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indignation35
11y ago
"Olds" is a coy term by "millennials" who wanted the older generations who invented and keep using the term to get a taste of their own medicine. No. It comes from Autoadmit/Xoxohth, which is like Hacker News for
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indignation35
11y ago
There's a website called AutoAdmit (or Xoxohth) that was big in the 2000s where a lot of the more educated trolls congregated. Adjectives were "nouned" for derogatory use: poors, olds, fats, and dumbs. (OK, we didn't inv