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I came across the term 草生えた on the internet. There wasn't much context, but it
didn't seem to mean that grass was growing. Is this a slang term?

What does it mean? I couldn't find it in any of my dictionaries.
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What does the internet slang "草生えた" mean?
Thanks to @Chocolate, I was able to learn what this word means, which is
roughly that something was funny. Here are a couple sources:

  1. <http://wikiwiki.jp/himoteplus/?%C1%F0%C0%B8%A4%A8%A4%BF>
  2. <http://www.logsoku.com/r/livejupiter/1340676537/>

Why does it mean something was funny? Well, as discussed in [this
question](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/143/what-is-the-
meaning-of-all-those-ws-in-email-and-snss/145#145), strings of `w` (such as
`wwwwww`) express laughter, like the English term "LOL". At some point,
someone must have decided `wwww` looked like little blades of grass, so they
came up with the expression `草生えた` ("grew grass") to indirectly express the
same thing.

![wwwww-mowing bear](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0kwTP.png)
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Great research!

Well, literal (笑) someday changed into 'w' especially in 2ch and such, and
some people don't like ones who uses too many of them, like, ちょっwwwwwwwwwww,
(this must be like "hey, wait a minulollollollollol") and they started saying
草生えすぎ, or using the AA you put above, frowned （・ω・） mowing the lawn.

So now they also use 草生えた just instead of saying "it's funny."
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lol = www

w = 笑う`warau`= laugh

`w` looks like grass.

lol = The grass grows = very funny
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