口癖 (くちぐせ、kuchiguse)





Here I'll explain where a few of the things that I often say come from. Will hopefully allow you to appreciate my sayings even more. When you open any of these links, you won't need to watch for more than like 20 seconds, so don't be like oh i can't be bothered because I dumb as fuk atpRtsd.





Wondering about "bytch"?

The man in that video is my favorite streamer, and his channel name is AvoidingThePuddle (real name Aris). He's just a guy who likes fighting games. He used to work in a public library for quite some time. With the advent of twitch.tv, he started livestreaming himself playing fighting games. It turned into quite the lucrative venture for him, as he has quit his job at the library and just streams to support himself (quite comfortably) these days. Typically he gets 2,000 people watching him on average, and 5,000 plus when he streams a popular fighting game. If you have about five spare minutes, Here's a funny story about him and a pervert in the public library.





Here's a picture of a couple sweatshirts that he made and sells.









While the way he says bytch and sick may be his original flair, atpQuan and a lot of his other emotes / sayings aren't his original ideas. Some people get really hung up on the originality of things. But that's not the point. It's not that he stole them. To think that you can patent a saying and other people can't say it is silly. On the contrary, I think it's good to share these sayings and encourage others to say them with you. One of the things that makes me happiest in a friendship is when the other person starts to copy your sayings. Brings you closer together with that friend. Let me be clear that it is different from an inside joke. Inside jokes are meant to keep others out. My sayings and other people's sayings that I like are either very clear in their meaning or are not that hard to figure out / ask about.





These little habits of saying are called 口癖 (kuchiguse) in Japanese, and it means a habitual way of speaking or a favorite phrase. I've had many myself, ranging from "yiss / aw yiss" to "ask me if i give a fuk" Yiss, if you have said one of these to me, there is a very high likelihood that I remember and am happy about that fact. What matters about the 口癖 is not whether or not it was original, but rather whether or not you use it in a way that makes your and your friends' lives more enjoyable.





Aris is a pretty funny guy, and I enjoy watching him a lot. However, most people aren't funny from the get go. I don't think Aris was that funny several years ago - you can jump back in time to watch his old content on YouTube and it's not as good as it is today. Probably the funniest and most Aris-esque moments are when he says bytch and sick, which is why they leave a good impression with me and why I also say them. I think he would feel happy that people imitate him and it brings them joy in the same way that I feel happy when someone starts repeating one of my 口癖 to me. It may very well be that he got that way of saying those words from someone else.



Just like me and "aw yiss," not all of my stuff is original. However, the situations that you use it in and the small ways that you modify the saying can absolutely be original in my opinion. You can adopt someone else's 口癖 into your life and bask in the joy it brings you and your friends. Or you can choose not to use it and make your own. Or you can just listen and understand and enjoy it as you please. 口癖 are a great thing. atpQuan





Being funny is not about having the quick wit all the time and not about having the original ideas. It's not best when seriously putting someone down although it can be pretty sick when it is Being funny is about being fun and sharing yourself, your perspective, and maybe your 口癖 with your friends. People are weird. It's funny when we can let that shit out and share that weirdness with each other atpRtsd.



I may poke fun at people, but never for things that are real. Always about things that are not true. Except when I talk about His Dirtiness stealing panties, because that's super real moon2WOOP I think it's wrong to be the kind of funny that has to put people down. It's not actually funny. The only people who think that shit is funny are cowards who will laugh at anything that isn't making fun of them. Still, there's a difference between having to put someone down and choosing to put someone down. Sometimes, the choice is appropriate. Like when some random dickwad is ruining my night and putting him in his place will get him out of my hair and allow me to enjoy myself. We've all run into that guy before.



Making fun of people is only for friends. Someone who isn't my friend doesn't get any attention from me. The people who aren't my friends in this blog aren't being made fun of. If they've done something to get on my bad side, I won't call it making fun of them. I'm telling you that I think they are a shit person. PogChamp



But you can't learn how to make people laugh by just sitting in a room by yourself - you need to interact with people. A big part of where Aris' funny comes from is his interaction with the people who watch him during his livestreams. Aris is funny because he's shared in a bunch of 口癖 and things from other people and from people in his audience and he enjoys it. However, on the other hand, I want to emphasize that there does have to be a balance of your original personality in there. Someone who has learned to shut out those original thoughts and just parrots stuff that they think is funny is 100% bytch supreme. That's basically all of Reddit for you.













Wondering why I say stuff like "and it's going to be SICK"?













Emotes (not emoji)









Any emote that I type that starts with "atp" for example atpRtsd comes from Aris' AvoidingThePuddle Channel. Now, you might be confused about atpQuan. This emote is the face and two fingers of a dude by the name of BushinStyle. BushinStyle is not that remarkable except for his Quan pose when he puts his two fingers up in front of his nose. He usually does it when he wins to show that he has "harnessed his Quan" and stands triumphant over the body of his defeated opponent.





Aris has adopted that idea of Quan. I like to think of it as a sort of Star Wars-like measure of one's inner calm skills that pay the bills. I think he has made it much more well known than BushinStyle himself could have. It's really stupid but it is pretty funny. Surprisingly, it is quite fitting in an environment with fighting games which is basically 1v1 duels. Here's an example where Aris is praising a player for being sick at Tekken 7 by saying you can't spell the player's name (qudans) without quan. atpQuan









As for the moonmoon_OW emotes that I like to use, I am not particularly enthralled with the streamer who goes by the name moonmoon, but his emotes are pretty well done and very fitting in many different situations. moon2YE





With regards to any other emotes that I use that don't have a channel abbreviation like atp or moon2 before them, they are default twitch emotes that anyone can use. A good example is OhMyDog or WutFace or Jebaited. Then there are some other special emotes like Wowee or LUL that I like a lot.





Last word on emotes, they're just funny looking. When you get just the right emote for a situation, it's quite satisfying. The way that someone uses the emote can also be unique and give the emote its own meaning. That's why I started to use the emotes like atpQuan before I explained them. That's why I don't need to explain other emotes like Wowee and moon2WOOP. Perhaps you, the Glorious Reader, didn't even need an explanation. I hope that emotes take hold in our daily lives and begin to appear in our text messages and webpages. I hope that one day, we'll be watching the PogChamp and the Jebaited in a live chat at sporting events or concerts. HassaanChop





Vidya Game Lingo / Other words

In this blog I try to hold off on words that come from video games, because for most of them only people who play video games with me will understand or be able to both understand and appreciate. I would still humbly entreat you to learn just a little, as vidya games are where a large majority of funny shit for me happens. One term that I think you have to understand even if you've never played a vidya game before though, is:





T-bagging or Tea bagging









This action was widely made famous in a multiplayer video game called Halo, wherein players who wanted to disrespect their enemies after slaying them would crouch and stand up repeatedly on their enemies' bodies. After a player dies, they are able to watch their dead body from a 3rd person perspective for several seconds, and this brief span of time is perfect for some bagging action.





Personally, when I use this word, I don't say the "T" but rather just something like "bag em" or "bag that motherfucker" or "bag this bitch real good oh yeah" You might've noticed that I used it in the last post about badminton. If you were confused, then this explanation was for you. FOR YOU atpGasm





Here's a typical conversation that I have with my friend Tim when we play video games:





Me: I just killed this fucker Tim COME HERE AND BAG HIM WITH ME OH YEAH





Tim: Nah man I'm straight, you go ahead





It's just a funny image to see, and it is even sillier when you imagine someone doing that in real life. These days, I would be surprised if anyone did not know what T-bagging was.





Mad and Bad / Mad cause Bad





Mad / bad is a phrase that I use quite often when gaming on the internet. When you log onto the internets with so many different people, you're bound to run into people who are godlike, who use their skills to pay bills you didn't even know existed. You're also bound to run into people you didn't even know could be so clueless. And everyone in between.





Typically, the people who are not very good at the game are the ones who are the most vocal about the game. Whether that be cheering at one's own victory on a text channel that everyone can see, or complaining that everyone but himself/herself/shitself was at fault and responsible for the loss.





It is this kind of person that I cannot resist trolling. It's so juicy, the chance to inform them that the game went badly because they're bad. Usually, in the game that I troll the most in, Overwatch, it's relatively easy to see what someone's ranking is. There is no hiding from being judged on how they stack up to everyone else. If you were wondering what my ranking was, I reached the 93rd percentile of all players before deciding to stop ranked mode because it had stopped being interesting.





I don't like to use the word trolling - trolling to me is more like trying to start fights just for the sake of having a fight. I only make fun of these idiots when they pipe up or get super butthurt. Usually what I will say is some variation of "mad cause bad" or "you are both mad and bad man"





Here's an example of an irresistible morsel that appears in the public chat channel of a game of Overwatch.





bytch: bg (means bad game), team is clueless





Me: you ever been mad cause you bad





bytch: wow that's so original, look at this guy using 2007 memes (checks my rank, realizes I'm way higher than he is, says nothing else)





Me: lol you are so mad and bad, don't need anything new





bytch: *quietly fumes like His Dirtiness*

















Oh yes

Oh yes is a Korean snack. In Korean, it is written 오예스 which was designed to sound like, you guessed it, oh yes. My friend Tim introduced it to me when I went to Korea. Here's a picture of the glorious 오예스:





It's fuckin delicious and not too expensive. I can actually buy it in Osaka, and I make sure to stop by places where I can get my hands on it if it's on the way. I had it for the first time when I visited my friend Tim in Korea. I liked it so much I could've fuckin died. At the time, I was learning Korean, and there were very few things that I could say. I said 오예스 so many times to my friend Tim. It doubled as both the phrase "oh yes" as in approval and as the snack 오예스 itself. Now, we say it even if there is no connection to the current situation. 오예스.









A hohoho / Ayy Lmao





Maybe about 5 years ago, I was playing a first person shooter game, Counterstrike: Global Offensive with a good friend of mine back home. The game had come out not that long ago, and it was a revamp of the old (and shitty) series that is Counterstrike. New character models, new voice lines, new guns, it was exciting. One of the characters models was a French anti terrorist officer, complete with voice lines in French and a funny little beret hat that resembled a saggy mushroom. Here's a picture of what they look like:













Lol those hats are so dumb. I think we were disappointed that the French officers did not have a laugh that sounded like "a hohoho" in a French accent. We would try harder and harder to perfect our "a hohohos" in our best shitty French accents because the creators of the game had taken the joy of having an "a hohoho" voice line by default. Pretty soon it just became a phrase that we used when pleasantly surprised by something or when we approved or liked something.



Here's another sample conversation between my buddy and I:





My buddy: Ayy, I can play tonight





Me: a hohoho









Speaking of Ayy, that comes from the phrase AyyLmao. AyyLmao comes from this picture, or at least this is where I first saw it:









This picture gave rise to countless other gems, such as:









lol I'd never seen that last one before, got me good ayy.









As you can see, the ways to use ayy lmao are as countless as the maymays that have been created using it. The ways that my friends and I use ayy lmao that I can think of off the top of my head are as follows:

greeting : for example, when I log into a game and want to notify my friends that I'm ready, I'll send them a message: "ayy"

approval: for example, as described above, I tell a friend that I can pray and he says "ayy let's do it" Here, it's more like an "alright, nice!"

description of something weird : as you can see, the maymays that have spread out into the world as a result of that first picture get pretty weird. Sometimes, I'll use "ayy" describe something that can't be described by other normal words as well but that is similar to the ayy lmao maymay. For example: When talking to my friend, I say "I was in the anime / electronics area of town yesterday and I saw this cosplay costume that was super ayy"









Parried / Get Parried / Butt Eater

This comes from Aris' escapades on twitch. He says this when someone comes to him with an annoying / stupid question, and it means that he is going to ignore them. Kind of like they're coming at him with their shitty question and he sidesteps it or parries it as though swordfighting. He'll say "I'm going to parry this bytch" or "get parried bytch" It's a little difficult for me to find a clip of that, so I'm just going to give up on that one atpRtsd





The way I use the word parry / parrying is when I avoid a rather undesirable situation, often with an undesirable person. For example, on my way back to Osaka after winter break, I arrived at the airport gate in San Francisco to wait for my flight. Much to my dismay, this butt eater named Steven was waiting at the same gate. Long story short, I didn't even acknowledge his shitty face throughout the whole flight back to Osaka. Parried atpQuan





The word "butt eater," I got it from my friend Tim. I have no idea how or where he got that word, but it is pretty funny, so I adopted it very quickly. We use it in the way that you would guess that we would use it. Basically, means someone who we don't like or is a bytch.





The reasons why we call him butt eater Steven are various, too many for me to want to explain in this post. Let's just stop with saying he's the most socially uncomfortable person to be around and in such a way that makes people dislike him. I use the word "butt eater" and "steven" so much together that my phone automatically suggests "Steven" after I've typed "butt eater" moon2LUL

That pretty much does it for all the things that might need some explanation. Now the list of things I have left to write are:

FOOOOOOOOOD (and traveling)

Where does OO come from? (will be very short, showing you the origin of some things that I say like bytch)

Typical Nights Out with Friends, and Not-So-Typical Nights Out with Friends (what we do when we hang out)

Shitty Japanese Lady (probably the shittiest person I've ever met)

Butt Eater Steven and Big Mara / Bitch Derek (a most uncomfortable story / the manifestation of a typical shithead Redditor)

The Tale of Gengu (fascinating in a grotesque way)

Bobodopolis and Bimwizzle (two of my really good friends here in Japan)





お疲れ様です！ I look forward to the next one atpRtsd



























