Twinkies Are Hard on the Outside and Soft on the Inside

The word Twink sticks with me because... I have no idea. There's a gaming term usually in MMOs like World of Warcraft where you have a lower level character who is ... With Log Gear. Because they're supported by higher level characters. And I always thought wondered if they were related, but the popular sort of etymology that everybody states is that it comes from Twinkies are hard on the outside and soft on the inside. That's not what I would have thought either. It sounds like they have a sugar daddy. They're just really soft and kind of... Yeah, I don't know. Sweet. Like, horribly too sweet. William: "My ear now is