Goblin mode
Defined by Oxford as behaviour “without concern for one’s self-image”
Slang for behaving in a self-indulgent, unembarrassed way, without concern for how it looks.
At a glanceThe facts
- Spread in
- 2022
- Format
- Phrase
- What it said
- Defined by Oxford as behaviour “without concern for one’s self-image”
- Origin
- No single original
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
Unapologetically slovenly, self-indulgent behaviour, named in a fake headline in 2022 and then voted Oxford's word of the year by public ballot — the first time that choice was put to a vote.
What people misrememberSet straight
Commonly remembered asAn actress coined it in an interview.
ActuallyThe headline was fabricated.1
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · copied, redrawn and reused until the original stopped mattering · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast
Where it came fromWhat we know
This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. The example shown is one surviving copy and is not claimed as the first.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
SourcesWhat was read
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