The Weebening

The Weebening is a historical event from the Patient Gamers server that started on the 31st of July, 2019. During a conversation about usage of words such as "girl" or "gal", the user Alaharon jokingly suggested the usage of the Japanese honorifics system instead. The moderator Teldurn jokingly followed this up by suggesting he was 'kawaii', which is a Japanese word that means 'cute'. People responded positively to this, most notably with the user avidanya sending a message that simply said "uwu". After protest of the usage of 'uwu' by moderator Avinnus, people went on a rampage of sending messages considered stereotypically 'weeb'. The event continued escalating, with obscene amounts of anime and weeb related posts, and a server-wide divide between weebs and non-weebs. Mod abuse was used on both sides, with server owner basscape changing roles and channels to owo-ified versions of themselves, and Avinnus creating a short-lived role called "Impatient Gamers" for anyone who posted something weeby. Along with this was a rampant amount of name changing to owo-ified versions of their own names, or emotes so that they were still visible with the "Impatient Gamers" role, which was the same colour as the Discord background. After several hours, the dust settled, and everything went back to normal. It is still a well-remembered event to this day.