42-426: Simp is derogatory Internet slang for a man seen as displaying excessive sympathy or attention toward a woman online. Simp or SIMP may also refer to: Simp Simp ( / s ɪ m p / ) is an internet slang term describing someone who shows excessive sympathy and attention toward another person, typically to someone who does not reciprocate the same feelings, in pursuit of affection or
84-494: A sexual relationship . This behavior, known as simping , is carried out toward a variety of targets, including celebrities, politicians, e-girls, and e-boys . The term had sporadic usage until gaining traction on social media in 2019. Originally a shortening of " simpleton ," the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English traces usage of the noun simp to 1903. An article in
126-405: A "town hall" live-stream that, while use of the words would be permitted under approved circumstances, Twitch would be "proactively denying" custom emotes that included the words. This ban was part of a broader expansion of Twitch's list of forbidden content; the policy, viewable on Twitch's website, also prohibited posting that "expresses inferiority" based on "moral deficiencies". At the time of
168-414: A blanket ban on "simp", "incel" and "virgin" contrasted unfavorably with a "context is needed" policy on the much more offensive racial slur " nigger ". According to Ars Technica , Twitch had an "inconsistent history in responding to reports of problematic behavior". In interviews with Kotaku , people affected by the ban described their channels' use of the term as mostly benign—one streamer said it
210-403: A chance and too tight to share their earnings with a wife. Simp began to have the connotation of someone being "soft" and "overly sympathetic" in the 1980s, when it was used by West Coast rappers such a Hugh E.M.C. , Too Short , and E-40 . Simp was referenced by Sir Mix-a-Lot in his 1992 hit "Baby Got Back" in the lyrics, "A lot of simps won't like this song". In 1999, the term was used in
252-582: A crush to actually respecting women could be considered simping". Taylor writes that the idea of the "simp" most often "seems to be a guy who simply treats women well, or just not like trash" and is "just another scapegoat for MGTOW misogyny". In May 2020, Kotaku reported that Twitch was "cracking down on" custom emotes using the word "simp", and had been "on a simp emote deleting spree" since late February. Twitch often requires its "partners" to submit custom emotes for approval prior to users being permitted to embed them; most of these emotes simply depicted
294-496: A curse. He thinks he has to hook up immediately or else he'll die. In January 2021, Vogue reported on an "adoring" Instagram account of self-declared "simps" expressing affection toward then- Georgia Senate candidate Jon Ossoff . Ossoff won the election and was sworn in as a senator on January 20, 2021. Upon achieving broad popularity, it began to be used more loosely. In April 2020, an opinion piece in Men's Health described
336-478: A lads' group chat"; Soen writes that the term is used "sometimes to describe even the bare minimum level of respect between a man and a woman". According to the Evening Standard , while "the term could also have some value if it undermines a culture of stringing people along emotionally", it also had "potentially offensive connotations". In The New York Times , Ezra Marcus and Jonah Bromwich describe
378-551: A pledge called "No Simp September", similar to No Nut November (a month-long abstention from masturbation ). Participation in "No Simp September" required posters to abstain from upvoting women's photos, watching pornography , and "giving money to online sex workers ", including " e-girls ". In October, Mikael Thalen at The Daily Dot described Twitter users as "simping hard" over leaked photos of Hunter Biden . A November 20 article in Vox about posting cringe on TikTok discussed
420-436: A song played over 45,000 times. In September 2009, multi-national oil company Trafigura obtained in a British court a super-injunction to prevent The Guardian newspaper from reporting on an internal Trafigura investigation into the 2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste dump scandal. A super-injunction prevents reporting on even the existence of the injunction. Using parliamentary privilege , Labour MP Paul Farrelly referred to
462-614: A streamer or a fictional character holding up a sign with "SIMP" written on it, or were rasterizations of the text of the word itself. By December 2020, the word was described as a "favorite in the Twitch community" by The Verge . Twitch announced in December 2020 that administrative action would be taken against the accounts of streamers and commentators who used the word, along with " incel " and " virgin ", saying that those words were offensive; Twitch COO Sara Clemens said during
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#1732787461159504-513: A user revealed that Giggs was the subject of an anonymous privacy injunction (informally referred to as a "super-injunction") that prevented the publication of details regarding an alleged affair with model and former Big Brother contestant Imogen Thomas . A blogger for the Forbes website observed that the British media, which were banned from breaking the terms of the injunction, had mocked
546-537: Is already published can lead to increased publicity of the published work. The Streisand effect is an example of psychological reactance , wherein once people are aware that some information is being kept from them, they are significantly more motivated to acquire and spread it. In 2003, American singer and actress Barbra Streisand sued photographer Kenneth Adelman and Pictopia.com for US$ 50 million for violation of privacy . The lawsuit sought to remove "Image 3850", an aerial photograph in which Streisand's mansion
588-536: Is likely to make it so that something that most people would never, ever see (like a photo of a urinal in some random beach resort) is now seen by many more people? Let's call it the Streisand Effect. The phenomenon is well-known in Chinese culture, expressed by the chengyu "wishing to cover, more conspicuous" ( 欲蓋彌彰 , pinyin : Yù gài mí zhāng ). A similar expression appeared as early as
630-695: The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) added the English Misplaced Pages article about the 1976 Scorpions album Virgin Killer to a child pornography blacklist, considering the album's cover art "a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18". The article quickly became one of the most popular pages on the site, and the publicity surrounding the IWF action resulted in the image being spread across other sites. The IWF
672-644: The Streisand effect for viral marketing . Contrary to the Twitter post, few, if any, comments on the Archie Comics YouTube channel accused the character of being a simp. In August 2020, Australian politician Bill Shorten used the term on national television, saying on an ABC segment that Prime Minister Scott Morrison needed "to make sure he doesn't look like he's just a simp to Donald Trump ". In September 2020, users of Reddit created
714-454: The Three 6 Mafia song " Sippin' on Some Syrup " as an antonym for pimp ; Too Short has described a "simp" as equivalent to "a knockoff pimp". The term has been expressed as a backronym for Sucker/Sucka Idolizing Mediocre Pussy , which according to Gizmodo Australia is "telling of its 20th century origins". A definition of simp appeared on Urban Dictionary in 2005, and
756-491: The character of TikTok user Nate Varrone called "Mr. Simp Sexual", of the "biggest stars" of the genre. Varrone explained the character thus: He's from Michigan and he had a girlfriend named Melissa that he just wants back so fucking badly [...] He's just not in a good place right now, emotionally. I think he uses TikTok to fill the hole in his heart and find a new lover. The horniness this guy has, no human has ever felt that amount of horny in their entire life. It's like he has
798-409: The 4th century BC. In her 2023 autobiography My Name Is Barbra , Streisand, citing security problems with intruders, wrote, "My issue was never with the photo ... it was only about the use of my name attached to the photo. I felt I was standing up for a principle, but in retrospect, it was a mistake. I also assumed that my lawyer had done exactly as I wished and simply asked to take my name off
840-656: The February 1917 edition of Motion Picture Magazine by Arthur Le Kaser has an animated drawing of a female director yelling at a male leading man through a megaphone "Kiss Her You Simp, Hurry Up Camera!" The shortening has appeared, for example, in The New York Times as early as 1923, when the paper reported on a letter by one Lillian Henderson criticizing the members of two clubs in Atlantic City for unmarried men: Those bachelor simps are afraid to take
882-414: The announcement, the policy was planned to take effect on January 22, 2021. Reception to the announcement and proposed policy changes was largely negative; Bryan Rolli at The Daily Dot wrote that Twitch would "probably have a hell of a time enforcing the 'simp' ban", and Gizmodo said sarcastically that "actual simps and virgins [were] still welcome" on the streaming site. Screen Rant said that
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#1732787461159924-601: The attempt to hide information instead makes it more interesting to seek out and propagate. Attempts to suppress information are often made through cease-and-desist letters , but instead of being suppressed, the information sometimes receives extensive publicity, as well as the creation of media such as videos and spoof songs, which can be mirrored on the Internet or distributed on file-sharing networks . In addition, seeking or obtaining an injunction to prohibit something from being published or to remove something that
966-424: The attention the story received. Twitter removed the ban the following day. In April 2007, a group of companies that used Advanced Access Content System (AACS) encryption issued cease-and-desist letters demanding that the system's 128-bit (16-byte) numerical key (represented in hexadecimal as 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 ) be removed from several high-profile websites, including Digg . With
1008-524: The case led to more than 420,000 people visiting the site over the following month. Two years later, Mike Masnick of Techdirt named the effect after the Streisand incident when writing about Marco Beach Ocean Resort's takedown notice to urinal.net (a site dedicated to photographs of urinals ) over its use of the resort's name. How long is it going to take before lawyers realize that the simple act of trying to repress something they don't like online
1050-565: The footballer for not understanding the effect. Dan Sabbagh from The Guardian subsequently posted a graph detailing—without naming the player—the number of references to the player's name against time, showing a large spike following the news that the player was seeking legal action. In 2013, a Buzzfeed article listing photos from the Superbowl contained a photo of Beyonce making an unflattering pose. Her publicist contacted Buzzfeed and requested its removal. As an unintended side effect,
1092-434: The image became far more well-known across the internet and is frequently cited as an example of the Streisand effect. The Streisand effect has been observed in relation to the right to be forgotten , the right in some jurisdictions to have private information about a person removed from internet searches and other directories under some circumstances, as a litigant attempting to remove information from search engines risks
1134-516: The information. The effect is named for American singer and actress Barbra Streisand , whose attorney attempted in 2003 to suppress the publication of a photograph showing her clifftop residence in Malibu , taken to document coastal erosion in California, inadvertently drawing far greater attention to the previously obscure photograph. The effect exemplifies psychological reactance , in which
1176-496: The litigation itself being reported as valid, current news. In December 2022, Twitter CEO Elon Musk banned the Twitter account @elonjet , a bot that reported his private jet's movements based on public domain flight data. Musk cited concerns about his family's safety. The ban drew further media coverage and public attention to Musk's comments on allowing free speech across the Twitter platform. Musk received further criticism after banning several journalists that had referred to
1218-485: The numerical key and some software, it was possible to decrypt the video content on HD DVDs . This led to the key's proliferation across other sites and chat rooms in various formats, with one commentator describing it as having become "the most famous number on the Internet". Within a month, the key had been reprinted on over 280,000 pages, printed on T-shirts and tattoos, published as a book, and appeared on YouTube in
1260-509: The photo." According to Vanity Fair , "she... didn’t want her name to be publicized with [the photo], for security reasons." Since the controversy, Streisand has published numerous detailed photos of the property on social media and in her 2010 book, My Passion For Design . The French intelligence agency DCRI 's attempt to delete the French Misplaced Pages article about the military radio station of Pierre-sur-Haute resulted in
1302-558: The restored article temporarily becoming the most-viewed page on the French Misplaced Pages. In October 2020, the New York Post published emails from a laptop owned by Hunter Biden , the son of then Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden , detailing an alleged corruption scheme. After internal discussion that debated whether the story may have originated from Russian misinformation and propaganda , Twitter blocked
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1344-474: The story from their platform and locked the accounts of those who shared a link to the article, including the New York Post 's own Twitter account, and White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany , among others. Researchers at MIT cited the increase of 5,500 shares every 15 minutes to about 10,000 shares shortly after Twitter censored the story, as evidence of the Streisand Effect nearly doubling
1386-462: The story to his followers. Twitter users soon tracked down all details of the case, and by October 16, the super-injunction had been lifted and the report published. In January 2008, the Church of Scientology 's attempts to get Internet websites to delete a video of Tom Cruise speaking about Scientology resulted in the creation of the protest movement Project Chanology . On December 5, 2008,
1428-581: The super-injunction in a parliamentary question and on October 12, 2009, The Guardian reported that it had been gagged from reporting on the parliamentary question, in violation of the Bill of Rights 1689 . Blogger Richard Wilson correctly identified the blocked question as referring to the Trafigura waste dump scandal, after which The Spectator suggested the same. Not long after, Trafigura began trending on Twitter, helped along by Stephen Fry 's retweeting
1470-417: The term as a misogynist insult, one which "expresses discomfort with equality when it comes to gender, and offers a simple way to dismiss the people causing that discomfort". Anna María of The Daily Dot writes that while the term is mostly used "ironically and without misogynistic undertones", "it doesn't take much to be called a simp" in some anti-feminist spaces, and that "everything from pining after
1512-404: The term doubled between late 2018 and late 2019. The word has been used by some fan communities who call themselves "simps" for a celebrity figure. According to The Daily Dot , the term is often used ironically ; similarly, Magdalene Taylor at MEL Magazine says the term is "used mostly as a joke". Nathan Grayson writes at Kotaku that it is "difficult to find breaks in the chain of
1554-440: The use of the term as "pretty messed up", and men who labeled others with the term as "entitled assholes", saying, "if you've ever complimented a woman, apparently you're a simp". Hayley Soen writes at The Tab that "the simp has come to take the place of the softboi ", describing him as "a boy who is a romantic failure [...] definitely the type of boy you'd tell the girls is 'a little too nice ' ", and "probably doesn't even have
1596-408: The word continued to be used by rappers into the 2010s, when it was adopted by members of the manosphere , incel , and MGTOW ( Men Going Their Own Way ) forums alongside similar derogatory terms such as cuck , beta , and white knight . The word became widely popular on TikTok in 2019, and soon also became popular on Twitch and Twitter . According to Google Trends , interest in
1638-425: The word's linguistic lineage". In July 2020, the official Twitter account for Archie Comics said that it would permanently ban people from its YouTube channel for comments calling the comics' main character, Archie Andrews , a simp. The A.V. Club opined that, while it was "pretty safe to say that Archie Andrews is, quite simply, the simpiest of the simps," the Twitter post was likely an attempt at exploiting
1680-429: Was "mostly banter and, in some cases, a compliment". Another streamer, while acknowledging that the word was sometimes used to describe "quite creepy" behavior, said her use of a "simp" emote was "mainly just a joke within my community". Streisand effect The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of
1722-520: Was later reported on the BBC News website to have said "IWF's overriding objective is to minimise the availability of indecent images of children on the Internet, however, on this occasion our efforts have had the opposite effect". This effect was also noted by the IWF in its statement about the removal of the URL from the blacklist. In May 2011, Premier League footballer Ryan Giggs sued Twitter after
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1764-548: Was visible, from the publicly available California Coastal Records Project of 12,000 California coastline photographs. As the project's goal was to document coastal erosion to influence government policymakers, privacy concerns of homeowners were deemed to be of minor or no importance. The lawsuit was dismissed and Streisand was ordered to pay Adelman's $ 177,000 legal attorney fees . "Image 3850" had been downloaded only six times prior to Streisand's lawsuit, two of those being by Streisand's attorneys. Public awareness of
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