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"K Den", short for “OK then”, is an Internet slang expression that can convey either a sense of mild affirmation or indifference towards an action or statement undertaken by another individual, in a similar vein to the use of the phrase "I'm Okay With This". In online conversations, the expression is typically brought up in the form of a reaction image based on a selfie of a young man wearing an ambivalent facial expression.

Origin

On November 18th, 2003, Urban Dictionary^[2] user Eric Nakagawa submitted an entry for "Kden," defining it as a Hawaiian expression used to bid farewell.

Spread

On December 12th, 2012, FunnyJunk^[4] user LuumedAffencer uploaded a photograph of a young man with the caption "K den" (shown below).

On July 23rd, 2013, a Facebook^[1] page titled "K Den" was launched, which gathered more than 3,390 likes in the next 15 months. On May 21st, 2014, YouTuber AnimationRewind uploaded an animated music video titled "The K den Official Song" (shown below).

On July 2nd, Redditor Daryl Dixon FTW posted an animated GIF titled "K den" featuring a glitched player flying in the air in the open world survival game DayZ to the /r/dayz^[3] subreddit (shown below).

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