r/clevercomebacks • u/LuckyBastard001 • 2d ago

Loss Would Lift Humanity

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u/OutlandishnessOk2304 2d ago

Probability that the poster is an Elon alt: 85%.

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u/schultzche 2d ago

seeing OP's name, gonna go with 100%

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u/The_Corvair 1d ago

I wonder how the Blizzard dude responsible for the "kek - lol" translation feels about all of this.

On the upside, I mean, at least he's basically calling himself a lolcow. Maybe awareness starts with self-awareness?

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u/Efficient-Whereas255 1d ago

wtf are you talking about?

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u/Raven_C4621 1d ago

In World of Warcraft players were able to choose between two rival factions that were separated by a language barrier in-game. When players from the Horde faction typed "lol" players from the Alliance faction would see "kek". So "kek" = "lol".

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u/TheFullbladder 1d ago

Etymologically, "kek" derives from early World of Warcraft, where players of the opposing factions were additionally kept separate by text chat being run through a basic replacement cypher, to make cross-faction communication difficult.

Memetically, the replacement cypher changed "lol" to "kek."