What is *Jaw Drops* Awooga!?

theAwooga Copypasta is a block of text that strings together cartoon reaction noises like 'hummina hummina' and 'awooga' to parody overly thirsty replies to pictures of women, following a pattern set by a 2016 Facebook comment screenshot.

Where did *Jaw Drops* Awooga! come from?

The imagery goes back to Tex Avery's 1943 cartoon Red Hot Riding Hood, while the written template grew out of a Facebook comment screenshot posted to r/cringepics on February 9th, 2016.

What does *Jaw Drops* Awooga! mean?

It is a parody of the Tex Avery wolf gag, used to make a sincere compliment look ridiculous, with the writer, not the woman, as the butt of the joke.

How do you use *Jaw Drops* Awooga!?

Posters stack asterisk action tags with cartoon sound effects such as *jaw drops*, awooga, and bazooing before closing on a tame 'you look lovely' line, as in Branchie123's Gamer Girl variant.

Is *Jaw Drops* Awooga! still popular?

Peak activity ran through 2019 across 4chan /tv/ and r/copypasta, where the Gamer Girl post reached over 6,500 upvotes and CallMeCarson's November 2019 tweet entered wider rotation.

Jaw Drops Awooga!

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Published October 26, 2026

theAwooga Copypasta started with a Facebook comment screenshot that hit r/cringepics on February 9th, 2016, under a photo of three women captioned 'AWOOGA AWOOGA...ahem, you three look quite lovely.' Posters on 4chan's /tv/ board turned the screenshot into a longer stock reply in late 2018, and by June 2019 a Gamer Girl Copypasta spinoff by Redditor Branchie123 drew more than 6,500 upvotes on r/copypasta.

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Overview

Every version of the copypasta wedges cartoon sound effects between asterisked action tags to parody a man losing composure over an attractive woman. Standard beats include *jaw drops*, *tongue rolls out*, hummina hummina, awooga, and bazooing, with each writer reshuffling or stacking the onomatopoeia to taste5. The humor targets the writer, not the woman: the overblown Tex Avery wolf routine makes any sincere thirst post look ridiculous by comparison6.

Longer variants stack several action tags before pivoting to a sheepish 'ahem, you look lovely' close, which mirrors the beats of the 2016 Facebook screenshot that seeded the format3. The Gamer Girl Copypasta then added a setup about a male gamer encountering a woman at a gaming event, with the awooga routine saved for the punchline4.

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Origin & Background

Platform

Reddit (seed screenshot) / 4chan /tv/ (viral copypasta)

Date

2018

The onomatopoeia traces back to Tex Avery's 1943 cartoon Red Hot Riding Hood, where a Hollywood wolf goes wild watching the title character perform onstage6. Both ingredients of the written catchphrase arrived separately almost a decade later: posts using 'Hummina' show up on 4chan archives as early as April 30th, 2010, and an Urban Dictionary entry for 'Awooga' was submitted on May 26th, 20107.

The seed image for the copypasta reached Reddit on February 9th, 2016, when a user posted the Facebook screenshot to r/cringepics; it scored only 17 points there but spawned an Imgur upload that topped 1.7 million views over the next four years3. The copypasta body itself did not appear until late November and early December 2018, when 4chan /tv/ posters began typing longer stock replies alongside the screenshot2.

How It Spread

After the first /tv/ posts in late 2018, the copypasta started showing up more often on the board. On April 1st, 2019, one anon posted a longer version six times in a single day as replies to threads about attractive actresses, which the KYM entry reads as a troll tactic5. Over the rest of that month, instances of the catchphrase multiplied across /tv/.

Cross-platform traction arrived in mid-2019. Redditor Branchie123 submitted the Gamer Girl Copypasta to r/copypasta on June 13th, 2019, where it drew more than 6,500 upvotes and 270 comments4. YouTuber CallMeCarson posted his own version to Twitter on November 4th, 20191. He later mentioned the copypasta multiple times during his November 10th stream, at the 8:54 and 16:30 marks.

Timeline

1943-05-08

Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood is released, giving the Hollywood wolf gag that inspires later 'awooga' usage.

2010-04-30

'Hummina' posts first appear in 4chan archives as a standalone reaction.

2010-05-26

An Urban Dictionary definition for 'Awooga' is submitted.

2016-02-09

The Facebook comment screenshot is posted to r/cringepics, scoring 17 points but spawning a 1.7M-view Imgur upload.

2018-12-02

A 4chan /tv/ thread references the Imgur upload as the copypasta begins seeing regular use.

2019-04-01

A longer version of the copypasta is posted six times on 4chan /tv/ in one day.

2019-06-13

Redditor Branchie123 posts the Gamer Girl Copypasta to r/copypasta, where it exceeds 6,500 upvotes.

2019-11-04

YouTuber CallMeCarson tweets his own version of the copypasta.

How to Use This Meme

Writers typically open with an action tag like *jaw drops* or *tongue rolls out*, stack a run of cartoon noises (hummina hummina, awooga, bazooing), then land on a flat compliment such as 'you look lovely' to break the bit. The Gamer Girl convention adds a short setup about a male gamer meeting a woman at a tournament or gaming cafe before deploying the sound-effect routine4.