• @[email protected]
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    342 months ago

    I wonder if people who spelled it as, “sike”, apply the spelling to related words. Sikeology or sikeiatrist or sikeotic

    • @z00s
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      -472 months ago

      People who spell it “sike” probably aren’t intelligent enough to attempt to use those other words.

      • @[email protected]
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        192 months ago

        I’m pretty sure “sike” is how it was often spelled in the 80s and 90s. So maybe they’re just “old.”

        • @z00s
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          02 months ago

          I’m old; it wasn’t.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 months ago

            I’m old, too, and it absolutely was because I’ve never once seen it spelled “psych.”

            • @z00s
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              12 months ago

              Perhaps you need to read more

              • @[email protected]
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                12 months ago

                I could say the same, but perhaps you need to get out more. It would do wonders for your personality.

                • @z00s
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                  12 months ago

                  Lol ok keep trying

      • @chuckleslord
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        192 months ago

        Boo! Vocabulary isn’t intelligence, nor is it a proxy for one.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 months ago

        If you think of it, using the abbreviation ‘psych’ to say ‘psyched’ and to mean you think you have shocked the interlocutor with an intricate joke, isn’t the best use of the word either.

        Etymologically it might make more sense as sike because it makes little sense either way, so why pretend?

        • @z00s
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          02 months ago

          You don’t seem to know what you’re talking about

  • Clay_pidgin
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    312 months ago

    Wait is that how you spell “sike”? I always assumed it was “psych”, like being psyched out.

    • ChrisOP
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      372 months ago

      Looks like this specific meaning of psych can be spelt sike - but not other definitions!

      Tbh I’d never heard of this meaning in either spelling.

    • @samus12345
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      242 months ago

      “Psych” is the original spelling, but so many kids didn’t know that that “sike” became common.

    • @thenextguy
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      102 months ago

      It’s definitely psych. Sike is for people who also write should of.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 months ago

        In the meme-verse, I feel like “sike” is much more common (eg, “say sike right now”)

      • Live Your Lives
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        -12 months ago

        While “psych” is technically correct, the worst kind of correct, my preference would be to spell it “syke.” “Psych” and “sike” just don’t have enough meme energy to them and could be more easily misinterpreted as meaning something else.

        • Captain Aggravated
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          82 months ago

          Having lived through that era as the slang making demographic, I would say that “sike” or “syke” is specific to the context of having just said something to fool someone. “Dude you want my bike? You can have it.” “Really?” “Sike!” See also the obnoxious drawn out “NOOOOT” you’d get at the time.

          You would still use “psych” in terms of psyching up a team, psyching out an opponent, etc.

  • @son_named_bort
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    82 months ago

    Aha! I knew it! The bears are who we thought they were, and we let them off the hook.

  • afox
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    42 months ago

    We Bear Bears 🎶🎵

  • @[email protected]
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    12 months ago

    Named after that guy on Star trek named Siker.

    Fwiw, treat a bear like an ND who has other stuff to do, leave them alone. Are you pulling a neckbeard close for a selfie?