Zomp

Submission 19,173

About

Zomp is the name for a light green color on the Resene Color List produced by the hex triplet #39A78E. In early March 2018, the color began appearing in photoshops and image macros on Facebook after being referenced in a tweet published by Vsauce.

Origin

According to the "Spring Green" Wikipedia^[1] entry, the color zomp was created sometime in 2007. On May 21st, 2016, Tumblr user bottshue^[4] posted a screenshot of a description of the zomp color, adding "there's a fucking color named zomp" (shown below).

Spread

On May 24th, 2016, a definition for "Zomp" was added by Urban Dictionary^[5] user Darcy Suthurlanach (shown below).

On March 6th, 2018, the Vsauce Twitter feed posted a link to a Wikipedia page titled "Lost of colors: A-F," along with a screenshot of the colors acid green and zomp from the list (shown below).^[3]

That day, the Exploding Fish Shitposting And Senseless Drivel Facebook^[6] page posted a screenshot of the tweet, along with the message "New meme: Zomp." Within one week, the post gained over 930 reactions, 470 shares and 70 comments. On March 7th, the Exploding Fish Shitposting^[2] page posted a zomp-themed Loss edit (shown below). Over the next week, numerous other photoshops referencing the color were highlighted by the Facebook page.