gamer word

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From a now-deleted 2018 tweet defending YouTuber PewDiePie's use of the word nigger during a livestream of the video game PUBG: Battlegrounds, which asserted that he had merely uttered a "gamer word".

“It’s just a gamer word, Arthur. Chill.”

2019 May 3, JackUTS, Twitter, archived from the original on 2018-12-30:

2019 June 3, AGoodOleGhost, “scuse me, i have the riGHT TO SAY GAMER WORDS”, in Reddit, Gamingcirclejerk, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:

I submitted video evidence of gamer words from a toxic crew about 3 weeks ago. Offenders GTs and in game audio were both very visible/audible. As of last night, both offenders were still sailing the seas. Reported to both Rare and Xbox. Very frustrating, indeed.

2020 July 2, 37yeti, “Gamer words need to stop!”, in Reddit, Seaofthieves, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:

Ohm misunderstands and assumes everything. It's actually incredible.
Moo, 407, and other guys in the group didn't unfollow you bc I accused of some James acct.
They unfollowed you bc you literally went off the rails trying to cancel Marcel for gamer words. Moron.

2021 May 26, I_AM_WILDCAT, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:

2022 May 1, Winters1482, “guy threatens to call someone a gamer word over master cheeks”, in Reddit, ShitHaloSays, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:


soy face

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A weird, soundless, open-mouthed excitement that portends nothing good. People have talked about it for years, and called it by many names: "Cuckface," "Nu-Male Smile," and, most enduringly, "Soy Face" (sometimes even "Soylent Grin").

2020 July 2, Miles Klee, “'Soy Face' Is Real, and It's Annoying”, in MEL Magazine:

(Internet slang, derogatory) A facial expression associated with unmasculine and immature men (soy boys), who are often photographed expressing surprise or excitement with their mouth agape.


built different

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The term was popularized by a July 2020 trend on the video-sharing website TikTok, in which users jokingly claimed to be able to accomplish various improbable tasks as a result of being “built different”.

I learnt that true rock climbers are built different. Their bodies will do things mere humans can't.

1999, Peter Inchbald, “Plato’s Garden: Oxford 1937–39”, in Jack of All Trades and His Family, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu Press, published 2013, →ISBN, book II (Speaking from Memory), page 101:

Some people are built different, and kudos to them who are like that, but I'm built different. I always say I'm the most competitive person I know, and look at my wife, she rolling her eyes probably.

2017 July 14, Alysha Tsuji, quoting Chris Paul, “Chris Paul Quoted ‘Talladega Nights’ while Talking about Rockets’ Goal of Winning a Title”, in For the Win, USA Today, archived from the original on 2022-06-25:

Not many coaches in the nation have the ability to turn overlooked recruits into All-Americans, but [Mark] Dantonio is built different.

2018 August 30, Connor Muldowney, “Michigan State Football: 25 Best Players of the Mark Dantonio Era”, in Spartan Avenue, FanSided, archived from the original on 2022-11-08:

We fully know our bodies and what we are risking especially at the professional level. […] He's [Kevin Durant's] built different than the ppl^([sic – meaning people]) saying he shouldn't have played. Maybe that's why they haven’t gotten where he is.

2019 June 12, Des Bieler, quoting Richard Sherman, “Charles Barkley blames the Warriors for Kevin Durant’s injury”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-06-17:

You are built different, sir. Our church is blessed to have such a faithful and committed leader.

2022, Dakota Andekin, “Acknowledgement”, in Prescription for Addiction: An Awakening in America through the Eradication of Addiction, Meadville, Pa.: Christian Faith Publishing, →ISBN:

In the comments section, users recounted their alleged experience with the physical labor of working in an Amazon warehouse. / "My feet was so mfin sore. & the breaks were more like 5mins," claimed a commenter. "I only worked for two days." / "My shoulder still hurts and I haven't worked there since 2020," stated a second. / "I literally had quit on my second day," a further user added. "You built different if you work there."

2022 August 16, Braden Bjella, “‘TF am I Stretching at Work for?’: Amazon Warehouse Worker Says Workers Stretch as Group before Shift, Sparking Debate”, in The Daily Dot, archived from the original on 2022-08-30:

How many shows have truly stuck the landing? Lost's final act cast a long, long shadow over its island shenanigans, Seinfeld's finale felt deliberately frustrating, and even The Sopranos – the gold standard – is talked about for all the wrong reasons because of its cut-to-black ending. Better Call Saul, however, is built different. Not long after the finale aired, fans have rushed to social media to dish out praise for the Breaking Bad spin-off, even going as far as christening it one of the best TV episodes of all time.

2022 August 16, Bradley Russell, “Better Call Saul Viewers React to ‘Perfect’ Finale: ‘An Absolute Masterpiece’”, in GamesRadar+, archived from the original on 2022-08-20:

The 48-year-old [Terrell Owens] not only blew them out of the water, but also clocked an incredible sub-4.40 time in the 40-yard dash. Even among world-class athletes, some people are just built different.

2022 August 25, Zac Al-Khateeb, “Terrell Owens Runs Insane 4.38 40-yard Dash Time – at 48 Years Old”, in Sporting News, archived from the original on 2022-09-01:

(originally African-American Vernacular, idiomatic, slang) Able to do things which others cannot; extremely talented or unusual.

erityinen

able to do things which others cannot; extremely talented or unusual


women ☕

In reference to the 2017 YouTube video "Infomercial: The Pill" [0:13], in which two animated characters say "hmpf, women", then loudly sip their coffee. The phrase women ☕ became an Internet meme around early 2022 on TikTok and Instagram. The term later came to be used as a noun, leading to the back-formation woman ☕.

At the end of the day, "Women ☕" is just a snarkier, more conspicuous way of saying "Woman Moment," another meme that has been used for the same purposes.

[2022 August 10, Philipp Kachalin, “What Does Women ☕ Mean? Coffee Emoji Meme Explained”, in KnowYourMeme:

men be like 'women ☕' and then forget about their vaginal birth. real clownery.

2022 September 22, @bfulaura, X (Twitter), archived from the original on 2023-03-02:

Thank you DeMC for giving us a true "Women☕" moment.

2022 September 25, @Harshalreacts, X (Twitter), archived from the original on 2023-03-02:

Real men don't say "Women ☕"

2022 September 30, @dreeaamie, X (Twitter):

(Internet slang, derogatory, sometimes offensive) Expressing disapproval of the actions of a woman, especially one associated with stereotypically feminine traits.


memetic warfare

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I believe memetic warfare could be effective in countering Daesh’s recruiting and propaganda efforts and in modern conflict in general, including operations other than war. Trolling, it might be said, is the social media equivalent of guerrilla warfare, and memes are its currency of propaganda.

2016 January 10, Jeff Giesea, “It’s Time To Embrace Memetic Warfare”, in Defence Strategic Communications, volume 1, number 1, →DOI, pages 68–76:

The concept of 'memetic warfare' emerged out of military debates as an extension of informational war and psyops.

2018, Catherine Happer, Andrew Hoskins, William Merrin, editors, Trump’s Media War, Springer, →ISBN, page 219:

Gamergate, "the Fappening" (or Celebgate), and the subsequent Comicsgate are examples of campaigns that deployed active memetic warfare in racialized and gendered ways to attack and drive away a constructed enemy.

2021, Lisa Nakamura, Hanah Stiverson, Kyle Lindsey, Racist Zoombombing, Routledge, →ISBN:

The usage of Internet memes in an effort to achieve geopolitical goals or to enact social change.


go brrr

en-verb

go brrr (third-person singular simple present goes brrr or go brrr, present participle going brrr, simple past went brrr, past participle gone brrr)

goes brrr (present singular third-person)
go brrr (present singular third-person)
going brrr (participle present)
went brrr (past)
gone brrr (participle past)
except go brrr (rare)

In reference to the "Money Printer Go Brrr" meme, created on March 9, 2020, in which a Boomer Wojak representing the United States Federal Reserve uses a literal money printer (which is making the sound brrr like a traditional printer) to create large amounts of money to counter the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, despite the possibility of increasing inflation. Likely ultimately derived from the line "Money counter go brrr" in the song "No New Friends" by DJ Khaled, Rick Ross, Drake, and Lil Wayne.

The government, in his view, has simply printed too much money—and that "Fed go brrr," is not just funny, but dangerous.

2020 May 12, Jeff John Roberts, “'Fed go brrr': Federal Reserve meme strikes chord with Bitcoin believers”, in Fortune:

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2020 August 21, Matthew Gault, “'Marvel Strike Force' Lootbox Printer Accidentally Goes Brrr”, in VICE:

(title)

2020 December 23, Justine Harper, “2020 Was The Year Bitcoin Funding Went Brrr”, in Bitcoin Magazine:

The ad, which ran for an hour on Friday (January 30) courtesy of digital billboard maker Matei Psatta, shows symbols indicating vastly rising stock prices with the caption "$GME GO BRRR" – alluding to the stock's ticker symbol on the NY Stock Exchange.

2021 January 31, Matthew Neale, “GameStop Redditors buy playful Times Square billboard ad”, in NME:

The multicurrency regime should reduce the RBZ's capacity to print money but we saw how within just a few years of the reintroduction of the Zimdollar, the printers had already gone brrr. Now, the RBZ is trying to mop up the excess local currency in the market that’s driving up inflation.

2022 January 12, Leonard Sengere, “Zimbabwe should brace for economic turbulence as USD set to strengthen – IMF”, in Techzim:

Canada's central bank has been going Brrr, and it’s not because of the frigid winters in Ottawa. Bank of Canada (BoC) data shows that the money supply is still expanding rapidly in October.

2022 January 18, Stephen Punwasi, “Over 1 In 5 Canadian Dollars Created Didn’t Exist Two Years Ago”, in Better Dwelling:

The money printer is about to stop going brrr.

2022 March 16, James Ramsay, “Early Addition: Ranger fans, you really booed the governor on Women's Empowerment Night?”, in Gothamist:

(Internet slang, humorous) To go out of control; to increase or thrive despite opposition.

Covid-19 pandemic
United States Federal Reserve


countryball

From country + ball; compare Polandball.

The first countryball to appear was Polandball, a cartoon character drawn in the shape of a ball with the white and red colour schemes of the Polish flag. Polandball wants to go into space but feels threatened by Germany and Russia. Soon other countryballs appeared all in the guise of different national flags. The countryball for the USA, which wears the stars and stripes and cool sunglasses, is egocentric, with no idea of anything that happens outside the USA but always ready to rush […]

2017, Delia Chiaro, The Language of Jokes in the Digital Age: Viral Humour, Routledge, →ISBN:

Four days earlier, a group of unidentified students covered nearly the entire tunnel with colorful messages supporting the Hong Kong protests, backing autonomy for Tibet and Taiwan, and condemning the ethnic cleansing of Uighurs in Xinjiang. One section depicted a Taiwan flag beside a countryball of Hong Kong and a flag of East Turkestan, the region from which Uighurs hail.

2019 December 4, Efua Agyare-Kumi, “U of R becomes battleground in China, Hong Kong conflict”, in Rochester City Newspaper:

(originally Internet slang, fandom slang) A country drawn in the Polandball artstyle, in which countries are personified as crudely drawn blobs.


deez nutz

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divorced guy energy

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Adapted from big divorce energy with reference to the stereotype of men reacting to divorce more negatively than women.

Elon Musk shot off a car into a void, a reeking-of-divorced-guy-energy Jeff Bezos recently announced he was into space colonies, and now NASA is planning on letting private companies sell extremely expensive tickets to the International Space Station.

2019 June 7, Harry Cheadle, “A Few Ideas for Those Rich People Who Have More Money Than They Can Spend”, in Vice:

On this chaotic, overstuffed record, West’s divorced-guy energy cannot hide his declining artistry.

2021 August 31, Elliot Hoste, “Kanye West enters his dad-rap era with new album Donda”, in New Statesman:

The Democrats’ Senate hopeful exudes a profound melancholy

2022, Cockburn, "Tim Ryan has big ‘divorced guy’ energy", The Spectator, 1 November 2022 (used in title only)

(slang, derogatory) A psychological state stereotypically characteristic of a recently-divorced man, often conceptualized as being pathetically arrogant or tryhard while also filled with anger, resentment, or melancholy.


Glup Shitto

From a September 2020 post by Tumblr user gomjabbar lampooning hardcore Star Wars fans and Star Wars character names: "every time a new Star War^([sic]) movie or show is announced all the fans are like 'OMG Glup Shitto is back 😭😭😭'.
Probably derived from shit, referring to the supposed poor quality of the new characters.

When it works well, Mank feels like the inheritance and renovation of a range of craft competencies and attentions. And when it does not work well, it is the classical Hollywood nerd’s version of Glup Shitto. “OMG Ben Hecht is back!” Sometimes it does both at once.

2021 May 9, J. D. Connor, “Put Some 'Mank' on It”, in Los Angeles Review of Books:

'The Book of Boba Fett' is a good example of this joke containing a few grains of truth. Boba Fett was, after all, the original Glup Shitto. He turned up in all of maybe three major scenes in 'The Empire Strikes Back' and 'Return of the Jedi', died by accident, and was written off in the movies.

2022 June 1, Brian Lloyd, “This week's 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' sees the return of a familiar helmet”, in Entertainment.ie:

I also questioned what characters might show up in this series, and while we haven’t seen a true Glup Shitto yet, we do get a reference to Quinlan Vos, a Jedi from the “Star Wars” novels who then appeared in “Star Wars: The Clone Wars.”

2022, Brandon Raglow, "Review | Episode three of ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ brings the Jedi master face to face with a certain former Padawan", The Pitt News (University of Pittsburgh), 8 June 2022

(Star Wars fandom slang, vulgar, derogatory) Any minor Star Wars character or one who features primarily in Extended Universe media unknown to casual fans.


darkest timeline

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Referencing the episode "Remedial Chaos Theory" (2011) of the sitcom Community, which depicts seven alternate universes resulting from a die roll to decide which friend should collect a pizza delivery, including "The Darkest Timeline" in which chaos and destruction ensue.

I still can't believe that there is a President Trump and this really does feel like the darkest timeline, but there is nothing that can be done.

2016 November 17, Mandy Marciniak, “President Trump? Really?”, in The Frontenac Gazette, Frontenac, ON, page 11:

You know we're in the darkest timeline when there are multimillion-dollar corporations roleplaying as people working through a depressive episode.

2019 February 19, Jordan Levy, “Parodying people for profit: When brands act like one of us”, in The Daily Targum, Rutgers University, page 8:

Living as we all do now in The Darkest Timeline™, it's tough to come up with a plot that exceeds the implausibility and dystopia of reality.

2019, Jessica Bryce Young, in "Selections", Orlando Weekly, 13 March 2019 - 19 March 2019, page 43

(Internet slang, humorous) The circumstances of the present moment in history, viewed as bleak, frightening, ridiculous, or the worst of all possibilities.

Community (TV series)
Remedial Chaos Theory


worst timeline

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Millennials/Gen-Xers like me […] may feel like we're living in quite possibly the worst timeline, where the economy is uncertain, politicians are lying to us, and it seems radical groups are running amok and gaining notoriety in the process.

2018, Emily Prokop, The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects, unnumbered page:

It’s like when people on Twitter said that “this is the worst timeline” in response to Jeff Bezos likely becoming the first trillionaire because of COVID.

2021 May 2, Johnny Hayes, “Commentary: Wrestling with the ghosts of COVID past”, in The San Diego Union-Tribune:

I had high hopes for 2021, after a year that fundamentally changed our way of life. I thought vaccines would bring life back to normalcy by now. That obviously didn't happen. As with any situation, there are two sides to the story. A pessimistic view would suggest that this continues to be the worst timeline. But I want to be optimistic for once.

2021 September 29, Jennifer Sun, “In-Person Event Planning: Expect the Unexpected”, in UltraVires, University of Toronto, page 21:

darkest timeline
darkest timeline#English

(Internet slang, humorous) Synonym of darkest timeline.


biblically accurate

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Likely from Bible verses such as Revelation 4:8 describing angels as having many eyes and wings; such depictions are said to be more "accurate" than humanoid ones. Popularized around 2019-2020.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see biblically, accurate.


memehood

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And hence the actual details of the representing are sometimes just as much a candidate for memehood as the content represented.

1995, Daniel C[lement] Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life, →ISBN, page 359:

Then the innocent question hit meme-hood, being applied to every new computer or gadget in the news.

2008 September 15, Mark Milian, “New ‘Crysis’ has same issues”, in Chicago Tribune, 162nd year, number 259, page 3, columns 1–2:

This exercise in surrealism was destined for memehood.

2014, William Poundstone, Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody, →ISBN:

[…] I’m fascinated by the response to the video, by its eternal life in online memehood.

2017, Anthony Palumbi, Blood Plagues and Endless Raids: A Hundred Million Lives in the World of Warcraft, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN:

Key ingredients for memehood, generally, are the rapid and spontaneous sharing of the thing and some sort of cultural context.

2021 June 17, Stefanie Pettit, “Navigating the meme streets of social media”, in The Spokesman-Review, 139th volume, number 9, page N4, column 1:

The original Steamed Hams scene appeared on a Simpson’s^([sic]) episode from the 1990s, and somehow developed a cult following by its reruns, that turned it into a meme. It’s been reworked into fanfiction and fully reanimated in the style of 1960s Soviet cartoons. It’s been overdubbed with opera and recut to resemble a Criterion Collection DVD of a François Truffaut movie. There’s embroidery of it. It’s surpassed memehood and become an artistic movement of its own.

2023 March 19, Talia Felix, “Steaming a Good Ham”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, archived from the original on 2023-03-20:


rage comic

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Last week, Reddit user CappnPoopdeck posted a "rage comic" depicting a man who, as a joke, takes an unused pregnancy test left behind by his ex-girlfriend, then finds that the test comes back positive.

2012 November 7, Hilary Hanson, “Man Takes Pregnancy Test, Finds Out He Has Testicular Cancer: Reports”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2023-04-30:

He added, “Obama is a smart guy. ‘Okay, so this is how that works, so I type in that name, or now that I’m on Google+, I type in a +, or now that I’m on Reddit, put in a rage comic because that’s funny.’”

2013, James E[verett] Katz, Michael Barris, Anshul Jain, The Social Media President: Barack Obama and the Politics of Digital Engagement, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 99:

Thus, in order to produce and understand LOLCats, users need to master LOLspeak; to create a rage comic, the user requires familiarity with a broad range of new symbols.

2014, Limor Shifman, Memes in Digital Culture (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series), Cambridge, Mass., London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 118:

A rage comic features a short sequence of the actions of standard characters and is often about the absurdity or folly of everyday life situations or comments on media occurrences.

2015, Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, editor, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 3rd edition, Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 3772:

Rage comics were first introduced to China as bàozŏu mànhuà […] in 2008, and have become increasingly popular among Chinese Internet users since then.

2017, Aaron Marcus, Masaaki Kurosu, Xiaojuan Ma, Ayako Hashizume, Cuteness Engineering: Designing Adorable Products and Services, Springer, →ISBN, page 70:

(Internet slang) A short cartoon strip using a growing set of pre-made cartoon faces which usually express rage or some other simple emotion or activity.


old man yells at cloud

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From a scene in the 2002 episode "The Old Man and the Key" of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, in which Grampa Simpson, applying for a driver's license, produces a newspaper clipping with this headline for identification.

I'm incessantly railing, in the old-man-yells-at-cloud tradition, against Big Beautiful Burgers stuffed into wispy buns that leave nothing to the imagination.

2018 February, Liz Cook, “Check-in Time”, in The Pitch, page 26:

If you will allow me an “old man yells at cloud” moment...back in my day, the only tools we had to make documentation were plain ol' spreadsheets, slides, and Word documents.

2020, Matt LeMay, Product Management in Practice, page 148:

Everyone has their own Old-Man-Yells-at-Cloud gripe that they just can't let go. Some people can't get over the fact that some people do (or do not) keep their ketchup in the fridge; other people can't stop themselves ragging on pineapple-topped pizza.

2022, Ruby Tandoh, Cook As You Are: Recipes for Real Life, Hungry Cooks, and Messy Kitchens: A Cookbook, page 131:

(humorous or derogatory) Refers to a person who expresses a trivial, out-of-touch, or idiosyncratic grievance; especially, with an implication of aged crotchetiness.

Grampa Simpson
The Old Man and the Key
The Simpsons


poor little meow meow

en-noun

poor little meow meow (plural poor little meow meows)

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Emerged from a 2020 viral tweet by a BTS fan apologetically addressing group member Suga (known by the fan nickname "Lil Meow Meow") as "my poor meow meow...my baby my little baby who hurt^([sic]) so much […] ." The tweet was made in response to the controversy over Suga's sampling of a speech by cult leader Jim Jones (1931–1978) on his solo mixtape D-2.

You may have noticed there’s a new trend amongst fans of all kinds of media. Whenever there’s a little sad sack of a man, people will start calling him their “poor little meow meow”—their little baby loser boy, if you will. In other words: a Pathetic Loserman.

2022 September 13, Madeline Carpou, “Allons-y, Make Way for This Year’s “Official Pathetic Loserman!””, in The Mary Sue:

Examples of Poor Little Meow Meows include Breaking Bads Jesse Pinkman, Marvels Loki, Avatar: The Last Airbender's Prince Zuko, and Ice King from Adventure Time.

2022 September 19, Jack Doyle, “Who (Or What) Is Poor Little Meow Meow?”, in The Mary Sue:

Unlike his brothers, Aldo is kind of a lil’ sweetie. I mean, he’s not really a sweetie at all. In Tumblr morality terms, he is more of a Poor Little Meow Meow than he is a true cinnamon roll.

2022 December 11, Jack Doyle, “Aldo And The Three Brothers In ‘Chainsaw Man,’ Explained”, in The Mary Sue:

(fandom slang) A fictional character who is both endearingly pathetic and extremely flawed or villainous.

BTS
D-2 (mixtape)
Jim Jones
Suga (rapper)

baby girl

male morally ambiguous character romanticised by fans

Draco in Leather Pants

any morally ambiguous character romanticised by fans

woobie

morally ambiguous character subjected to pain for pathos


choose violence

en-verb

choose violence (third-person singular simple present chooses violence, present participle choosing violence, simple past chose violence, past participle chosen violence)

chooses violence (present singular third-person)
choosing violence (participle present)
chose violence (past)
chosen violence (participle past)

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According to Know Your Meme, first used in the idiomatic sense in a tweet posted June 21, 2019 by @mtheadnothought: "azealia banks wakes up every morning and chooses violence tbh the dedication is outstanding", itself inspired by line of dialogue in the 2016 Game of Thrones episode "No One" (see I choose violence).

wake up and choose violence

In a post on his Instagram story Thursday, the Saturday Night Live head writer [Michael Che] expressed his desire to "make fun of Simone Biles." In the next post, he wrote: "I got like 3 mins of Simone Biles jokes in my head. I'm going to the cellar tonight to say them into a microphone. As the dorky kids say, I'm choosing violence."

2021 July 30, Tayo Bero, “When Will Michael Che Face Consequences For Punching Down On Black Women?”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 2023-07-13:

RuPaul Charles chose violence on this week's episode of Drag Race UK when he chose to eliminate, not one, but two fan-favourite contestants from the competition.

2021 October 29, Sam Damshenas, “Exclusive: Choriza May addresses 'hurtful' RuPaul's Drag Race UK twist”, in Gay Times, London: Gay Times Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-20:

Still, the broadcast decided to show that Verstappen was leading him by more than 77 seconds. Sharing a snap of the visual, one Twitter user posted: "F1 CHOSE VIOLENCE WITH THIS GRAPHIC."

2022 April 24, Jake Lambourne, “'They chose violence' – Sky Sports F1 'troll' Hamilton as Brit is lapped by Verstappen in Emilia Romagna horror show”, in The US Sun, archived from the original on 2022-05-24:

For Payne's sake, we hope he figures out who he wants to be soon — and that it's not the same man who woke up and chose violence on Logan Paul's podcast.

2022 June 1, Jon Blistein, “Liam Payne Unfortunately Chose Violence While Talking One Direction on Logan Paul's Podcast”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-08:

I have read enough online listing BS — and watched enough terrible HGTV to make my own realtor's head hurt — that the line between parody and straight-faced is probably permanently blurred for me. The internal adjustments you learn to make to the manic cheerleading for basic structural details—sorry, "charming historical elements"—are a reflex at this point, to say nothing of the eye strain from listings that considered proper capitalization and punctuation and chose violence instead.

2023 January 20, Erin Keane, “A tiny gingerbread house got listed on Zillow for 31 days, and the price felt all too real”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 2023-05-28:

(Internet slang, humorous, idiomatic) To disrespect or insult someone in a particularly audacious and unexpected manner.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see choose, violence.


I don't even

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what is this I don't even
what is this I don't even#English

Alternative form of what is this I don't even


The Dress

“The Dress” is an excellent example of light source, reflectance, and shadow indeterminacy.

2019, Daniel T. Willingham, Cedar Riener, Cognition: The Thinking Animal, page 74:

(Internet slang) A dress, a photograph of which became an online viral phenomenon in 2015 as debate raged over whether it was blue and black or white and gold.


Rare Pepe

According to Know Your Meme, the "Rare Pepes" meme was popularized by users on the 4chan's /r9k/ board around October 2014.

In yet another example of the internet folding in on itself, you can buy and sell "rare Pepes" using PepeCash, a cryptocurrency that ultimately relies on the Bitcoin blockchain.

2018 January 7, Jessica Klein, “The world of cryptocollectibles like CryptoKitties looks like the internet's early days”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 2023-05-16:

(Internet slang, 4chan) An unusual image of the Pepe the Frog character.


bnuuy

Popularised during mid-2020; Know Your Meme tracks the usage of the term to an image posted to Reddit on 29 May 2020.

fucking bnuuy who gave you the right to be as cute as your owner [followed by a photograph of a black bunny]

Selen's bnuuy ears just being her wings lmao
Also Enna with the floppy ears is so cute wtf

Bnuuys are cute, people should hug them more

(Internet slang, childish, humorous, endearing) Deliberate misspelling of bunny.


countryhuman

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Compound of country + human, by analogy with countryball.

countryhumans fucking sucks but hey at least this new generation of weebs is gonna be real educated on world history

18h of a man reading the ego and his own while I draw cursed Jreg countryhumans is the peak of my existence

i swear when i first saw an image of ruv from that fnf mod i thought he was a countryhuman or something

I swear I left the countryhuman fandom months ago but my first thoughts were people drawing america

That is so cute. Finally a Russia countryhuman that is actually nice to Ukraine

2023 October 11, sheinaragners, Twitter:

(Internet slang, neologism, fandom slang) Artwork of countries personified as humans with spherical heads: often their heads or bodies are coloured in said country's national flag.


skibidi

skibidi (third-person singular simple present skibidis, present participle skibiding, simple past and past participle skibidied)

skibidis (present singular third-person)
skibiding (participle present)
skibidied (participle past)
skibidied (past)

From skibidi (“a nonlexical vocable used in scat singing”). The jocular nonsense word is derived from the YouTube web series Skibidi Toilet (2023–present), which took the vocable from the 2022 song "Dom Dom Yes Yes" by Bulgarian singer Biser King. It was originally used (albeit still humorously) by younger children who viewed the series, incidentally part of Generation Alpha, and later popularised online as an ostensible example of "brain rot". Compare the later gegagedigedagedago.

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You gotta be skibiding me

2023 October 22, @HartsyProtzy, Twitter:

Retweet if you love skibiding your toilet to this tweet

2023 December 9, @Alterra_Corp_, Twitter:

She skibidied so hard on my toliet that I rizzed her gyatt till she fanum taxed my chungus

You lost your privilege to call me pookie when you skibidied on my Ohio cake

Generation Alpha
Generation Alpha#English

(Internet slang, humorous) A nonsense word, used especially to mock, or in reference to, the perceived slang utilised by Generation Alpha, the generation itself, the Skibidi Toilet web series or (less commonly) the slang used on the video-sharing social media platform TikTok.


r/woooosh

From r/woooosh, a subreddit (discussion forum) on the American social news aggregation and discussion website Reddit in which Redditors post about Internet users who misinterpreted sarcastic statements as earnest, i.e. the joke went over their head. The subreddit name is thus taken from the onomatopoeia whoosh, representing the sound of a joke ostensibly flying over one's head. On Reddit, subreddits can be converted into hyperlinks by typing out their name in full, preceded by r/.

my friend you need some lessons in sarcasm
r/woooosh

They're laughing at you not getting the joke man. r/woooosh

2019 February 17, @sheldon_daily, Twitter:

I'm sorry but r/woooosh

Hopefully you GET it's a JOKE cuz r/woooosh

r/woooosh never been on twitter before?

(Internet slang, metonymically) Synonym of whoosh.


learn Chinese

learn Chinese (third-person singular simple present learns Chinese, present participle learning Chinese, simple past and past participle learned Chinese or learnt Chinese)

learns Chinese (present singular third-person)
learning Chinese (participle present)
or learnt Chinese (Chinese literary participle past)
or learnt Chinese (Chinese literary past)

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From the phrase "Get ready to learn Chinese, buddy," originating from an image macro falsely quoting NBA Commissioner Adam Silver in reference to controversy surrounding player Kyrie Irving, suggesting that Irving should be exiled to lower-tier Chinese league.

Our best starting line up against 18th in League 1, we either win 5-0 or every single one of those players need to start learning Chinese.

Absolute ass bowling. no swing at all, 115kph bouncers to short ball veterans. Always ruins the pp spell of Tushar. I expected so much from him, really disappointed. Better turn the things around or learn Chinese

“Every single hater who told me to learn Chinese, I’m glad because I’m going to Shanghai” Asuna shut the haters down 🔒

(sports, slang, derogatory) To quit or transfer from a major professional sports league, suggesting a player does not deserve their current place.


orphan-crushing machine

en-noun

orphan-crushing machine (plural orphan-crushing machines)

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From a Twitter post by @pookleblinky on September 25, 2020:
"Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used."

"we live in a society", said the orphan-crushing machine operator

2023 February 15, @lepetitereboot, Twitter:

“ the orphan crushing machine isn’t the problem, it’s that people are using the orphan crushing machine wrong”

BREAKING: orphan-crushing machine manufacturer states there is 'no sign' of orphan-crushing machines being used to crush orphans

(Internet slang) A notional machine representing a system or process that obviously facilitates suffering but is not acknowledged or examined, or for which no alternative is considered.


many such cases

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From an X (formerly Twitter) post by Donald Trump (@realDonaldTrump) in 2014, popularized after his election as President of the United States in 2016:
Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!
The phrase itself has been rarely attested in literature, from at least the 19th century, primarily in medical or legal context.

quote-book

1848, François Lallemand, A Practical Treatise on the Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment of Spermatorrhœa, Lea & Blanchard:

(colloquial, often humorous) Used to indicate that an occurence is unsurprising, or that something is or was evident. Often sarcastic, mocking someone for believing that something is common, or otherwise tongue-in-cheek.


they hit the Pentagon

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Originated from an exchange in a May 2020 OneyPlays let's play video about recording said video on a short notice: Lyle jokes that Chris shook him awake and Zach chimes in, shouting:
Lyle, Lyle turn on the TV they hit the Pentagon! They hit the fucking Pentagon, Lyle!
in reference to the September 11 attacks. Popularized widely by a viral image macro of a character from the 2022 animated film Turning Red, using the phrase "They hit the fucking Pentagon," in reference to discussion surrounding a viral remark that the film, set in 2002, did not mention the September 11 attacks.

(Internet slang, humorous) Used to indicate that an event or news of an event is cause for alarm.


pour honey on

en-verb

pour honey on (third-person singular simple present pours honey on, present participle pouring honey on, simple past and past participle poured honey on)

pours honey on (present singular third-person)
pouring honey on (participle present)
poured honey on (participle past)
poured honey on (past)

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A aphorism first quoted by boxing heavyweight Riddick Bowe in a February 1993 edition of New York Magazine: "If you see me in a fight with a bear, do me a favor—pour honey on me”. Later in a 2023 Instagram post by Lebron James: "If you ever see me fighting in the forest with a Grizzly bear, HELP THE BEAR [crown emoji]" to which Shannon Sharpe replied "I'm pouring honey on you GOAT," both referring to a variation on Bowe’s aphorism. An earlier variation by Shannon Sharpe in a Twitter post in 2017: “IF* you see me and a bear fighting pour honey on me and help the bear.”

cite tweet

You tryna pour honey on a midget lol

Tyrese Maxey i would pour honey on you but you play for the sixers you can get a fist bump lil nigga 🤜🏾

Y'all Be Pouring Honey On Anybody

(slang, idiomatic, transitive) To praise or encourage wholeheartedly.


dattebayo

From a sentence-end hereditary verbal tic of the titular protagonist of Naruto, perceived as a catchphrase due to its translation into English as "Believe it!": だ (da, auxiliary) + ってば (tteba, informal emphatic particle) + よ (yo, emphatic particle).

ja-compound

I wanna play APEX with neechans too...dattebayo...

i don't judge ppl for this bc like. if it gets you to do it. hell yeah brother grab that toothbrush dattebayo

(originally fandom slang, humorous) An expression of affirmation.


for one's foams

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Referring to being mugged or killed for one's sneakers, also used in image macros of mortally wounded fictional characters, notably Uncle Ben in the 2002 film Spider-Man with the phrase "They got me for my foams".

jack got me for my foams. rt to help me find my mutuals🙏🏼😭

2020 February 25, @luver4skategirl, Twitter:

Killer Bee really ran sasuke for his foams while he was rapping 😭😭😭

AI got me for my foams smh

(Internet slang, humorous) Totally or in humiliating fashion, in the context of being wronged or defeated.


Obamna

Originally a mispronunciation or misspelling of Obama. Somewhat popularized by Donald Trump during a 2018 campaign rally, in which it is thought he had unintentionally mispronounced “Obama” with an “-na” at the end, possibly in confusion with the word amnesty.

obamna

2024 May 8, DougDoug, 02:41 from the start, in I used Barack Obama’s hands to play Mario Party (NOT CLICKBAIT), spoken by WalletWorrier_:

(Internet slang, humorous, US politics) Barack Obama.


ayy lmao

Associated with image macros of aliens, the first attested around early 2013, the phrase sharing the first syllable /ˈeɪ.l/ with alien.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ayy, LMAO.


in this essay I will

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As if the statement is the opening of an essay. Popularized around 2017.

Is writing hard, or am I just bad at it? In this essay, I will— To be honest, this whole publishing thing isn’t getting any easier for me, and I’m still relying on several trillion people to help me get my work in shape.

2023 June 13, Ali Hazelwood, “Acknowledgments”, in Love, Theoretically, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Romance, →ISBN, page 387:

(literally) A hackneyed phrase used to begin an essay.


pass the phone

en-verb

pass the phone (third-person singular simple present passes the phone, present participle passing the phone, simple past and past participle passed the phone)

passes the phone (present singular third-person)
passing the phone (participle present)
passed the phone (participle past)
passed the phone (past)

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I'm passing the phone to the annoying person whose only hobby is tossing me in the air fryer and shoving tissues down my throat whenever they feel like it.

(Internet slang) Said during a game in which a group of people expose something embarrassing about a person and passes the phone to that person.


twenty dollars is twenty dollars

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I'm not gay, but twenty dollars is twenty dollars.

"Twenty dollars is twenty dollars,” Jason said philosophically.

"Well," answered Ed, "I almost shouted when Hilda fell out, but twenty dollars is twenty dollars!"

2019, Sean David Burke, 101 Great Jokes about Death and Dying, page 104:

(Internet slang) Used to express a willingness to do something one would not ordinarily do if one is paid for it.


Fruit Ninja champion

en-noun

Fruit Ninja champion (plural Fruit Ninja champions)

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From the videogame Fruit Ninja, where the player must slice fruit that is thrown in the air. Popularized as an Internet meme around 2022.

I want a goth girl so I can call her my fruit ninja champion 🥺

I used to slice this fruits. Now, I slice myself 🤪🤪 but I'm still a fruit ninja champion 🙏🙏

2023 June 17, @xX_clawspots127, Twitter:

As a past fruit ninja champion, I have to admit im chuckling a lil.

2024 January 3, @HedonHannibal, Twitter:

(Internet slang, euphemistic, humorous) A person who practices self-harm.


hydrohomie

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(Internet slang, endearing) A person who drinks water.


wifejak

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *wībą
Proto-West Germanic *wīb
Old English wīf
Middle English wyf
English wifeblend.
Proto-Balto-Slavic *wajas
Proto-Slavic *vojь
Proto-Slavic *-akъ
Proto-Slavic *vojakъ
Polish wojakbor.
English Wojakblend.
English wifejakBlend of wife + Wojak. The original image was posted by Redditor u/AvaSpelledBackwards in 2021 and was popularized around mid-2024 on Twitter.

etymon

Because every mid becomes a ten when she becomes a wife. And every wife is wifejak. The meme just highlights the natural beauty of women in their full role as wives and mothers.

2024 November 19, @stronkdaddy, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-11-27:

The wifejak meme is getting hotter

2024 November 24, u/cuntpunt9, “Free Talk Sunday - November 24, 2024”, in Reddit, r/barstoolsports, archived from the original on 2024-11-27:

The human embodiment of wifejak

2024 November 25, @Dialectiks, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-11-27:

think she was watching nick fuentes last night cause he spent the entire 2 hours rambling about how cringe he thinks wifejak is and now she posts this

2024 November 26, u/O, “Bad Dasha take...she is trying to shoehorn her Catholicism into the discourse pretty hard here. Wifejak is mostly an affectionate celebration of wifely quirks, not sure where she is getting this from.”, in Reddit, r/red_scare_pod, archived from the original on 2024-11-27:

(Internet slang) A drawing of a redheaded woman in the Wojak style, often used in memes poking fun of typical behaviours of wives.