abbreviation for history of the entire world, i guess.
prior to its release, the famous 20 minutes long youtube video by bill wurtz was working on was known as hotewig on his site.
person: have you seen hotewig?
other person: what's a hotewig?
person: bill wurtz's popular history video, duh.
other person: oh, you mean history of the entire world, i guess?
person: that's a whole lot of syllables.