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minus-squareToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days ago“thirst traps” “simps”? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!
minus-squaremassive_bereavement@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 days agoyea, they got no chill for yassified NPCs, YKWIM, tots delulu. I guess some sigmas simp 4 sludge, rather be mewing all day, no cap.
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoAs the father of a tween, I am disgusted that I understood this.
minus-squaremassive_bereavement@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoHahah, same here. Now you are cursed and so am I, fr fr.
minus-squareGrandwolf319@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoI only had to look up mewing, there is no way it means the tongue thing
minus-squareAndy@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 days agoWhy? I don’t understand this comment. Are you unfamiliar with these terms?
minus-squareToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoParticularly that they’ve made their way into a general media article and title without any effort to define them, as if they are now a common part of the average persons lexicon, and not just cringy internet slang.
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thirst trap https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/thirst-trap https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/simp You’re old, dude. Sorry. https://www.npr.org/2018/04/17/603093415/thrist-trap-enters-the-lexicon (2018!)
minus-squarejoelfromaus@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoI mean, 2018 was only like a couple of years ago… right? Right!!
minus-squarejoe@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days ago as if they are now a common part of the average persons lexicon I imagine the article isn’t written for the average person, but instead a specific demographic that you find yourself not a part of.
“thirst traps” “simps”? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!
yea, they got no chill for yassified NPCs, YKWIM, tots delulu. I guess some sigmas simp 4 sludge, rather be mewing all day, no cap.
As the father of a tween, I am disgusted that I understood this.
Hahah, same here. Now you are cursed and so am I, fr fr.
I only had to look up mewing, there is no way it means the tongue thing
It does.
Why? I don’t understand this comment. Are you unfamiliar with these terms?
Particularly that they’ve made their way into a general media article and title without any effort to define them, as if they are now a common part of the average persons lexicon, and not just cringy internet slang.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thirst trap
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/thirst-trap
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/simp
You’re old, dude. Sorry.
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/17/603093415/thrist-trap-enters-the-lexicon (2018!)
I mean, 2018 was only like a couple of years ago… right? Right!!
I imagine the article isn’t written for the average person, but instead a specific demographic that you find yourself not a part of.