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Pajiba
[puh-jahy-buh]
What does Pajiba mean?
Pajiba is a left-leaning film review and social commentary blog founded in 2004.
The name聽Pajiba聽is a nonsense word meant to sound sexually suggestive.
Where does Pajiba come from?
The word Pajiba was made up by the site’s co-founder Dustin Rowles as part of an inside joke with co-founder Timmy Fairlane in the 1990s. He said they each made up a word and asked people which of the two words they preferred after claiming each had sexual meanings. Pajiba, apparently, is meant to evoke聽vagina. Rowles later boasted to his friend that his word was so superior that he would one day name his company Pajiba鈥攁nd in 2004, he founded a website, which he called聽Pajiba.
Initially, Pajiba聽focused on providing sharply critical movie reviews, which remains a core part of the site’s content. Since then, it has grown to cover politics and culture.聽Pajiba is infamous鈥攁nd celebrated鈥攆or its scathing film critiques and makes an effort to be controversial in them. Due to the intentionally negative nature of its film reviews, they are not considered an approved publication by the movie-review aggregator, Rotten Tomatoes.
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Who uses Pajiba?
The term聽Pajiba is almost exclusively used in reference to the website and in the context of film media and journalism.
Pajiba is known for its colorful and idiosyncratic in-house terminology as well as its caustic comment section, where frequent commenters refer to themselves as The Eloquents.
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