Menawhile: tenga stock prices soar because apparently their toys are so good that a guy was willing to kill for them to be banned
swlabr
joined 2 years ago
OwO what’s this?
NB: I will not perform sleuthing, i.e. reading up on this guy or anything he wrote. I don't think it's worth it
Is it crazy that I don't think that the guy is the shooter? I don't see the EA crowd, famous for bootlicking, being up to the task of CEO assassination.
Fucking hell. What exactly do they pay Salty Ballman for if all he does is come up the same ideas over and over? Just replace him with a coin with “cram another LLM into the trenchcoat” on one side and “add another payment tier” on the other.
Worst fake techonology revolution ever. This bubble can’t burst fast enough.
it's almost as if international trade of weapons creates perverse incentives
Or a secret, third option:
So my understanding is that uwu/UwU originates as a kaomoji, think (^.^) and (O.O) etc. Using the 'w' character to render the mouth starts as a furry thing or a general projection of human expression onto common animals like cats or dogs. (You'll see the omega symbol used in examples as well.)
Over the last 20-30 years or so of online interaction etc. kaomoji start to gain a sort of cringe notoriety alongside RP chatting, culminating in a few catalysing memes/copypastas.
Eventually "owo" and "uwu" start being read aloud/vocalised, similar to how people starting saying "lol" out loud, and this is associated I guess with a cutesy sort of image, though that image is often corrupted or subverted- for example e-girls, who co-opt a lot from of gaming and anime subcultures, lean into the uwu of it all.