Rickroll vs Waifu - What's the difference?
rickroll | waifu |
(Internet slang, transitive, neologism) To coax one into clicking on a hyperlink which leads to something other than what is claimed, originating with 's song Never Gonna Give You Up .
(transitive, neologism, by extension) To harass with misleading hyperlinks of this kind.
(fandom) A fictional character from non-live-action visual media (typically an anime, manga, or video game) that one is attracted to and considers a significant other.
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As a verb rickroll
is (internet slang|transitive|neologism) to coax one into clicking on a hyperlink which leads to something other than what is claimed, originating with 's song never gonna give you up .As a noun waifu is
(fandom) a fictional character from non-live-action visual media (typically an anime, manga, or video game) that one is attracted to and considers a significant other.rickroll
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(en verb)waifu
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- Bradley Meek's portrayal of Lucky?Star's protagonist is particularly worthy of notice in assessing the anime's take on the art-play dyad: “Konata Izumi is a high school otaku hardcore enough to know trivia about seventies giant robot and tokusatsu shows,” the critic proposes, “but not hardcore enough to own a bodypillow of her waifu [a 2D significant other].