Verb. - To choose one's friends based on their race in order to end up with a thoroughly multi-ethnic social circle, with the goal of appearing as a sensitive, varied individual who doesn't see color. This is normally carried out by white people. Named after Benetton clothing company ads from the nineties, which were multi-ethnic to a fault. The word is rarely used by those who do it.
An offshoot of quirk hunting.
An offshoot of quirk hunting.
Ever since I told April that I have an Inuit pen pal, she's been begging me to show her his Facebook. She's just Benettonning.
Wesley went to a black mass to try and Benetton his circle of friends a bit. I don't think it's working.
Wesley went to a black mass to try and Benetton his circle of friends a bit. I don't think it's working.
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Get the Benetton mug.The practice of choosing one's friends based on any interesting quirks, hobbies or characteristics they may have, in hopes that having an interesting group of friends will result in oneself becoming interesting. Personality is hardly taken into account. Quirk hunters tend to treat their prizes like accessories and trade them like Pokémon cards.
Vanessa's a real treasure, I tell you. She rides a Vespa to work and has a pet chinchilla.
After three solid months of quirk hunting, Rodrigo had friended a Renaissance fair-loving guido, a Venetian carnival mask-collecting stripper, and an Arts student who wears eighties band shirts unironically!
After three solid months of quirk hunting, Rodrigo had friended a Renaissance fair-loving guido, a Venetian carnival mask-collecting stripper, and an Arts student who wears eighties band shirts unironically!
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Get the quirk hunting mug.Noun. - A nerd who is only interested in a very well-defined sub-subset of nerd culture. While nerds are generally believed to like comics, video games, D&D, sci-fi, anime and astrophysics all at the same time, the niche nerd enjoys one or two things and tends to ignore or downright repudiate the rest.
As a niche nerd of extremely refined taste, I find your proposition of going to Comic-Con downright laughable.
Don't bother trying to buy Mick a video game for his birthday; he only likes Japanese RPG's for the Playstation One made during the first half of the nineties.
Don't bother trying to buy Mick a video game for his birthday; he only likes Japanese RPG's for the Playstation One made during the first half of the nineties.
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