• abbadon420
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    2 months ago

    Why? It’s basically just 'lol, isn’t it? Same as the Brazilian ‘jajaja’

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        2 months ago

        It’s lol in orcish from wow and pre-dates whichever facepalming shenanigans of… that guy

        • Zeppo@sh.itjust.works
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          2 months ago

          that’s true, there was that, but then on 4chan it became “pepe says kek on doubles” and then “meme things into existence” and then it got all twisted with meming trump into the presidency by saying kek a lot or something, and that sort of ruined it