Words From The 2010s So Lit We Should Bring Them Back

The 2010s were the era of Instagram, Beyonce’s Lemonade album, and arguing about whether a viral photo showed a blue dress or a white one. The decade may not seem like that long ago, but a lot has changed since then, including many parts of our language.

Vocabulary evolves quickly, especially when you’re talking about the words associated with slang and pop culture. Take yeet, for example. One minute, everyone was saying it. The next? Well, it might be hard to recall the last time you’ve heard it.

The good news is that the coolest things from previous decades almost always come back in style again. 2010s nostalgia is having a moment, and we’re taking that opportunity to look back at some of the defining words of the decade. Here are 16 2010s slang words that might be ready for a comeback.

bae

Remember bae? In the 2010s, this term of endearment was all over the place. The word, which is “an affectionate term used to address or refer to one’s girlfriend, boyfriend, spouse, etc.,” gained popularity in 2012, thanks to a viral tweet. The term originated in Black culture, most likely as a shortened form of babe or baby. It went on to achieve meme status before fading into the background at the start of the next decade.

catfish

Catfish isn’t just a type of fish. It’s also a verb that means “to deceive, swindle, etc., by assuming a false identity or personality online.” This slang meaning of catfish took over in 2010 with the release of Catfish by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman. The documentary told the story of a man who was romantically duped by a stranger online. Catfish is still used to describe this kind of trickery, but the word is less common than it used to be, perhaps because knowledge of this type of dishonesty is more widespread.

first world problem

Oh, your favorite slang went out of style? Sounds like a first world problem. (Just kidding.) In the 2010s, first world problem emerged as a facetious way of pointing out a “fairly minor problem, frustration, or complaint associated with a relatively high standard of living, as opposed to serious problems associated with poverty.” The phrase dates back to the late ’70s, but it wasn’t seen online until around 2005. It got its start as a hashtag on Twitter and later became one of the go-to phrases of the 2010s.

yeet

Yeet began as the name of a popular dance in Black internet culture. By the mid-2010s, its use in viral videos had solidified its place as “an exclamation of excitement, approval, surprise, or all-around energy.” In 2018, yeet was voted the American Dialect Society’s 2018 Slang/Informal Word of the Year. Perhaps it’s because life during a pandemic hasn’t given us many reasons to say it, but yeet hasn’t held the same level of popularity in the years since its peak.

stan

These days, it’s popular for fans of musicians or actors to assume a group name related to their favorite celebrity, like Taylor Swift’s “swifties.” But in the 2010s, these groups were usually called stans. A stan is “an overly enthusiastic fan, especially of a celebrity.” The term originated in the early 2000s as a blend of stalker and fan, influenced by the rapper Eminem’s 2000 song “Stan.” Luckily, the term is mostly used in a lighthearted way.

humblebrag

We don’t mean to humblebrag, but we just have so many classic 2010s words to share with you. A humblebrag is “a statement intended as a boast or brag but disguised by a humble apology, complaint, etc.” The term is credited to writer and TV producer Harris Wittels, who created the Twitter account @Humblebrag in 2010 to showcase real-life examples of the act. It’s likely that many people still humblebrag online, so maybe it’s time to bring back the term.

slaps

If you say “this slaps” when you hear an awesome new song, you probably picked up your slang during the 2010s. Slaps is a slang verb meaning “to be excellent or amazing.” Believe it or not, slaps has been used to mean “first-rate” since at least the mid-1800s. It may not be as popular at the moment, but we have a feeling it will come back around again.

on fleek

For a brief moment in time, anything impressive or stylish was said to be on fleek. Now? Well, on fleek isn’t quite as on fleek as it used to be. Fleek means “flawlessly styled, groomed, etc.; looking great.” It’s typically used to describe someone’s clothing or appearance. The word was coined in its current sense by internet user Kayla Newman in 2014, and quickly became one of the most popular slang terms of the 2010s. Like a lot of popular slang, it may have existed in Black culture before it became widespread.

lit

Looking for a word that means “amazing, awesome, or cool.” How about lit? This 2010s word joined the ranks of cool, rad, and other terms to describe things people find great. Though its slang usage was most popular in the 2010s, lit has existed since at least 1895 as a way of saying “intoxicated.” It may not be new and trending, but this word isn’t likely to go away any time soon.

milkshake duck

Before canceled became everyone’s go-to word for internet controversies, there was milkshake duck. This phrase describes “a person (or thing) who becomes popular on the internet for a positive reason, but as their popularity takes off and people dig into their past, they become an object of outrage.” Milkshake duck is taken from a 2016 tweet by Australian cartoonist Ben Ward. The phrase may be less common than it once was, but the phenomenon it describes is still a major part of life online.

slay

Are we finally ready to slay some more? Slay means “to do something spectacularly well, especially when it comes to fashion, artistic performance, or self-confidence.” Slay being used as a way of saying “looking fashionable” can be traced back to the 1800s, but its usage in the 2010s is more closely linked to Black, Latinx, and queer ball culture. Whether it’s great clothes, hair, dancing, or something else, slay is a way of saying someone is killing it.

fire

In the 2010s, fire was frequently used as an adjective. Saying something was fire meant it was “cool, excellent, exciting, etc.” Fire can also be shortened to fya or fiyah, the origins of which can be traced to Black English. The term may have burned out towards the end of the decade, but we’re still holding a torch for this one. See what we did there?

fam

There’s nothing we love more than reminiscing about words with the fam. That’s you, of course. Fam means “a close friend or group of friends thought of as family.” Though the word is a shortened form of family, it generally describes chosen friends rather than actual family members. It became popular on Twitter and other social media platforms in the mid-2010s.

thirst

A glass of water won’t cure this type of thirst. Those who were teens and young adults in the 2010s might remember thirst as a slang term meaning “to have a strong desire.” In other words, thirsting for someone means you find them attractive. This usage also spawned other phrases, such as thirst trap, which is a social media post shared to elicit sexual attention. Mostly, we’re just thirsty for this word to make a comeback.

TFW

TFW stands for that feeling when. It was the basis of a popular 2010s meme that people used to express their emotions in relatable or unrelatable situations. For example, “TFW you just got cozy in bed but you need to use the bathroom.” The exact origins of the meme and corresponding phrase aren’t known, but it’s been in use on the internet since before 2018.

yaass

Can we get a yaaas for this final word? This interjection is an alternative form of yes, and it indicates ”a strong expression of excitement, approval, agreement, etc.” Most often, it’s accompanied by queen or kween, as in yaaas kween, but it can also be used on its own. This phrase originates in drag culture, where it’s commonly said in response to someone’s excellent style.

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If Yuo’re Albe To Raed Tihs, You Might Have Typoglycemia

Ever heard of typoglycemia? Even if you haven’t, chances are you’ll recognize one of the viral puzzles that explains this phenomenon. Starting around 2003, an email circulated through what seems like every inbox claiming that scrambled English words are just as easy to read as the original words.

However, as cool as the original email was, it didn’t actually tell the whole truth. There’s more to scrambled words than meets the eye.

What is typoglycemia?

That viral email tested our ability to read scrambled words. Here’s what it looks like:

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Could you read it? Even with a mistake in this viral email (rscheearch cannot spell researcher), the truth is pretty much every fluent English-speaker can read and understand it.

The word-scrambling phenomenon has a punny name: typoglycemia, playing mischievously with typo and glycemia, the condition of having low blood sugar. Typoglycemia is the ability to read a paragraph like the one above despite the jumbled words.

Is typoglycemia real or a trick?

Does it take you nanoseconds to solve the Word Jumble in the newspaper? No? While your brain can breeze through some word-scrambles, it’s more complicated than that click-bait email suggests.

Matt Davis, a researcher at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at Cambridge University, will help us sort it out. Here’s what they believe the email got right: unless you have a rare brain disorder, people read words as whole units, not letter-by-letter. That’s one of the factors explaining why we can “magically” read the message.

But here’s where Davis reminds us why the daily Word Jumble still manages to scramble our brains for breakfast. That trending email led us to believe all we need is for “the first and last letters to be in the right place” and nothing else matters. Actually a lot else matters.

What makes a scrambled word easier to read?

Here are some other factors a jumbled passage needs in order for everyone to easily read it:

1. The words need to be relatively short.
2. Function words (be, the, a, and other words that provide grammatical structure) can’t be messed up, otherwise the reader struggles.
3. Switching (or transposing) the letters makes a big difference. Letters beside each other in a word can be switched without much difficulty for the reader to understand. When letters farther apart are switched, it’s harder. Take porbelm vs. pelborm (for “problem”).
4. We understand scrambled words better when their sounds are preserved: toatl vs. talot (for “total”).
5. Here’s a big one: the passage is readable because it’s predictable (especially because we’ve seen it so many times)!

Other factors play into it as well, like preserving double letters. For example, in the word according, the scrambled email keeps the cc intact (“aoccdrnig”). Double letters are contextual markers that give good hints. But we could also scramble it up this way: “ancdircog.” Breaking up the cc makes it harder, right?

All told, we’re code-making machines (we speak the code of English) and we’re wired to find meaning out of nonsense, in part by looking at contextual cues. However the codes can only be scrambled to a certain degree before we get lost.

Try these two (tougher) word puzzles

Try your hand at two hard-scrambled passages below which prove your brain needs more than just the first and last letters of a scrambled word to read it quickly.

With these, you’ll see why our brains can only handle typoglycemia to a point. The answers at the bottom; try not to cheat!

1. A dootcr has aimttded the magltheuansr of a tageene ceacnr pintaet who deid aetfr a hatospil durg blendur.
2. In the Vcraiiton are, a levloy eamlred geren, pirlaalty frmoueltad form asirnec, was uesd in fcaibrs and ppaluor falrol hresesdeads.

The first example is from that blog post by Matt Davis. The second is our re-scrambling of a fascinating Jezebel lead. And they’re not easy! Research shows that typos definitely interfere with reading speed. (There’s a reason we have spell-checkers!) Tricky jumble puzzles that can take hours to complete also prove that, in the end, letter order and spelling absolutely make or break our comprehension of a word.

Ready for the answers?

1. A doctor has admitted the manslaughter of a teenage cancer patient who died after a hospital drug blunder.
2. In the Victorian era, a lovely emerald green, partially formulated from arsenic, was used in fabrics and popular floral headdresses.

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พรรคคอมมิวนิสต์จีนลงมติขับหวัง อี้หลินอดีตประธาน CNPC และเลขาธิการพรรคฯออกจากตำแหน่ง

31 กรกฏาคม2567-รายงานข่าวรอยเตอร์ส ระบุว่า พรรคคอมมิวนิสต์แห่งประเทศจีนได้ขับไล่หวัง อี้หลิน อดีตประธานของบริษัทปิโตรเลียมแห่งชาติจีน และเลขาธิการพรรค ออกจากตำแหน่ง เนื่องจากละเมิดวินัย

ตามรายงานของ CCTV ซึ่งเป็นหน่วยงานของรัฐ หวังรับสินบนเป็นทรัพย์สินและสินค้าที่มีมูลค่าสูงอย่างผิดกฎหมาย และใช้ประโยชน์จากตำแหน่งของเขาเพื่อเอื้อผู้อื่นแสวงหาผลประโยชน์ในการทำสัญญาโครงการและดำเนินการทางธุรกิจ

รายงานระบุว่า นอกจากนี้เขายังรับบริการการเดินทางที่จัดเตรียมโดยผู้ประกอบการเอกชนหลายครั้ง

สื่อของรัฐรายงานว่าคดีของหวังจะถูกส่งต่อไปยังอัยการเพื่อดำเนินการสอบสวนตามกฎหมาย

ตามประวัติในวิกิพีเดีย ระบุว่า Wáng Yílín เกิดในเดือนกันยายน พ.ศ. 2499 เป็นนักธุรกิจด้านพลังงานน้ำมันชาวจีน ซึ่งเคยดำรงตำแหน่งประธานคณะกรรมการของบริษัทปิโตรเลียมแห่งชาติจีน (CNPC ) และประธานคณะกรรมการของPetroChina

ในฐานะผู้นำธุรกิจที่มีอิทธิพลมากที่สุดของประเทศขณะนั้น หวังได้ร่วมเดินทางกับสีจิ้นผิงเลขาธิการพรรคคอมมิวนิสต์จีนในการเยือนอย่างเป็นทางการหลายครั้ง รวมถึงอังกฤษฝรั่งเศสคาซัคสถานรัสเซียสหรัฐอาหรับเอมิเรตส์ฯลฯ

ในเดือนเมษายน พ.ศ. 2554 หวังรับบทบาทเป็นประธานของบริษัท China National Offshore Oil Corporation หรือ CNOOC ซึ่งเป็นบริษัทแม่ของ CNOOC Ltd.

ในเดือนพฤศจิกายน พ.ศ. 2555 เขาได้รับเลือกเป็นสมาชิก คณะกรรมการกลางการตรวจสอบวินัยครั้งที่ 18ของพรรคคอมมิวนิสต์จีน

หวัง อี้หลิน เริ่มดำรงตำแหน่งประธานของ CNPC เป็นบริษัทแม่ของ PetroChina ในเดือนเมษายน 2558 และเริ่มดำรงตำแหน่งประธานของ PetroChina ในเดือนมิถุนายน 2558 ในเดือนกรกฎาคม 2560 หวัง อี้หลิน ประธานของ CNPC ได้ดำรงตำแหน่งหัวหน้าคณะผู้แทนแห่งชาติจีนในการประชุมปิโตรเลียมโลกที่อิสตันบูล

13 มีนาคม2561 หวังได้รับเลือกเป็นประธานร่วมของคณะกรรมการเศรษฐกิจของการประชุมปรึกษาการเมืองของประชาชนจีน (PCC 2018)

หวังลาออกจากตำแหน่งที่ CNPC ในเดือนมกราคม 2563 เมื่อถึงวัยเกษียณ ตามรายงานของเว็บไซต์ข่าวของรัฐ อย่างไรก็ตาม เขายังคงดำรงตำแหน่งรองผู้อำนวยการคณะกรรมการเศรษฐกิจของสภาที่ปรึกษาการเมืองประชาชนจีน (CPPCC) ซึ่งเป็นหน่วยงานที่ปรึกษาระดับสูงของพรรคคอมมิวนิสต์

แต่ปัจจุบันหวังไม่มีชื่อเป็นสมาชิกคณะกรรมการเศรษฐกิจอยู่บนเว็บไซต์ขององค์กร และไม่มีชื่อเป็นผู้แทน CPPCC ในรายชื่อปี 2023 ด้วย

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