On May 3, writer Jessica White shared a
TikTok video on Twitter with a simple caption: “obsessed with ben affleck as a concept.”
In the video, actor and comedian Nivine Jay shares her experience “
unmatching” with the Hollywood star on the dating app Raya because she didn’t believe it was him.
That resulted, according to Jay, in Affleck sending her a video on Instagram in which he looks directly at the camera and says, “It’s me.”
The video went viral as more and more people watched it and wondered, “
Is that really Ben Affleck?”
But, just looking at the history of his paparazzi shots becoming a meme which include his enormous
Basic, out of date, simply uncool. A new word that has been gaining popularity on TikTok recently encompasses all these things: “cheugy.” The term, pronounced “chew-gee” with a hard “G,” refers to anything or anyone that’s behind the current trends. Here’s everything you need to know about the internet’s current buzzword.
What is the cheugy definition, and what are some examples of cheugy style?
The term is said to describe the “millennial girl-boss aesthetic.” More broadly, it represents anything that used to be cool and trendy but is now not. It is more intentional than being basic, because while “basic” implies that people are ignorant about out-of-date trends, cheugy implies that they choose to wear these older styles, knowing they’re uncool.