• bunnyBoy@pawb.social
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      14 hours ago

      Notices your bulge OwO, whats this?’ Is a pretty popular furry adjacent copypasta. It’s been around a while, but most recently it was actually the meme that was inscribed on the casing of the bullet that got Charlie Kirk.

      There’s a know your meme page for it that I almost linked to, but that website is a shithole of ads now apparently.

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      I think it’s because it looks like a classical version of UwU, i.e. think of the Θ as eyes, and the ώ as the “snout”

      ΘωΘ

      I don’t see it well myself either, but I’m Greek so I’m used to just read these letters.

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        I don’t see it well myself either, but I’m Greek so I’m used to just read these letters.

        This is great. It’s like the inverse of the idiom “It’s all Greek to me” because you understand the greek and don’t see the picture that would come from not knowing the letters.

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        13 hours ago

        Yeah, a friend of mine uses OTL as a “head-desk” emoticon and every time I’m just seeing letters and trying to expand the initialism.

        It’s easier when it’s mixed or impossible punctuation, like O.O or T_T or things like that - signaling that “normal rules of letters combining into words are not valid here, look for a different pattern”