## Colophon tags:: url:: https://lifehacker.com/entertainment/the-out-of-touch-adults-guide-to-kid-culture-whats-wojaks %% title:: The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What's a 'Wojak'? type:: [[clipped-note]] author:: [[@lifehacker.com]] %% ## Notes > Over the last decade and a half, the hive mind of the internet created wojaks: simple drawings that serve as a pictographic language that's nearly universally understood by the very online but a mystery to nearly everyone else. So let's get you up to speed. First, a definition: "Wojak" is Polish for "soldier," but on the internet, wojak refers to drawings of people that are used either to react to something, or combined with other wojaks to express more complex ideas.The original wojak was a drawing of a nondescript bald person that first appeared online around 2009. It seems intentionally neutral, and in the early days, it was often used to say "I relate to you" in memes like this: — [view in context](https://hyp.is/N1HrUvfrEe-9ZNu_oVckMA/lifehacker.com/entertainment/the-out-of-touch-adults-guide-to-kid-culture-whats-wojaks)