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What the fuck is kino
It's German for "cinema". No idea, if that's the context, though.
I'm pretty sure it's the right context, because it fits. Odd story, but it fits
“Kino”, from the Greek “kine”(to move), is Internet slang for a motion picture. In particular, it is used to denote works with special artistic merit. The word is also used to describe events and art bearing a cinematic quality either in concept or execution.
Internet slang is a lot like German.
Stupid and will get you weird looks at the function
And popular with the Nazis.
Is that what 4channers mean when they call anything else kino? I shouldn't have asked this in a thread about a fake movie theater
Yeah, it basically means “thing that is novel/bold/stylish enough to not look out of place in an art film”.
4chan may be an anime website but not everything there derives from anime. In this case, kino- has been an prefix referring to movies since before 4chan, and probably anime, even existed.
On 4chan it's slang for "awesome"
eating -> dining
cinema -> kino
Yeah except kino isn’t golden in Japanese
I don't know what based means and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.