Monday word: Gatsbying

[med_cat]

I heard it, of all places, in one of the recent current events/political discussions. The presenter said that Putin and Xi Jinping were both engaged in gatsbying.

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"...So, anyway I recently came across this fascinating dating trend and I could really relate to this one because, let's face it, we've all done it once in our lives and reaped the benefits from it. Or not! The trend is called Gatsbying and yes, the relevance is derived from The Great Gatsby. Gatsbying is when you have a crush on someone and you want their attention upon you, you resort to social media, primarily Instagram, Snapchat or Facebook and put stories from your life, which may get you attention from your respective crush for them to notice you, so you can make a fair amount of an impression upon them! Yup, it's a very new-age trend and of course limited to urban dwellers who're fairly active on social media."

You can read more in this article from 2018: 'Gatsbying', The New Dating Trend, Is The Best Possible Way To Impress Your Crush Right Now

Comments

[lnhammer]

A specialization of RomCom behavior ...

[med_cat]

Apparently so...

[full_metal_ox]

Singing the most eloquent song, waving the brightest plumage, offering the tastiest tidbits, and building the fanciest bower—to impress prospective mates or rivals or both—is behavior a lot older than humankind itself; only the technological venue is new.

(As underscored by the name deriving from an early twentieth-century novel.)

[med_cat]

True :)