Social media, and long before that text messages —when emojis didn’t exist— have been creating a language of their own that, if you’re not attentive and up to date with urban slang, you could easily miss.
Many new words have appeared over time, such as nashe either rawr*,* But there are many more. Today it’s time to clear up doubts and find out what does it mean uwu either 7w7 on social networks*.*
UnlikeMDLReither LOL*,* This expression is not an acronym for anything at all, but rather a set of letters that simulate the appearance of a face.
Linguistic puzzle: What word in Spanish exists and can be pronounced, but cannot be written?
As I mentioned at the beginning of the text, when there were no emojis, keyboard symbols were used to express different emotions. 🙂 represents a happy face with a smile; 🙁 just the opposite; and what uwu or 7u7 shows It is a little face where the vowels represent the eyes and the consonants, the nose.
Maybe it’s something abstract and you can’t visualize it properly, so here’s an image so you can see it clearly:
This is the visual representation of ‘uwu’.
Wikipedia
7w7, for its part, simply It is another expression with the eyes. Plain and simple.
Now, the image may not make it clear to you in what kind of contexts you can use this expression and you may not be clear What exactly does uwu or 7w7 mean?.
Luckily, the answer is very simple and can be literally translated as Awww! How adorable! That is, it is a reaction to something tender or that makes you happy.
As for the exact moment it was minted, there are no exact records, but the vast majority believe it occurred in 2005, when someone included it in a work of fan fiction titled Genie of the puzzle based on the anime series Yu-Gi-Oh.
It should be noted that this is a widely used expression in Japanese and Korean cybercultures to express something cute or “kawaii” and its use is not restricted only to what was mentioned above. That is, uwu either 7w7 have other meanings:
- A form of flirting
- As a substitute for “same” or “great”
- A way to be condescending
- To be conceited
Finally, The expression uwu or 7w7 is closely linked to the furry community***.***
These types of people are those who like to dress up as completely anthropomorphic animals or simply wear cat ears, fox tails or masks.
Also, seeing the image of uwuit may even be more accurate to associate it with this community, since the nose of animals responds more to that w than the human one.
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