• Overkrill
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      5021 days ago

      haha i love how meme explainer pages online are like “TWEEP DONKLE: Tweep Donkle is a viral meme that was spread when somebody said Tweep Donkle. now it is in the internet and you can see it there. here are some people responding to TWEEP DONKLE. have some ads!”

      • @mhague@lemmy.world
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        320 days ago

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        • Overkrill
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          119 days ago

          let’s DELVE.

          anybody up for some DELVING?

          we could DELVE into literally any topic other than the three word explanation you are begging google to reveal to you whilst weeping silently in your car on your lunch break in line to pick up a cold sandwich behind fifteen door dashers at the burger king drive-thru.

          is that what you’d like to DELVE into today?

          you precious little organic life form with (i assume) 3-65 fingers?

    • @exasperation@lemm.ee
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      3921 days ago

      “Mogging” as a term originated in the early 2000’s and went mainstream-ish in the late 2000’s when the “pickup artist” community started getting attention in places like the New York Times. The people who originated it are probably like 45-50 years old now.

      Quick etymology: comes from these pseudoscientific douchebags trying to name the phenomenon where a man tries to subtly belittle another man in front of women, establishing that he’s the AMOG (alpha male of group), eventually became a verb amogging or mogging, and then various specific types of this behavior earned prefixes: heightmogging, etc.

      The fact that it has this kind of staying power, 20 years later, is the surprising part.