Since Adobe released the photo-editing program Photoshop in 1988, to photoshop has become a common verb, which got shortened to just shop. Now people are using the hashtag lazyshop, where you just describe the changes you would have made to a photo if you’d actually had the energy to photoshop it. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Lazyshop”
In my opinion, one of the most phenomenally successful words in the internet age, actually I should say the computer age, is the word Photoshop.
So it comes from this product used for editing photos. I think it’s at least 25 years old, turned into a verb, and now people have removed the photo part and they’re using shop to mean you shop an image, means you Photoshop it, you alter it.
And I came across a hashtag, which really I thought was funny because it’s perfect also for the internet age. It’s lazy shop, which is instead of actually posting a photo that you Photoshop to be funny or to show the thing that you want to show, you simply describe what the photo would look like had you actually done the Photoshop work.
And then you hashtag it lazy shop. That’s great.
