The 2022 word of the year at Oxford is "goblin mode" overtaking "Metaverse" and "#IStandWith" that many expected. got this position

More importantly, this year, the source of this year's word comes from the open for voting as well.

started voting two weeks ago

and won with 318,956 votes, representing 93% of the total, with Metaverse taking second place.

The Oxford Word of the Year reflects social phenomena over the past 12 months in which people's interests, moods, or collective behaviors.

In a society that is the same as 2021, the word Vax means vaccine. 

This year, "goblin mode" refers to behavior in which people do what they want in a way that's contrary to general order, that is, they don't follow social norms.

Or according to social expectations, such as not having to feel guilty about what you do

or what is

Doing what you want, some lazy, some lazy, some greedy.

Actually, goblin mode has been around since 2009, but became hot earlier this year in February when celebrity couple Kanye West and Julia Fox


broke up.

The couple broke up because she went into goblin mode, which Julia Fox later denied on her Instagram.

She never wrote about this word.

But the word has now gone viral.

Because it fits in the period when people are tired of life from having to face a lockdown to stop the spread of COVID.

Goblins are strange creatures in European legends.

The origin of "Goblin" comes from the Greek "kobalos" means cheating


.

Naughty, likes to play pranks

But they are vengeful and greedy.


There are both kind people

or have a mediocre personality

until the worst

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