Hello internet and welcome to behind the mean where we take a look at the meaning and the origin of your favorite memes today
We have a look at lenny face this video was by Far one of the most requested video topics
I hope you guys enjoy the lenny face also known as le Lenny face for those who feel a bit more
Classy and French than the rest of us hold on is a popular and widespread
Emoticon people use on the internet you more than likely have come across the friendly yet terrifying
And also somewhat perverted looking face on forums or comment sections on various web sites
across the internet the use of the face is so widespread that it has become a common part of internet life and
Culture the Lainee face is typically used as a way to spam comment sections or forums
But it can also be used to give sexual
Context to normal comments due to some perceiving the face as looking a bit perverted a good example would be if somebody left the innocent
Comment saying that something was hard a normal reply would sound like this
I'm sure it was hard, but if you reply with the lenny [Lynnie] face it sounds like this. I'm sure
it was hard the comet begins to mean a whole different thing by just a deal any
one of if not the very first use of lenny [Lynnie] came in november of
2012 when it was posted to a finland based image board called yo, lada at least
I think that's how it's pronounced don't hold me to that
I'm not from Finland the thread in which Lenny was used had community members talking about the spam settings of the web site an
anonymous user
Posted the emoticon along with the text this thread is
leaking from the heavens when people first saw the use of Lenny the members of the website went
Wild the original intention of the thread quickly ended when users began to post their own variations of Lenny
Effectively turning the thread into a linear phase thread around the same time the face was also making appearances on the 4Chan
website where the members of the community were doing the same thing by taking the Lenny face and spamming it on various threads throughout the
Site the spamming became so intense that people actually got their accounts banned after
This initial burst of lenny [Lynnie] hysteria it began to have mass appeal
Spreading quickly and to great heights appearing in every corner of the internet the face primarily stayed two forms at first
But quickly made the leap to YouTube and video form further spreading its exposure
the face has become far more than just a thing people used to spam comment sections or
Forums the face has appeared on nearly everything you can imagine it has been made in different styles
It has appeared in means it has also appeared on shirts and other real-world items there has also been numerous
Imitations, but none have had the success that the friendly yet perverted looking lenny [Lynnie] face has had when I first saw and heard lenny [Lynnie] faces
name I became very curious to why his name was lenny and let me tell you I had a hell of a time finding any
information to why he's named that the only information
I was able to uncover on the topic was from a reddit post in which a person claimed to have been a member on the
4chan Community when Lenny was first initially being spammed everywhere in his early years
They claimed that eventually a thread was started on the website with the intention of naming the popular face
within this thread somebody came up with the idea of naming him lenny people liked it and started using it and it just kind of
stuck
Apparently another name they consider naming him was hoppity poppa t to be honest I kind of liked hoppity bop anymore to me Lenny looks
Like a hoppity boppity plus. It's really fun to say hoppity Boppity hoppity boppity
You should try it sometime, but hey that's the internet for you and on the internet memes are king
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(also kudos to whoever wrote the subtitles, I just finished em for you tho)
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