Meaning of wojak | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Wojak.
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2. An online image of a crudely-drawn person, often with a melancholic expression, with an art style based upon the original Wojak.
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Examples

“Arguably the most potent version of that meme merges the heatmaps with a multipurpose version of the IQ bell curve, populated with three “wojaks” on the stupid, middlebrow, and supersmart bits of that curve. The liberal heatmap is paired with the figure⟳ in the meaty middle of the graph, while the conservative one fits with the narrower extremes of the IQ spectrum.”

“From the original manifestation of a wistful look⟳ to the meme of two Wojaks hugging with the tag “I know⟳ that feel⟳ bro,” he has taken on contexts in male-dominated internet spaces that signify a brotherhood of sorts.”

“Owing to their coarsely drawn, unyielding masculine outlines, Wojaks are especially compatible with efforts to channel aggression.”

“These figures, which regularly appear⟳ as characters in other meme formats, make⟳ variants of Doomer (male, female, boy, etc.) one of the most prevalent meme tropes of the early 2020s, with both a vertical reach⟳ (as straight copies of the original Doomer format) and a horizontal one (as variants in form⟳, gender, and age, and, since late 2020, race⟳ – with Black Wojaks going viral).”

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