See Everything You Need to Know About 'Look Between S and F' Meme

Despite its cryptic nature, this new meme, “Look between S and F on your keyboard,” has captured the attention of netizens worldwide, sparking curiosity, speculation and even anxiety.

Seriousness on social media nowadays is far-reaching. With its daily trends of new gists—social media is sharply degenerating to clout-chasing and one of stupendously disturbing meme-sharing platforms. It is now seemingly, a place where new memes will wake up to the mind of the users, leaving millions either beguiled by its non-exhaustive and severely abused use of it or be belaboured with the thoughts while begging for answers to its origin. Like the “look between S and F on your keyboard,” mantra, which is already saturating social media. It is safe to say, nothing is really taken seriously. Not even a deadliest of information, sometimes.

Despite its cryptic nature, this new meme, “Look between S and F on your keyboard,” has captured the attention of netizens worldwide, sparking curiosity, speculation and even anxiety. Different global organizations, including the Guinness World Record, keyed into the use of the meme and with this, one starts to be curious about the origin of such memes.

So how did this meme come to be? Though the origin of the meme is not originally known, sources across the web believed it all originated from a meme shared on 4Chan in May 2021 to communicate a deceptively simple concept. The original post featured a character from the anime series K-On, accompanied by the directive to “look between t and o on your key bored” (sic).

Upon closer examination, users discovered the letters Y, U and I, spelling out “Yui,” a character from the show.

Since then, this meme has evolved into what is known as a snowclone – a template allowing for the substitution of certain words or phrases.

Over the last 24 hours or so, social media users, especially on X, have seized upon this format to highlight the initial letters of beloved characters, celebrities, or public figures, often with humorous intent.

Now, users are using the trend to create silly conversations and to basically troll others online as they ask them to refer to a particular letter (or letters) on their keyboard to decipher a certain hidden message.

In most cases, the supposed message is actually a senseless bunch of letters which leave one even more confused – and understandably angry.

Some, however, make little sense. For instance, lots of the posts on X will tell you to look between ‘H’ and ‘L’ buttons on your keyboard which would mean your eyes fall upon ‘JK’, which means ‘Just Kidding’.

Another instance; Girl: Who is the one person you love most in the whole world?

Boy: Look between ‘Y’ and ‘I’ on your keyboard…

So viral has the trend become that even notable celebrities, news channels, X accounts and media jaggernauts are using it.

Guinness World Record’s X handle even posted their little version…

Applicant: “I want to break the record for the longest time without sleep!!”

Us: Look between T and U on your keyboard.

Unlike other trends, this one, however, has been met with much derision and contempt from online users. Most are calling it silly and downright unintelligent.

“I feel like I need to log out of Twitter until this keyboard trend dies,” one person said.

“Bro, I’m so tired of keyboard s**t on my TL,” someone else commented, while another encouraged people to ‘look between SHUT and THE F UP on your keyboard!'”

Another exasperated user, commenting under one such tweet, said, “Where is the World Health Organization when you need them? This is becoming a global pandemic!”

Enoch Oyedibu

I am a writer and investigative journalist who specialises in literary criticism and underrepresented narratives. Among other publications, I have been featured in Business Day Nigeria, TheICIR, Platform Times and Daily Nigerian. Right now, I work as a full-time staff writer for Unconventional Magazine.