Laughter, expressed by a Spanish comedian who died in 2021. Still in use on Twitch in the way a fax machine is in use at a solicitor's.
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I was a lurker for most of the 2010s and KEKW is one of the few things I remember posting about. Two lines. Somebody replied. That was enough to keep me around for another decade.
Half the disagreement in this thread is between people defining KEKW by what it meant in 2019 and people defining it by what it meant at its peak. Both are right. Neither is the current meaning.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
