Necrobumping is a really scummy thing to do, but it's just so much fun that I can't help it sometimes.

@GJOFJ3 But I'm not sure if I really want to know.. 🤭

@BlueMetalChick Ah-ha! Okay, that doesn't sound nearly as bad as my imagination was speculating!

@VeronicaPrincess It sounds like necrophilia, I know 😂

@SW-User I was doing it today on some old posts where Tampa Bay fans were saying that the Lightning were going to win the hockey championship this year. Admittedly, they looked like the team to do it. They had the most wins and most points in the whole league, and even tied the record for most wins ever in an 82-game season. They also won the President's trophy, the Vezina, the Hart, the Art Ross, the Conn Smythe, and the Norris, and led the league in scoring, save percentage, plus/minus, and goals against. So all the Lightning fans were having a great time talking shit about how much better they were than all the other teams.

But the playoffs are here, and the Lightning got swept by the Columbus Blue Jackets. That's right, the best team in the league, won ALL the major trophies, tied an NHL record for wins, they won a grand total of zero games in the postseason and now they're eliminated from the championship run. So I was necrobumping some Tampa Bay fans because it was just too good an opportunity. This is the first time in history, since the NHL formed in 1926, that a team has been swept after winning the President's.

@BlueMetalChick First of all, I was more than a little relieved that "necrobumping" had nothing to do with postmortem fornification or anything. Not that I would judge anyone ,but I'm pretty sure there's a few federal judges and juries across North america that would. I am unappointed, and officially immoral enough to cast any vote, so I keep my opinions locked in a proverbial trunk, that I keep under my bed for rainy days.

I love your explanation...and I don't blame you for "necrobumping" in this case, and it goes to show,at the end of the day, it matters not how you start the race. All that matters is who crosses the finish line first. ;)

@GJOFJ3 thank you sir.

@SW-User It does sound like something gross or sinister, I know 😂

@CrustyDDingus Oh you'd be surprised 😂

@BlueMetalChick wha?!! 🤯 no way!

@basilfawlty89 DUDE ME TOO.

@ArianaRose25 "Bumping" is slang for when you talk big about something, usually a sports game, before it happens. So like the baseball game is tomorrow night and you're telling everyone about how confident you are that your team is gonna win, and how the other team doesn't stand a chance. So you're "bumping" about your team.

The prefix "necro-" refers to death, or something being dead. Necrobumping is when you go back to an old post on social media where someone was bumping about their team, but they lost. So now you get to make fun of them for having bragged about how they were gonna win when they didn't.

@BlueMetalChick Oh. Sounds boring but thanks :)

@ArianaRose25 It's a little boring because often times the person doesn't bother to reply, but sometimes it's hilarious. I was doing it today because everyone and their mother said that Tampa Bay was going to win the Stanley Cup this year, and I said they weren't. Tampa Bay got swept in the first round of the playoffs. Not only did they not win the championship, they didn't even win a single game in the entire postseason. So I went back to those old posts where Tampa fans were bragging and I had fun laughing at them.

@caesar7 Ew, no, that's not what it means lmao

@MethDozer It's still thread mining, but necrobumping is a specific kind of thread mining.

@BlueMetalChick I know what it means just an arbitrary newer term. It is still a strange one to me.

@MethDozer Thread mining can refer to any time you go back onto old posts and fuck with people. Necrobumping is a subset of thread mining specific to making fun of people on sports-related content.

It is a strange term, you're right. It appeared because the word "bumping" became common slang in the early 2010's.