by Mitch Benn & the Distractions |url=https://mitchbenn.bandcamp.com/track/ikea-2 |access-date=2024-09-05 |website=Mitch Benn |language=en}}</ref> In December 2019, [[comedy metal]] band [[Nanowar of Steel]] released the song ''Valhallelujah'' which is dedicated to [[Odin]] and IKEA. The music video features a [[longship]] with the sail adorned with the IKEA logo, and a fictional IKEA catalogue written in [[Old Norse]] [[runes]]. The lyrics include references to various IKEA products, namely BEDDINGE, KIVIK, VITTSJÖ, KNOPPARP, BESTÅ and SLATTUM.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9WWz95ripA |title=NANOWAR OF STEEL - Valhalleluja (ft. Angus McFife from Gloryhammer) {{!}} Napalm Records |date=2019-12-13 |last=Napalm Records |access-date=2024-06-12 |via=YouTube}}</ref>

The 1999 American movie [[Fight Club]] references IKEA furniture to show the consumerist culture of modern times.

IKEA stores have been featured in many works of fiction. Some examples include:
* The 1986 Swedish [[crime comedy film]] ''[[Jönssonligan dyker upp igen]]'' features a failed robbery of the IKEA store at [[Kungens Kurva]] by the eponymous gang.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Björk |first=Stellan |date=2020-04-17 |title=Kamprads djärva satsning gick hem |trans-title=Kamprad's bold bet succeeded |url=https://www.bizstories.se/foretagen/kamprads-djarva-satsning-gick-hem/ |access-date=2024-08-09 |website=BizStories |language=sv}}</ref>
* The 2009 American film ''[[500 Days of Summer]]'' features the main characters flirting around the showroom of an IKEA store. It was filmed on-location at an IKEA store. One of the tracks from the film's score is entitled "Ikea" to reflect the scene.<ref>{{cite news |date=19 July 2019 |title=Eight surprising facts about 500 Days of Summer |work=The New Zealand Herald |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12251047 |url-status=live |access-date=28 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801183919/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12251047 |archive-date=1 August 2020}}</ref>
* ''[[IKEA Heights]]'', a 2009 comedic melodrama web series, was [[Guerrilla filmmaking|filmed without permission]] in an IKEA store.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Neil |first=Dan |date=2009-09-08 |title=Virality erupts at IKEA in Burbank |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-sep-08-fi-neil8-story.html |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
* The 2014 novel ''The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe'' by French author [[Romain Puertolas]] features a trip to an IKEA store in Paris, France.<ref>{{cite news |author=Daniel Hahn |title=The Extraordinary Journey Of The Fakir Who Got Trapped In An Ikea Wardrobe By Romain Puertolas (Trs by Sam Taylor) – book review |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-extraordinary-journey-of-the-fakir-who-got-trapped-in-an-ikea-wardrobe-by-romain-puertolas-trs-by-sam-taylor--book-review-9657117.html |url-status=live |access-date=13 December 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141217141716/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-extraordinary-journey-of-the-fakir-who-got-trapped-in-an-ikea-wardrobe-by-romain-puertolas-trs-by-sam-taylor--book-review-9657117.html |archive-date=17 December 2014}}</ref>
* The 2014 horror comedy novel ''[[Horrorstör]]'' is set in a haunted store called ORSK, modelled on IKEA, and the novel is designed to look like the IKEA catalogue.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Hibberd |first=James |date=5 August 2015 |title=Fox orders pilot about an Ikea-like store selling haunted furniture |url=https://ew.com/article/2015/08/05/horrorstor-fox/ |url-status=live |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220719093731/https://ew.com/article/2015/08/05/horrorstor-fox/ |archive-date=19 July 2022 |access-date=19 July 2022}}</ref>
* The [[SCP Foundation]], an online collaborative horror writing community documenting fictional anomalies, features an entry (numbered SCP-3008) originating in 2017 about an IKEA store which is notably bigger on the inside than its exterior implies, and from which escaping is difficult.<ref name="3008article">{{cite web|last1=Beschizza|first1=Rob|title=Brilliant short story about being trapped in an infinite IKEA|url=https://boingboing.net/2017/06/29/brilliant-short-story-about-be.html|website=[[Boing Boing]]|date=29 June 2017|access-date=5 August 2017|archive-date=4 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804073701/http://boingboing.net/2017/06/29/brilliant-short-story-about-be.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=SCP-3008 | url=http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3008 | website=SCP Foundation | access-date=13 December 2019 | archive-date=21 December 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221035850/http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3008 | url-status=live }}</ref> The interior of this store is populated by entities dressed in IKEA staff attire, resembling highly deformed, faceless humanoids, which are normally passive during the "day" (when the lights are switched on) but become aggressive during the "night" (when the lights are switched off), informing 'customers' to "leave the store", and enforcing this if not listened to.
** A number of [[survival horror]] video games have been created based on SCP-3008.<ref>{{cite web | title=Steam Workshop :: SCP 3008 | url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1851742206 | website=Steam Community | access-date=13 December 2019 | archive-date=1 August 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801190705/https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1851742206 | url-status=live }}</ref>
* The 2021 children's picture book ''Bears Out of The Box'' features IKEA's Fabler Bjorn doll, who is trying to venture outside the store.<ref>{{cite web |date=23 January 2021 |title=BEARS OUT OF THE BOX – Stefan Cebo – EuropeBooks |url=http://www.europebooks.co.uk/bears-out-of-the-box-stefan-cebo/ |access-date=16 July 2022 |language=it-IT |archive-date=16 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220716053341/http://www.europebooks.co.uk/bears-out-of-the-box-stefan-cebo/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=BEARS OUT OF THE BOX Pocket Book – January 22, 2021 |url=https://www.amazon.com/BEARS-OUT-BOX-build-universes/dp/B08MSMJ4DM |access-date=16 July 2022|date=22 January 2021 |publisher=Europa Ediciones |isbn=979-12-201-0410-4 |archive-date=16 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220716053340/https://www.amazon.com/BEARS-OUT-BOX-build-universes/dp/B08MSMJ4DM |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Bears out of the Box |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/best_book/77636740-bears-out-of-the-box |access-date=16 July 2022 |website=goodreads.com |archive-date=21 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230421205341/https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52371370-bears-out-of-the-box |url-status=live }}</ref>