Sitting round a campfire with friends one night when I was much younger (and less wise) than now, I watched the boy I liked whip out his guitar, point at me and announce, ‘This one’s for you.’ Then, ...
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 ...
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.
The word “simp” isn’t new. In fact, it’s pretty old. But it has been dragged into fresh popularity. In the same way that older songs can find new audiences on TikTok, older slang emerges on the app to ...
Nollywood actor, Uzor Arukwe has reacted to the backlash over his role in Omoni Oboli’s new movie ‘Love In Every Word.’ Arukwe, who played the role of Odogwu Obiora, an affluent Igbo man who spends ...
AS if keeping up with millennial humor and memes were not hard enough, trendy words emerge daily to add to our lexicon. Simp, a popular word used by millennials and gen-Z, has taken social media by ...
One man’s heartened devotion and defence of a woman involved in a gruesome murder has earned himself the derogatory label of being a simp. The woman in question is 24-year-old Natalie Siow who became ...
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