• PhlubbaDubba
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    1 month ago

    Ok real talk where in the hell does Google actually get this data from?

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      1 month ago

      I believe they just pull all the text of books from Google Books with the appropriate publishing date.

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        Certainly sounds like that’d make sense, but how does it produce results like this?

        I can’t imagine Simp would be getting used the same way in the 1700s that it is now, mostly because the state of gender relations at that point makes what gets you called a simp today look like having a literal crippling addiction to eating pussy