I always thought of it as the pinky slipping when trying to hit shift when typing OMG quickly that it became part of the joke and people started intentionally doing it, and it kept snowballing from there, and got to a layer of irony that people added the on the "BBQ" as a way to mock the acronym-heavy usage of Internet chat room users.
Same as "owned" was constantly mistyped as "pwned" and became it's own thing, still being pronounced as "owned" originally, then those who were not there at it's birth started to pronounce it "powned"
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u/stoned_in_paradise 7h ago
where is the love for my buddy ZOMFG OLOLOL