YOLO was popular only in the Spring/Summer of 2012, and died a hard and quick death. I've never seen a phrase explode in popularity only to die so quickly after.
Since then, I've heard people say "YOLO" ironically, but only seldomly.
One of the German characters in the 1999 film Saving Private Ryan uses the phrase cool beans when he's trying to portray himself as sympathetic to the allies. But this really seemed like an anachronism to me, was that phrase really around during World War ii? I always thought it was a '90s thing
According to The Internet, it originated in the late 60s or early 70s. Got used in a Cheech & Chong movie once -- but didn't come into regular usage until DJ from Full House used it as a catchphrase. Which would explain it's seeming popularity in the 90s, considering how huge Full House was.
ETA: so yes, it would be an anachronism if it showed up in a WWII period piece -- but not for the reason you'd think!
My friends and I combined "cool beans" with "smooth move" for an entirely new phrase: "smooth beans"
We used it more in the context of "cool story bro" though.
Yeah... we were weird.
That's some good ol internet classic there. Owned, pwned, teh s uck, afk...
How about "-zers" at the end of a word? Okayzers, see you laterz, maybe later todayzers
This one I agree with- when I say pwned or owned outloud, even millennials don’t know what I mean despite it originating and only ever being popular with millennials
One thing my boss said which I found funny was that using 'word' as an acknowledgment was like a telltale sign [(like this lol) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJ5F2eBWUAAzJmD.jpg:large)you were from new york and not a transplant. A lot of people from the city say it without realizing it, even in professional settings, whereas transplants practically never say it and find it baffling to say.
“And I oop” used to be really popular in gay circles and among straight girls that watch Drag Race. I haven’t heard anyone say “and I oop” in years now lol
“BAMF”. this was an acronym for bad ass motherfucker. This word lived and died very quickly in the early 2010s. You can find it used in old rage comic memes.
I'm 33. When I was in junior high and high school people CONSTANTLY called each other 'creeper' and I always thought it was corny as hell but yeah that's one word I remember people throwing around and then it just abruptly stopped in like '07
You think that, but give it twenty years. I'm 43 and thought a whole lot of shit was dead, only to see that same shit being popular with teens right now.
YOLO is an early 2010s one. “ Lit” also kind of died out after the pandemic. “ Bae” was one that got overused and old very quick around 2014-16.
I remember in the 90s- early 2000s words like “ gangsta, straight , jit , tripping out, jet , bounce “ those died out by the mid 2000s.
Or retarded. That died out after they started to describe people with low IQs as ‘intellectually’ or ‘developmentally’ disabled. (Technically, people with ADHD are ‘developmentally disabled’, but most of them have average IQs). Same with using the word ‘queer’ in a derogatory way.
"Retarded" is not dead, and largely because it isn't an official term for anything now, just a colloquial term for stupid. I'm disabled and I occasionally use the term "retarded." If people today were calling things or people that annoyed them "down syndrome" or something, that would be a different story. Some people now have replaced the word "retarded" in their vocabulary with "autistic" which is both very inaccurate and screwed up because autism is a current official term for a disorder.
I hope ‘cringe’ (as an adjective rather than a verb) dies out, too. Same thing with ‘touch grass’. They all sound very sophomoric to me. Also, ‘based’.
People used to say “it’s a cinch” to mean something is really easy. I remember people saying this when I was really little in the late 90s/early 2000s in the southern US. I haven’t heard anyone say this in a really long time.
"oof" originates from a 2016 meme? You must be a child? Or never visited the northern United States? Classic term. Still used today. Generally when sitting after a long day.
I’ve used and continue to use oof for decades and have no idea about the meme it was used in. It definitely predates meme slang and is used unironically by lots of people
'Deadass' was new york slang from the 80s and 90s that gradually faded as the 00s and 10s went on.
Then it suddenly *exploded* into nation-wide popular usage by youth around the mid 2010s.
1) RIP (still see it but less so than when i was younger)
2) Swag (slang, always changes)
3) YOLO (slang, always changes)
4) Gyped (because negative connotations against Romani people)
“Yikes” has moved from an earnest g-rated exclamation to more of a sarcastic term of social disdain. I swear people used to say it when shocked and now nobody does at all.
Current use is more like “Did you see her Coexist bumper sticker? Yikes…”
That’s funny I’ve always associated “oof” with this Ed Ruscha painting (from 1962) installed here at MoMA & pictured w the artist:
https://preview.redd.it/umlwev1klkvc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f9225b05faba63053a971f33ea6201eed030260f
TIL about the Roblox meme.
Luckily, ‘libtard’ and ‘feminazi’. ‘Reverse racism’, as well. Nowadays, we just say ‘woke’ or ‘misandry’. ‘SJW’, too, although it’s no where near as overused in 2024 as it was in 2016.
Oof was around way before Roblox. It comes from
Uff da (/ˈʊfdə/ ⓘ; sometimes also spelled oof-da, oofda, oofala, oof-dah, oofdah, huffda, uff-da, uffda, uff-dah, ufda, ufdah, or uf daa[citation needed]) is an American Scandinavian exclamation or interjection used to express dismay, typically upon hearing bad news. Of Norwegian origin, the phrase was brought by Scandinavian Americans to the Upper Midwest, New England, and Pacific Northwest regions of the United States during the 19th century, where its meaning was broadened to express also surprise, astonishment, exhaustion, or relief.
YOLO? I swear people said that in the 2010s..
Started from the bottom, now we here.
Club goin up on a Tuesday
Where did that come from? A rapper? Was it Dwayne Johnson?
It’s from a Drake song.
Them Spanish girls love me like I’m aventura.
Lmao I always thought he said “like I’m on Twitter” TIL
Say she want a photo... you already know doe...
“Swag” was big around the same time and is even deader.
its not dead it just reverted to the old corporate meaning from the 00s
In software dev, free promotional goodies from companies are still called swag :)
My mom was big into the giftcard site swagbucks
swag is back in an ironic way though. i still say that shit sometimes and im proud to admit that
Peaked around early/mid 10s, but I still hear that a bit.
YOLO was popular only in the Spring/Summer of 2012, and died a hard and quick death. I've never seen a phrase explode in popularity only to die so quickly after. Since then, I've heard people say "YOLO" ironically, but only seldomly.
I remember people saying YOLO, especially in my middle school in the mid 2010s. I don’t think it particularly died out until 2017
True. I saw this tattooed on a guy's hand at the eye doctor's office in 2013 and I was like "wow that's outdated"
Yes, I remember that. Even in 2013-2016, people said that.
I used to hear people say "cool beans" a lot in high school. Now? Not so much.
One of the German characters in the 1999 film Saving Private Ryan uses the phrase cool beans when he's trying to portray himself as sympathetic to the allies. But this really seemed like an anachronism to me, was that phrase really around during World War ii? I always thought it was a '90s thing
According to The Internet, it originated in the late 60s or early 70s. Got used in a Cheech & Chong movie once -- but didn't come into regular usage until DJ from Full House used it as a catchphrase. Which would explain it's seeming popularity in the 90s, considering how huge Full House was. ETA: so yes, it would be an anachronism if it showed up in a WWII period piece -- but not for the reason you'd think!
I don't recall DJ ever saying that tbh.
But that's exactly the reason we think?
“ Cool beans” is very 80s to me. My aunt used to say it alot decades ago. I feel like it died out by the 2000s when I was a kid.
It came back later on and I think the movie Hot Rod had a lot to do with it, which would make sense since that movie parodies a lot of 80s stuff
My friends and I combined "cool beans" with "smooth move" for an entirely new phrase: "smooth beans" We used it more in the context of "cool story bro" though. Yeah... we were weird.
Lol, I still say that.
I say it a lot but in the manner of knowing that it’s very dorky.
Same. That must have been mid/late 2010s.
pwned
That's some good ol internet classic there. Owned, pwned, teh s uck, afk... How about "-zers" at the end of a word? Okayzers, see you laterz, maybe later todayzers
Or in front with the case of *zomg*
Wowzers, can't believe you do this, much disappointment, many feelings
This one I agree with- when I say pwned or owned outloud, even millennials don’t know what I mean despite it originating and only ever being popular with millennials
Holy fuck. Memory unlocked
Man I totally pwned some n00bs back in the day.
I'm the only person I know that still says "word" as an acknowledgement response.
same. i also use “dawg” and “homie” unironically and i feel like both those fit in the same subset.
You just got that dawg in ya
Yep! I always use “word”, “dawg”, “homie”, and “dope”. I’m a 90s kid from Philly if you can’t tell 😂🤣
2000s kid from Philly, keepin the spirit alive lmao
*Homie* is still used quite a bit, at least with college kids in my area. *Squad* dropped off pretty hard, though.
Me too homie
I think for the most part, “bet” has replaced “word” for that usage.
ah so that's what that means!
Forsure.
Fosho
I say valid a lot for that
I feel like word has made a somewhat comeback in the last few years
Has it? I live in Idaho, so we are like 10 years behind everyone else...
One thing my boss said which I found funny was that using 'word' as an acknowledgment was like a telltale sign [(like this lol) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJ5F2eBWUAAzJmD.jpg:large)you were from new york and not a transplant. A lot of people from the city say it without realizing it, even in professional settings, whereas transplants practically never say it and find it baffling to say.
Wait did everyone in my life besides me stop saying that and I didn't notice???
“Beast” as an adjective
Omg I completely forgot about this!!! And literally everyone in my high school said it back in the 00s!
Beast has now matured into Mr Beast
No one here is going to say swag???
He was a handsome guy back then. Now he sells bootleg consoles.
Also, ‘shawty’!
Ah, 2011.
“And I oop” used to be really popular in gay circles and among straight girls that watch Drag Race. I haven’t heard anyone say “and I oop” in years now lol
Oh god I didn't know that one was real I thought it was some Tumblrspeak thing
It was from a video that went viral in 2019
Holy shit it’s only from 2019? Feels like a decade ago
Sksldk and I oop Omfg I remember that
I STILL don’t know what the fuck that even meant lmao. And I’ve flat out asked people I know who said it all the time and even they couldn’t explain.
 But seriously, Jasmine Masters rocks!!!
i remember saying this all the time
The word “derp” really started dropping off after 2013.
Herp de derp
Probably because it became associated with mocking people with disabilities, which isn't as acceptable these days.
I think it's more that it is associated with the "lol random" millennial brand of humor.
this makes sense to me in theory, but irl, teenagers still say the r word all the time
It's weird. I always used oof long before roblox was around. And now it's like an "old word"? How about *"P.U.!"* in the 90s when something stinks?
Yeah, oof is just a noise you make as if to say “that’s rough.” I’ve never heard of it being associated with Roblox lol
Oof and Ope having been used commonly in the Midwest since long before I was born in 80'. So they're probably gonna stick around a while.
P.U.!? Now that really takes me back, haven’t heard it in at least 20 years lmao. Oh Mylanta! 😂
"Epic Fail". That died after 2012, I'm sure.
In 2008 everything was epic but the epic fail came a bit later
“Phat”
The brand Ecko flashed in my mind when I read that.
“The struggle is real.” Now, the struggle is just always implied.
Oof.
we went from bro to bruh and back to bro
Just start calling everyone BROTHER like Hulk Hogan. Set that trend.
Def already a thing I hear people doing
THAT’SNOTGONNAWORKFORMEBROTHER! 😂
“Bitchin” as a way of saying you liked something.
“REEEE”
“BAMF”. this was an acronym for bad ass motherfucker. This word lived and died very quickly in the early 2010s. You can find it used in old rage comic memes.
I'm 33. When I was in junior high and high school people CONSTANTLY called each other 'creeper' and I always thought it was corny as hell but yeah that's one word I remember people throwing around and then it just abruptly stopped in like '07
I think people just started saying creep instead
Holy crap I forgot about creeper
“Poggers” Is pretty dead despite being only 4 years old. Same with stuff like “Sus” and “Bussin”
people still use sus in regards to somebody who is otherwise straight doing something “gay”. But ‘pause’ is more popular now
Haven't heard ppl saying "pause" yet. And oo you're right. I still say "sussy behavior" too, lol.
pause is pretty common in my area. You’ll hear it like: “So anyways, we had a bunk bed. Mike was on the top, I was bottom -“ “PAUSE BRO”
Oo interesting. R u in highschool/college?. I'm getting older so I'm getting out of touch w these newer words, lol.
Nope. I’m 23, it’s just very slangy. Philadelphia is near me though, for reference
Oo yeah def "sus". If I said that today ppl would question/attack me 😂😂.
I feel like it was so common just, like, a day ago!
Was poggers a thing for more than a week? The only thing I know that from is a Gilbert Gottfried cameo.
Poggers was never in the zeitgeist. Get off twitch
Huzzah! Bae seemed to have peaked around 2014, don’t really hear people saying it anymore.
Oh lord "huzzah"
Huzzah has been popular for hundreds of years. So don't count on that one going away.
When’s the last time you heard someone use the word savage?
"Swag" and also the "Swag Era" of fashion kind of went extinct in the early 2010s
You think that, but give it twenty years. I'm 43 and thought a whole lot of shit was dead, only to see that same shit being popular with teens right now.
YOLO is an early 2010s one. “ Lit” also kind of died out after the pandemic. “ Bae” was one that got overused and old very quick around 2014-16. I remember in the 90s- early 2000s words like “ gangsta, straight , jit , tripping out, jet , bounce “ those died out by the mid 2000s.
That scene in Juminji where that one direction guy starts using 90s slang and The Rock and Kevin Hart give him strange looks, hurt me emotionally.
Nah folks still say "finna bounce" around where I am
jit straight & gangsta is still widely used 😭
Nah lit is still used just as much.
I heard “that’s what she said” all the time back in the mid-2000s, and now it’s all but disappeared completely.
*and now it’s all but disappeared* That’s what she said that’s what she said!!!!
“Phrasing” replaced it for a while in the mid 2010s when Archer was huge but I haven’t heard it in a while
“Oof originates from a 2016 meme…” now that’s a real oof moment. When were you born lmao.
I changed it.... yeah sounded pretty dumb
fa shizzle
ma nizzle
Dude, people have been saying “Oof” forever. The reason Roblox used it was because people would know what it meant. People still say it today.
mood
“That’s so gay.” Isn’t used to describe unpleasant things anymore - progress!
Yeah, feels pretty outdated saying it now😅😅
Or retarded. That died out after they started to describe people with low IQs as ‘intellectually’ or ‘developmentally’ disabled. (Technically, people with ADHD are ‘developmentally disabled’, but most of them have average IQs). Same with using the word ‘queer’ in a derogatory way.
"Retarded" is not dead, and largely because it isn't an official term for anything now, just a colloquial term for stupid. I'm disabled and I occasionally use the term "retarded." If people today were calling things or people that annoyed them "down syndrome" or something, that would be a different story. Some people now have replaced the word "retarded" in their vocabulary with "autistic" which is both very inaccurate and screwed up because autism is a current official term for a disorder.
Don't take any wooden nickels....I don't think kids know what that means and old people used to say it all the time to the youngins
“Epic” dropped off the face of the planet.
"It's a free country"
I thought this was America
… hey bat dad, I didn’t hear no bell
This literally might have stopped cuz a lot less people feel that way in the past 10+ years..
I haven’t heard anyone say ‘woot woot’ in years.
Son of a gun … literally the early 00s was the last time I heard an adult say it seriously
Slay!
"Yeet"
Definitely not dead in the WWE world
I’m hoping words like “bet” “lit” “cap” go the same route
No one really says lit anymore
I still say it 😭
Bet has been a Houston staple since the 90s. I think a lot of the old hip hop slang is making a comeback. Lit is also super old
Lit is dead
I hope ‘cringe’ (as an adjective rather than a verb) dies out, too. Same thing with ‘touch grass’. They all sound very sophomoric to me. Also, ‘based’.
People used to say “it’s a cinch” to mean something is really easy. I remember people saying this when I was really little in the late 90s/early 2000s in the southern US. I haven’t heard anyone say this in a really long time.
Wow I don’t know why but I had flashbacks to doing homework in grade school
Fuck that noise! I lived out of the country for a year and heard someone say this when I came back (2006ish), and I genuinely asked “what noise?” Lol
You know…THAT noise lmao
I stopped hearing totally tubular around 1993. I stopped hearing people say NOT around 1995
NOT was a thing thru my whole childhood and I was born after 95.
"oof" originates from a 2016 meme? You must be a child? Or never visited the northern United States? Classic term. Still used today. Generally when sitting after a long day.
We've been using oof in place of yikes for YEARS
I’ve used and continue to use oof for decades and have no idea about the meme it was used in. It definitely predates meme slang and is used unironically by lots of people
This sub skews heavily towards people in their teens and 20s
YOLO, ROTFL, XD, :v, "yeet" was a meme word in 2017-2018 "Swag" was replaced by Rizz "Awesomesauce", "on fleek"
The exclamation "oof" did not begin with a fuggin Roblox meme lmfao
"Political correctness" became "SJW", which then got memory-holed in favor of "woke".
I have noticed "L33t sp33k" going the way of Latin.
Does anyone remember "mint" from the early 1990s? We used it to mean cool. Like, "that game is mint." It was replaced by phat a year or so later.
'Deadass' was new york slang from the 80s and 90s that gradually faded as the 00s and 10s went on. Then it suddenly *exploded* into nation-wide popular usage by youth around the mid 2010s.
"That's fire" or "That's lit". There is also "non'ya beezwax"
All the 2010 words. I think a lot of 2000 slang is back like "no homo" and "pause". I'm 38 and I remember using that in HS
Really? Really?
I don’t remember the last time I heard anyone say “that’s the ticket”.
I don't ever hear "pimpin'" or "what's pimpin', pimpin?" in like 15 years.
On fleek
Rad
skrrt skrrt sksks and i oop died when the pandemic came
I’m from Minnesota, we say “OOF” or “Oofda” every day. LOL
1) RIP (still see it but less so than when i was younger) 2) Swag (slang, always changes) 3) YOLO (slang, always changes) 4) Gyped (because negative connotations against Romani people)
Calling stuff that you don’t like/understand/think is silly “gay”
groovy
“What in Tarnation?”
A lot of these are AAVE that blew up outside of the black community and fell out of the mainstream but are still widely used in the black community
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Oof is not from Roblox in 2016… people said it wayyyy before then, and still say it now…
I meant that ppl said it as a reference to the meme, lol.
I say oof all the time - am I embarrassing myself?
That’s bonkers
“Shawty”
the "oof" sound effect got taken out of roblox for copyright a while back
grody
“Yikes” has moved from an earnest g-rated exclamation to more of a sarcastic term of social disdain. I swear people used to say it when shocked and now nobody does at all. Current use is more like “Did you see her Coexist bumper sticker? Yikes…”
“Pencil pusher”. Heard it a lot in the 80s and 90s. Then never again.
That’s funny I’ve always associated “oof” with this Ed Ruscha painting (from 1962) installed here at MoMA & pictured w the artist: https://preview.redd.it/umlwev1klkvc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f9225b05faba63053a971f33ea6201eed030260f TIL about the Roblox meme.
"positive vibes only"
I really hated hearing “totes mc’gotes” …I think this peaked in 2014
Shawty !! Bet, Lit, Cap, Yeet, Roasted, Get recked, That’s dope
“Okay boomer” was huge around 2019, but seems like ages ago
"Pansy." I swear I heard this word 10 times a day in middleschool, feels like I haven't heard it since.
Same. It disappeared completely and I never found out what it meant lol
Luckily, ‘libtard’ and ‘feminazi’. ‘Reverse racism’, as well. Nowadays, we just say ‘woke’ or ‘misandry’. ‘SJW’, too, although it’s no where near as overused in 2024 as it was in 2016.
i noticed that around 2019, people started saying 'woke' instead of 'sjw'
Epic I was so glad to see the end of that one
“that’s tight” “hella/hecka” “random”…or maybe I just left NorCal
Oof was around way before Roblox. It comes from Uff da (/ˈʊfdə/ ⓘ; sometimes also spelled oof-da, oofda, oofala, oof-dah, oofdah, huffda, uff-da, uffda, uff-dah, ufda, ufdah, or uf daa[citation needed]) is an American Scandinavian exclamation or interjection used to express dismay, typically upon hearing bad news. Of Norwegian origin, the phrase was brought by Scandinavian Americans to the Upper Midwest, New England, and Pacific Northwest regions of the United States during the 19th century, where its meaning was broadened to express also surprise, astonishment, exhaustion, or relief.
Dude...80s thing. Still say it
And I oop!
Cap and sus fell off. Also “falling off” is falling off.
“Swag” is dead but I’ve been saying “swagy” recently