[dmeeker]

The linked article is literally where it came from — The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows project coined it and some other words in an effort to describe an emotional state that was in need of a name.

(It’s ~8 years old at this point, just for the record.)

[8fGTBjZxBcHq]

Sorry I didn't mean "I don't know where this word came from" because that's a straightforward and in this case uninteresting problem.

I meant I don't know where the apparent widespread online interest in making this word mainstream came from. Not a lot of _individual words_ have a lobbying team but this one seems to.

[moralestapia]

>The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows project coined it

I highly doubt that, I recall seeing references to it on myspace a while ago.