poor little meow meow

Emerged from a 2020 viral tweet by a BTS fan apologetically addressing group member Suga (known by the fan nickname "Lil Meow Meow") as "my poor meow meow...my baby my little baby who hurt so much ." The tweet was made in response to the controversy over Suga's sampling of a speech by cult leader Jim Jones (1931–1978) on his solo mixtape D-2.

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poor little meow meow (plural poor little meow meows)

1. (fandom slang) A fictional character who is both endearingly pathetic and extremely flawed or villainous.
   • 2022 September 13, Madeline Carpou, “Allons-y, Make Way for This Year’s “Official Pathetic Loserman!””, in The Mary Sue:

     You may have noticed there’s a new trend amongst fans of all kinds of media. Whenever there’s a little sad sack of a man, people will start calling him their “poor little meow meow”—their little baby loser boy, if you will. In other words: a Pathetic Loserman.

   • 2022 September 19, Jack Doyle, “Who (Or What) Is Poor Little Meow Meow?”, in The Mary Sue‎:

     Examples of Poor Little Meow Meows include Breaking Bad's Jesse Pinkman, Marvel's Loki, Avatar: The Last Airbender's Prince Zuko, and Ice King from Adventure Time.

   • 2022 December 11, Jack Doyle, “Aldo And The Three Brothers In ‘Chainsaw Man,’ Explained”, in The Mary Sue:

     Unlike his brothers, Aldo is kind of a lil’ sweetie. I mean, he’s not really a sweetie at all. In Tumblr morality terms, he is more of a Poor Little Meow Meow than he is a true cinnamon roll.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:poor little meow meow.

• baby girl (“male morally ambiguous character romanticised by fans”)
• Draco in Leather Pants (“any morally ambiguous character romanticised by fans”)
• woobie (“morally ambiguous character subjected to pain for pathos”)

• “Poor Little Meow Meow”, in Know Your Meme, website first launched 2007
• “poor little meow meow”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.