It is the first Oxford word of the year to be chosen by public vote.
The word is a “slang term”, it stands for “a type of behavior which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, careless, greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations”.
More than 3000,000 English speakers voted among three words, screened by editors at Oxford University Press.
Goblin mode won by 318,956 votes.
“Metaverse” came second with 14,484 votes.
“#IStandWith” came 3rd with 8,639 votes.
The word first made its appearance on Twitter in 2009, it went viral on social media in February 2022, over a fake news headline that claimed that model-actor Julia Fox and her then-partner Kanye West broke up because he “didn’t like when [she] went goblin mode”.
The word also became viral on several other social media platforms such as Tiktok, Facebook, etc.
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