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As joking about German words works incredibly well in English, here's the original:

There you go. Now you can be sure that the joke's just as funny as originally intended.

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[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Didn't know it means loser for rappers. Guess that means I am either online gamer or old.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

possibly booth. WoW was released in '04.

For those wondering, The game would use a shift cipher on chat. when chatting between factions, you wouldn't be able to read it. Well. except we were nerds and they used the same shift cipher. for horde players saying LOL, alliance players would see KEK. so addons existed that could 'translate' back and forth.

The reasoning was that cross-faction, eh 'comunication' was mostly taunting and shit.

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Probably from Turkish, where "kek" means "cake" but also is slang for "gullible". When you get kek'd, for example, it means you just got got.