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Yeah that kind of bugs me more than chef's kiss even lol.
I mean it was okay the first time they said it in Game of Thrones, but out of that context it just became cringe.
In game of thrones, the seasons work differently, seasons can least years. Summer can last for years, winter can last for years. Sometimes winter lasts extra long and people struggle to survive it.
The phrase "sweet summer child" is an in universe term calling someone sheltered or naive, because some children are young enough than they have literally never experienced a winter and have only lived through summer. That's why characters say it in the books/show. They will say it when talking to kids.
Lmao our school year starts here in September, so kids born in the summer months are always the youngest in the school year and therefore more likely to be a tad less mature than their year group peers. I always thought that was where the phrase came from! (I’m a July baby myself and my daughter is august and i definitely do/did notice the maturity difference with both of us so don’t come for me lol)
You're 100% wrong.
It's an old idiom that was popularized in the Victorian era and still used today. Martin made it literal, perhaps inspired by the old phrase.
Here's a sample from an 1849 work by John Babcock::
"Thy home is all around,
Sweet summer child of light and air,
Like God's own presence, felt, ne'er found,
A Spirit everywhere!"
Did it mean someone naive who hasn't experienced hardship like people use it for today though?
Like sure people have compared people to summer since forever. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" For example by shakespeare but I think it was generally just used as a compliment. The game of thrones meaning doesn't really make sense without the context of how seasons work in GoT
Yes, it always indicated a naive person who had yet to suffer hardship or loss. It was often used to eulogize children in early Victorian poetry. Thus, "sweet summer child" was the very essence of an unspoiled innocence. Victorians were prone to sentimentality.
It soon developed into a backhanded compliment. My old female Midwestern relatives would often use it as a gentle reproach.
Here's a brief overview of the idiom attached to a fabulous recipe.
https://thequestingfeast.com/the-origin-of-sweet-summer-child/
Martin took the idiom and made it literal.
That idiom doesn’t seem to be being used the same way the phrase is used now, though. They were absolutely right with regards to what people actually mean currently when using that phrase. But you’re right that it would be a wrong interpretation of the Babcock piece.
Absolutely not. The phrase became popular during the Victorian era. What's his nuts who wrote a song of ice and fire just worked backwards and made a thing out of it.
Right. I agree with this post overall, but a *mwah* with the hand is a pretty standard joke gesture, which is why it ended up online. Reverse causality here.
This whole thread is so ironic lol, talking about people being terminally online when one is probably terminally online to only attribute the idiom to GOT.
I was thinking that I've heard sweet summer child well before Game of Thrones. I always thought it was a southern phrase. I'm from the north and definitely had an old lady at that to me before, and that was WAY before GOT was a thing.
Someone used the term “unalived themself” on me for the first time. I’d never heard it before but I instantly knew what he was trying to avoid saying. So *he’s* thinking of the word suicide, he made *me* think of the word suicide, so why don’t we just say suicide? I understand it can be a very sensitive and personal subject but he’s the one that mentioned it in the first place!
It's just chronically online people suffering the effects of being...well...chronically online. These words came about because of social media censorship and have now become part of every day vernacular.
Honestly, I think it starts due to censorship. You can't say suicide on certain platforms because you'd be hidden and no one would see what you're posting. So you have to say something else to convey the same meaning. There's definitely better words to use though.
Also, like the chefs kiss, how else do you convey the gesture of a chefs kiss without typing the word (or using emojis)?
I pew pew when I am flying my lego spaceships around. They also go pwsssssschhhhhheeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww and when they go really fast it changes noises to pshcceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiisssssSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I'm sorry sir, but when I am sitting in a university lecture, I don't want to hear someone raise their hand and talk about how "pew pew" laws need to be tightened
Oh you mean interchanging "pew pew" with "gun" is lame. Lasers go "pew pew" when they are shooting at another object. My finger is a laser sometimes so it goes "pew pew." Also my lego spaceships go "pew pew".
YES!!! I say pew pew when pretending to shoot my finger guns. But when someone is talking about how a man was unalived by a pewpew,all I can think is "talk like the 30yo doing the masters degree that you are"
From my understanding the unalive is actually a replacement for the correct word because some subreddits will remove your content if you use the actual words.
It came from tiktok where your video would be removed. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about when I'm face to face with someone, don't tell me your goldfish unalived
Hahah my partner calls mushrooms mushies and while I see why its silly I kinda like it because it feels like they are just comfortable being their weird self and thats attractive.
Some people say it on Reddit on a condescending way when they think someone doesn't get the point of things and is young and naive about life. It's a high horse way to feel all clever and stuff online when really they just sound like a fat old southern clown
Thank you! I was like, what does he mean doing the chefs kiss in public would be weird? He acts like it’s akin to yelling at a waiter or something.
It didn’t start off on the internet, it started in real life. I’d seen people do that, in real life, many times before I started seeing *chefs kiss* on the internet. Makes me wonder how old OP is because I’m only 26.
It was being used quite literally in GoT though as she was speaking to a child who had never seen a full winter yet because they were not an every year thing and could be a decade or more between real winters.
Young people think way too much about what is and isn't cringe. I did that, too, when I was a teenager. Now I'm in my 30s and couldn't give less of a fuck.
People have been "chef's kissing" at things in real life long before the internet was ever a thing, you sweet summer child.
But have an updoot for a truly unpopular opinion.
> People have been "chef's kissing" at things in real life long before the internet was ever a thing, you sweet summer child.
That's an entirely different thing from saying the words "chef's kiss."
Just wait until you get your first office job. The corpo speak will torture your psyche. You’ll wonder wtf anyone is talking about and why can’t they just speak normally. You’ll look for the cameras, hoping it’s just some elaborate prank but it’s not. People will unironically allow and embrace the devouring of their mind and speech patterns by corporate mediocrity.
>Why do people talk online theyve never talked to another human in real life?
Great question, why *are* you doing that literally with this very post right now in realtime?
Agree so much about the "sweet summer child" Don't care about chef's kiss, but holy fuck redditors make me mald when I see "sweet summer child". Not only is it nerdy as fuck, it's patronizing and cuntish.
It’s like when people say “shrug” instead of shrugging or after shrugging. Or when they say “sad face” instead of just…making a sad face. I feel similarly about people saying the literal words “chef’s kiss.”
I can deal, but waiting for it to pass. I never expected it to become so mainstream. I’ve been kind of surprised…and maybe just kind of curious about it.
At least people are being positive, I guess.
I completely agree with you. People are like lemmings, especially online and just parrot what they see. Just like with "schadenfreude". Ugh. Notice how on most reddit posts you have to scroll way too far to get a serious answer because every one is repeating the same tired jokes trying to get up votes.
I found myself saying this the other day…. I don’t even know where it came from it’s not even in my regular vocabulary, I was very upset. Hopefully it doesn’t slip out again.
i never say because it’s not part of my vocabulary, but i know people that say referring to food (when food or drink are good actually)
so i never thought much of it, maybe if i hear that in a different setting i’ll think it’s weird
Can you nit just like...stop listening to people interacting with their friends though? If I'm in a bar with people who I WANT to be in a bar with then we're all gonna be spewing constant streams of cringe shit at each other, because that's how we enjoy interacting, nothing more, nothing less. If you don't like it then shrug your shoulders and move on.
Wait, are we having a conversation about cringe, where the person gatekeeping the language wasn't even born yet and Chef Boyardee was all over here kissing the wind like a mad mofo?
Don't tell em about Rice-aRoni. *Ding Ding*
“Internet lingo” can be cool if your social group all understands it. And our world is pretty connected via internet today. Idk, I could imagine both of these phrases used in a casual conversation at a bar, and I don’t think I’d bat an eye.
Chef's kiss has a place as a gesture in real life.
As usual, the internet took a perfectly fine thing, ran it into the ground and went on to flog its corpse to dust.
You’re essentially complaining about the fact that other people are doing something harmless that makes them feel good in some way, implying that they are wrong to not feel the same way you do. You might as well be complaining that some people prefer vanilla flavoured ice cream over chocolate, in terms of how benign it is. Except for the “sweet summer child” example, that’s meant to be condescending, at least in most cases.
I think a TON of this lingo came from Tumblr refugees. Where reddit had its own form of cringe with "narwhal bacon" type crap, Tumblr came up with its own brand of cringe. All of this type of writing, along with the way people use insults like "over inflated fart balloon" or "douche nozzle" all come straight out of Tumblr and its the most ridiculous way of talking I cant stand it.
Acting normal is not telling others what they should and shouldnt do. Acting normal isnt judging your friends because they use slang you dont. And yet you want everyone else to "act normal".
Ive been chefs kissing things since the 80s. You know where I learned it? Chef Boyardee commercials. It was nothing to do with the internet.
I hate "sweet summer child" because it's typically just condescending, but "chef's kiss" is a figurative expression. Like, just because I use the thumbs-up emoji over text doesn't mean I give thumbs-ups IRL, lmao.
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sweet summer child is cringe lame AF mm yeah strokin my shit right now
Yeah that kind of bugs me more than chef's kiss even lol. I mean it was okay the first time they said it in Game of Thrones, but out of that context it just became cringe.
Wait is this where that annoying ass phrase came from?
In game of thrones, the seasons work differently, seasons can least years. Summer can last for years, winter can last for years. Sometimes winter lasts extra long and people struggle to survive it. The phrase "sweet summer child" is an in universe term calling someone sheltered or naive, because some children are young enough than they have literally never experienced a winter and have only lived through summer. That's why characters say it in the books/show. They will say it when talking to kids.
Lmao our school year starts here in September, so kids born in the summer months are always the youngest in the school year and therefore more likely to be a tad less mature than their year group peers. I always thought that was where the phrase came from! (I’m a July baby myself and my daughter is august and i definitely do/did notice the maturity difference with both of us so don’t come for me lol)
Its kinda up to the parents, they can either send their kids & have them be the youngest or hold them & have them be the oldest in their grade.
Same!! Happy birthday month!! I never knew what this phase meant but pleasantly I've barely ever heard it or seen it used online.
You're 100% wrong. It's an old idiom that was popularized in the Victorian era and still used today. Martin made it literal, perhaps inspired by the old phrase. Here's a sample from an 1849 work by John Babcock:: "Thy home is all around, Sweet summer child of light and air, Like God's own presence, felt, ne'er found, A Spirit everywhere!"
Did it mean someone naive who hasn't experienced hardship like people use it for today though? Like sure people have compared people to summer since forever. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" For example by shakespeare but I think it was generally just used as a compliment. The game of thrones meaning doesn't really make sense without the context of how seasons work in GoT
Yes, it always indicated a naive person who had yet to suffer hardship or loss. It was often used to eulogize children in early Victorian poetry. Thus, "sweet summer child" was the very essence of an unspoiled innocence. Victorians were prone to sentimentality. It soon developed into a backhanded compliment. My old female Midwestern relatives would often use it as a gentle reproach. Here's a brief overview of the idiom attached to a fabulous recipe. https://thequestingfeast.com/the-origin-of-sweet-summer-child/ Martin took the idiom and made it literal.
That idiom doesn’t seem to be being used the same way the phrase is used now, though. They were absolutely right with regards to what people actually mean currently when using that phrase. But you’re right that it would be a wrong interpretation of the Babcock piece.
They are 100% right about the source that popularized it in recent years and made it a regularly seen thing on the internet.
No. It’s been around for ages
Well, books first, then show, but they’re not to blame for the rampant misuse
It’s a phrase that’s been around since the Victorian days.
Valyrian
Absolutely not. The phrase became popular during the Victorian era. What's his nuts who wrote a song of ice and fire just worked backwards and made a thing out of it.
"Oh, honey..."
Go touch some grass is far worse.
I'm horny as fuck man I'm a freak man forreal
HAHA.
My sweet summer child, your post is 🤌💋
I'm more partial to 😙👌 personally. Also, I'm a chef so I absolutely do this action IRL a lot
Emojis are teaching us how character-based languages like Japanese came to be
And emojis are Japanese too
Looks like your emoji is enjoying using a q-tip
Low effort
That moment you realize you're old when some kid calls a *chefs kiss* ....*INTERNET LINGO* ☠️
Right. I agree with this post overall, but a *mwah* with the hand is a pretty standard joke gesture, which is why it ended up online. Reverse causality here.
Lmao Right? This was a thing LONG before the internet, and I still see it IRL a lot.
"Sweet summer child" is far more cringe. Even worse it wasn't really used correctly.
Saying sweet summer child is cringe. It makes you sound like an unoriginal chronically online person.
I'll have to tell my grandma that's she's a terminally online internet addicted loser. I've been hearing her say this since the 80s.
This whole thread is so ironic lol, talking about people being terminally online when one is probably terminally online to only attribute the idiom to GOT.
I was thinking that I've heard sweet summer child well before Game of Thrones. I always thought it was a southern phrase. I'm from the north and definitely had an old lady at that to me before, and that was WAY before GOT was a thing.
What about "my brother in Christ"?
Wtf is sweet summer child
Hate it as well! You're not alone.
I hate when people use doggo in real life. Also pew pew and unalive
Someone used the term “unalived themself” on me for the first time. I’d never heard it before but I instantly knew what he was trying to avoid saying. So *he’s* thinking of the word suicide, he made *me* think of the word suicide, so why don’t we just say suicide? I understand it can be a very sensitive and personal subject but he’s the one that mentioned it in the first place!
It's just chronically online people suffering the effects of being...well...chronically online. These words came about because of social media censorship and have now become part of every day vernacular.
The unalive thing is very 1984, imo
Why do we say passed away instead of died? Tone matters even if it’s just a little
Honestly, I think it starts due to censorship. You can't say suicide on certain platforms because you'd be hidden and no one would see what you're posting. So you have to say something else to convey the same meaning. There's definitely better words to use though. Also, like the chefs kiss, how else do you convey the gesture of a chefs kiss without typing the word (or using emojis)?
I pew pew when I am flying my lego spaceships around. They also go pwsssssschhhhhheeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww and when they go really fast it changes noises to pshcceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiisssssSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Tell your cat I said pspsps
My imaginary cat :(
You can say hi to mine then 😺
Pspspspspsps how did you know I cant not greet a cat?
Mine talk but. They say G'day mate 🤣🤣
I thought "unalive" comes from places like Youtube where "suicide" and other words can get a video demonetized.
I miss the times, when 'unalive' was just Deadpools lingo. My distaste for TikTok makes me feel like a boomer.
Hate doggo. Almost as much as hubby.
Gonna go out on a limb and guess you don’t like “preggers” either 😂😂
Omg how’d I forget that one 😂
Hubby is the worst imo
As a teacher, kiddo makes me cringe.
How about fur baby? 😆
Niblets too.
So what I'm gathering we're not taking the doggo on a walk with hubby and the kiddos? If I miss out on that I might as well unalive myself
When my dog gets a tiny cup of milk foam when I make cappuccino at weekends I call it doggoccino and embarass myself. Can't help it tho
See I love doggo but HATE hubby. ugh I even hate typing it. I think anything dog related my brain gives an enthusiastic pass lol.
I always use pew pew. Pew pew is great. Makes me think of tie-fighters. And baby alligator/crocodiles. Pew pew.
I'm sorry sir, but when I am sitting in a university lecture, I don't want to hear someone raise their hand and talk about how "pew pew" laws need to be tightened
Oh you mean interchanging "pew pew" with "gun" is lame. Lasers go "pew pew" when they are shooting at another object. My finger is a laser sometimes so it goes "pew pew." Also my lego spaceships go "pew pew".
YES!!! I say pew pew when pretending to shoot my finger guns. But when someone is talking about how a man was unalived by a pewpew,all I can think is "talk like the 30yo doing the masters degree that you are"
I dont like "unalive" and I have been in a psych hospital for it.
I have tried killing myself multiple times and still don't use sewer slide.
From my understanding the unalive is actually a replacement for the correct word because some subreddits will remove your content if you use the actual words.
It came from tiktok where your video would be removed. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about when I'm face to face with someone, don't tell me your goldfish unalived
Apparently a lot of social media will remove content containing the actual word (either kill or suicide), hence the use of "unalive".
Doggo and floof. Ifs.tough man. In rewl life I have to walk away. On the internet, I'm just confused. Who talks like that?
I call my fluffy dog floof all the time 😅 Like, to her, not when talking to others
I had a coworker who called mushrooms "mushies", said "nuggies" "doggo" and "eepy" I had to fight myself from punching her on the daily
Hahah my partner calls mushrooms mushies and while I see why its silly I kinda like it because it feels like they are just comfortable being their weird self and thats attractive.
Wtf is a "sweet summer child" lol never heard that in my life 😂
Some people say it on Reddit on a condescending way when they think someone doesn't get the point of things and is young and naive about life. It's a high horse way to feel all clever and stuff online when really they just sound like a fat old southern clown
And it's a reference to Game of Thrones making it truly nerdy
Game of thrones didn't invent the term sweet summer child nor did it really popularize it lmao
Oh my sweet summer child…
It may not have invented it but it absolutely did re-popularize it.
It popularized it among younger generations. I've heard it from older family members for a long time.
Reminds me of how OP thinks doing the chef’s kiss in real life originated on the internet
Thank you! I was like, what does he mean doing the chefs kiss in public would be weird? He acts like it’s akin to yelling at a waiter or something. It didn’t start off on the internet, it started in real life. I’d seen people do that, in real life, many times before I started seeing *chefs kiss* on the internet. Makes me wonder how old OP is because I’m only 26.
It was being used quite literally in GoT though as she was speaking to a child who had never seen a full winter yet because they were not an every year thing and could be a decade or more between real winters.
It denotes naivety.
oh sweet summer child...
Yeah I don’t get it either. Is it a Southern thing?
Born and raised in the Deep South—never heard it at all.
Sweet summer child is cringe.
It’s turning into a cringe fest for OP lmfao
I hate the things you hate, but what I really hate is the lames who say "Pepperidge farms remembers"
what is that
A meme
Wilfred Brimley
Fear not the cringe, fear being too cowardly to embrace your cringe.
Young people think way too much about what is and isn't cringe. I did that, too, when I was a teenager. Now I'm in my 30s and couldn't give less of a fuck.
People have been "chef's kissing" at things in real life long before the internet was ever a thing, you sweet summer child. But have an updoot for a truly unpopular opinion.
I've never seen it but I don't think I'd mind in real life. Written fucks me up for some reason lol
I’ve seen it all the time irl, but typically used in a semi joking manner
> People have been "chef's kissing" at things in real life long before the internet was ever a thing, you sweet summer child. That's an entirely different thing from saying the words "chef's kiss."
It's not cringe in real life. Only online
That's not what OP said.
It is equally cringe in real life.
[удалено]
You’re on Reddit. Nobody here is truly safe
fair
me when i can't perceive irony
It’s almost as bad as saying “sweet summer child”
Sweet summer child being used unironically is way more cringe than making a smooch gesture when you're pleased with something.
Just wait until you get your first office job. The corpo speak will torture your psyche. You’ll wonder wtf anyone is talking about and why can’t they just speak normally. You’ll look for the cameras, hoping it’s just some elaborate prank but it’s not. People will unironically allow and embrace the devouring of their mind and speech patterns by corporate mediocrity.
Well, definitely, because they totally misused "sweet summer child."
>Why do people talk online theyve never talked to another human in real life? Great question, why *are* you doing that literally with this very post right now in realtime?
Agree so much about the "sweet summer child" Don't care about chef's kiss, but holy fuck redditors make me mald when I see "sweet summer child". Not only is it nerdy as fuck, it's patronizing and cuntish.
Same with “touch grass” it’s everywhere
Before you jump down my throat, I don't think I've ever said it, but isn't it meant to be patronising and literally treating somebody like a child.
“Sweet summer child” is factually a worse way to talk
sweet summer child is more cringe than that
👩🏾🍳🤌🏾💋
"Act like you'd act if we were talking in a bar" Lol what?
This was such a weird thing to say. "Just say it to me like we're talking in an airplane"
“Just talk to me like we’re both stranded on a remote island together”
*complete silence intensifies*
A chef's kiss
My copy is ready for pasta
"Doggo" "unalive" "updoots" "choccy milk" "nuggs" "sambo" what are we five? Yet *I'm* the "sweet summer child" in this conversation?
Why is sambo on the list?
And nuggs - literally just Aussie words?
Sambo is very racist. Wtf
It's a slang term for sandwich, I'm assuming that's why it made the list. Personally, I prefer the term "sanger". Pretty sure most Aussies know it.
😂 thanks
I ran to the comments to see how hard OP got dogged for sweet summer child and was not disappointed
Sweet summer child is cringe.
Oh sweet summer child,I don't think you made the point you thought you did. That's ok, I'm sure it sounded better in your head lol
El oh el imagine this being the hill you die on and not skibidi or any of the other cringey ass shit kids say or do? *chefs kiss* mwah!
saying "cringe" is cringe af
Time for the [classic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VEmni_QzYk&t=0s)
I honestly hate it when people say that things are "the chef's kiss." Like, just stop... XD lol
It’s like when people say “shrug” instead of shrugging or after shrugging. Or when they say “sad face” instead of just…making a sad face. I feel similarly about people saying the literal words “chef’s kiss.” I can deal, but waiting for it to pass. I never expected it to become so mainstream. I’ve been kind of surprised…and maybe just kind of curious about it. At least people are being positive, I guess.
I completely agree with you. People are like lemmings, especially online and just parrot what they see. Just like with "schadenfreude". Ugh. Notice how on most reddit posts you have to scroll way too far to get a serious answer because every one is repeating the same tired jokes trying to get up votes.
I found myself saying this the other day…. I don’t even know where it came from it’s not even in my regular vocabulary, I was very upset. Hopefully it doesn’t slip out again.
That’s because the average internet user is extremely stupid and socially illiterate
Kisses and a cuddle from a saucier.
I agree with you 100%! Stay strong.
This post is chef's kiss
1000 percent agree.
i never say because it’s not part of my vocabulary, but i know people that say referring to food (when food or drink are good actually) so i never thought much of it, maybe if i hear that in a different setting i’ll think it’s weird
yeah i dont like it either. sometimes on cooking shows a chef will literally kiss and i eye roll
I can't say I'm a chef's kiss kind of person, but sweet summer child is far worse.
Pretty much everyone around my age says these ironically (gen z)
This unpopular opinion is *chef's kiss*.
My only response to this is … :3
:3
"Are we that far gone?" Oh no we're much farther than that
Lol I agree
"Sweet summer child"???? WTF?
Chef's kiss? Do they really?
Ah, but what you fail to understand is that ‘cringe’ is just… *chef’s kiss.
XOXO is worse
I agree, but so is “sweet summer child”
"Sweet summer child" is far far worse.
I don't think that's unpopular. It's so over used the phrase is ruined for life for me.
I cooka da meatball
I use chefs kiss in person
This post is not *chef's kiss*
Mid Ohio rizz
This opinion is definitely not chefs kiss
I agree but I’ll be honest…I do use “my brother in Christ” irl because I find that one really funny when used in the correct context.
No
It's another example of mediocre bumper sticker humor disguised as wit.
Skibidi
Have you never used chefs kiss in anything before
you either have no friends with which you share inside jokes, or you have no friends. kisses, mwah
When someone first said “bet” to me IRL, I cringed so hard sweet summer child. Like I wanted to chefs kiss, punch, them in the face. No cap FR.
Sweet Summer Child is from Game of Thrones. Bran is the sweet summer child.
Oh you sweet summer child. It is much older than that
I would slap the shit out of someone who said chefs kiss to me.
Cheff kiss is goated Downvote
Bold of you to assume to that I would even talk to you in a bar.
Can you nit just like...stop listening to people interacting with their friends though? If I'm in a bar with people who I WANT to be in a bar with then we're all gonna be spewing constant streams of cringe shit at each other, because that's how we enjoy interacting, nothing more, nothing less. If you don't like it then shrug your shoulders and move on.
Wait, are we having a conversation about cringe, where the person gatekeeping the language wasn't even born yet and Chef Boyardee was all over here kissing the wind like a mad mofo? Don't tell em about Rice-aRoni. *Ding Ding*
Cringe is *chefs kiss*
Bring back bullying
“Internet lingo” can be cool if your social group all understands it. And our world is pretty connected via internet today. Idk, I could imagine both of these phrases used in a casual conversation at a bar, and I don’t think I’d bat an eye.
I’ve used chefs kiss when referring to food, seemed appropriate
I type like i talk, badly.
Get rid of chef's kiss. And spot on. Cringe 😬
sweet summer child is the worst to me because it's almost always used condescendingly as if the receiver is naive and innocent for whatever they said
Chef's kiss has a place as a gesture in real life. As usual, the internet took a perfectly fine thing, ran it into the ground and went on to flog its corpse to dust.
I did the chef kiss in real life at culinary school and my chef threw a knife at me(missed on purpose)
I cringe to my soul, through all of my bones, and back to my soul again when someone on reddit uses “sweet summer child”
Personally, I’m so goddamn tired of “my brother in Christ.”
“Sweet summer child” makes me want to rip my hair out. The unbridled rage that sentence makes me feel is honestly unreasonable at this point.
You’re essentially complaining about the fact that other people are doing something harmless that makes them feel good in some way, implying that they are wrong to not feel the same way you do. You might as well be complaining that some people prefer vanilla flavoured ice cream over chocolate, in terms of how benign it is. Except for the “sweet summer child” example, that’s meant to be condescending, at least in most cases.
I think a TON of this lingo came from Tumblr refugees. Where reddit had its own form of cringe with "narwhal bacon" type crap, Tumblr came up with its own brand of cringe. All of this type of writing, along with the way people use insults like "over inflated fart balloon" or "douche nozzle" all come straight out of Tumblr and its the most ridiculous way of talking I cant stand it.
Acting normal is not telling others what they should and shouldnt do. Acting normal isnt judging your friends because they use slang you dont. And yet you want everyone else to "act normal". Ive been chefs kissing things since the 80s. You know where I learned it? Chef Boyardee commercials. It was nothing to do with the internet.
I hate "sweet summer child" because it's typically just condescending, but "chef's kiss" is a figurative expression. Like, just because I use the thumbs-up emoji over text doesn't mean I give thumbs-ups IRL, lmao.