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Fan fiction or fan art depicting a romantic or sexual pairing between two male characters, named for the punctuation mark originally used to denote the pairing in fandom shorthand.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"That fandom's slash archive is massive, way bigger than the general fic section."
LORE & ORIGIN
Coined in Star Trek fan fiction zine culture in the 1970s from the "/" used to write pairings like Kirk/Spock, later becoming the general fandom term for male/male pairings across all fandoms.
FIRST SEEN
1976
PEAK POPULARITY
2026 (Fandom Canon Revival)
CURRENT STATUS
Legacy / Decaying Slang
EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES
AURA IMPACT ⓘ
+1 AURA
TREND STATUS
↑ HIGH RISING FAST · LOW
CULTURE CATEGORY
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MENTIONS OVER TIME
DOCUMENTED SINCE
1976
NOW
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