Etymology

big mood

Today it means: An intense or relatable feeling, experience, or thing. Full definition →

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The story

Emerged on Twitter in late 2015 as an evolution of the term mood, used on Black Twitter to denote relatable images. Came to prominence as an Internet meme around January 2018.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.