Entry · catalog no. 7407
oomf
/ /umf/ /OOMF
noun · Black Twitter · 2010s
✓ Verified
1.
"One of my followers" (or one of my friends) — a way to talk about somebody without tagging them. The engine of the subtweet: oomf did something wild, and everybody watching gets to guess who.
“Oomf really posted that and thought we wouldn't notice.”
Origin & Attribution
Twitter shorthand of the early 2010s, minted and spread inside the subtweet culture that Black Twitter built. The #oomf hashtag runs back to 2010, with dated tweets and hashtag dictionaries recording it by early 2011. A decade on it was reissued as all-purpose "Gen Z internet slang," its address scrubbed.
2010
#oomf hashtag in circulation on Twitter
2011
Earliest archived oomf tweets; entered in Twittonary and Urban Dictionary
2020s
Reissued as generic internet slang on TikTok
Region of origin
West
Midwest
N.East
South
Nationwide
Black Twitter · 2010s
Spoken by
Black Twitter; now general social media
$OOMFThe Record · cultural traction
▲ Steady16 yrs
ahead of the mainstream
70/100
peak cultural energy
Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.
Cultural usage — the recordMainstream search interest
First used
2010
in the culture
Cultural energy indexed from documented usage, search interest, and citation frequency. The recorded date is the archive’s permanent point of record.
Hear it spoken
By region — how it actually sounds
@auntiereg
Atlanta, GA
@deltasoul
Memphis, TN
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Citations & Sources
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Earliest archived #oomf tweets, documented by Know Your Meme
2011
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+ Cite a sourceTwittonary entry for oomf
2011
See also