About

Mr Kown is the name given to a short copypasta commonly found on 4chan's /trash/ board to convey confusion and/or disgust with the thread's topic, usually fetish threads.

Origin

On the 30th of July, 2016, an anonymous user replied "can some tell me why sit on some is hot. i don't kown do y'all get off to this just thank (:" with an image of Carl Brutananadilewski to a thicc thread on /trash/^[1]. A few days later, the first real iteration of the copypasta appeared in response to a Pokémon rule 34 thread, reading "can one tell me why do people like this because i really want to kown." with an image of Edd from Ed, Edd n Eddy^[2].

On the 6th of August, 2016, the first known instance of the final copypasta was posted in a paw fetish thread^[3], reading "can some tell me why do people like this because i really want to kown" with a GIF of confused Nick Young, which became associated with the copypasta and was later dubbed Mr Kown by /trash/ users.

Spread

The post was repeatedly posted in various threads, at some stages it was able to be found in almost every thread on the board. Searching the phrase "want to kown" on Desuarchive's /trash/ archive yields over 700 results^[4].

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