

This predates the internet by several decades into the first half of the 20th century.
It’s supposed to be a French mocking/pretentious/overconfident laugh. Imagine a dude wearing a beret eating a croissant and smoking a cigarette out of one of those long cigarette holder thingies from the '60s.
Imagine Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast. In fact, im pretty sure he does it a few times in the movie. I think even The Pink Panther (jacques clouseau) does it in the original movies.
“Some trans people”
So, like 2 or 3 chronically online Chinese Linux nerds.