It’s supposed to be the sound French people make when they laugh, despite none of the french people I know sounding anything like that.
I think it’s part of this weird cultural stereotyping the internet does where someone posts a funny meme with an inaccurate stereotype in it, then a legion of mouth breathers re-post the same meme whenever the nationality in question comes up, then due to repetition people who have never met that nationality thinks its real.
People stopped doing the fake “Ching Chong” false Chinese accent bit ages ago (thank god) but I guess France and the French are still valid targets.
This predates the internet by several decades into the first half of the 20th century.
It’s supposed to be a French mocking/pretentious/overconfident laugh. Imagine a dude wearing a beret eating a croissant and smoking a cigarette out of one of those long cigarette holder thingies from the '60s.
Imagine Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast. In fact, im pretty sure he does it a few times in the movie. I think even The Pink Panther (jacques clouseau) does it in the original movies.
It’s supposed to be the sound French people make when they laugh, despite none of the french people I know sounding anything like that.
I think it’s part of this weird cultural stereotyping the internet does where someone posts a funny meme with an inaccurate stereotype in it, then a legion of mouth breathers re-post the same meme whenever the nationality in question comes up, then due to repetition people who have never met that nationality thinks its real.
People stopped doing the fake “Ching Chong” false Chinese accent bit ages ago (thank god) but I guess France and the French are still valid targets.
This predates the internet by several decades into the first half of the 20th century.
It’s supposed to be a French mocking/pretentious/overconfident laugh. Imagine a dude wearing a beret eating a croissant and smoking a cigarette out of one of those long cigarette holder thingies from the '60s.
Imagine Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast. In fact, im pretty sure he does it a few times in the movie. I think even The Pink Panther (jacques clouseau) does it in the original movies.