That’s a common phenomenon, it’s called AAAAA (age associated absence of acronym awareness).

This is not a new acronym by any means

NEET is a term that came out of the 90s in the UK, and was a borrowed acronym in Japan after that. not a new term by any stretch of the imagination and is barely younger than the modern internet itself.

I learned about this acronym in a Geography class in school, 15 years ago, and this wasn’t in an English speaking country. So it’s old enough and common enough that it was part of the curriculum even though it was a foreign acronym.

It’s the academic and more polite way of referring to losers who never did anything with their lives.

I only know these thanks(?) to the Internet, honestly.

*doggone acronyms

Ftfy

FR, FR.