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…
Here’s a fun little curiosity that profoundly annoys me: here in Brazil “cringe” accidentally got the wrong meaning. It was being heavily used online, so a famous TV news program decided to “explain what it means” to the older generation and accidentally explained it as “cringe means everything older generations are or do” so in other words, a lot of brazilians that aren’t used to internet slang believe “cringe” means “somebody over 30” rather than actual cringe.
As an old head, I’m pretty confident that “washed up” was used long before 2020.
About a century before, Merriam-Webster cites the first recorded use in 1928.
All the new slang is just abbreviation, e.g. based, riz.
Everything has to be shorter, because gnat-like attention spans.
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
washedfucked.tl;dr
What’s based? Sorry I’m washed.
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…
Based in reality, I think.
And if anyone is wondering, riz is charisma.
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.
Here’s a fun little curiosity that profoundly annoys me: here in Brazil “cringe” accidentally got the wrong meaning. It was being heavily used online, so a famous TV news program decided to “explain what it means” to the older generation and accidentally explained it as “cringe means everything older generations are or do” so in other words, a lot of brazilians that aren’t used to internet slang believe “cringe” means “somebody over 30” rather than actual cringe.
Ex freaking scuse me? 😢
Brother I’d join you in complaining about this, but let’s be honest, our lower back and knees do not lie
Ahh okay …opposite of cringe. That makes it easy to remember.
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.
they’re off by a full century