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sksksk
or sksksksksk [ sk-sk-sk ]
黑料网 does sksksk mean?
Sksksk is an interjection used to convey surprise, happiness, and other intense emotions. It’s stereotyped as an overused expression of VSCO girls on social media.
Where does sksksk come from?
We can find evidence for sksksk on Twitter as early as 2009, when it appears to be used among Portuguese speakers in Brazil as a kind of keysmash to express intense emotions. S and K are at opposite sides of the QWERTY keyboard, so sksksk (and its many, longer instances) is easy to pound out with both hands in a pique.
Into the 2010s,聽sksksk can also be found in UK, Black, and gay communities on social media. But in summer 2019, sksksk, along with the phrase and I oop, became associated as an overused catchphrase of so-called “stan Twitter” (stereotyped as an overly obsessive, young female fan culture online) and “VSCO girls.”
Stan Twitter knowing 鈥渟ksksk鈥� has belonged to them and not the vsco girls
— 饾惢饾挾饾搩饾搩饾挾饾捊 (@harryallthelove)
VSCO 驳颈谤濒听is a term, generally used as an insult, for a young, usually white woman who posts trendy pictures of herself edited on the app VSCO. Stereotypes of the聽VSCO girl include wearing scrunchies and Birkenstock sandals, drinking out of Hydro Flask reusable water canisters, generally seeking attention online鈥攁nd, yes, saying sksksk.
By August 2019, sksksk was central to memes making fun of VSCO girls, especially in the form of TikTok videos. One video, posted by @koobydoobydoobydoo on August, went viral. In these videos, sksksk is uttered as a mocking way to convey unconstrained excitement, joy, even awkwardness鈥攑erhaps as a kind of verbal incarnation of a keysmash.
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Examples of sksksk
Who uses sksksk?
Given the joking, fast-changing nature of internet culture, it can be difficult to tell if instances of sksksk are meant earnestly or ironic.
My toxic trait is saying 鈥渟ksksk鈥� outloud unironically
— sAGiqUAriUs (@laurenmosewho)
However, sksksk appears most widely used, whether written or spoken, as a way to make fun of VSCO girls and is discussed in popular media as a stereotype of VSCO girls.
The best thing just happend to me. My barista at starbucks was trying to give me a strae and I said no and showed him my steel straw and he goes "omg are you VSCO? I have an extra scrunchy if you need it. Sksksk and I oop"
Yall when I say I DIED.— A.R. (@ThatProduceBoy)
Be mindful that sksksk is often treated as an annoying habit of young women, and as such, using sksksk to make jokes may be considered offensive.
bc vsco stole sksksk we are resorting to using asdfghjkl again like our ancestors did before us
— 饟儹鈥⒛竜蠀馃 (@descartesau)
Additional sk‘s can be added to sksksk for greater emphasis, e.g., sksksksksksk.
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