👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully confusing beast of a word! Let me preface that by saying I haven't actually personally met a "Tiger 2," which honestly begs the immediate question: who hasn't and why aren't we all reporting it?
Basically, the bafflingly awkward designation of something as a "Tiger 2" is… let's just say, highly subjective. Originating in some murky corners of the British-American quant finance world (nobody actually knows exactly when or where, honestly—and they kind of want you not to know), it describes something that's... essentially a severely underperforming, almost embarrassingly mediocre, but somehow still stubbornly existing piece of whatever. Here’s my attempt at an explanation: Tiger 2 = That thing you really thought was going to be AMAZING, then spent the last six months quietly and shamefully failing miserably, yet it's still technically around, being shuffled into a storage closet nobody wants to look at. It has a whiff of past potential; of the hype that once accompanied it. Think of the old DeLorean: you remember the 80s, the dreams! Now, it just sits there with a sad little blinking quarter-mile readout and the lingering ghost of plutonium. 1. The Initial Spark (The Tiger): It started with considerable fanfare. Maybe a revolutionary algorithm, a dazzlingly pretty design, or the proneness to quote
