>>41514448Many languages use the word kino as a shorthand for kinotheater, also known as a movie theater, thats where "ITS GERMAN WORD BEING USED WRONG!!!!!!1111" comes from. Protip, never listen to Germans when it comes to language, they are too autistic to understand linguistic nuance of emerging slang.
The word as it evolved on /tv/ comes from kinomatography, non-anglo spelling of the word cinematography, which can be used to refer to a single film to imply that it is "pure" or "honest" cinema.
It then involved to mean impactful moment of a film, as in a particular scene of a film is "pure" cinema.
Then it evolved to just mean impactful anything, be it film, anime, vidya, sporting event, stream segment, real life moment.
And then it evolved to refer to any object or concept you might find "impactful and honest".
Most people use it as a synonym for "cool" and shitposters use to mock others
