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."

  • blight [any]
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    3 years ago

    "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:

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      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.

    • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      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

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It is a classic, but my mom actually is gay so I always reply with "yeah".

    • zeal0telite [he/him,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      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.