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Have you noticed "low-key" is evidently Gen Z's "literally"?
Posted on 5/19/26 at 1:12 pm
Posted on 5/19/26 at 1:12 pm
Low-key used to mean "subtly" or obscurely" or private/understated, as in:
That girl is low-key good-looking. (Perhaps referring to the "secretary" effect in a lot of movies where the glasses are somewhat obscuring the underlying beauty).
Now, low-key seems to mean "literally", as in:
That girl is low-key good-looking, when looking at a literal model.
Low-key just now seems to mean "I am describing the obvious reality I am seeing that is self-evident to anyone with eyes".
Next thread: using "tough" as a descriptor of something good. "Low-key tough" is particularly irksome.
That girl is low-key good-looking. (Perhaps referring to the "secretary" effect in a lot of movies where the glasses are somewhat obscuring the underlying beauty).
Now, low-key seems to mean "literally", as in:
That girl is low-key good-looking, when looking at a literal model.
Low-key just now seems to mean "I am describing the obvious reality I am seeing that is self-evident to anyone with eyes".
Next thread: using "tough" as a descriptor of something good. "Low-key tough" is particularly irksome.
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Posted on 5/19/26 at 1:13 pm to Big Scrub TX
This thread is low-key gay
Posted on 5/19/26 at 1:13 pm to Big Scrub TX
for real
Posted on 5/19/26 at 1:15 pm to SUB
This thread is low-key gay
—literally
—literally
Posted on 5/19/26 at 1:17 pm to NotoriousFSU
quote:
for real
frfr
Posted on 5/19/26 at 1:18 pm to Big Scrub TX
It hasn’t been easy, but I’ve had to come to accept the truth that my teenage daughter is physically unable to speak more than three words without using the term “low-key.”
Posted on 5/19/26 at 1:43 pm to Darth_Vader
quote:
It hasn’t been easy, but I’ve had to come to accept the truth that my teenage daughter is physically unable to speak more than three words without using the term “low-key.”
When she does, how many of the other words are "like"?
Posted on 5/19/26 at 1:55 pm to Darth_Vader
A year ago, I was talking to my pre teen daughter and slipped in a, "no cap." She glared at me, and hasn't used it since.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 2:01 pm to Big Scrub TX
It is low key diabolical.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 2:02 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:
When she does, how many of the other words are "like"?
Too many to keep count.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 2:03 pm to Big Scrub TX
Low key means “kind of”
Posted on 5/19/26 at 2:08 pm to Big Scrub TX
such a mid post
Posted on 5/19/26 at 2:08 pm to Big Scrub TX
No cap, frfr OP
Posted on 5/19/26 at 2:09 pm to Big Scrub TX
I tell my daughter all the time...."if everything is low key, nothing is low key"
Ticks her off every time
Ticks her off every time
Posted on 5/19/26 at 2:10 pm to Big Scrub TX
Nope. Don’t care or notice new lingo
Posted on 5/19/26 at 2:14 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:
Low-key used to mean "subtly" or obscurely" or private/understated, as in:
That girl is low-key good-looking. (Perhaps referring to the "secretary" effect in a lot of movies where the glasses are somewhat obscuring the underlying beauty).
Now, low-key seems to mean "literally", as in:
That girl is low-key good-looking, when looking at a literal model.
Low-key just now seems to mean "I am describing the obvious reality I am seeing that is self-evident to anyone with eyes".
no cap
Posted on 5/19/26 at 2:18 pm to Big Scrub TX
Wait until you hear how they are using "pressure"
Posted on 5/19/26 at 2:21 pm to Stevo
quote:Come on, let me cook.
such a mid post
Posted on 5/19/26 at 2:25 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:
Low-key just now seems to mean "I am describing the obvious reality I am seeing that is self-evident to anyone with eyes".
It’s actually the opposite.
If you say a girl is “low-key hot”, it means that most people are not observing her as being hot (perhaps because of how she dresses), but she, in fact, is hot.
ETA: I’ve never heard anyone use that phrase any other way than this.
This post was edited on 5/19/26 at 2:28 pm
Posted on 5/19/26 at 2:29 pm to Darth_Vader
quote:with my daughter it’s either this or something I have to google
my teenage daughter is physically unable to speak more than three words without using the term “low-key.”
One text is like “lolz, ma, tbh you’re low-key larping”
The next one is ‘what are your thoughts on “Simulacra and Simulation” by Baudrillard’
So then I gotta google so I can high key larp
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