[6] The website has been visited millions of times each year and has been cited in debate in the Manitoba Legislature[8] and used as an example of Mennonite humour in the Canadian House of Commons.

[18][19] Unger cites Jonathan Swift, Sinclair Lewis, Armin Wiebe, Billy Wilder, and Miriam Toews among his writing influences.

[22] From his father's side, he is a direct descendant of Kleine Gemeinde founder Klaas Reimer, while his maternal grandfather fled to Canada from the Soviet Union as a refugee in the 1920s.

[27] In 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Unger successfully advocated for the Manitoba government to create vaccine stickers in the Mennonite dialect of Plautdietsch.

[28][29] In 2024, Unger initiated a fundraiser to place a historic plaque in front of author Miriam Toews's former home in Steinbach.