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Cowabunga Wat (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world to c/antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world

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[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does anyone know if this human is still alive?

[–] NekoRogue@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

She supposedly died in 2016, but that's unconfirmed. Also, her family apparently hates this meme.

Source: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wat

[+] Bondrewd@lemmy.world -8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dont do fucked up faces like that in public. Problem solved.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You know that "fucked up faces" are something all of us do, literally dozens of times per day? People don't have five good-looking expressions they switch between perfectly. Have you never paused a movie or series and thought "wow, that's a unfortunate frame"?

You can be in a normal conversation, and a poorly-timed photograph will leave you with a "fucked up face" shared on the internet for the rest of all time.

[–] Bondrewd@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We all know this woman did the old-man style "leave your mouth open at all times" thing.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

"We all make up random things we'd like to believe"

No, we don't all do that.

[–] fhqwgads@possumpat.io 6 points 2 years ago

I thought it needed one addition

![1st panel: obese woman with superimposed text that says "wat". 2nd panel: the image is zoomed in. 3rd panel: the image is zoomed in even further. 4th panel: we now only see the mouth ands where the nostrils would be. Superimposed over the nostrils is a ninja turtle mask, and below the mouth text that again says "wat" but in the ninja turtles typeface.] ( https://thumbs2.imgbox.com/15/bf/crQ1Rtww_t.jpg)

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Well spotted. 😋

[–] eleefece@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Missed opportunity to use CowabunWat