Anecdata: My local friends and I have always just used “heh”, but even 10–15 years ago, a bunch of my friends from Spanish-speaking cultures were using “j(a|e)

Anecdata: My local friends and I have always just used “heh”, but even 10–15 years ago, a bunch of my friends from Spanish-speaking cultures were using “j(a|e)+” or some approximate.