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Anonymouse
Synonyms: | anonymous, anon, anon y. mouse |
See also: | anonymity, anonmeme |
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Anonymouse is a term for someone who posts anonymously to a forum, comment thread, zine, challenge, kink meme, or anonmeme.[1][2] Anonymouse is usually one word, but sometimes two, as in "anony mouse" [3] and is sometimes shortened to simply "mouse." The plural, of course, is "anonymice."
The term probably originated on late 1980s BBSs or early 1990s conferencing systems, and it is now commonly used on Fandom Wank where the short-form mouse is readily understood.[4][5]
Fan Comments
2006
The newest irritation? How some people in a fit of etymological spasticity have bastardized the suffix of "anonymous," calling anyone who posts that way a "mouse." Um, hello. If you're posting anonymous vitriol, you're not a mouse--you're a pussy. The attempt to cutify the emotionally-retarded is like PC-ness on monkey-crack: you're not a desperately jealous, pathetic loser if you post anonymous hate, but a cute little mouse. All part and parcel of not wanting to own your words and actions, and how five-years-old is that? [7]
References
- ^ Bookshop, Fic Recs: Tezuka/Ryoma, various pairings. + 100. .... whoever you were, Anonymouse, you made me very happy. Posted June 18, 2006. Last accessed Sept 02 2010.
- ^ neridne, Hi~! I do not want to hear that an anonymouse used their journal to troll or otherwise abuse the JF community. Posted Oct 22 2006. Last accessed Sept 02 2010.
- ^ beatrice otter, Remix is Revealed! .... and the anony mouse got Sarah Connor's voice perfectly. Posted May 23, 2010. Last accessed Sept 02 2010.
- ^ "The final update of". 2008-01-30. Archived from the original on 2008-01-30. Retrieved November 28, 2010.
- ^ Does everyone know what time it is? a Fandom Wank post that starts out, "This report was shamelessly snagged from wank_report. *throws cheese to mousie*", accessed November 28, 2010
- ^ Anonymous. Mice of the Round Table, prompt 17 December 2010, art 27 December 2010. (Accessed 27 December 2010)
- ^ comment by Thamiris, at Fannish Anthropophagy: On Anonymous Hate Memes (June 6th, 2006)