Sea shanties, the word "cheugy," feta pasta and Rush Tok were all fleeting internet obsessions over the past year. But what do such "garbage trends" say about our cultural condition?
Sea shanties, the word "cheugy," feta pasta and Rush Tok were all fleeting internet obsessions over the past year. But what do such "garbage trends" say about our cultural condition?
Cheugy is Gen Z s new TikTok slang for Millennials: What does it mean? thesouthafrican.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thesouthafrican.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Gen Z has popularized a new term called “cheugy” to describe the intersection between basic, millennial, and out-of-touch.
Cheugy (pronounced chew-gee) essentially is someone who follows trends that were popular in middle school and high school but are no longer trendy.
This term gained attention when Taylor Lorenz wrote a piece in the New York Times about 24-year-old Hallie Cain‘s TikTok explainer of on the word.
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