“I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!"

And in a couple years it'll be considered old and cringe. Such is life, I suppose.

In the monthly chart in TFA it appears as though it became old and cringe the very month after it was popularised.

True. I miss when words and memes had a shelf life longer than milk left in the sun.

I'd say it has already happened.

That and the z sound is just fun to say out loud and leads to other fun jokey terms like "rizzler" and "rizzard".

Don't forget the lengthened form charizard [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charizard

LOL at the people self-reporting how old they are by not knowing the word "rizz". It's been an immensely popular word among people under 30 for a while now, so I'm not surprised at all.

I must live under a rock, I'm under 30 and never heard it until this thread.

I also had an old person moment, nearly yelling at the clouds about these made up words, but was grounded when they showed similar examples of 'fridge' and 'flu.'

I'm middle-aged and still dealing with what "simp" is.

I had known simp from tales of carnies (in carnie slang it was used for the suckers who lose money on rigged games) and so when I first saw it on Reddit as used by frustrated males, it was easy to make the connection. See etymology 1 at Wiktionary[0] with a first attestation from 1903!

The people who know only the contemporary meaning must be orders of magnitude larger than those who knew the early 20th century word, though.

[0] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/simp

Is it short for simpleton?

Etymologically, probably, but its most specifically, in its current popular use, about a person with a strong parasocial attachment to someone else, particularly one that is sexually-tinged.

Very commonly used to describe relationships of devoted followers to social media figures.

Etymologically, it might be - it's not really clear. But the meaning is "to be (excessively) subservient to a person or cause" / "someone who is [...]". So a simp/simping is (an accusation of) being (excessively) in favor of a person or cause, such as simping for a character, an idol, a real person, or a political party. Especially used for men who praise a certain woman over and over.

It should be.

IIRC it used to be but it kind of got mutated as people specifically called men who fawn over uninterested women simps until it was exclusively used for that case and similar. I wonder if other pieces of slang used to be broader than they are now.

Meh. It only gained traction in early 2022. It’s mostly used in meme format, so I wouldn’t say it is “immensely” popular unless your only source of entertainment is short-form videos.

In and of itself it is a meaningless word that only has temporary meaning in the context of someone creating content around it.

For my side projects, multithreading is part of the fun. Being able to efficiently break up and task out processes is just satisfying in a way that knowingly writing less efficient algorithms wouldn't be.