I'll start with the most obvious one: "gay" as a bad thing.
bad thing happens in vidya
"That's so gay." :le-pol-face:
"Ur mom gay" :heated-gamer-moment:
I rarely see it used that way anymore, except on some older online shooters, and even there, if you call it out, there's a good chance that they will get mocked as the boomers they are.
I really hated when "epic" took off as a slang term.
"I eat le epic bacon with every meal! Thanks for the Reddit gold, kind stranger!" :so-true:
"Obama is falling behind Hillary in the primaries! Epic fail! It's Her Turn!" :maybe-later-kiddo:
Now it's mostly used as a stand in for something stale and lame, and I'm all for that.
This last one is apparently fully dead and I'm so very, very glad: "wow" as an incredulous sarcastic remark toward an unwelcome event or situation, usually followed by "seriously?" or "really?" or "wow, just wow." Sometimes they came in combination. However they were used and overused, they made masses of people sound like passive aggressive sarcastic robots from the same factory.
:wojak-nooo: "Wow, really? Seriously? Wow, just... wow. Epic fail."
I am quite pleased that Yolo died as fast as it appeared
I remember a salty but funny Youtuber summarizing it as "You Only Lack Originality!"
"gay" as an insult is rightly on the way to the scrap heap of history but "ur mom gay" is a classic and you will never take it away from me
:felix-trash:
I admit "ur mom gay" is funny in a "no u" way and I don't actually hate it on its own as a historical artifact.
i have a soft spot for that "fuck this gay earth" meme, in my brain it's always said in a reality where the earth has agency and is gay for other planets of the same gender and spiderman is just real mad at earth for unrelated reasons
It is a classic, but my mom actually is gay so I always reply with "yeah".
Me and all my bi/gay/pan friends call stuff gay all the time. I don't think I've heard the f-slur said so many times in one day from one of my gay friends.
Sometimes it's okay to say this stuff if everyone has accepted it as okay and comfortable to use.
Work boundaries and realise you're speaking to people, not rigid dogmatists who have to avoid saying naughty words.
"Awkwaaaarrrrrd"
Not sure if I enjoy "cringe" being used in its place but still
The only version of "cringe" I like is Youtube Poops about King Harkinian from the CDi Zelda games.
I otherwise hate "cringe" culture because it's punching-down bullying.
I feel that. Saw a "cringe" video compilation once that was mostly making fun of awkward people. I had more videos recommended to me and they all were obsessed with targeting women and overweight people.
Me and the boys in high school said mawkward instead and it was somehow way cooler
Kids movie have completely ruined awkward for me so I'll take cringe as substitute. At least it's shorter.
I know it probably isn't a popular sentiment, but because almost every usage of "based" I see outside of Hexbear is to parrot some :frothingfash: talking point, I also hate "based."
I find "virgin vs chad" memes and :gigachad: funny as a guilty pleasure, though.
i say that stupid shit way too much i gotta stop lol
Incel and chud need to be taught in first grade english classes.
C'mon, embrace dialectics. This is not "based" or "chad" but it is Brad.
the chad "based" and "chad" hater vs the virgin "based" and "chad" enjoyer
"that's sick dude" and "Sick as hell" have never left my vocabulary. I will use them until I die
We should start using "harsh realm" even though it was some Gen X woman in the '90s making up slang terms to troll an interviewer.
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I will never stop using Huzzah! Unironically. So glad "The Great" has revived it a bit.
I watched deadpool last night so I'm gonna choose every single line from that movie
I have one that will probably never die, but that I think is dormant rn:
The nomenclature of affixing -gate to every scandal.
Watergate was the name of the fucking hotel. It wasn't a disaster involving water. Just stop.
Ugh, so true. I think even the media companies have realised they ran that thing into the ground, feel like I haven’t seen a -gate in a while.
More like nobody bats an eye at corruption/other scandals anymore
The last one I remember is Dieselgate here in G*rmany (VW emissions cheating scandal) and that was in 2015
I don't miss the time when "uber" was used for "very" but I think I preferred that to it becoming the eponym for taking a shitty ride share
Damn hearing Uber this way just makes me think of playing Roblox a long ass time ago
I’ll start with the most obvious one: “gay” as a bad thing.
Yeah the only time I've seen this nowadays is ironically in LGBT+ communities.
I hear it from male teen gamers on voice chat every once in a while
But that is in contrast to literally every single game in the year 2006
Yeah, glad that died. Though I do miss, back in the early 2000s, parodying it by saying "that's so straight" as a negative thing to my gay friends. And yes, I realize I am old.
I have chud and center-chud family who will still drop a "gay" here and there, and it's so fucking weird to me even if they're trash in general.
I think of Chevy Chase in community using "gay" that way too, which fits the age group and chud brain as well.
Yeah but these people are in their 20s who live in suburbia. Like I said I expect them to be trash on just about everything, but they should "know better" I feel like.
I remember in middle school there was an intentional campaign by the school administrators to make sure everyone knew that "that's so gay" wasn't an okay phrase to use since it was pretty common.
My school did that too and the kids just started calling everything the f slur so
