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From lol + cow, suggesting somebody who can be "milked for laughs", similarly to the term cash cow.
lolcow (plural lolcows)
- (Internet slang, derogatory) A person whose eccentric or foolish behaviour can be exploited to amuse onlookers.
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2007 December 13, spooge, “Re: Party in RPCH+B, everyone! w00t!!”, in alt.fan.karl-malden.nose[1] (Usenet):> ...he wrote after he /finally/ realized that he needed to clip rpch+b
> from the xpost in order to whine "DYOFDW" without making a lolcow of
> himself. (Took you long enough, Sherlock. But you're still a lolcow.)
2016 July 19, Margaret Pless, “Kiwi Farms, the Web’s Biggest Stalker Community”, in New York Magazine[2], archived from the original on 15 October 2018:Chandler is far from the only “lolcow” to be targeted by KF. If anything, Kiwi Farms has been a victim of its own terrifying “success,” and attracted way more would-be trolls than its Ur-victim could possibly respond to.
- horrorcow (a lolcow who is seen as horrifying or too disgusting)
