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OPM icon Ebe Dancel has taken to social media to find out the real meaning of “uwu,” and his search for the truth is just as amusing as it may seem.
Dancel, 44, first sought the help of netizens through Twitter yesterday noon, Aug. 7, by posting, “Ok can anyone please explain to me what uwu means? Nasa skl= share ko lang pa lang ako (I am only at skl= ‘I just want to share’ for now).”
Ok can anyone please explain to me what uwu means? Nasa skl= share ko lang pa lang ako
— Ebe Dancel (@ebedancel) August 7, 2020
After getting several interpretations of the famous internet emoticon, the former Sugarfree frontman at one point thought that “uwu” meant “unhappy without you.”
Fellow musician and 3D member Bullet Dumas, meanwhile, tried to enlighten Dancel and explain how “uwu” is actually an emoticon of a cute face, akin to Puss in Boots’ in the “Shrek” franchise.
Haha, diba ang uwu ay (mata) (bibig) (mata)?
Mata nito: 😔
Bibig nito: 😖
Tunog nito: *uwu*
Yung pacute na paiyak just after the Puss in Boots paawa look.
— Bullet Dumas (@bulletdumas) August 7, 2020
“Langya di ko pa rin alam ibig sabihin ng uwu. Iba iba sagot ng mga tinanong ko eh (Damn it, I still do not know the meaning of uwu. The people I asked have different answers),” Dancel posted a few hours after he started asking about the emoticon.
The artist then decided to have a little fun by wittily inserting “uwu” in the lyrics of several of his songs, from “Nagiisang tiyak Sa isang libong uwu” to “uwu ang hari ng sablay.”
Nagiisang tiyak
Sa isang libong uwu— Ebe Dancel (@ebedancel) August 7, 2020
Uwu uwu uwu uwu
Makita kang muli
— Ebe Dancel (@ebedancel) August 7, 2020
Wag ka nang umiyak
Sa mundong pabago bago
Pag ibig ko ay uwu— Ebe Dancel (@ebedancel) August 7, 2020
Uwu na mahal ko
Hayaan na muna
Natin ang mundong ito
Sige na
Uwu na tayo— Ebe Dancel (@ebedancel) August 7, 2020
Kung puso ko ay imamapa
Ikaw ang uwu, gitnat simula— Ebe Dancel (@ebedancel) August 7, 2020
Uwu tagal din kitang minahal 🎄
— Ebe Dancel (@ebedancel) August 7, 2020
Uwu ang hari ng sablay
— Ebe Dancel (@ebedancel) August 7, 2020
The musician even treated fans to a short video of him singing the intro of Sugarfree hit “Makita Kang Muli”—the “uwu” version, of course.
Skl pic.twitter.com/hrAgVKbkJS
— Ebe Dancel (@ebedancel) August 7, 2020
While it is unclear if Dancel ever found out the real meaning of “uwu,” his effort to seek the internet’s help was surely a delight to fans. /ra
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