35 widely unknown Japanese internet slang terms

This recent ranking survey from goo Ranking was quite an effort to translate, a look at current net slang that are not yet widely known. Here is a related survey from a couple of years ago.

Demographics

Over the 5th and 6th of October 2012 1,064 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 58.2% of the sample were female, 10.5% in their teens, 13.7% in their twenties, 26.6% in their thirties, 27.6% in their forties, 11.7% in their fifties, and 9.9% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Number 16 was the first one I knew, having seen it used and explained on TV just last week!

Here’s a video for number five:

Ranking result

Q: What current net slang do you think is not yet widely known? (Sample size=1,064)

Rank	日本語	Reading	Meaning	Score
1	アイエエエ	Aieee	Japanese transcription of a typical scream from American comics, “Aieeee!”	100
2	わこつ	Wakotsu	On Nico-Nico live net broadcasts, there was initially a low limit on the number of simultaneous broadcasts, so people would spend up to an hour pressing a button to try to capture a slot. Once they got started, people would congratulate them using わこつ, short for 枠取り作業お疲れ様.	97.4
3	ふぁぼる	Faboru	To make something a favourite, particularly on Twitter	93.6
4	承前	Shouzen	Indicates that the current Tweet is a continuation from the last, due to hitting the 140 character limit.	90.6
5	ggrks	Guguru Kasu	Go Google it!	89.8
6	ksk	Kasoku	Speed up, used when a thread on 2ch or other bulletin board takes off	88.3
7	hshs	Hasu hasu	Heavy breathing, from haku-suu, breathe out-breathe in	87.2
8	ファビョる	Fabyoru	A not very polite way of describing a Korean getting mad	87.2
9	kwsk	Kuwashiku	A request for more details	86.8
10	ブヒる	Buhiru	To squeal like a pig at a moe (cute) anime	85.3
11	â–³	Sankaku	He/she/it’s cool! Starting from, for example, “Ken san kakkouii!” (Ken is cool), we get “Kenâ–³”	84.2
12	ROMってろ	Rom-tteru	Initially was “Just read this, don’t talk about it”, but now also “Read Only Monitor”, for someone who reads but doesn’t post to a bulletin board	82.7
13	ステマ	Sutema	Short for Stealth Marketing	81.6
14	＼宣／	Sky High	The victory pose of The King of Heroes, Sky High, from the Tiger and Bunny series	81.2
15	クラスタ	Cluster	Here indicates a grouping of fans, used as for example, AKB48-cluster.	80.8
16	オワコン	Owacon	Short for Owari (finished) contents. Something that is in the past	80.5
17	呼びタメ	Yobitame	Short for yobisute and tameguchi, an informal (perhaps a hint of looking down at people) and frank talk	78.9
18	ズッ友	Zuttomo	Short for “zutto tomodachi”, usually used when exchanging photo seals. Japanese equivalent of BFF	75.9
19	美ジョガー	Bi-jogger	Beautiful female jogger	75.6
20	DQN	Dokyun	Stupid, anti-social person, perhaps a Japanese chav	75.2
21	ェ・・・	…	Yes, it’s a silent “…”, apparently from Naruto manga	73.3
22	チート	Cheat	Now used to praise people for nice tricks or game hacks, etc	72.9
23	デフォ	Defo	An abbreviation of “default”, in the sense of “usually”. An example sentence would be “Weekday nights at that ramen shop sees defo 30 people waiting.”	66.5
24	ソーシャルメディア	Social media	Social media	65.8
25	うｐ	Up	Short for upload, when typed in Japanese input mode	64.3
26	推しメン	Oshimen	Short for “ichioshi member”, one’s favourite member of a group like AKB48	63.9
27	オワタ	Owata	ASCII art of shouting “banzai!” on finishing something	59.8
28	誰得	Daretoku	An abbreviation of “Dare ga tokusurun dayo”, “Who’s the one who knows all about it?”, said for instance to the person starting a thread on comparing the eyelash lengths of AKB48 members	59.0
29	ソース	Source	Source code, nothing more complicated, I don’t think	55.3
30	あげぽよ	Agepoyo	“Age” is to raise, in this sense tension, which means to increase the excitement, and “poyo” is just a meaningless sound added to the utterance	54.1
31	ノーサイド	No side	I don’t think this means anything more than the end of a rugby match, but I’m probably wrong…	53.4
32	爆発しろ	Bakuhatsu shiro	The full phrase is “Rea-juu bakuhatsu shiro”, abuse from net dwellers to people talking about having too much of a real life, so they should go and blow themselves up	52.3
33	どや顔	Doyagao	Smug face, and part of the name of a television program where it gets translated as “face of pride”	51.9
34	ワロタ	Warota	Slang spelling of “laugh”, used like LOL in English	50.0
35	おつ	Otsu	Short for “Otsukaresamadeshita”, a stock phrase meaning “Thank you for your hard work”	47.7

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