Acronyms dictionary
IG
or ig [ ahy-jee ]
What does IG mean?
IG聽stands for the social media platform聽Instagram. It also sometimes short for聽I guess.
Where does IG come from?
The verb guess, for “estimate” or “suppose,” dates back to Middle English. 聽I guess emerges at聽least by the late 1600s to express moderate or ironic certainty (e.g., I guess I’ll just look it up in the dictionary聽… or The English language, I guess, is just going do whatever it feels like).
The eye-rolling, passive-aggressive-y version of I guess is heightened聽in texting and online in the 1990s鈥�2000s. If a friend asked you if you were attending a party that you weren’t super excited about, you could text back聽IG, showing聽reluctance or skepticism.
The massively popular social-media photography and video platform Instagram debuted in 2010, purchased by Facebook in 2012. Since then, some users refer to it as IG for short, just as they may use FB for its parent company.聽After all, with everyone being so busy on social media, who has time to type out whole words anymore?
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— Marta (@artedemarta)
Examples of IG
Who uses IG?
In its I guess form, the tone of聽IG聽can express a lack of confidence or doubt or actual sincerity or irony.
Haven鈥檛 posted on this thread in awhile so take this sketch thing ig as an apology for late stream 馃檹馃様
— Black Knight 馃棥馃洝 (@oKuuro)
罢丑别听滨苍蝉迟补驳谤补尘听滨骋聽is seen online as a handy acronym for the app, particularly on social-media platforms that aren’t …聽IG.
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— Desiraiya馃 (@__shomar)
Note
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