Tbh I'm very skeptical of that origin and I can't find anything backing it up in my cursory searches. Do you have any links I could use to learn more?
Seems far more likely it comes from button mashing/smashing a button as a representation of how invested and/or passionate you are about what the button does.
Is this true? I feel like people have been using that word to mean all sorts of things for as long as I have memory for...for eating food, for actually hitting something like a ball, for a video game (super sm_sh brothers??). I know it can also be a sex thing but it seems like a word with a ton of different meanings depending on the context. In the case of a like button I take this to mean click on it really really hard, and at least in my experience I rarely hear anyone use this word in the sexual context and much more frequently in other contexts, usually eating or actually hitting something in a sport context.
Where did you hear / how do you understand this word to be SA related in the context of liking a video? Or in really any context outside of the obvious sexual one?
To note, I'm not trying to diminish your experiences with this word, it clearly carries some harm for you. I'm just not sure if that's the commonly understood societal usage of the word or even necessarily the commonly understood origin of it, and would like to understand more if this is something important.
it's not true, they're either doing a weird bit or very confused
I see. Yeah in that specific context I would agree totally and that matches my understanding of the word too. I think this is one of those words where the context matters a lot. If you're saying this in reference to a burger, or a baseball, or a a video game move, or a like button, I don't see this word carrying harm. If you're saying this word in the context of a person, it could carry harm. If it's a man saying it in the context of an action he would like to do to a woman, it probably always carries harm.
So in the specific context of your job if you hear it, it should activate a response for sure. In the specific context of a restaurant or a ball game though I don't think it needs to be tempered. I think the issue here is less the origin of the word itself and more how it is used in the specific context around SA.
It's complicated because some words carry harm in every context, and some words don't.
Anyway thanks for sharing. Curious to see what others think as well.
Not seeing anything to indicate a link between "smash" in the context of YouTube and SA.
Largely agree with InfamousBit here that in this context it comes from hammering a button.
I knew it was slang for fuckin but never heard it used before in that sense, with this context
Make sure to bash in that Like button's skull and hang that Subscribe button off the Esso rafters!
