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plural dabloons
(Internet slang, neologism) A fictional currency among certain TikTok users, earned and lost by random encounters while scrolling, and associated with pictures of cats. quotations
Alexis Bishop, an actor who lives in Orlando, Fla., keeps track of her 174 dabloons on a whiteboard in her office.
2022 November 24, Anna Grace Lee, Callie Holtermann, “What Are ‘Dabloons,’ the Imaginary Currency of TikTok?”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2022-11-25
This is likely unintentional, stemming from financially literate users building on posts that give away unreasonable quantities of dabloons, but it’s amusingly managed to simulate a real financial disaster without any of its discourse.
2022 November 24, Jess Weatherbed, “Hello traveler…have ye heard about TikTok Dabloons?”, in The Verge, retrieved 2022-11-25