On April 19th, BoingBoing wrote about the newly coined slang term. On April 14th, 2010, Neatorama posted an article about the Alot and by April 18th, the first definition entry had been submitted to Urban Dictionary. On the same day the comic was published, Redditor jack47 linked to the Hyperbole and a Half page in a post titled "Reddit will like this Alot," receiving at least 2,200 up votes. The post was accompanied by several illustrations of how she imagines the creature: It kind of looks like a cross between a bear, a yak and a pug, and it has provided hours of entertainment for me in a situation where I'd normally be left feeling angry and disillusioned with the world.įor example, when I read the sentence "I care about this alot," this is what I imagine On April 13th, 2010, a post titled "The Alot is Better Than You at Everything" was published to Hyperbole and a Half, and described a coping mechanism for witnessing the grammatical error combining the phrase "a lot" into the word "alot." The Alot is an imaginary creature that I made up to help me deal with my compulsive need to correct other people's grammar.
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