The Etymology of UwU 

Alternatively, a great way to die- take a shot of liquor every time you hear uwu

I took your advice and now my town is experiencing a drought because of it 🥰

sounds like a good drinking game tbh

sounds like a good drinking game tbh

gonna do this, i'll edit when done. edit: tried it, i am extremely hydrated and the big glass is almost completely empty.

(I wish I was kidding but I cannot explain just how much I am not)

Your dad sounds cool as hell. My dad would have zero patience for any of that nonsense.

This may be the best thing that I've heard all week!!

@@thelastholdout he is cool as hell! (And full of nonsense 😂)

Your dad sounds cool as hell. My dad would have zero patience for any of that nonsense.

we don’t care,

HELP 😭

@@ville__your recent comments are particularly unhinged, are you ramping up to something or just becoming desperate for the same high you used to get from trolling 😂

she just clickbaiting for views... did it before too

How to be correct and wrong at the same time XD

The next generation won't even know it had any other meaning

@@ihaightyouall Nah they will

same goes for lmao, i hear people read it phonetically way more than anything else now

Alfred, I'd like a dash of le mayo applied on my cut of lawl and a glass of fine berb. Make it quick, I need to be on my rawful-copter by 7

@@jebtickle4065 You say that... But I have come across people who do not seem to know what it means. Which leads them also in to using lol in ways that diverges from it original meaning.

Then perish (⁠눈⁠‸⁠눈⁠)

i had mac and cheese pizza with spookygrimoires (hewwo side) once and she’s wonderful. great film photographer

I honestly expect in every video of hers, tha5 or some other reading of a tumblr meme (hewwo)

A shiver went down my spine it made me cringe so hard this had to be illegal

Meanwhile I'm over here trying to tell if this is a new recording or the one she's done previously (or potentially even one of the few she's done, i don't know how many times she's read it in a video lol)

yeah, defo much easier to say fluidly than something like T-T or qwq

Totally this. It also makes it easier to use as a reference or shorthand. It’s harder to directly reference something like ^_^ or o.O because you can’t say it.

@@geealion Perfectly illustrated with how she struggled with reading out the tumblr replies

Discord pervert lexicon for "i want to groom kids"

@@triangulum_mori ... Yeah, saying "que-wu-que" doesn't quite slip off the tongue as easily.

owologist

i love this so much and i concur

Time to add uWu into my digital lexicon to spread madness in my wake

What language?

We need to know what language this is

​@@katethegoat7507Polish

@@wayfaringspacepoet Powish

we don’t care,

Prageruwu69. _MOREL OREL PFP._

This was a good laugh for me thank you for that decision

I know someone called uwugossharag, she's awesome! I think all the uwu-based or -inclusive names should get together and have a conference - or indeed, a cowonference.

This username is fantastic

its perfect

You get iit!!!

I've just always thought it is as a cat smiley, like :3

for me it was that and also like a cat

@@voodoolilium SAME

for me it was that and also like a cat

I’m pretty sure it’s just a reference to how Panic! At the Disco is written. Most other fandoms overlapped on some level with the Patd fan base so it’s just a little inside joke I guess :3

Never thought about that, but I think that tracks. Strange.

I use it a lot mostly with 1-2 _ like ^__^

I call it whale but I love it all the same

I love using -_________-

Also cigarette Aheago is a great song that features UwU pretty heavily

the tragic experience of kids getting groomed and molested online by furries who use UWU

I don't care. I make superior content😂😂

Funny enough, when I saw the emoticon gaining popularity again, I saw it as that. Like cool. A decade's old emoticon from Japan (translated to western keyboards) has gotten popular again. But then I hang with weird types that do use kaomoji at the time. Even I do. (Even if I am lazy and stick to the simpler ones ^_^ )

same, i remember friends making the same comparisons back in the mid 2010's

Jesus I never used AIM but I remember my friends at school talking about it in like 2007, have not thought about that in forever lol

For me, it has to be OvO to be an owl

But OvO is an owl... And :> is a little bird, and :3 is also a cat

Markiplier: Rawr XD uwu!

I think it's uwu is more weird because of the context it is generally used in. It's like a layer of cringe on top pre-existing layer of cringe.

I knew people who said "eks dee" back when UwU was popular. Both aloud and typed like that

What about saying "lol" without laughing?

@@JNCressey that's just 1000% ironic/sarcasm (or cringe if not)

Me too, and I was never into anime.

The concept of knowing the word, but not seeing the face is crazy to me. I'm thirty, idk if age has anything to do with it.

before this video i didn't even know what kaomoji are...

@@ville__ Me too, and I was never into anime.

i mean i definitely knew it was an emoticon and i have seen some of the other kaomojis before but never actually heard the word “kaomoji” before this video

I feel like I wasn't expecting a matt rose strange aeons crossover but hello fellow watcher of both!

I have never heard of Matt Rose before, and after reading this message I feel I have to change that right now. Thank you for the eye-opener, stranger.

I don't care. I make superior content😂😂

@@goranisacson2502 just a twitter/reddit post reader. but actually not because he's legit the funniest post reader i've ever heard.

FELLOW MATT ROSE FAN

​I've been on the internet since the mid 2000s and this video is the first time I've considered people seeing UwU as a word rather than an emoticon. Kind of breaks my brain a little

Same, I just thought people say it aloud nowadays to ironical. But now I understand it's really a thing and a word.

Yuuup *edit:* dang it, it would have been funnier if I said: Yuwup

I felt so old

Both. Both is good.

oooo yeah things like the exclamation mark to denote an alternate/headcanon version of a character or the origin of words like "whump", it'd be cool to see a vid about that kinda stuff

I gather you are also "old enough to remember lemons"? I died a bit inside when I saw that on a button in the wild lol

I gather you are also "old enough to remember lemons"? I died a bit inside when I saw that on a button in the wild lol

OwOno

fandom etymology needs to be a recurring series on this channel it's such a fun concept

TEWW ME, FOW WHOM DO YOU FIGHT

Thank youwu

me trying to pronounce guwuys for the shits and gigs

@@ville__ silence, bot

@@telosnium you do realize im a mod for teya right? i wont openly give you the hammer just to let you know she knows i can still have fun on this channel

I read this in necoarc's voice

That explains Dartz in YGOTAS

@@PaizuruInsanal and his great great great great grandson Pawadox

@@arsonmouse2511damn, Paradox chose gay son over thot daughter

That and Morbin' time

Wait no… The yugioh fandom ?! At least yugioh gets to have some internet fame

How many bunts did you have to draw

I was born in 2005 and I'm 19 so you're double my age rn

@@annawesometheflameingpikac3688 Oh buddy, you won't believe how fast it goes by! Live it up, see the world! 🥲

Felt this way when I mentioned to my friend last night that The Lightening Thief was published 19 years ago (tho we were both 9 back then so the existential dread probably didn’t hit us quite as hard)

Green Day has been playing on the oldies station for like 10 years now, it's o v e r

@@OmegaSoypreme I'm literally going on a research trip to Italy next week so I think I have see the world started haha

You should invoke Thoth aka Θώθ

@@Halinn as a current Ancient Greek student, I cannot read a word with an omega in between two thetas without seeing OwO h e l p

​​@@shatteredreality_513ΘωΘ I'm a statistics major and same

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Yeah, as a kid, like at the age of 7 or 8 or something I saw fanart of Ed with an OwO face a lot :') that was around that time too, 2005/2006

When Al is drawn in the simplified manner where he's just a blob with a face, his face does resemble OwO somewhat.

That's so funny!!! My earliest memory of these types of emotes is also from an FMA fanfic, only I found it on Quizilla in 2004.

Perfect use tbh

omg yes this too!!

the incel to troon pipeline , brought to you by autism and AGP

now, I have used "nya-nderthal" (nya-nderdwal) sometimes as an username, which makes me probably pretty cursed

you need to project the soy in you

UwU! Stwange æons Upwoaded :3

Indeed! Her memelord status goes pretty far back, she seems like she's seen a lot, and I hope she'll be open to sharing stories later on.

you 🤝 me

🤝 vocaloid gremlins

🤝

🤝 Vocaloid 5evarrr 💖💖💖

I don't care. I make superior content😂😂

No what is it 🤔

But it was actually.... Tommy Tallarico!

@@rubydown3329 Mother=Proud :)

​@@rubydown3329 OMG NO, ITS JOEY, ITS ALWAYS JOEY

@@rubydown3329 Your mother must be very proud

We're in our post ironic phase 🎉

my dude and uwu go hand in hand in that regard

grooming kids into degenerate furry fetishes, only ironically

There's a setting on Google in languages for Elmer fuddian

This is a good point: "uwu-speak" is much older than the emoticon. It was a standard trope in cartoons for babies who needed to speak for whatever reason (Stewie on Family Guy), so they would still sound baby-ish. It mimics the way young American children speak. Elmer Fudd doesn't precisely speak in "uwu-speak", although he does have a lot of extra glides which mimics the way old time Southerners talk. It wasn't intended to be cute when it was made. I think people perceive that dialect as "cute" because of Forrest Gump: who talks that way because he's from rural Georgia, but I think a lot of people instead perceived it as caused by his developmental disability (because he spends so much of the movie surrounded by people who don't talk like that). Elmer Fudd was also supposed to be from somewhere in the rural South, and it wasn't intended as a flattering portrayal.

​@@sophiejones3554As I saw it, Elmer Fudd just had a mild speech impediment (not able to pronounce the letter "r," so it was not entirely clear whether his name was "Elmer" or "Elmo" if he were to introduce himself out loud.) I had the same problem for years as a child- it took a lot of practice to get to the pronunciation that came naturally to a lot of people. But a lot of early cartoon voice actors heavily used various accents and speech impediments to make their characters sound more distinctive- that way one person could voice several characters and they would all sound different!

@@sophiejones3554Stewie in Family Guy is literally just the voice of famous adult man Rex Harrison, there’s no babyish element to it

@@greyblasphemeomg

Yeah I honestly didn't do that connection until this video😅

BROTHER IM FOLDING LAUNDRY TOO

@@finfleming9287ME TOO BROTHERS

@@finfleming9287 HOW ARE WE ALL FOLDING LAUNDRY WHILE WATCHING STRANGE???

omg same

Me too!

You'll be glad to know I've stopped using it shortly after that and learned MUCH better ways to do shadows (multiply layers ftw!)

Is that like a variation of orz?

​@@VanguardAlexkioyeah orz and oTL are similar but one of the guys has their ass up

I like the theory that she’s guragara

She went from owo rap to the biggest vtuber, if true I mean

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@@awlomthesheepermen its not even a theory

@@CaptainRadiator oh was it confirmed?

It's actually "Ghislain", Ghislaine is the feminine version of the name. XD Thanks for commenting my drawing though! ^^

unhinged AGP energy

based opinion

Mr. White: jesse what the fuck are you saying

it was 2011 apparently lol

Calliope appeared relatively late, and past "peak Homestuck", so I think was more built off the existing popularity of the meme than feeding it, since her personality is very much a pastiche of "cute rp girl". (That said, Strange, if you ever want to discuss anything Homestuck on the channel, I'm the longest serving admin of Let's Read Homestuck and well-connected in that fandom, having done art for some of the official music albums and the Rex Duodecim Angelus video etc. Hit me up any time!).

Calliope appeared relatively late, and past "peak Homestuck", so I think was more built off the existing popularity of the meme than feeding it, since her personality is very much a pastiche of "cute rp girl". (That said, Strange, if you ever want to discuss anything Homestuck on the channel, I'm the longest serving admin of Let's Read Homestuck and well-connected in that fandom, having done art for some of the official music albums and the Rex Duodecim Angelus video etc. Hit me up any time!).

@@ville__ i still think it had something to do with it!

@@KateHolden man idk how we can really say that peak homestuck ended BEFORE alpha kids like, be for real...

When I google LPStuber, I get "Littlest Pet Shop" tuber... is that what that means? Did she legitimately go from Littlest Pet Shop to memes and to shork? What a ride.

@@goranisacson2502lol right, she is a talented shark. if you watch LPSpopular a popular Littlest Pet Shop internet show. you can tell Gura was raised on it. oh and gura was BrownBeeTV

didnt ask

Yeah, I'm oooold. XD