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I think I remember reading a Reddit post once about a girl whose boyfriend would say things in real life like "can we get some f's in the chat boys". Things tha

I think I remember reading a Reddit post once about a girl whose boyfriend would say things in real life like "can we get some f's in the chat boys". Things that were clearly very niche and would either be completely unintelligible to the audience or at best sound out of place. I think it's a matter of reading the room.

Tijdreiziger 4y ago
“F’s in the chat” doesn’t strike me as a particularly obscure meme.
- bootlooped 4y ago
  If you went to some public place with a fairly representative sample of the population, like a supermarket or something, and asked 100 people about that phrase, how many do you think would know provenance of it?
  - SoftTalker 4y ago
    Never heard it before. After a couple of seconds of pondering, I assumed it meant "females" but I can see from other replies that is wrong.
    - suby 4y ago
      It's from a Call of Duty video game. The game had a scene where you were at a characters funeral, and a prompt came up saying "Press F to Pay Respects". This was widely criticized and mocked by players, and it spread from there to be used to either legitimately convey respect or to sarcastically mock something.
- zach_garwood 4y ago
  Never heard it. What does it mean? Is it like a Slack shortcut?
  - djangelic 4y ago
    In one of the call of duty games, you attend a funeral and when you reach the casket, an onscreen prompt asks you to press F to pay your respects. This took on a life of its own, and now on Reddit threads you’ll see people saying press f to pay respects when someone was figuratively killed.
    - zach_garwood 4y ago
      Wow, okay, and they claimed it's not an obscure reference, but you have to have played a certain level in a certain game AND been on a certain forum to know what it means? Maybe obscure doesn't mean what I think it means.
      - dotnet00 4y ago
        It's a popular meme so you don't have to have played the game or even really be much of a gamer. You'd have come across it at some point hanging out on social media.
        swatcoder 4y ago
        You may be surprised both by 1. how many people don’t “hang out” in social media culture, and only circulate on there with family and peers using everyday idioms and emoji/abbreviation; if they use social media at all, 2. how many different, disjoint online cultures there are. Many things widely circulated on reddit and adjacent communities may never surface on some FB mom’s group People maintain much more different lives from each other than you seem to assume, even among those that who are “terminally online” or that “hang out on social media”
        dotnet00 4y ago
        I was just pointing out that knowledge of the meme wasn't as obscure as having actually played the game, which would be a much more limited audience than even just reddit users.
        4y ago
- collegeburner 4y ago
  i'd still consider it cringe bc it's an outdated meme that suggests somebody is probably a reddit user.
cratermoon 4y ago
idk my bff jill? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nIUcRJX9-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nIUcRJX9-o
jchw 4y ago
Every day that goes by, the out group of internet slang and memes grows smaller. I don't really know if I'd consider this a good thing or a bad thing so much as just, a thing. But there's a lot of joking amongst younger internet folk about how they'll probably be talking internet slang in retirement homes in a few decades. It's a funny visual, perhaps because of the weird perception that we always think we will be like today's older people as we grow older for some reason. Those Reddit threads make for good entertainment today, however fake they probably usually are. But for better or worse, some day, I suspect it's going to flip around.
- jjoonathan 4y ago
  20 years ago, my mother heard me use the word "hack" in a casual context and panicked, assuming on the basis of the word alone that I meant criminal activity. 2 years ago, I was walking through Target and an advertisement came across the store loudspeakers touting "Mom hacks." Nerd culture has spread.
  - samatman 4y ago
    This shows that nerd language has spread. I would posit that the Instagram "mom hack" "lifehack" crowd don't associate the word with computer programming or pwning boxen.
agileAlligator 4y ago
Where I am, the F meme has pretty much become part of regular conversation, just like "lol". Granted, I exist in urbanized techie gen z spaces so ymmv.
- GrabbinD33ze69 4y ago

Tijdreiziger 4y ago

“F’s in the chat” doesn’t strike me as a particularly obscure meme.

bootlooped 4y ago
If you went to some public place with a fairly representative sample of the population, like a supermarket or something, and asked 100 people about that phrase, how many do you think would know provenance of it?
- SoftTalker 4y ago
  Never heard it before. After a couple of seconds of pondering, I assumed it meant "females" but I can see from other replies that is wrong.
  - suby 4y ago
    It's from a Call of Duty video game. The game had a scene where you were at a characters funeral, and a prompt came up saying "Press F to Pay Respects". This was widely criticized and mocked by players, and it spread from there to be used to either legitimately convey respect or to sarcastically mock something.
zach_garwood 4y ago
Never heard it. What does it mean? Is it like a Slack shortcut?
- djangelic 4y ago
  In one of the call of duty games, you attend a funeral and when you reach the casket, an onscreen prompt asks you to press F to pay your respects. This took on a life of its own, and now on Reddit threads you’ll see people saying press f to pay respects when someone was figuratively killed.
  - zach_garwood 4y ago
    Wow, okay, and they claimed it's not an obscure reference, but you have to have played a certain level in a certain game AND been on a certain forum to know what it means? Maybe obscure doesn't mean what I think it means.
    - dotnet00 4y ago
      It's a popular meme so you don't have to have played the game or even really be much of a gamer. You'd have come across it at some point hanging out on social media.
      - swatcoder 4y ago
        You may be surprised both by 1. how many people don’t “hang out” in social media culture, and only circulate on there with family and peers using everyday idioms and emoji/abbreviation; if they use social media at all, 2. how many different, disjoint online cultures there are. Many things widely circulated on reddit and adjacent communities may never surface on some FB mom’s group People maintain much more different lives from each other than you seem to assume, even among those that who are “terminally online” or that “hang out on social media”
        dotnet00 4y ago
        I was just pointing out that knowledge of the meme wasn't as obscure as having actually played the game, which would be a much more limited audience than even just reddit users.
        4y ago
collegeburner 4y ago
i'd still consider it cringe bc it's an outdated meme that suggests somebody is probably a reddit user.

cratermoon 4y ago

idk my bff jill? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nIUcRJX9-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nIUcRJX9-o

jchw 4y ago

Every day that goes by, the out group of internet slang and memes grows smaller. I don't really know if I'd consider this a good thing or a bad thing so much as just, a thing. But there's a lot of joking amongst younger internet folk about how they'll probably be talking internet slang in retirement homes in a few decades. It's a funny visual, perhaps because of the weird perception that we always think we will be like today's older people as we grow older for some reason. Those Reddit threads make for good entertainment today, however fake they probably usually are. But for better or worse, some day, I suspect it's going to flip around.

jjoonathan 4y ago
20 years ago, my mother heard me use the word "hack" in a casual context and panicked, assuming on the basis of the word alone that I meant criminal activity. 2 years ago, I was walking through Target and an advertisement came across the store loudspeakers touting "Mom hacks." Nerd culture has spread.
- samatman 4y ago
  This shows that nerd language has spread. I would posit that the Instagram "mom hack" "lifehack" crowd don't associate the word with computer programming or pwning boxen.

agileAlligator 4y ago

Where I am, the F meme has pretty much become part of regular conversation, just like "lol". Granted, I exist in urbanized techie gen z spaces so ymmv.

GrabbinD33ze69 4y ago