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Comment by hnlmorg

8 months ago

SWJ wasn’t a popular acronym 10 years (let alone 15) ago in the online communities I hung around in. ;)

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barotalomey  7 months ago

Sure, I get that. But the term gained popularity in 2012 it seems, according to google trends.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=SJW&hl=e...

And there's a entry from 2011 in urbandictionary.com, so maybe that's around when it was coined.

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