About

Lowkenuinely, also spelled as Lowkeuinely, refers to a portmanteau of the words "lowkey" and "genuinely," which was coined in November 2025 as a reaction to the Slang Overload use of the latter. The term mostly emerged from the Chicago Drill Reverse Edits trend as a humorous substitute for the slang "genuinely."

Origin

On November 19th, 2025, TikToker^[5] @cammmmmm22 shared a video caption meme using the Ashton Hall Throwing His Video Game Controller video and a text overlay caption, reading, "When the pastor at the altar lowkey asks your wife if she wants to be your lawfully wedded wife, and instead of saying 'I do' she genuinely says 'genuinely' and you lowkenuinely tweak out." The video is currently the earliest known use of the term online and it received over 370 likes in a month.

Spread

In the following days in late November 2025, several meme creators on TikTok furthered the use of Lowkenuinely.

For instance, on November 22nd, 2025, TikToker^[3] @bunnyboyjosh shared a Chicago Drill Reverse Edit meme, showing a friend attempting to dunk a basketball with the caption, "When coach say you Lowkenuienly have to dunk to end practice but you're stuck in a Chicago drill reverse edit and now you're genuinely cooked in perpetuity." Over four days, the video received over 63,300 likes.

On November 23rd, TikToker^[1] @imhez shared a Death Note video caption meme using a clip of the character Light Yagami, captioned, "When she slips up and says something that contradicts what she told me sometime ago, so I lowkeuinely add it to the RICO case." Over three days, the video received over 214,100 likes.

Also on November 23rd, 2025, TikToker^[2] @spobloo shared a video caption meme that used "lowkeuinely," instead spelling it, "lowkenuinely." The caption read, "When u lowkenuinely airball so bad that u get put in a Chicago drill reverse edit and go 0/3 so you accept basketball isn't for you," garnering over 11,100 likes in three days.

Later on November 23rd, TikToker^[4] @plumber382 shared a video caption meme, joking about how it felt to witness the creation of the word Lowkenuinely, gaining over 8,500 likes in three days.

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