What Does This Mean?
Elongated, slurred spelling of 尊い (toutoi, "precious, sacred"), used by fans to express overwhelming feeling at a heartwarming character, couple or pair of streamers. It imitates someone too moved to pronounce the word properly.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""Watching the two streamers cheer each other on was just てぇてぇ.""
LORE & ORIGIN
The term is described as coming out of Japanese VTuber fandom, as a drifting of 尊い through spoken forms into てぇてぇ. A commonly cited account credits a March 2018 four-panel manga by an illustrator that imitated the accented speech of Son Goku from Dragon Ball, though origin accounts differ and the details are not firmly established. It is typically attached to oshi or to the closeness between two characters or streamers, and mainly understood within fan communities, so it is rarely used in formal settings. The related plain form 尊い already has its own entry.
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