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Post from r/NoStupidQuestions, u/MCthugpocketwatch:
what does doomed yowie mean?
i was talking with my buddy over face time infront of my teenager daughter and her friend, and when we were talking her friend said “doomed yowie” to her and giggled. what does that mean?
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Reply by u/maybetransmaybenot3:
I understand the meaning and sentiment behind what they’re implying. They’re being cheeky but not mean.
You are a man it seems? Your daughter’s dad? And you have a buddy that you like and treasure. Your daughter’s friend is making a joke that there is love between you and your buddy but it will never work out between you… it will never become real romantic healthy love. It’s a popular sentiment online to refer to many things being “doomed love between boys (yaoi, pronounced “yow-ee”) and “doomed love between girls (yuri, pronounced “yu-ree”), about especially absurd things, such as the twin towers being doomed yuri because they were built together, but never touching, and only touched for the first time as they were dying from the plane impacts. And their proximity to each other is what brought upon their mutual annihilation… what is what it means to be doomed.
Found in this BlueSky thread.
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twin towers yuri being part of the explanation is just 😗🤏
I think you mean 🤌
👌 is what you need, capice? 🤌
Ya know, I actually think it’s somewhere in between. Smh never enough emojis for the human condition
I think you mean ✌️
No, no, I think you mean 🫰but that might be Korean
Does building 7 mean nothing to you?
It amuses me that the twin towers were the example they thought was easiest to explain.
From my experience, every time a major website goes down (or does something really stupid) the users migrate to other websites like it’s a refugee crisis.
So pretty much AO3 readers have broken containment for the time being.
Looks at join date yeah you’d have some experience with that.
I wonder what a federated AO3 would look like? There’d be perks to it, but it’s probably not worth doing because AO3 largely seems to be a model for how to run a centralized platform well.
Doomed yaoi
Today I Learned! Meanwhile I was thinking they were Aussie and talking about this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yowie
No idea why the Yowie was doomed though.
I was thinking of the chocolate based on the Indigenous myth.
I’m not sure why it was doomed, but it was. Got cancelled at some point in the mid aughts, came back a decade later with worse chocolate and much worse toys.
I think you’ve cracked it! Worse chocolate and much worse toys sounds doomed to me.
Yes but why did it get cancelled in the first place?
Surprisingly wholesome!
Daughter’s friend was seeing the positive interaction between the dad and dad’s friend and commenting positively/supportively on it in reference to one of the few positive examples of interactions between male she knows of in pop culture. We often talk about lack of good male role models available today. It sounds like dad and dad’s friend are an example of supportive male platonic relationships.
I kind of thought the opposite of wholesome because the fact that daughters friend sees a platonic relationship and assumes there must be some hidden “doomed” romantic love in there assumes that healthy platonic relationships between men can’t exist.
assumes that healthy platonic relationships between men can’t exist.
Daughter’s friend is not a fully formed adult. She is a teenager. She’s in the part of human life that is sorting out and defining what relationships even are. Especially if she’s consuming lots of pop culture (which is implied from the anime trope reference) she’s probably not getting a steady diet of regular adult male relationship examples in the media. Regular boring healthy relationships typically don’t form the basis for entertainment choices.
Yeah but most doomed yaoi ends up together anyway, soooo…
Edit: I’m so happy I’m not quite so out of touch that I didn’t recognise it.
It took me a bit to recognize “yowee” as “yaoi”, so I’m only moderately out of touch. A good few years before my kids know what it means though.
Yowie is short for Yowie Kapowie which is an Australian board game about collecting monsters. “Doomed Yowie” is for when you realize you’re about to lose to your opponent.
