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NEET

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Added Apr 16, 2015 at 06:07PM EDT by Don.

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About

"NEET" is an acronym standing for "Not in Education, Employment or Training," which was originally coined in the United Kingdom as a classification for people between the ages of 16 and 24 who were unemployed and not in school. In Japan, the term is used to identify anyone between the ages of 15 and 34 who is unemployed, not in school and not seeking work, and is closely associated with social recluses known as "Hikikomori."[1] Online, the acronym is often used to label those who fit the "neckbeard" stereotype.

Origin

In July 1999, the phrase "Not in education, employment or training" was first used in a report titled "Bridging the Gap"[2] released by the United Kingdom-based Social Exclusion Unit, which provided an investigation into young people who were unemployed and not in school.

Spread

On March 15th, 2005, Urban Dictionary[5] user Rolf Mason submitted an entry for NEET, defining it as a sociological term "applicable to a social under-class lacking drive, motivation or ambition." On March 26th, 2010, the Spill Media YouTube channel uploaded a video about NEETs living in the Swansea county of the United Kingdom (shown below).



On October 1st, 2012, an anonymous 4chan user submitted a "NEET lifestyle thread" to the /r/jp (otaku culture) board.[4] On February 12th, 2014, YouTuber Bretty_Good uploaded a thread simulator video for 4chan's /r9k/ (robot9000) board titled "4chan /r9k/ Frozen Thread Simulator, NEET Edition" (shown below).



On April 13th, Redditor Leonisius submitted a screenshot of a green text story on 4chan titled "Anon is genetically a NEET" to the /r/4chan[6] subreddit, where it gathered upwards of 3,800 votes (95% upvoted) and 350 comments prior to being archived (shown below). On February 9th, 2015, Redditor Spacejams1 submitted a post titled "What is a NEET" to the /r/OutOfTheLoop[3] subreddit.


File: 1397388653217 ipg-(201 KB, 1023x760, aphexililia.jpg) Anonymous 04/13/14(Sun)14:30 UTC+3 No.28782936 Reply) >Tired of my NEET lifestyle, social anxiety and agoraphobia and want some divine intervention to make me a normalfag >Read that you can take xanax overdoses and black out and end up in zany situations like the hangover >Swallow 15 bars, never taken the stuff before >That was the last thing I remember before waking up in my bed 3 days later >Tell my parents I blacked out and asked did I do anything crazy >"No dear you just came down to the fridge occasionally and were in your room on the computer the whole time" Am I hardwired to be an autistic failure? 68 posts and 2 image replies omitted. Click here to view.

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External References

[1] Wikipedia – Hikikomori

[2] Dera.ioe.ac.uk – Bridging the Gap

[3] Reddit – What is a NEET

[4] 4chandata – New NEET Lifestyle thread

[5] Urban Dictionary – neet

[6] Reddit – Anon is genetically a NEET

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