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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.


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.