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- 2022 July 26, Elena Cavender, “Meme page creators want Instagram to be more transparent”, in Mashable[1]:
- As expected, the admins and their followers came prepared with dozens of meme-inspired cardboard signs. One read, "What if we kissed in IG banned hell." And another offered support with a simple message: "In solidarity with my fallen oomfs [one of my followers]." The protest culminated in several meme page admins handcuffing themselves to the building.
- 2022 September 16, Emil Wilbekin, “What Does It Mean to Be a Young, Black Queer Artist Right Now?”, in The New York Times Style Magazine[2]:
- [Jeremy O. Harris:] One of the things I worry about is that the little gay boys and girls I’m friends with don’t meet people their age IRL. They only know people through their oomfs, right? The oomfs run the world.
[Devan Shimoyama:] What’s “oomf”?
[Jeremy O. Harris:] An oomf is an “O.O.M.F.” — “one of my friends,” as in someone you know only in a digital space, from Twitter or Tumblr.