I see a lot of jabronis hanging around Lemmy. Sometimes I wish they’d just go away, but I wonder if the ecosystem actually needs them.

  • ccunning@lemmy.worldOP
    6·
    4 months ago

    What is certain is that the term came to general awareness outside of wrestling when the Rock was using it as an insult.

    I definitely learned about it from the Iron Sheik using it. I wasn’t really watching any more by the time The Rock took off, but there certainly was a bump in popularity around then so it doesn’t sound unreasonable.

    • southsamurai
      2·
      4 months ago

      Holy crap, yeah! He did use it back in the day. He was so good at playing heel lol, but he was such a nice guy irl.