Citations:poor little meow meow

Noun: "(fandom slang) a fictional character who is both endearingly pathetic and extremely flawed or villainous"

 * 2022, Valerie Ettenhofer, "The Terminal List Review: Chris Pratt Leads An Offensively Bad Military Thriller", Slash Film, 27 June 2022:
 * The cognitive dissonance between the actions of the show's "hero" and the inexplicable allegiance he inspires in everyone around him is so ridiculously apparent, the show may as well be called "My Poor Little Meow Meow: The Series."
 * 2022, Stitch, "On White Queer Fandom and the Erasure of Fans of Color", Teen Vogue, 15 July 2022:
 * In queer fandom spaces we choose what characters to turn into our little meow meows or our blorbos.
 * 2022, Madeline Carpou, "Allons-y, Make Way for This Year’s “Official Pathetic Loserman!”", The Mary Sue, 13 September 2022:
 * You may have noticed there’s a new trend amongst fans of all kinds of media. Whenever there’s a little sad sack of a man, people will start calling him their “poor little meow meow”—their little baby loser boy, if you will. In other words: a Pathetic Loserman.
 * 2022, Jack Doyle, "Who (Or What) Is Poor Little Meow Meow?", The Mary Sue, 19 September 2022:
 * Examples of Poor Little Meow Meows include Breaking Bad’s Jesse Pinkman, Marvel’s Loki, Avatar: The Last Airbender‘s Prince Zuko, and Ice King from Adventure Time.
 * 2022, Stitch, "On Woobification and Why Infantilizing Villains Can Harm Useful Discourse", Teen Vogue, 7 November 2022:
 * We are literally not allowed to talk negatively/critically about the bad things villains do — even when we say explicitly that we like the characters we’re talking about — because he’s their blorbo or little meow meow now and fandom has decided to make that position sacred.
 * 2022, Jack Doyle, "Everything We Know About ‘Blood Of Zeus’ Season 2", The Mary Sue, 21 November 2022:
 * We know for a fact that our favorite Poor Little Meow Meow Seraphim will be returning, and he’ll likely be PISSED at Heron for killing him and depriving him of his vengeance.
 * 2022, Rachel Choi, "The babygirlification of Ghost in COD is threatening the incels", The Berkeley Beacon (Emerson College), 1 December 2022, page 4:
 * Male gamers being angry over Ghost being referred to as a teenage girl’s “little meow meow” and him and Soap cuddling on the couch is a model display of how misogyny, sexism, and homophobia bring an onslaught of hypocrisy that traces back to the very foundations of how many men are raised.
 * 2022, Jack Doyle, "Aldo And The Three Brothers In ‘Chainsaw Man,’ Explained", The Mary Sue, 11 December 2022:
 * Unlike his brothers, Aldo is kind of a lil’ sweetie. I mean, he’s not really a sweetie at all. In Tumblr morality terms, he is more of a Poor Little Meow Meow than he is a true cinnamon roll.
 * 2023, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, "What does babygirl mean? And why does it refer to middle-aged men?", The Daily Dot, 10 May 2023:
 * However, babygirls are closer to the “poor little meow meow” end of the spectrum: A self-aware term for morally ambiguous (or downright evil) men that fans interpret as pathetic and miserable yet appealing.