# Wamen Wamen is a deliberately mangled pronunciation of "women" popularized in June 2017 after YouTuber PewDiePie made a video riffing on the Respect Women image macros. The exaggerated vowel caught on with his audience, spawning a running catchphrase, Urban Dictionary entries, and a wave of fan edits that defined a stretch of PewDiePie's 2017 output. ## Origin On June 2nd, 2017, PewDiePie uploaded "How to: Respect Women!" to his YouTube channel, a video walking through examples of the Respect Women image macro series[1]. His pronunciation of "women" during the clip, closer to "wamen," became the running bit that fans fixated on, and the video pulled roughly 4.5 million views and 36,400 comments within two months[2]. The word jumped from a quirk in the video to a standalone catchphrase after fans isolated the moment. The earliest known meme packaging came from YouTuber Mr poopoo pants Whoisaryan, who posted a supercut titled "Respect Wamen" on June 18th, 2017[5]. - **Platform:** YouTube - **Creator:** PewDiePie (Felix Kjellberg) - **Date:** 2017 ## Overview Wamen is a joke mispronunciation of "women," built on the drawn-out vowel PewDiePie used while reading Respect Women image macros aloud in a June 2017 video[1]. Fans latched onto the delivery, and the spelling "wamen" turned into shorthand for mocking the sanctimonious tone of the original macros, usually paired with "respect wamen" as the full catchphrase[2]. The joke works because it sounds earnest and clueless at the same time. Urban Dictionary contributors described wamen as "a rare species of women that usually needs more attention/respect," leaning into the parody of over-the-top chivalry that the Respect Women format already traded on[3]. In practice, the word started showing up in PewDiePie's own videos, in fan supercuts, and in reaction comics posted to his subreddit[4]. ## How It Spread The supercut on June 18th gave the joke a short, shareable artifact that was easier to pass around than the full PewDiePie episode[5]. Within weeks the spelling had spread far enough that on July 3rd, Urban Dictionary user GovermentReptilian submitted an entry defining wamen as "a rare species of women that usually needs more attention/respect"[3]. It kept moving through PewDiePie's fan spaces in early July. On July 7th, Redditor boi267 posted a Your Mother and I Will Always Love You comic to r/PewdiepieSubmissions in which PewDiePie abandons a baby for saying "i disrespect wamen"[2]. PewDiePie leaned back into the bit on July 10th in his "Never Say This to a Gamer" video, where he dropped the wamen line several times[4]. YouTube remixers kept the gag alive through mid-July. On July 13th, Day by Dave uploaded a music remix built from PewDiePie's original Respect Women episode, pulling more than 162,000 views and 840 comments within three weeks[6]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Wamen? Wamen is a joke mispronunciation of "women" popularized by PewDiePie in June 2017 while riffing on the Respect Women image macros[1]. ### Where did Wamen come from? It came from PewDiePie's June 2nd, 2017 video "How to: Respect Women!" on YouTube, where his drawn-out pronunciation of "women" became the fan-grabbed quote[1]. ### What does Wamen mean? Urban Dictionary defines wamen as "a rare species of women that usually needs more attention/respect," played as a parody of the sanctimonious Respect Women macros[3]. ### How do you use Wamen? People typically pair it with the phrase "respect wamen," using it in I-don't-really-mean-it contexts to mock performative chivalry, following the pattern PewDiePie used in later videos like "Never Say This to a Gamer"[4]. ### Is Wamen still popular? Wamen peaked across June and July 2017 inside PewDiePie's fan spaces and the r/PewdiepieSubmissions subreddit, where remixes and fan comics kept it circulating that summer[2][6]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsevBxOWFXs]() 2. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wamen]() 3. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Wamen]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATgLmELcZRY]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FklH7m3nkuM]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqDrQ8b6mNI]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/wamen Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library