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Oh god I feel old now that it seems to be forgotten knowledge, but the term "kin" used the way you described it, stems from the "otherkin" subculture. It was a thing in the early to mid 2010's (the actual roots probably started even earlier tbh, but it was big during the described time) and described people who were otherkin with certain things.
What does it mean when someone says ‘I kin _____’ usually about a fictional character, I normally understand slang but I use this word sm without…
what does 'kin' mean slang? ⭐️ Vocabulary / Semantics i mean the one used for anime characters ...
'kino' is a Greek loan from κινέω meaning 'to move'. Kinography means the recording of movement. The phrase's origins have nothing whatsoever to do with German, it's specifically a calque of a Russian phrase used by Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov that has been featured in various film textbooks and articles. E.g.
For example: I am plantkin, meaning I identify myself as a plant instead of a human being, or I am wolfkin as in I am a wolf rather than a person. But this is back I 2010-2015. Times have changed and I guess the meaning has changed a lot since, and now it closely means “something/someone you deeply relate to”.
Recently one of my friends said that they "kin" a character from an anime (they kin Lelouch). What does it mean to kin a character? I would ask them but I don't wanna look like a stupid person. Also I'm a a relatively new weeb (only watched a few animes so far).
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Feelings aside, it's also grammatically incorrect. Kin is short for Otherkin. You don't Otherkin something. All of that aside, just use a different word. It's not that difficult. There are words out there to describe "having a similar personality to a character" and those words don't have anything to do with Otherkin. -Crimson
The joke being that film, movie, flick, etc. all have the same meaning (and the movies seem arbitrarily chosen). It took off after a while, with "Kino" being the top of the (artificial) pecking order. So kino are "good movies" flicks, movies, etc. are "bad movies."
Because the word "gan" has the meaning of either "let's" or "together" or "to each orther," kin gan can be took to mean "let's eat each other" if one were to have dirty minds. Of course, in that situation, the usage is simply just to have a meal, especially when the phrase "kin gan" is mostly used with its sexual meaning when gossiping and not ...