ww at the end of a Japanese sentence

Buntaro

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Here is a sentence I ran across while watching YouTube:

シャイな人には向いてないよねｗｗ

What does the ww mean? Does it have a special pronunciation?

 

mdchachi

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It means lol or 笑. I've never heard it voiced though so I'm not sure.

In Japan, People Do Not LOL. They wwww. - Kotaku

You see it on Japanese forums. Strings of "w's". I often quote individuals as writing "lol", "LOL", or even, "lulz". But let's get something straight.

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bentenmusume

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• #3

There's really no universally agreed-upon "pronunciation" of wwwwwww, even among native speakers. (It would be like asking how you "pronounce" a smiley or something.)

【昼刊】「orz」、「KY」、「www」など、読み方のわからない言葉を調べよう。 | AppBank

Twitterやメールでみかける「orz」や「ktkr」など、なんとなく読んだり雰囲気で感じることはできるけど読めない言葉ってありますよね。そんな言葉の読み方の分からない文字があったら「YOMIKAT

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nice gaijin

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the only time I've heard it read aloud was as (笑), or "kakko-warai." Sometimes someone would read "w" as that, just so it's understood to the listener that it was some form of the Japanese "lol" variant.