To the casual observer, this might look fauking ridiculous. Posing for a gangster-style purikura (photobooth) pic, it looks like these two cute high school girls still haven’t learned to spell one of the first words English students learn (you always start with the “bad words” when learning a language, right?). But don’t be so quick to judge, it may not be such an open and shut case!

This picture surfaced on Japanese Twitter and was picked up by Alfalfalfa, drawing mockery from netizens who called them stupid and unable to spell or pronounce the word properly. Interestingly, the discussion evolved from questions about “forks” and comparisons with Chari De Kita (boy gangster meme “We came by bike”) and Hauk’s Moving Castle, to lamentations on how the youth of today should have googled it, and what were they thinking making their eyes so big, when suddenly one netizen posted a link to this word written on a T-shirt. Well, if it’s written on a T-shirt, it must be legit! Shame on you doubters. Finally, one netizen thought it looked like German…

No one even mentioned the brand French Connection UK. There are also different ways of fauking it up online—according to Urban Dictionary, gamers use words like that to avoid getting filtered, and David Beckham likes to rock a fauk (faux mohawk). Who knew.

Too cute to be flipping the bird in purikura, don’t you think? Fine, I’ll fauk off already…

Source: Alfalfalfa
Image: Twitter