#don't forget to like and boopfloop
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Popular use will normalize anything - there were so many jokes about gamers going home to play with their Wiis or Apple releasing the iTampon along with the iPad, but within a few months "Wii" and "iPad" were just normal names for things.
If you told people in 2005 that one day the sentence "did you see what the president tweeted?" would make perfect sense, I bet most of them would have laughed about it.
I think this also happens a lot within niche communities - "I won the squidge-off but she squopped enough of my winks to win on tiddlies" sounds like a bunch of ridiculous words to most people, but if you're a big player of Tiddlywinks it's just as normal a sentence as "He mains Junkrat but can't do anything but droptire" or "Yeah, they keep blitzing but never sack the quarterback" would be to people in other fandoms.
Even here on Tumblr words like "Blorbo" have become common enough that many people don't even treat it like a joke word anymore.
I'll bet that if you could convince a major corporation to call something a Boopflooper then within six months people would regularly be saying "oh yeah, I'll just boopfloop it" completely without irony or humor.
its so funny we have a communication device referred to as the 'walkie talkie' and because we're used to it it's serious
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