“The ship has sailed.”
Hearing this, you might be wondering what ship? However, the slang shipping actually does not refer to an actual ship or an order being shipped.
Nowadays, with new books, tv shows, movies, and social media, teenagers have developed the slang ship to refer to them hoping two characters end up in a relationship. If you’re a Percy Jackson fan, you might be shipping Percy and Annabeth.
Shipping became popular in the fanfiction community with Tumblr back in the 2010s. With the fanfiction community at large, teenagers began to hope their favorite characters would end up together and the phrase shipping took off. Shipping isn’t just limited to fictional characters either. One Direction fans have shipped members of the band during their prime before.
It is still used amongst teenagers as the hype and imagination for wanting two people together never ends. People have created ship names (a combined name of two people) to represent the ship, fanart, and much more to show their love for their respective ships.
Comments