hi idk who needed to hear this but “simp” isn’t “internet slang” that came out of nowhere, it’s an aave (african american vernacular english) term that got popularized through twitter/tiktok and then spread from there.
similarly, “ikemen” is a japanese term that roughly means “cool guy” and is used to refer to men (especially fictional men) who fit the cool/calm/mysterious/etc sort of archetype.
this post isn’t meant to be like a “haha gotcha” or anything, but with how the internet is, it’s best to search up and get a clear definition for any term you’re not familiar with so that you’re not using it without actually knowing the origins or meaning behind what you’re saying.
(also, it can be pretty harmful to groups to see terms from their language taken and referred to as “internet slang” instead of, yknow, a term from their language.)
