How do you pronounce a ッ followed by a ー? I thought I fully understood katakana, but an old meme confuses me. Here is a nicovideo dictionary entry on it: ! If you listen to a video of the English voice actor saying it, it just sounds like a normal "aaaaaa" which I would expect to be . I know is already "ah", but elongating that seems impossible to me. Why isn't it something like ? Maybe I'm overthinking this because it's a meme, but this spelling was agreed on, so there's clearly some construct to the language that makes this normal.

Good point. It's actually unpossible.

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> While supposed to be transcription of a gasp after uttering , its impossibility of vocalization, that a follows a , has made it viral as an internet meme, eventually becoming a popular way to transcribe sound in (typically the end of) a phrase with a homosexual innuendo.

And the article is also kind enough to provide a pronunciation guide:

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> "aargh!"ɑːr
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> Although grammatically unpronounceable, it is usually read out as if , or those who enjoy this word sometimes claim that only (the meme origin) can pronounce it.
> In English, "aargh!"ɑːrmight be the closest pronunciation judging from its usage.