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[–]Jesus[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

KEK means what? Also, screw Trump.

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I never said anything about trump? I don’t believe in political theater, idk where that came from.

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In World of Warcraft the Orcish "language" was displayed to non-orcs with a simple substitution cipher. LOL translated to KEK. So watching a bunch of Orcish players type "lol" would look like "kek" to everyone else. That's the origin, I don't really understand why its been embraced as it has.

[–]Jesus[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Why do so many trump supporters use this then?

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Not trump supporters, image board users and /pol/ users (who happened to support trump), used it heavily during Trumps first election.

As I’m sure you already know, KEK is an Egyptian god that was depicted as a frog, that happened to match up with Pepe. There was also Thoth/thot, too (“begone thot meme turned into “begone Thoth”). Some people at the time were doing it for fun and the coincidence of it all, others believed in the “chaos magick” and that Pepe was a modern day incarnation or portrayal of Kek.

But most people just use kek to say lol. It was around way before trumps elections and like AmericanMuskrat said, came from WoW when people who were playing as Orcs said “lol”, people playing as other races saw “kek”.

If you ask me, Trump is corrupt like all the rest. He’s done so much for Israel, Israel refers to him as “their president” and have murals of him in Tel Aviv.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

How did "LOL" translate to orkish?

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It's not really a different language, it was just a way to make it seem sort of like one. An Orcish character would see everything from another Orcish character in plain text, a character of a different race would see gibberish looking text due to the cipher.