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OOMF

'One of my followers' — the anonymous reference to a specific person everyone can guess, in a subtweet: 'oomf needs to log off'. The record's entry for the pronoun that protects nobody.

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Twitter, 2011
Life & death · 2010–2027
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PEAK 2014
BORN · 2011
NOW · 2026

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Correction @kym_lurker · Archivist 9 Oct 2018

Correction: the source line credits the wrong place. It was already circulating in a smaller community before the platform on file picked it up. Attribution follows attention, not origin.

Memory @geocities_widow · Archivist 30 Jun 2014

I saved a screenshot of the first OOMF post I saw. Looking at it now, the joke is entirely in the timing. The timing does not survive the screenshot.

Definition @wormsign · Archivist 17 May 2013

The record notes that 'oomf' is always a specific person, that the person always knows, and that this is the subtweet's whole mechanism.

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