• HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 hours ago

    The closest I’ve come to the truth is that :? is used in homestuck when characters are confused. How this makes one a “ho”, I’m not sure.

      • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        10 hours ago

        That’s okay. I can be the young person liaison here.

        ‘ho’ is slang, and while derived from ‘whore’, it is often used in neutral or even positive contexts as an ironic term of endearment, but with a certain “bad bitch” flavor to it. (“bad bitch” means “very cool”)

        Also, sometimes it doesn’t have that flavor. Cuss words are often extremely flexible and can be used almost anywhere. For example, “you fucker” can mean “you bastard!,” “you idiot,” or “you lovable doofus<3” depending on who, what and why it’s being said.

        In this case, ‘ho’ just means “person.” “Clocked that person.”

        These two people might be friends, given their text messages, but it’s possible nb1rs is just being cavalier.

        If you listen to rap, especially rap by women, you will probably hear this word a lot, in every context imaginable.