Post by @verdare@piefed.blahaj.zone

@verdare@piefed.blahaj.zone

2026-11-11 17:07 UTC

Doomed Rule Alt Text Post from r/NoStupidQuestions, @MCthugpocketwatch@www.reddit.com: what does doomed yowie mean? i was talking with my buddy over face time infront of my teenager daughter and her friend, and when we were talking her friend said “doomed yowie” to her and giggled. what does that mean? Alt Text Reply by @maybetransmaybenot3@www.reddit.com: I understand the meaning and sentiment behind what they’re implying. They’re being cheeky but not mean. You are a man it seems? Your daughter’s dad? And you have a buddy that you like and treasure. Your daughter’s friend is making a joke that there is love between you and your buddy but it will never work out between you…. it will never become real romantic healthy love. It’s a popular sentiment online to refer to many things being “doomed love between boys (yaoi, pronounced “yow-ee”) and “doomed love between girls (yuri, pronounced “yu-ree”), about especially absurd things, such as the twin towers being doomed yuri because they were built together, but never touching, and only touched for the first time as they were dying from the plane impacts. And their proximity to each other is what brought upon their mutual annihilation………. what is what it means to be doomed. Found in this BlueSky thread.

Replies (7)

@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2026-11-11 17:21

Yeah but most doomed yaoi ends up together anyway, soooo…

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@AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2026-11-11 17:34

twin towers yuri being part of the explanation is just 😗🤏

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@partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2026-11-11 17:49

Surprisingly wholesome! Daughter’s friend was seeing the positive interaction between the dad and dad’s friend and commenting positively/supportively on it. We often talk about lack of good male role models. It sounds like dad and dad’s friend are an example of supportive male platonic relationships.

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@Ephera@lemmy.ml 2026-11-11 18:27

It amuses me that the twin towers were the example they thought was easiest to explain.

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@LeftReddit2@lemmy.world 2026-11-11 22:41

Yowie is short for Yowie Kapowie which is an Australian board game about collecting monsters. “Doomed Yowie” is for when you realize you’re about to lose to your opponent.

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@isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2026-11-12 02:28

Doomed yaoi

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@OldBoy@quokk.au 2026-11-11 21:38

Today I Learned! Meanwhile I was thinking they were Aussie and talking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yowie No idea why the Yowie was doomed though.

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