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Don’t get it
I think it's because it looks like a classical version of UwU, i.e. think of the Θ as eyes, and the ώ as the "snout"
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I don't see it well myself either, but I'm Greek so I'm used to just read these letters.
Yeah, a friend of mine uses OTL as a "head-desk" emoticon and every time I'm just seeing letters and trying to expand the initialism.
It's easier when it's mixed or impossible punctuation, like O.O or T_T or things like that - signaling that "normal rules of letters combining into words are not valid here, look for a different pattern"
Try as I might I can't see the OTL emoticon
Head: O - Arms, neck, and torso: T - Kneeling legs: L