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• Magnum@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Stop simping

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  • mirshafie@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s just a simple compliment to an internet stranger. Their comment made me feel happy for a moment. Take a deep breath and move on if you didn’t like mineö

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    • Magnum@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It was a joke

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Hey, thanks stranger!

      Side note, I’ve always been curious whether “simping” is short for “simpering” or “sympathizing.” I’ve seen it used either way, I think.

      Like, when it’s used as an insult to people who are overly obsequious towards another, I could see it meaning “simpering.”

      But when it’s used as a noun to refer to someone who supports something detestable, I could see it meaning “sympathizer,” and then subsequently being converted to verb form by nature of internet slang…

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      • mirshafie@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I had to look this up and Wikipedia says two kind of astonishing things:

        • Originally a shortening of “simpleton”, the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English traces usage of the noun simp to 1903.
        • Simp began to have the connotation of someone being “soft” and “overly sympathetic” in the 1980s, when it was used by West Coast rappers […] Simp was referenced by Sir Mix-a-Lot in his 1992 hit “Baby Got Back” in the lyrics, “A lot of simps won’t like this song”.

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