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by Theizestooke 3246 days ago
not 4chan but japanese manga & anime culture.
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The origin is russian though.
Not really; Nabokov was born in Russia but left at 19, and wrote Lolita in English while in the US.
Well... yeah, always forgetting about this.
The term is indeed from a russian book named lolita, but the term 'loli' has evolved via anime to mean something a bit different than the original.