This week, a new trend, or trendsin the language of social networks, invaded the X (old Twitter) which consists of asking users to look between two letters on their keyboards to find an answer.
Americans jumped on the trend first and, now, Brazilians have joined the wave. The topic “X and Y” became trending on the aforementioned social network, with more than 8 thousand posts, this Wednesday (24).
However, according to the American portals USA Today and CNBC, the trends It originated in May 2021, on a platform called 4Chan, where people share images and make comments anonymously.
The meme used a character from the Japanese anime series “K-On” and its caption read: “Look between the letter T and O on your keyboard.” The letters came out as Y, U and I, spelled 'Yui', a character from the series, focusing on girls forming a band through the school's music club.
After that, several users got in on the action and made their versions of the meme, changing the “T” and “O” to different letters and thus sending hidden messages. See some examples:
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my keyboard between Y and O: pic.twitter.com/Vk3nc50aIU
— matheus (@matheusdevdd) April 23, 2024
— mel (@meltedvideos) April 24, 2024
However, the trends It didn't please everyone and some users were already tired of the new trend. Check out:
this keyboard trend emerged and on the first day it was already saturated pic.twitter.com/2xaMrVPlcm
— Giffoni (@Luskadefone) April 24, 2024
I opened Twitter and the only thing there is this keyboard trend pic.twitter.com/098esXP11K
— millas kharo (@thisovit) April 24, 2024
I silenced all the words of this unfortunate keyboard trend and print continues to appear pic.twitter.com/hICJun3BHb
— backpack alligator (@bettercallvito) April 24, 2024
There is about to be a more BORING trend than this keyboard one, STOP for the love of God with this dry shit
pic.twitter.com/4RIQcwhgY4— samuca (@kreaghin) April 24, 2024
I hate this trend because the keyboard on my work computer is literally like this https://t.co/QWDGqUZ35h pic.twitter.com/h0ifT97alB
— mali (jenna's version) — 11/24/23 (@solongsaylor) April 24, 2024
Source: CNN Brasil
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