A new trend has emerged on social media that tells people to look between certain letters on their keyboards – and it’s already causing a lot of irritation.
The idea behind the craze is to make a statement or ask a question on social media, which people can answer or understand by looking at the letter or letters written between two other characters on their keyboard.
For example, you come between Y and I, so you might want to tell someone to look between them to say, “All I want is U.”
The official Guinness World Records account jumped on the trend, posting on X that one applicant said he wants to “break the record for longest time without sleep.”
Their response was, “Look between T and U on your keyboard,” which will reveal the letter Y, often used as an abbreviation for “why?” in online conversations.
The trend has surfaced on TikTok and X, with users from America, Britain, South Africa and Nigeria posting about it.
This couple, from Nigeria, took to
This man from America joked about the trend in his car and imitated the meme
The meme comes from a meme posted almost in May 2021 on 4Chan, an image-based site where anyone can post things anonymously. The letters between T and O are Y, U and I, which spell Yui, the name of the cartoon in the anime series
One post was even viewed 36 million times, asking users to find the hidden word on their keyboard – which spelled JK (or Joke), the letters between H and L
It comes from a meme posted anonymously on 4Chan, an image-based site, in May 2021.
Someone posted a photo of a character from K-On and wrote, “Look between t and o on your keyboard.”
The letters between T and O are Y, U and I, which spell Yui, the name of the cartoon in the anime series.
But it’s spiraled since then, with people using the idea to spell lots of other things, and some of them are quite creative.
People on various platforms like X, formerly known as Twitter, have jumped on the movement and cleverly shared words and abbreviations they’ve come up with.
One post, which racked up a whopping 36 million views, read: “Cheaters will tell you they love you and then their actions tell you to look between H and L on your keyboard.”
The letters spell ‘JK’, which means ‘just kidding’. The comments on the post were filled with people praising the poster for making them laugh, but others were confused by the trend and asked others what it meant.
Netflix said: ‘Who should go out together this weekend? Look between Y and O on your keyboard, describing U and I.
Even the official X account joined in, writing, “Look between z and c on your keyboard, hi.”
This man from South Africa also made fun of the meme that has divided the internet
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But others are tired of seeing it on their feed and made their own memes in protest, poking fun at the trend.
One shared a video of Tony Soprano saying “shut up” and saying, “Look at your keyboard between… Me:”
Another wrote: “Say ‘look between two letters on your keyboard’ again,” along with a photo of Samuel L Jackson holding a gun to someone’s head in the movie Pulp Fiction.
