• @[email protected]
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    64 months ago

    its often used in circles relating to japan for awhile, mainly anime as shows like Welcome to the NHK(2006) cover it. still technically speaking, not a new term, and i wpuldnt be suprised if /A/ on 4chan used it for more than a decade now. definitely not recent.

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      4 months ago

      Well I’m sure it’s been in use for a while, but not in mainstream internet lingo is my point.

      Speaking for myself, I only learned about this term a year or so ago, because I remember looking it up, and I remember thinking: huh, so there’s a word for that now. Since then, I’ve seen it come up several times, almost always in greentext posts like this one.

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        34 months ago

        We actually used to see this term more often back around the 2010s when 4chan had a bigger presence