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This website’s obsession with YIKES
- Thread starter Francesco
- Start date
how about this
the word "problematic" also gets thanos'd, but you have to sacrifice non-medical uses of the word "cancer"
there must be balance in all things
Its seems to be a trend on this board to be either baffled by or irrationally angry about current popular memes and trends
The word ain't new. Not by a long shot.
Also, as a parent, I'm constantly learning what the current lingo is.
Yeet.
I know it's not new, just extremely annoying and usually predictable to a ridiculous degree. I've CTRL F'D the word in certain topics, it's funny in an embarrassing kind of way.
Yikes has been a thing since I was a child, I don't get this people just discovering it as some new fad and making threads about it.
"Yikes" is just a single word of exasperation, how are people getting so caught up by it? I see it and I just continue reading without any notice. It's reaching the point I'm noticing people ask about yikes more than I notice people just saying the word yikes.
"Yikes" is just a single word of exasperation, how are people getting so caught up by it? I see it and I just continue reading without any notice. It's reaching the point I'm noticing people ask about yikes more than I notice people just saying the word yikes.
The thing is, yes the word has existed for as long as you've been alive if not longer, that's a fact but what's also fact is that it's only really used in text form, you don't hear people using the word in person as you would see people use the word in forums/comment sections.
What I find annoying about it is that, say someone writes up an OP or links and quotes and article and then you get drive by posts with "yikes" and instead of writing something up to spark conversation you respond with a reactionary word and just dip. This doesn't apply to yikes alone.
What I find annoying about it is that, say someone writes up an OP or links and quotes and article and then you get drive by posts with "yikes" and instead of writing something up to spark conversation you respond with a reactionary word and just dip. This doesn't apply to yikes alone.
Eh, doesn't even have to be old men. There have always been uptight youth that hate popular slang... but also use twee nerd slang at the drop of a hat.
I always find it interesting to see the evolution of language as it happens, even more so if it's not my first language.
Now on my next trip to England or the US I can blend in more when using modern replies provided by this thread.
Thank you and Yikes Bojardees Chief for this incredible meal!
Now on my next trip to England or the US I can blend in more when using modern replies provided by this thread.
Thank you and Yikes Bojardees Chief for this incredible meal!
True, I think "Word Hipsters" is a more appropriate term for them.
I'm thinking more the type who scowl at "yikes" but unironically use "huzzah!"
Yikes has been around forever. I don't see the problem with it.
Who dat?
Yikes is older than millenials. Do people say this too much or something? I guess I don't use the internet enough, I don't hear it in my every day life. I've been saying it since I was a kid.
"Late stage capitalism" is another term that's reached the point of becoming a meaningless catchphrase and nothing more than background noise. Not just on this board but I do see it here all the time.
Rich asshole does something shitty? Yep, late stage capitalism.
Corporation screws over the little guy? That's late stage capitalism for you.
Any vaguely negative social/political/economic story? No wonder, late stage capitalism.
Like, ok...thanks for that insightful contribution to the discussion. Fucking yikes. That ain't it chief.
Rich asshole does something shitty? Yep, late stage capitalism.
Corporation screws over the little guy? That's late stage capitalism for you.
Any vaguely negative social/political/economic story? No wonder, late stage capitalism.
Like, ok...thanks for that insightful contribution to the discussion. Fucking yikes. That ain't it chief.
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On this site only, for some reason. Idk if it's considered an inside joke.
No idea why it isn't a "Low effort post" that gets you banned, so I guess I'll just start using it too to express my thoughts and closing any discussion!
I will say I think the discourse around the use of "yikes" is at least better than whatever the hell the discourse surrounding "y'all" is supposed to be
An inside joke? I guess so, one that whole swaths of young people (and older people who are communicative with younger folk) are in on. Complaining about millennial and zoomer language is such a bad look.
I'll fucking kill you. A friend of mine actually used it in a text once and someone used it when I was playing FFXIV. I wanted to let him die after that. Maybe they both post here.