Today’s aesthetic: posts that are apparently concerned with raising public awareness of some vitally important social issue, but they consistently refer to it using some acronym or initialism that’s totally indecipherable in context because it isn’t spelled out anywhere in the post, can’t readily be Googled because the initials spell a common word and/or are shared with some unrelated and much more commonly used bit of jargon, and the post doesn’t provide any context clues because it’s written under the assumption that everyone reading it already knows what the acronym/initialism stands for.
I’m Bad at Abbreviations
Every time I see an abbreviation on Tumblr that I don’t recognize I’m going to write down the first thing that comes to mind. Here’s what I have so far...
AA3 = Avoiding Alien 3 ACNL = Academic Contemporary New Latin ADL = Automatic Double Larynx AFP = Away from Planet AHS = Awful High School (seriously the worst ever) AOTS = Attack of the Scones AR = Antiradon ASMR = Aerospace Maneuvering Rocket BMO = Bowel Movement Online BSI = Brine Scene Investigation DMT = Dark Mountain Tunnel DOTA = Death on the Alps DPS = Dark Postal Service (show me the stamp of foreverness) DS3 = Death Star III (an edit war on Wookieepedia) DTP = Death: The Puberty G2G = Game 2: Gamer (the long-awaited sequel) GPU = Grunts Per Ululation HMU = Health Maintenance Underworld IFTTT = Index File: Time Travel Technology JPCP = Jurassic Park: Cretaceous Park LMS = Legal Mouse Slaying MGSV = Miniature Golf: Special Victims MSPA = Mysterious Self-Propelled Altar MVM = Most Valuable Mayor NBD = Non-Binary Droid NCT = Natural Contraterrene NVSE = New Vulgate Special Edition OG = Old Garage OITNB = Oregon Institute of Technology, North Branch OTL = Old Testament Life PJO = Pyjama Oracle PMC = Phantom Master of Ceremonies POTG = Planet of the Grapes PSO2 = Pure Sulfur Dioxide SFM = Safe for Mom SMAC = Super Mario All-Clad TBT = Turnip, Bacon, and Tomato (sandwich) TCC = Telepathic Closed Captions TIA = True Internet Anecdote TPP = Toilet Paper Panic TRC = The Ruins Channel TS3 = Team Sorceress 3 UC4 = Untitled Composition No. 4 (sounds pretentious) VPN = Virtual Pain Network WYD = Weapon of Yolk Destruction YFIP = Your Fate Is Preordained
When someone uses an abbreviation and I have to look it up
When you see something cool and you check the tags to find out what it is but the whole fandom just always abbreviates it like thanks I totally know what series ghzdtrs:fjfjfb is
So much of this! All the time!
Oh, and then there are the times when people do this on a message board or Deviantart or something and when you ask they say "Google it" like there's only one thing in the world "A.R." could mean.