About

OwO What's This? is a copypasta parodying both furries and online roleplay subcultures, which is typically used online as a method of trolling.

Origin

The phrase originated from online roleplay within the furry community. It and phrases similar to it were used regularly, as well as emoticons such as "OwO".

The earliest known usage of the phrase (below) was on January 6th, 2013, on DeviantArt by user CookiMuffinFaic. It received over 130 views, 3 comments, and 3 downloads in about 3 and a half years.





Spread

On June 24, 2015 Imgur user MinotaurusPro uploaded an image of two furries sexually roleplaying while using the phrase (shown below) and on July 2nd, 2015, Tumblr user of-monsters-and-bara posted the image to the site with the caption "WHO DID THIS". While the original post is inaccessible, surviving reblogs indicate that it gained over 60,000 notes in about 1 year.





On July 20th, 2016, Tumblr user pastarrie reblogged a post (below, left) by CommunismKills that used the phrase. The next day, pastarrie made a post (below, right) saying he had edited the post to say it. The first gathered over 20,000 notes and the second 100 notes in approximately 3 weeks.





On July 3rd, 2016, Tumblr user Memeufacturing made a post titled "Me as a furry therapist", which used the phrase. It obtained over 10,000 notes in 2 months. Later, on August 4th, 2016, a parody of the song Mr. Brightside containing the phrase, as well as other furry phrases (below, left), was posted localplant. It gained over 4,500 notes in about 3 weeks.





Various Examples





Search Interest

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External References