Fun & Famous
7 WORDS THAT HAVE LOST THEIR ‘COOLNESS’
IN 2016
Waddupp! All my girlfriends, social influencers, and fitgirls pay attention, because I have a sick story for you. This time not about yummy food (nomnomnom) because I'm on a diet, since it's been January 1st (so not blessed right now), but about words that are so annoyingly irritating that we are going to stop using them NOW. Yay!
‘Yay’
I think it started with something like yay-or-nay. After that, the ‘yays’ were flying around us. Cake in the office: YAY! Something with a velvet couch: YAY! Unicorns (uhgl) and fluffiness: YAY! If you ask me, it's been a Nay for a while. With a capital N.
‘Social influencer’
Even without ‘social’ in front, it's already super annoying. Okay, so blogger didn't sound serious enough and so we came up with this friend? Who now sounds so pretentious that we're pretty much done with it already? Just go back to blogger then?
‘Fitgirl’
In 2016, the term fitgirl seems to have gotten quite a bit of backlash. And yes, even our Simoon is a bit done with it. I've secretly been resisting for a while and described the 7 advantages of not being a fitgirl.
“so not blessed right now”
‘Nomnomnom’
“Really TERRIBLE, all that ge-nomnomnom,” says Simone. And I secretly still use it sometimes. But honestly, it's also quite childish. Okay, done.
‘Yummy’
See the point above. Something with childish and done too often and now cliché.
‘That's so sick’
In the positive sense of the word, huh. Something that is really cool suddenly seems terminal. Come on. I also use it regularly, so hereby a ban!
‘Blessed’
In 2016, we saw this too often. It also sounds a bit pretentious. Why do we need to know that you feel #blessed about everything? You don't have to feel blessed during a walk in the woods or with that acai bowl in front of you, right? Please gurllll.
Words that I think should be allowed (stronger yet: must be used as much as possible) in 2017:
– Hosternokke (thanks, Bertie)
– Lekker goings (is quite a thing at our office)
– Hygge (read this it if you don't know what that means. Hint: something Danish with a fireplace, glühwein, and knitted socks.)
– Beyond (A pink velvet couch is beyond. Just like those green velvet armchairs. But a free trip to New York or Berlin is also beyond. (Renske will explain it to you here in a moment.) Lekker goings, Rens.
