What Does This Mean?
A string of the letter w used as a text-based laughter marker in Japanese internet writing — each w standing in for warau ("to laugh"), so a longer chain (wwww) signals harder laughter, the direct ancestor of the "grass" (kusa) laughter marker.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"wwww he really just said that with a straight face"
LORE & ORIGIN
Emerged in Japanese internet forum culture (2channel and earlier) as shorthand for warau (笑う, "to laugh"), typed at the end of a message the way "lol" functions in English — a longer string of w's reads as louder or more intense laughter, and repeated w's visually inspired the later "grass" (kusa) variant.
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