Photobomb
photobomb: sostantivo numerabile
photobombing: sostantivo non numerabile
photobomb: verbo transitivo
photobomber: sostantivo numerabile
Leonardo DiCaprio Just Delivered The First Great Photobomb Of 2015.
Despite excitement surrounding Redmayne’s win, one of the highlights of the awards ceremony was arguably Cumberbatch “photobombing” US actress Meryl Streep.
As a dolphin steals the limelight at a wedding in Florida, here are more photobombing animals.
He’s the world’s greatest photobomber.
Il termine photobombing è in circolazione da diversi anni ma nel 2014 si è affacciato prepotentemente alla ribalta dei media, e quello che era cominciato come una birichinata – intromettersi nella foto di qualcuno, possibilmente uno sconosciuto, a sua insaputa, rovinandogli lo scatto – è diventato un fenomeno tale che il Collins English Dictionary ha scelto photobomb come ‘parola dell’anno’. Alla popolarità del fenomeno, e del termine, ha contribuito in larga misura il coinvolgimento di personaggi celebri e persino dei membri della famiglia reale inglese. L’attore Benedict Cumberbatch ha fatto photobombing ai danni degli U2 agli Oscar e Jennifer Lawrence alla cantante Taylor Swift ai Golden Globes. La scorsa estate la regina Elisabetta ha fatto un photobomb nel selfie di due atlete australiane ai Giochi del Commonwealth di Glasgow e i suoi nipoti, Harry e William, ne hanno seguito l’esempio durante altri eventi della manifestazione sportiva. E se è poco probabile che l’intrusione della regina nel selfie fosse voluta, quella di Harry e William, nonché quella delle celebrità, è assolutamente calcolata: un aspetto essenziale del photobombing è infatti quello di sottolineare l’azione facendo smorfie o gesti.
Origini del termine
Photobombing è apparso intorno al 2008 ma il fenomeno è diventato globale nel 2014 anche grazie alla diffusione di smartphone con fotocamera e alla possibilità di postare immediatamente lo scatto sui social network. Bomb compare in termini come divebomb (scendere in picchiata), ma photobomb pare avere più tratti in comune con espressioni come water bomb e flour bomb, gavettoni di acqua e di farina, rispettivamente. Probabilmente ha influenzato il termine anche la pratica del Google bombing. In tutte queste attività l’elemento chiave è cogliere di sorpresa la vittima dello scherzo.
photobomb: countable noun
photobombing: uncountable noun
photobomb: transitive verb
photobomber: noun countable
Leonardo DiCaprio Just Delivered The First Great Photobomb Of 2015.
Despite excitement surrounding Redmayne’s win, one of the highlights of the awards ceremony was arguably Cumberbatch “photobombing” US actress Meryl Streep.
As a dolphin steals the limelight at a wedding in Florida, here are more photobombing animals.
He’s the world’s greatest photobomber.
Photobombing has been around for a few years now, but it came to the fore in a new way in 2014. So what started as a piece of mischief – intruding in other people’s photos without their knowledge and in effect spoiling them – has become yet another media phenomenon, leading Collins Dictionaries to declare photobomb their Word of the Year. What changed, as with the selfie, was that celebrities and even royalty got in on the act in a very public way. So we had Benedict Cumberbatch photobombing U2 at the Oscars, and Jennifer Lawrence muscling in on Taylor Swift at the Golden Globes. Indeed no less a person than the Queen was captured in the background of photos of Australian athletes at the Commonwealth Games, while her grandsons Harry and William pulled similar stunts at the same event. While it is unlikely that the Queen actually intended to photobomb the athletes, there is no doubt that the Princes and celebrities knew exactly what they were doing, since an essential aspect of the photobomb is not only to appear in someone else’s photo but to make sure they know you were quite aware of doing so, by pulling a funny face, making a thumbs up gesture etc.
Origin
Photobombing started to be noticed in the late Noughties, but only became a global phenomenon in 2014, not least due to the rise of the cameraphone and the possibility of instant publication on social media. Bomb appears in words such as divebomb, but photobomb seems to have more in common with terms such as water bomb and flour bomb, meaning to ambush someone with containers full of water and flour respectively. It perhaps also has something to do with Google bombing, which is the practice of making a search term return an unexpected result. In all these cases, surprising the victim is an essential element of the activity.
