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[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 year 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 9 points 1 year 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 6 points 1 year 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 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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, and I remember thinking: huh, so there's a word for that now. Since then, I've seen it come up several times, almost always in greentext posts like this one.

[-] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

We actually used to see this term more often back around the 2010s when 4chan had a bigger presence

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