👉 Okay, letās tackle this wonderfully prickly little squiggle of a word ā and frankly, I wrestle with defining its very existence as much as you probably will!
What exactly is a "PIMSā? Now, the short answer is: nobody, honestly, knows for damn sure. Officially? According to most standard English lexicons (those dusty old reference books that seem permanently offended by your youth), it simply doesn't exist. Unlessā¦ unless youāre in a very specific corner of the internet and maybe, just maybe, involved in some ratherā¦ eccentric online circles. Let me unpack this a little. The prevailing (and frankly, weird) theory is that "PIMS" began as an acronym within a small community obsessed with obscure 1980s-era pointaroos ā you know, the guys who wore feathered leis and aggressively cheerful backdrops for their absolutely dreadful martial arts videos. It supposedly stood for something along the lines of: P rojection I njunction (referring to those awful VHS tapes that always jammed) 4,673. M inded (to the point of obsessive archiving and quoting ridiculous catchphrases. You get it.) S uperfan. ā¦Okay, Iām embellishing slightly for effect here. Nobody actually documented this definitively. It just... kind of spread through a very niche Reddit thread about 1980-
