This is not a new acronym by any means
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Huschke@lemmy.world 2 years agoI swear, the older I get, the harder it is to keep up with these acronyms.
momocchi@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
NEET is a term that came out of the 90s in the UK, and was a borrowed acronym in Japan after that. not a new term by any stretch of the imagination and is barely younger than the modern internet itself.
SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 2 years ago
In academic circles, sure, but it’s fairly recent that it has been seeping into internet language, mostly through 4channers who started using the term for themselves in a self-deprecating way.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 2 years 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.
SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 2 years 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. Since then, I’ve seen it come up several times, almost always in greentext posts like this one.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
I learned about this acronym in a Geography class in school, 15 years ago, and this wasn’t in an English speaking country. So it’s old enough and common enough that it was part of the curriculum even though it was a foreign acronym.
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 2 years ago
FR, FR.
ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago
fr fr no cap blud ong ong 💀 💀 💀
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
I only know these thanks(?) to the Internet, honestly.
blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 years ago
*doggone acronyms
Ftfy
notapantsday@feddit.org 2 years ago
That’s a common phenomenon, it’s called AAAAA (age associated absence of acronym awareness).
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Damn that’s good. Gonna put it in my banc pocket.
Rolando@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Oh, so you’re gonna GIMP it? (Going In My Pocket)
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 2 years ago
a gimp’s back pocket could be misunderstood.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I like how, when I’m frustrated with all these new acronyms I don’t understand and I just scream… AAAAA! It’s 100% accurate!
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 years ago
I’m going to have to whip that one out in a work meeting one of these days. I know a few people will love it and a few people will love to hate it…