Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Compulink

👉 Okay, settle yourselves down now, let’s tackle this… fascinating little piece of 21st-century weirdness: "compulinkin'."

Now, before the furrowed brows and the horrified looks, I want to assure you, there isn't some grand, ancient evil behind it. Honestly, a compulinkler is basically a pathetic, desperate attempt at… connection. It springs from that somewhat tragically youthful corner of early 2010s internet culture, specifically around online forums and, crucially, the now-defunct site ShitfacedZoo. Let's unpack this. Originally, ShitfacedZoo was this aggressively weird, almost aggressively lonely space where dudes would essentially just… vomit their anxieties, obsessions, and desperate attempts to hook up with strangers into the ether in rambling, typo-ridden posts. You got guys posting about how they were single, really into a girl's vaguely described "aura, maybe she likes it when you quote Baudrillard," types of stuff, whatever! To combat the frankly soul-crushing experience of that, ShitfacedZoo started a weird trend and a term: to describe someone who was obsessively posting about wanting to hook up with people , repeating their profiles over and over again. They were basically begging for attention in the most pointed, slightly pathetic way imaginable. It became shorthand for, like, "Dude is screaming into the void that he wants you, probably really badly.”