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Wojak

Fig. 1 — “Wojak”, 2009.

Entry No. 010

Wojak

Every trader's inner monologue, rendered in MS Paint.

“Not a coin — a mood. Wojak is how traders feel before, during, and after every trade. The most honest face in finance.”

— Flaundy's marginalia

I. Origin

Born on Polish imageboards in 2009 as a sad bald man. Mutated into thousands of variants — bogged, doomer, gigachad, NPC — each one explaining a piece of the human condition without words.

II. Chronicle

  1. 2009

    Original wojak posted on Krautchan.

  2. 2015+

    Variant explosion: doomer, brainlet, chad.

  3. Ongoing

    Permanent fixture of crypto Twitter.

III. Cultural Impact

Gave finance its emotional vocabulary.

IV. Honest Audit

In favour

  • Infinitely remixable
  • Universally understood

Against

  • No coin to actually buy (the meme itself)

VI. See Also