"owe is a joke word used to satirize Orwellian and totalitarian concepts and accusations. It was coined by nano in 2021. Its sitelen pona glyph is derived from the glyph for lukin with emitters above, representing the global surveillance of the fictional Oceanian government in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

As a number word, it may refer to the quantity of 1984, especially when referring to the year, as in tenpo sike nanpa owe."

Taken from the sona.pona.la article here.