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▲ swiftcoder a day ago

I think in contemporary parlance this sufficiently clear. Nobody thought massdrop was where you went to buy end-of-life products.

▲gessha a day ago | parent [-]

It’s the biggest present cryptobros left us with. Before they started dabbling with diffusion models, they talked about the release of NFTs and crypto coins using the term. It’s an instant tell for me if a person is an ML insider or outsider.

▲swiftcoder a day ago | parent [-]

They definitely helped popularise the term, but "drop shipping" was a thing long before, "rare drops" in MMOs is decades old... gamer slang steadily permeates tech spaces as younger generations of gamers join the working population