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[–] Donkter 17 points 3 months ago

According to a little googling. The bruh spike in the 1850s was most likely just because of a single book that taxonomized an animal as a "bruh" and the spike is significant only because the word isn't popular at any point in time.

Our use of "bruh" probably came around the 1890s.