>>40393647There is a Lamy who has a good explanation they have reposted a few times. I can only do a very crude telling of it, and there are two supposed origins:
Origin (1) is that it started as an innocent joke from an Anonymous poster back in the /jp/ days. They were idly musing in a post about how nice it would be to become Lamy, to be a happy, big tiddie snow elf with nice friends and an invincible liver.
Origin (2) is that, in an early stream, someone in Lamy's chat sent a supa praising her, and saying they wanted to be more like her (e.g. be more kind). It was supposedly clipped, with the supa poorly translated as saying they wanted to "become Lamy".
I am pretty sure that the post from (1) exists. I think I remember seeing an archive of it linked here before? I have only heard the story of (2) repeated a bunch, not seen the clip myself. A lot of clips were deleted in late 2020 when the Chinese clipper groups freaked out, so if it doesn't exist now, maybe it did?
And both might be true! The idea could have arisen separately in two contexts, and combined in the right moment to bring the idea to everyone's attention. The first standalone /become/ threads definitely came very shortly after /vt/ opened.
Whatever the origin, well, it sure would be nice to be a happy, big tiddie snow elf with nice friends and an invincible liver, wouldn't it?
