Okay, so I wanted to figure out what “strike ks” meant. I kept seeing variations, mostly the “ks” part, pop up here and there, especially when I was looking through some online game stuff.
My First Encounter
I first bumped into something like this, maybe it was just “ks” initially, in a chat log from a game. Someone typed it real quick after a fight. Didn’t make any sense to me. My first thought was, maybe it’s a typo? People type fast, especially in games. Or maybe it was some kind of inside joke I wasn’t part of.
Digging Around
So, I decided to actually look into it. Didn’t want to look silly asking directly in the chat right then. I started just searching online. Typed in “ks meaning” and variations like that. Got a whole bunch of stuff, not all of it helpful, you know how searches go. Some results were totally unrelated.
I noticed a pattern though. A lot of the results pointed towards gaming communities. Specifically, multiplayer games where people work together… or sometimes, don’t.
Connecting the Dots
That’s when I started focusing on the “ks” part. Kept seeing it linked to games like MOBAs or shooters. People were using it in sentences like “He totally ks’d me!” or “Stop the ks”. It clicked that “ks” was probably an abbreviation.
Looking at the context, it always seemed to happen when someone felt like another player unfairly took credit for something, usually getting the final hit on an enemy that someone else did most of the work on.
The “KS” Reveal
“Kill Steal”. That’s what “ks” stood for. It made perfect sense with how people were using it. That feeling when you’ve almost defeated an enemy, and boom, someone else swoops in and gets the last shot, and the credit or points. Yeah, that’s a kill steal.
What About “Strike”?
Now, the “strike” part was still a bit fuzzy. I didn’t see “strike ks” as a common phrase nearly as much as just “ks”. My guess? Maybe the time I saw “strike ks”, the word “strike” was just part of the sentence, like “He’s going to strike and ks” or maybe it was related to a specific ability or action in whatever game that was. Or maybe it was just a mix-up, someone combining words.
It felt like the core thing everyone understood was the “ks” for Kill Steal. The “strike” bit seemed extra, maybe specific to one situation or just noise.
Putting it Together
So, my process was basically:
- See weird term (“ks” or “strike ks”).
- Get confused, guess it’s a typo or inside joke.
- Start searching online specifically for “ks meaning”.
- Notice it’s mostly used in gaming contexts.
- Figure out “ks” stands for Kill Steal based on how people used it.
- Realize “strike” wasn’t really part of the main abbreviation, probably just context or a less common thing.
Anyway, that’s how I figured out what “ks” usually means when you see it online, especially around games. It’s basically someone getting salty about a kill steal. The “strike” part seems less important, might have just been part of the sentence I saw originally.
