Why everyone is searching their names on Urban Dictionary — and how to find yours

by Jenna Romaine | Nov. 23, 2021 | Nov. 23, 2021

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Social media users are flocking to the website Urban Dictionary to look up their names and share their results.
The results have been an array of descriptions ranging from sweet to borderline offensive and raunchy.
Urban Dictionary was originally created in 1999 by Aaron Peckham as a crowdsourced dictionary of slang words and definitions.

Social media users are flocking to the website Urban Dictionary as part of a new trend to look up their names and share their results online, which can be flattering or borderline offensive.

Urban Dictionary was originally created in 1999 by Aaron Peckham as a crowdsourced dictionary of slang words and definitions, though it has grown over the years and is now composed of slang, internet humor, gamer words, and subjective definitions typically tinged with dark humor.

As the trend of looking up the definition of names on the site has taken off online over the last few days, the results have been an array of descriptions ranging from sweet to raunchy.

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One entry for Mike reads, “The god of camels. His birthday is every wednesday!”