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that's how the keyboard works

when your friend does something so stupid, you can respond with this simple phrase.
joe: yo bro i just broke my bedroom door
joe 2: i guess that's how the keyboard works

joe: bro i literally can't sleep at night stfu
by the blaster. August 16, 2023
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keyboard ally

A person who frequently posts pseudonymous comments online in support of a oppressed group, but takes no real world action in their own community where they may face backlash, such that their efforts make no difference at best and at worst encourage oppressors to greater levels of hatred or willful ignorance.
Sara: "Tim spends all day arguing with people on reddit, but he didn't sign that local petition asking for greater police accountability because he didn't want to catch flack from his in-laws."

Jane: "Bah humbug, he's just a keyboard ally."
by Globgogabgalabagolab August 19, 2023
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How keyboard

Jokingly written to make fun of bad support requests, mainly seen in the CoD modding community.
Idiot: hello how to write a chat black ops 2
Idiot: How keyboard

Moderator: are you an idiot?
by PLamble April 7, 2023
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Keyboard Smash

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When you smash your keyboard so hard when this happens. (The 'sentence' above.)

Can be used for:

1) Literally no reason

2) Losing a game (Raging)
Person 1: man we are bout to lose!
*they lose*
Person 2: y78e3y7j8qy7j89cresjiyuosdfrecoisyujtcijurjidyuhyhuiYUIOHUIRFEYUJISTDYUJI5STYJFUIESYUJIDR407J893CTYJ8RES78ORJ974Y5WJ9YD7TWER89TDY7J53W9Y7J8XRYJ8E7SJ87F4RY7J83FR8H7J43H7J82YFT7J8Y423
Person 1: wth are you ok? did u just keyboard smash or what
by raminkTheInternetIdiot May 10, 2023
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Keyboard

The thing you just used to get here.
(srsly how do you not know what it is)
i typed the keyboard
by segment65 September 24, 2023
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Keyboard Mashed

Keyboard mashed
Very useful to confusing friends into thinking you've had a stroke.
For example:
"Dude you ok? why'd you say that in chat"
"I Keyboard mashed"
by Yermy May 11, 2020
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Keyboarding

A racist white-centering thing white people do instead of activism

Especially prevalent when a pandemic prevents white people from doing their other boarding like surfboarding and snowboarding, keyboarding is a white hobby of writing enormous diatribes about white feelings, such as outrage about black people being brutalized and killed by police officers.

Keyboarding is often used to sidestep actual activism, such as reposting people of color or engaging in the direct action asked of them such as making calls or writing letters to other white people.

Keyboarding was first made popular in the civil rights movement by white moderates and liberals, who Martin Luther King lamented were a "great stumbling block," and Malcolm X described as "the worst enemy to America."
"Did you see that post going viral? 'Black people, we're here for you!' It's so moving."
"Sounds like keyboarding."

"I finally got my aunt to stop keyboarding. She kept saying she was fighting white supremacy -- so embarrassing, right?!"
"Yikes! Hopefully you reminded her every white person spends an average of 22 hours a day enjoying and building white supremacy."
by PuffyClouds May 29, 2020
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