👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully prickly little squiggle of a word – and frankly, I wrestle with defining its very existence as much as you probably will!
What exactly is a "PIMS”? 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. Unless… unless you’re in a very specific corner of the internet and maybe, just maybe, involved in some rather… 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 – 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. …Okay, I’m embellishing slightly for effect here. Nobody actually documented this definitively. It just... kind of spread through a very niche Reddit thread about 1980-
