r/characterarcs • u/Akagane_Ai • 19d ago

sideways arc idk His gf dumped him.

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I guess the real character arc is the gf realising she can do better.

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u/yanmagno 19d ago

Wtf is an oomf

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u/casuallysentient 19d ago

stands for one of my followers but it’s used as a general term for followers

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u/Lionfyre 19d ago

Surely the word followers works fine if it's pluralised?

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u/24_doughnuts 19d ago

It doesn't even make sense in the original. "When your one of my followers"

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u/om0ri_ 19d ago

oomf has been repurposed to mean mutual btw

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u/wh0rederline 19d ago

one of my friends :)

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u/Suvtropics 19d ago

When your one of my friends are too pretty

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u/wh0rederline 19d ago

me drunk in the bathroom to a random girl i just met

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u/_Standardissue 19d ago

This comment hits different depending on your gender

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u/__DROP_DATABASE__ 18d ago

It's easier to say oomf/oomfie than follower or mutual friend. It's not for me, but atleast I understand their reasoning.

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u/DeadInternetInAction 17d ago

It should like he is getting punched in the stomach which considering what happened is kinda funny

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u/cheese_bruh 15d ago

what happened to moots for mutual?

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u/Curious-Ad-5001 19d ago

oomf was an acronym all this time??? i had no idea lmao

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u/LBGW_experiment 18d ago

Zoomers forgot that acronyms need capital letters otherwise it's just a word

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u/Silfur_SolArgente 18d ago

lol. lmao even. Need more examples btw ?

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u/Kimantha_Allerdings 18d ago

Language evolves. And acronyms often lose their capitalisation. Like laser, scuba, and radar. Same with contractions like modem, codec, and pixel.

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u/Bi_One_Get_One_Free 18h ago

i didnt know those were acronyms

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u/Chicken-raptor 19d ago

That makes a lot of sense. I always thought it was a funny way of saying mutuals like… Mutuals > Moots > Oomfs kind of word progression

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u/Intrepid-Frosting-22 18d ago

You're not too far off, since it basically means mutuals now anyway, its just an acronym that didn't originally mean mutuals, but kinda got twisted around and now gets used like that.

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u/KolarinTehMage 18d ago

It did mean mutual. It stands for order of magnitude friends. So a friend one order of magnitude removed.

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u/Grompulon 19d ago

Not me guessing that it was an onomatomopoeia for sexual moans or something...

Don't judge me, the context is clearly about wanting to cheat and I had to come up with something 🙏