• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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    6 days ago

    Did I fucking miss something‽

    Why is everyone just casually using this and other words I have never heard before? I feel like I’m having a stroke or developed a strange, new, and exotic aphasia!

    • Baggie@lemmy.zip
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      5 days ago

      Yaoi has been in semi common use for about 20 years I want to say, mostly in japan enthusiast circles.

      You noticing it everywhere is pretty common for words you only just learned, it’s called the frequency illusion.