Dancing Fail FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments

 

haha nice lol

 

too bad it's a photoshop...

 

Hate to admit it, but I am getting on the short side of 50 years old. I don't pretend to stay completely current with trends and sayings, but as a high school teacher, I pick up a bunch of current slang, etc.

But I still don't know what "Pwned" means.
Please, do tell.

Funny pic, BTW!

 

pwned:

it is believed to have originated when a gamer was typing the word "owned" too fast and accidentally hit the p key instead of the o key.

The word pwned or pwn was born. It is pronounced "pown" like p as in place with the word own after it.

 

Variation #2

As we transitioned into the age of the Internet (late 90s), the addition of a player vs. player gaming followed along with the rise of online gaming. This component quickly became abbreviated to PvP. Somewhere thereafter one of those p's got attached to "own" to indicate that someone had gotten beaten by another person...not the AI of the game itself.



Variation #3
This is a more typing-friendly abbreviation/contraction of either "pure ownage" or "power ownage".



Regardless of how it truly originated, this term generally falls to the folks that tend to beat their chests like a primate & proclaim their victories--the "poor" winners, if you will. Less commonly it is used as a good-hearted jab amongst friends that game together.