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“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.
        agileAlligator 4y ago
        It's pretty safe to assume that almost all of genz and gen alpha has come across the "F" meme at least once. Can't say about older folk.
    - plorkyeran 4y ago
      As with most idioms, most of the people who reference it have no clue what the origin of the expression is. Knowing the etymology of something is not a requirement for understanding what it means.
- mttjj 4y ago
  https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/f-in-the-chat https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/f-in-the-chat
collegeburner 4y ago
i'd still consider it cringe bc it's an outdated meme that suggests somebody is probably a reddit user.

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.
      - agileAlligator 4y ago
        It's pretty safe to assume that almost all of genz and gen alpha has come across the "F" meme at least once. Can't say about older folk.
  - plorkyeran 4y ago
    As with most idioms, most of the people who reference it have no clue what the origin of the expression is. Knowing the etymology of something is not a requirement for understanding what it means.
mttjj 4y ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/f-in-the-chat https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/f-in-the-chat

collegeburner 4y ago

i'd still consider it cringe bc it's an outdated meme that suggests somebody is probably a reddit user.