• @CM400
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      1461 month ago

      The term washed up originated in the early 2020s and gained popularity in 2021.

      As an old head, I’m pretty confident that “washed up” was used long before 2020.

        • @bandwidthcrisis
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          161 month ago

          All the new slang is just abbreviation, e.g. based, riz.

            • @ByteJunk
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              51 month ago

              Ah yes I got this. Bro over here in the kitchen checks notes cooking! Wait no, he’s cooked? Cooked what? And who’s going to do the dishes? People have no respect these days, back when I was a kid you wouldn…

            • @bandwidthcrisis
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              41 month ago

              Based in reality, I think.

              And if anyone is wondering, riz is charisma.

              • @chaogomu
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                151 month ago

                Based actually comes from freebased. Which is what you do to cocaine to make it crack.

                Based used to mean something cringe worthy until the rapper Lil B started using it in a positive context.

                Now it’s sort of the opposite of cringe.

                • kadup
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                  71 month ago

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                  • @meliaesc
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                    61 month ago

                    older generations

                    30

                    Ex freaking scuse me? 😢

                • @Chekhovs_Gun
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                  31 month ago

                  Ahh okay …opposite of cringe. That makes it easy to remember.

            • @[email protected]
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              1 month ago

              We used to use spent when we were too lazy to say washed up. Or fucked.

              But you can’t use 4 letter words or your social media will get de-emphasized and your referral traffic will be washed fucked.

      • @RememberTheApollo_
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        231 month ago

        Washed up has been in use for a long time. I have no idea how they decided it was a 2020 invention. Some AI search probably told them so.