What Does This Mean?
Advocating for or emotionally investing in a romantic pairing between two characters (or, less commonly, real people), treating their potential relationship as a fandom activity in its own right rather than just an opinion about a show.
EXPLAINER
Kotaku · original source ↗
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The fandom has been shipping those two since episode one, way before the show gave them any actual chemistry."
LORE & ORIGIN
Traces back to "relationshipper," used in X-Files newsgroups as early as 1996 for fans invested in Mulder/Scully getting together, later shortened to "shipper"/"shipping" and carried forward through LiveJournal into Tumblr and modern fandom spaces.
EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES
MENTIONS OVER TIME
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