A blunt forum acronym meaning "go Google it, idiot" — a curt reprimand for asking a question that a basic search would have already answered, encoding an old internet-etiquette norm that you search before you ask.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"また同じ質問？ggrksって言いたくなる。"
LORE & ORIGIN
Short for googure kasu ("google it, you scum"), which spread on 2channel forums via an ASCII-art meme by spring 2006, itself a modification of an earlier ASCII-art phrase. Search-volume data shows usage surging from around 2008 as the term became widely recognized shorthand for "look it up yourself." Its underlying norm — search first, ask later — has weakened over time as more people default to social media, video platforms, or AI chatbots over search engines, making the etiquette ggrks encoded less universally shared than it once was.
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