Internetymology

What is Internetymology?


1.

The study of the origin of words which came into origin on the internet e.g. lol zomg.

Can also be applied to the backstory of internet memes. Notoriously inexact.

Lucy: "What's the whole Over 9000! thing about?"

Trilby: "It came from the chans."

Lucy: "Hooray for internetymology".

See internet, memes


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