Origin
"Bruh" has been used as an alternative way of saying "bro," an informal term of address for "brother," since the mid-to-late 2000s, around the same time or shortly after the word "bro" entered colloquial usage in American-English vernacular. On December 19th, 2003, the first Urban Dictionary entry for "bruh" was submitted by LudwigVan.

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The first known usage of "bruh" in reaction images comes from an image macro based on a photograph of NBA professional basketball player John Wall slouched on the benchside with a blank stare. While the image macro's exact place and time of origin remains unclear, some of the earliest instances were posted to MemeCrunch and Reddit on August 12th and November 11th, 2013, respectively. In September 2015, John Wall identified the source image as a photograph of him zoning out in frustration while slouched on the benchside out of injury during one of the Washington Wizard's early matches against the Atlanta Hawks in the 2012-2013 season.

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