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• “Goblin mode” is Oxford’s word of the year.
  • It is the first Oxford word of the year to be chosen by public vote.
  • The word is a “slang term”, it stands for “a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, careless, greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations”.
• More than 3000,000 English speakers voted among three words, screened by editors at Oxford University Press.
  • Goblin mode won by 318,956 votes.
  • “Metaverse” came second with 14,484 votes.
  • “#IStandWith” came 3rd with 8,639 votes.
• The word first made its appearance on Twitter in 2009, it went viral on social media in February 2022, over a fake news headline that claimed that model-actor Julia Fox and her then-partner Kanye West broke up because he “didn’t like when [she] went goblin mode”.
  • The word also became viral on several other social media platforms such as Tiktok, Facebook, etc.

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-culture/goblin-mode-oxford-word-of-the-year-meaning-definition-origin-usage-8308516/

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