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I just realized the etymology of kekistan
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it comes from korea
[12:38]
typing kekekeke (korean) is equivalent to lolololol in english
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it happened a lot in broodwar, something funny would happen and everyone would type lololol
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then someone would type kekekeke in sort of a trolly manner
[12:38]
Fast forward, hearthstone came out
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In hearthstone a common phenomena during gameplay is one player will draw a critical card off the top of their deck. The card can be so critical the game is immediately won, and the opponent falls into an unrecoverable position
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When this happens, it's called a "top deck", as in drawing the winning card off the top of the deck
[12:40]
It happened very often in "arena" mode of hearthstone, where top decks were particularly powerful and dramatic
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On livestreams of hearthstone arena, twitch chats would often times parade during this occasions with "TOP DECK"
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and in a trolly manner, some users would say "TOP KEK"
[12:41]
kek as in korean type of "lol", or in other words, "top laughs"
[12:41]
in this way kek became sort of a trolly way to parody a funny event
[12:41]
and pretty sure kek, kekistan and keks or whatever all came from this timeline
[12:37]
it comes from korea
[12:38]
typing kekekeke (korean) is equivalent to lolololol in english
[12:38]
it happened a lot in broodwar, something funny would happen and everyone would type lololol
[12:38]
then someone would type kekekeke in sort of a trolly manner
[12:38]
Fast forward, hearthstone came out
[12:39]
In hearthstone a common phenomena during gameplay is one player will draw a critical card off the top of their deck. The card can be so critical the game is immediately won, and the opponent falls into an unrecoverable position
[12:39]
When this happens, it's called a "top deck", as in drawing the winning card off the top of the deck
[12:40]
It happened very often in "arena" mode of hearthstone, where top decks were particularly powerful and dramatic
[12:40]
On livestreams of hearthstone arena, twitch chats would often times parade during this occasions with "TOP DECK"
[12:40]
and in a trolly manner, some users would say "TOP KEK"
[12:41]
kek as in korean type of "lol", or in other words, "top laughs"
[12:41]
in this way kek became sort of a trolly way to parody a funny event
[12:41]
and pretty sure kek, kekistan and keks or whatever all came from this timeline
I would probably add a little more to this timeline and talk about how kekistan and kek emerged in 4chan as a parody-style troll reaction to mainstream media's agenda of identity politics. Just to flesh out the timeline a little more.
Any thoughts or comments? Anyone have other insights, agree or disagree?
None.