Do you ever wonder where our most used phrases come from, or why they become so popular? Perhaps you don’t even know what some mean!
These hilarious snaps, collated by Ebaum’s World, show some of the most cringeworthy slang terms of the past decade.
From ‘sorry not sorry’ to the ever popular ‘you only live once’ or ‘YOLO!’, social media users suggested their least favourite popular phrases from the last 10 years.
FEMAIL has selected the funniest and most annoying phrases – and whether they were loved or loathed, funny or outright cringey, these social media users will be hoping they stay in 2019.
Users from around the world have been sharing the most iconic phrases from the past decade, including this person, from Pennsylvania, who called ‘sorry, not sorry’ a ‘clap back’
When you literally can’t even… breath, hear, feel, speak…. use real words?! One user, from Texas, unveiled their least favourite phrase
Another user, from America, said she couldn’t cope with the popular phrase ‘amazeballs’ and was happy to leave it in the last decade
It’s hard to imagine the internet without those clapping hands, with one person, believed to be Philadelphia, suggesting it was their most ‘cringey’ slang
Before ANYTHING else! Another person, from Philadelphia, compared ‘bae’ to nails on a chalk board
You only live once! Another user, believed to be from America, shared the phrase much-loved by internet users in the 2010s
It’s just so uncool! One person, from Atlanta, suggested ‘lit’ was their least favourite phrase, with the word being used to describe how intoxicated one might be
That phrase is so ‘on fleek’! One person, whose location is unknown, suggested they ‘couldn’t even’ cope with the popular phrase
Another person, whose location is unknown, pointed out their least favourite phrase was ‘said no one ever,’ put at the end of a sarcastic or misleading statement to imply just how ridiculous the previous statement was
Well, its better late than never, right?! Another person, from St Louis, said the hilarious meme was their favourite
Another person, from Brooklyn, reminded other Twitter users that we were all about the good vibes this decade
Meanwhile Twitter user Allison Pons, from Los Angeles, said she was sickened by the phrase ‘all the things’ – when you want nothing but everything all at the same time
Used to announce you did something, without actually announcing what you did, another user, whose location is unknown, suggested they were fed-up with ‘I did a thing’
You’re my brosef! Another Twitter user, from New York, said their most cringeworthy slang was one used to refer to a good friend or ‘bro’
Another person, whose location is unknown, shared the favourite ‘adulting’ phrase – you know, for those 20-somethings who are proud of themselves for being responsible and doing ‘adult’ things
Another user, whose location is unknown, suggested shortening the word totally to ‘totes’ left them fuming
Emphasis on the EVERYTHING to indicate how much someone or something means to you! One user, from New York,
Ew no! Another person, whose location is unknown, suggested they were sickened by the phrase calling it ‘worse than whatever prompted it’
Ew no! Another person, whose location is unknown, suggested they were sickened by the phrase calling it ‘worse than whatever prompted it’