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Abbreviation of Throwback Thursday, the social media habit of posting an old photo or memory on Thursdays under the hashtag #TBT or #ThrowbackThursday.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""Posted a photo from her first road trip with the caption TBT.""
LORE & ORIGIN
Wikipedia says it is hard to pin down who started the hashtag, notes Sports Illustrated crediting the sneaker blog Nice Kicks for a Thursday series of old basketball shoes from 2006, and says the habit spread on Instagram after 2012 with frequent use by the Kardashian family. Wiktionary lists TBT as the slang abbreviation.
FIRST SEEN
2006 (Nice Kicks Thursday series citing Sports Illustrated; earliest hashtag use is disputed)
PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)
2012-2010s Instagram
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DOCUMENTED SINCE
2006 (Nice Kicks Thursday series citing Sports Illustrated; earliest hashtag use is disputed)
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