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And in World of Warcrft it's "kek"

Actually from Starcraft, it's the Korean way to say hahaha (kekeke).

I don't speak or read Korean, but I think kekeke might be a transliteration of ㅋㅋㅋ - I've seen that frequently enough in Korean language comments on YouTube that I've looked it up before. A quick web search led me to more Korean lols and hahas... https://domandhyo.com/2017/07/lol-in-korean-%E3%85%8B%E3%85%...

ㅋㅋㅋ is literally “kkk” but it’s shorthand for 크크크 (keukeukeu). There’s also ㅎㅎㅎ (hhh) that shorthand for 하하하 (hahaha). It’s much faster to just mash out those single consonants, sort of like keyboard spam laughing.

ㅎㅎㅎ is definietly not for 하하하. It's more like 흐흐흐 or 히히히, just like hehe in English.

Wasnt it bcs alliance text appeared different to horde and kek translated to lol

Yeah or the other way around. I thought I saw orcs kek’ing as an alliance character. They’d mangle text spoken in languages you didn’t know, and horde / alliance did not have any language overlap.

Correct, if you were Alliance and a Horde character near you typed "lol" it would appear as "kek".

Originally, but spread a lot by now.

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