I had known simp from tales of carnies (in carnie slang it was used for the suckers who lose money on rigged games) and so when I first saw it on Reddit as used

I had known simp from tales of carnies (in carnie slang it was used for the suckers who lose money on rigged games) and so when I first saw it on Reddit as used by frustrated males, it was easy to make the connection. See etymology 1 at Wiktionary[0] with a first attestation from 1903! The people who know only the contemporary meaning must be orders of magnitude larger than those who knew the early 20th century word, though. [0] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/simp https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/simp