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On one hand, I find the phrase "mid" to be pretty fucking awful, but on the other I'm old (30s) so who knows.

• dragonwriter 3y ago
  Is it that you are old, or that you are young enough that the transition from the slang of your peers to a newer one as the fashion of the day is recent and acutely felt?
  • krapp 3y ago
    >Is it that you are old, or that you are young enough that the transition from the slang of your peers to a newer one as the fashion of the day is recent and acutely felt? Once you start to notice that, once pop culture starts to alienate you, you're old. And there's no more obvious sign that you're old than complaining about modern slang.
• neodymiumphish 3y ago
  Right? What's wrong with "bad", "meh", "basic", "uninteresting", or "mediocre"?
  • Zetice 3y ago
    Those words lack an unearned sense of superiority, which is all the rage for youths these days. Unrelated, but what should I do about these children on my lawn?!
    • o_1 3y ago
      put signs up, edit your Twitter bio lol.
• yamazakiwi 3y ago
  I don't like mid because it never accurately depicts the speakers actual opinion. People usually say mid to things they think are bad, not middling. Or they believe that the thing is bad because it is middling. A poor descriptor...
  • anonymous_sorry 3y ago
    I've always taken it at face value "this is mid, and therefore beneath me". For certain cases this might not be a particularly arrogant position. For example - it might be reasonable to decide you only have time to watch exceptionally good films. Describing people as mid sounds delusional and/or sociopathic to my ears though.
    • yamazakiwi 3y ago
      I completely agree