Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)
Wait does āuwuā have a specific referent? I assumed it was just a vibe like dark academia or *-core or Tumblr.
So my understanding is that uwu/UwU originates as a kaomoji, think (^.^) and (O.O) etc. Using the āwā character to render the mouth starts as a furry thing or a general projection of human expression onto common animals like cats or dogs. (Youāll see the omega symbol used in examples as well.)
Over the last 20-30 years or so of online interaction etc. kaomoji start to gain a sort of cringe notoriety alongside RP chatting, culminating in a few catalysing memes/copypastas.
Eventually āowoā and āuwuā start being read aloud/vocalised, similar to how people starting saying ālolā out loud, and this is associated I guess with a cutesy sort of image, though that image is often corrupted or subverted- for example e-girls, who co-opt a lot from of gaming and anime subcultures, lean into the uwu of it all.
But actually, real internet truthers know that the above is a revisionist version of history put forth as a psyop by russian troll farms, in addition to inventing AI chatbots and adding fluoride to water. This is all to weaken and feminise western men and turn them communist.
The evidence? owo actually comes from the Russian word āŃ Š¾ŃŠ¾ŃŠ¾ā, meaning āgoodā or āokā, and its usage is normalising russian language in todayās tiktok-pilled youth. This was a strategy cooked up by known cult leader Rajneesh, of course known in Russia as ŠŃŠ¾. Of course, uwu comes from the Russian word āŠ£ŃŃā which is a secret programming command for the proletariat to learn Wushu and other forms of chinese/communist martial arts so that people can rise up and seize the means of production.
(jk)
sounds horrorshow to me
Lol, but in Dutch.