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[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 86 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OwO will conquer the world

[–] genoxidedev1@kbin.social 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It will be a better world UwU

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I’m out of the loop with this. Isn’t this some gay furry dog whistle?

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 year ago

No, it is but a poor approximation of Θώθ, the Greek name of the Egyptian God of Wisdom. Unfortunately most keyboards cannot type the language of the gods, so we poor mortals must make do with OwO.

(/s. It might have started among furries but is pretty much a meme at this point.)

[–] MustrumR@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From my experience a bit but not really.

I did meet a lot of gays and furries (VR Chat player) and I don't think they have any dog whistles. OwO does indeed helps them recognize people that don't hate them, but it isn't meant to be unregonizable by bigots.

It's more of a opposite, people saying OwO want to be obnoxious. Saying it is either a show that one doesn't mind being seen as gay/furry (and isn't necessarily), or straight up wants to annoy someone.

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's more an all round deviant thing

I'm not a furry, but I find OwO funny as hell

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use it in a sentence so I can understand the joke. I don't get it.

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not everything's funny to everyone, man. Maybe it's just not your thing. It basically just implies you're horny and want to fuck whatever you're talking about. Or personifies an object as horny, as in the image.

"That's a big tree. OwO."

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If O_O is a normal surprised face, OwO is an animalistic surprised face. That's the origin really. Anything else is just contextualization and Internet phenomena.

"Oh man that's a big cucumber O_O" sexually implied sentence.

"Oh man that's a big cucumber OwO" sexually implied sentence, but furry.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Spiders be like OoOowoOoO

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's a whistle for dogs alright :3

(yes, though I wouldn't even really call it much of a dog whistle, it's not very hidden)

[–] Rockyrikoko@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

:0 <===3

:C===3

:C==3

:C=3

:3

[–] violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago

Why, ya considering a future into puppy play?

[–] Jimbo@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Started out as a furry thing, think it's been taken up by weebs now as well. Not sure if it's non furry weebs tho, as you might imagine there's a bit of overlap

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

As someone who was there when the ancient lore was written, OwO has been a thing among weebs for just as long if not longer.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Specifically it's supposed to look like eyes and smile of a dog.