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Editor’s note: After we first published this story in 2021, we received reader feedback about the term’s derivation and use in pop culture. We updated the story to reflect those additional details.

There is little debate over the influence of tech over modern vocabulary. I can barely remember how to describe an emotion without employing an emoji, and I’m supposed to be a writer. One of social ...

You’re so hip. You know how to rock a puffer vest and totally kept your cool when you caught your teen sexting, (well, at least in front of them anyway). But you could use a little help when it comes ...

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Twitch is updating the Terms of Service for its streaming website again, this time expanding on the previous promise to ban things like blackface, confederate flags ...

What is a simp? Am I simp? Is any of this a bad thing? If you’ve spent any significant amount of time on TikTok (or just about any social media platform) in 2020, it’s possible you’ve asked yourself ...

SIMPS beware, September has no place for you. The popular by millennials and gen-Z term Simp officially got its own month, according to social media users. Per Urban Dictionary, Simp is a colloquial ...

The JWST has found evidence of auroras and clouds in the atmosphere of the giant rogue planet SIMP-0136, but the causes must be very different from anything we see within the Solar System. When ...

Merriam-Webster has added almost 700 new words to the dictionary over the last month – some of which GenZ have been comfortably using in their daily lives. In case you don't know what 'rizz' or 'simp' ...

Shannon was used to her socially awkward son being bullied by other boys at the private school he attends. But when she picked him up from school and he told her he was being called a “simp,” Shannon, ...