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owo rule (sopuli.xyz)
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[-] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

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

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 42 points 10 months 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[-] z500@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Is OwO back? I thought uwu replaced it

[-] shikogo@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

I see more OwO with furries and UwU with weebs but both are alive and well UwU

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 23 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

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

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago
[-] fushuan@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

Spiders be like OoOowoOoO

[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

:0 <===3

:C===3

:C==3

:C=3

:3

[-] violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 10 months ago

Why, ya considering a future into puppy play?

[-] Jimbo@yiffit.net 5 points 10 months ago

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 10 months 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 10 months ago

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

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