Re: Peak 2018

[rynling]

I think what amuses me most about the “thicc girl” otter tweet is that the backlash has resulted in the reemergence of “c h o n k,” which I have seen almost every single person I follow on Instagram use at least once during the past week.

“She chonk” comes from Homestuck, by the way. It was filtered through Something Awful (thus the space between letters) before ending up on I Can Haz A Cheezburger, and from there it spread to Facebook before being picked up by animal accounts on Instagram.

I am ashamed for knowing this.

Comments

[runicmagitek]

Homestuck feels like something I should love. I've tried reading it multiple times and got bored 100 pages in. I did recently push past that and into the second(?) arc or what not and I want to dive back into it, but ugh... life happened.... I'm just sad that I'm super late to the party, per usual. Also, it makes me giggle to know that's actually where chonk comes from.

[rynling]

I feel like Homestuck is an acquired taste. Like, on one hand...



...and then on that exact same hand...