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mirshafie@europe.pub 3 weeks agoI 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”.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I see. I didn’t know it’s been around that long. The first time I heard it was a few years ago and I assumed it was a Gen Z thing like “rizz” and “no cap”