It now exists in post-ironic bliss, with people using it jokingly so often that it’s become earnest again. “Uwu” refers to this emoticon: uwu, which according to an Urban Dictionary definition from 2012, “means happy, like an anime character's face when they're overjoyed.” Since 2012, the uwu emoticon has completed a full internet lifecycle, first being cute, only to become cringe a few years later.

A quick look at TikTok’s #discord hashtag confirms the phenomenon by giving the kind of girl involved in the scheme a name - she’s a “ Discord uwu girl.” There’s a check that comes with taking strange calls with strange boys on Discord? You’d do it for the check!”Ĭheck? There’s a check that comes with taking strange calls with strange boys on Discord? Although this scenario is happening in 17-year-old TikTok user anacreon’s parody video and not in real time, based on the TikTok’s current 1.1 million likes and healthy handful of comments lamenting not being able to do “the voice,” you start to get the idea that there is. Under her breath and in her real voice, she asserts to her waiting friend “You’d do it for the check. “Oh, I must have Seige running in the background, I’d never play without you, you’re too good!” Eye-roll implied, but the caller doesn’t notice it.

“Hello? Uwu?” she says to her male caller. She takes the call, and suddenly, her voice goes up an octave (or maybe two), her tone suddenly sugary and sycophantic. “I’m getting a simp call, it’ll be, like, three seconds.” In the middle of her game, pink room lights and headset on, a girl at her computer gets a Discord call.

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