Pictionary by phone, fifty million downloads in fifty days, bought for $180 million in week seven. Lost five million daily users in the month after the sale, which is the fastest documented regret in this dictionary.
I remember exactly where I was when Draw Something stopped being funny: a work meeting, 2012 or thereabouts, when the most senior person in the room used it correctly. Silence. Then everyone carried on.
A definition that survives its own explainer is rare and this is not one. Draw Something means what it meant; what changed is the number of people who could hear you say it.
I tried to explain Draw Something to my father in 2012. He asked, sincerely, what it was for. I explained. He then explained it, with my explanation attached, to his entire address book. That is how these things actually spread.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
