This recent ranking survey from goo Ranking was quite an effort to translate, a look at current net slang that are not yet widely known. Here is a related survey from a couple of years ago.

Demographics

Over the 5th and 6th of October 2012 1,064 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 58.2% of the sample were female, 10.5% in their teens, 13.7% in their twenties, 26.6% in their thirties, 27.6% in their forties, 11.7% in their fifties, and 9.9% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Number 16 was the first one I knew, having seen it used and explained on TV just last week!

Here’s a video for number five:





Ranking result

Q: What current net slang do you think is not yet widely known? (Sample size=1,064) Rank

日本語

Reading

Meaning

Score

1

アイエエエ

Aieee

Japanese transcription of a typical scream from American comics, “Aieeee!”

100

2

わこつ

Wakotsu

On Nico-Nico live net broadcasts, there was initially a low limit on the number of simultaneous broadcasts, so people would spend up to an hour pressing a button to try to capture a slot. Once they got started, people would congratulate them using わこつ, short for 枠取り作業お疲れ様.

97.4

3

ふぁぼる

Faboru

To make something a favourite, particularly on Twitter

93.6

4

承前

Shouzen

Indicates that the current Tweet is a continuation from the last, due to hitting the 140 character limit.

90.6

5

ggrks

Guguru Kasu

Go Google it!

89.8

6

ksk

Kasoku

Speed up, used when a thread on 2ch or other bulletin board takes off

88.3

7

hshs

Hasu hasu

Heavy breathing, from haku-suu, breathe out-breathe in

87.2

8

ファビョる

Fabyoru

A not very polite way of describing a Korean getting mad

87.2

9

kwsk

Kuwashiku

A request for more details

86.8

10

ブヒる

Buhiru

To squeal like a pig at a moe (cute) anime

85.3

11

△

Sankaku

He/she/it’s cool! Starting from, for example, “Ken san kakkouii!” (Ken is cool), we get “Ken△”

84.2

12

ROMってろ

Rom-tteru

Initially was “Just read this, don’t talk about it”, but now also “Read Only Monitor”, for someone who reads but doesn’t post to a bulletin board

82.7

13

ステマ

Sutema

Short for Stealth Marketing

81.6

14

＼宣／

Sky High

The victory pose of The King of Heroes, Sky High, from the Tiger and Bunny series

81.2

15

クラスタ

Cluster

Here indicates a grouping of fans, used as for example, AKB48-cluster.

80.8

16

オワコン

Owacon

Short for Owari (finished) contents. Something that is in the past

80.5

17

呼びタメ

Yobitame

Short for yobisute and tameguchi, an informal (perhaps a hint of looking down at people) and frank talk

78.9

18

ズッ友

Zuttomo

Short for “zutto tomodachi”, usually used when exchanging photo seals. Japanese equivalent of BFF

75.9

19

美ジョガー

Bi-jogger

Beautiful female jogger

75.6

20

DQN

Dokyun

Stupid, anti-social person, perhaps a Japanese chav

75.2

21

ェ・・・

…

Yes, it’s a silent “…”, apparently from Naruto manga

73.3

22

チート

Cheat

Now used to praise people for nice tricks or game hacks, etc

72.9

23

デフォ

Defo

An abbreviation of “default”, in the sense of “usually”. An example sentence would be “Weekday nights at that ramen shop sees defo 30 people waiting.”

66.5

24

ソーシャルメディア

Social media

Social media

65.8

25

うｐ

Up

Short for upload, when typed in Japanese input mode

64.3

26

推しメン

Oshimen

Short for “ichioshi member”, one’s favourite member of a group like AKB48

63.9

27

オワタ

Owata

ASCII art of shouting “banzai!” on finishing something

59.8

28

誰得

Daretoku

An abbreviation of “Dare ga tokusurun dayo”, “Who’s the one who knows all about it?”, said for instance to the person starting a thread on comparing the eyelash lengths of AKB48 members

59.0

29

ソース

Source

Source code, nothing more complicated, I don’t think

55.3

30

あげぽよ

Agepoyo

“Age” is to raise, in this sense tension, which means to increase the excitement, and “poyo” is just a meaningless sound added to the utterance

54.1

31

ノーサイド

No side

I don’t think this means anything more than the end of a rugby match, but I’m probably wrong…

53.4

32

爆発しろ

Bakuhatsu shiro

The full phrase is “Rea-juu bakuhatsu shiro”, abuse from net dwellers to people talking about having too much of a real life, so they should go and blow themselves up

52.3

33

どや顔

Doyagao

Smug face, and part of the name of a television program where it gets translated as “face of pride”

51.9

34

ワロタ

Warota

Slang spelling of “laugh”, used like LOL in English

50.0

35

おつ

Otsu

Short for “Otsukaresamadeshita”, a stock phrase meaning “Thank you for your hard work”

47.7



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