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    1441 month ago

    The term washed up originated in the early 2020s and gained popularity in 2021.

    As an old head, I’m pretty confident that “washed up” was used long before 2020.

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            51 month ago

            Ah yes I got this. Bro over here in the kitchen checks notes cooking! Wait no, he’s cooked? Cooked what? And who’s going to do the dishes? People have no respect these days, back when I was a kid you wouldn…

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              151 month ago

              Based actually comes from freebased. Which is what you do to cocaine to make it crack.

              Based used to mean something cringe worthy until the rapper Lil B started using it in a positive context.

              Now it’s sort of the opposite of cringe.

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            1 month ago

            We used to use spent when we were too lazy to say washed up. Or fucked.

            But you can’t use 4 letter words or your social media will get de-emphasized and your referral traffic will be washed fucked.

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      221 month ago

      Washed up has been in use for a long time. I have no idea how they decided it was a 2020 invention. Some AI search probably told them so.