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It is difficult to know when the term attained enough popular use to be recognized in larger fandom spaces, but a fan in 1999 employed it in [[alt.startrek.creative]] while discussing [[The Foresmutters Project]]. <ref> May 1999 at  [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/alt.startrek.creative/foresmutters/alt.startrek.creative/nMGni1V4lO4/svzgAMygVhwJ alt.startrek.creative]; [https://archive.today/OYF0r WebCite]</ref>

It is difficult to know when the term attained enough popular use to be recognized in larger fandom spaces, but a fan in 1999 employed it in [[alt.startrek.creative]] while discussing [[The Foresmutters Project]]. <ref> May 1999 at  [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/alt.startrek.creative/foresmutters/alt.startrek.creative/nMGni1V4lO4/svzgAMygVhwJ alt.startrek.creative]; [https://archive.today/OYF0r WebCite]</ref>

The term must have been widely enough used in early spring of 2000 because a journalist used it in a fairly knowledge way in the article [[Gross encounters: on the way to writing a profile of Paul Gross, the author discovers his fans are the real story. Reflections on celebrity worship, Internet love and Canada as the Holy Land]]: "The women seem tolerant of each other's "squicks" -- what turns one on grosses out another."

The term must have been widely enough used in early spring of 2000 because a journalist used it in a fairly knowledgeable way in the article [[Gross encounters: on the way to writing a profile of Paul Gross, the author discovers his fans are the real story. Reflections on celebrity worship, Internet love and Canada as the Holy Land]]: "The women seem tolerant of each other's "squicks" -- what turns one on grosses out another."

According to Fail_Fandomanon, a [[Harry Potter]] [[incest]] fic posted on LiveJournal in 2003<ref>{{source| url = http://nostrademons.livejournal.com/33411.html | title = *squick* Squickfic | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20170417133108/http://nostrademons.livejournal.com/33411.html | archivedate = 2017-04-17 }}, posted by nostrademons, 7 May 2003. (Don't read it if you are remotely sensitive. It is written deliberately to be disturbing.)</ref> was "the fic that defined squick. The term was around [before fandom got hold of it], but this is '''the''' squick fic that made the usage of the word common and widely understood in fandom."<ref>[https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/251609.html?thread=1409382617#cmt1409382617 2017-04-14 comment] in fail_fandomanon</ref> The fic included the sex act described in alt.tasteless.jokes's definition of the word squick, though it cited the [[FictionAlley Park]] forums as its source.

According to Fail_Fandomanon, a [[Harry Potter]] [[incest]] fic posted on LiveJournal in 2003<ref>{{source| url = http://nostrademons.livejournal.com/33411.html | title = *squick* Squickfic | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20170417133108/http://nostrademons.livejournal.com/33411.html | archivedate = 2017-04-17 }}, posted by nostrademons, 7 May 2003. (Don't read it if you are remotely sensitive. It is written deliberately to be disturbing.)</ref> was "the fic that defined squick. The term was around [before fandom got hold of it], but this is '''the''' squick fic that made the usage of the word common and widely understood in fandom."<ref>[https://fail-fandomanon.dreamwidth.org/251609.html?thread=1409382617#cmt1409382617 2017-04-14 comment] in fail_fandomanon</ref> The fic included the sex act described in alt.tasteless.jokes's definition of the word squick, though it cited the [[FictionAlley Park]] forums as its source.