Cheugy
This one never had a single recording. What is known is below.
- SourceNo single original
- MediaNot held by ViralWorld
A word for being slightly out of date that a newspaper made famous faster than the app it came from.
What this was
Gaby Rasson coined cheugy at a Beverly Hills high school in 2013 for people who were just off trend — mom jeans, live laugh love, Minion memes. It sat in Urban Dictionary until a TikTok in March 2021 got a hundred thousand likes, and then Taylor Lorenz wrote it up in the New York Times, which reached far more people than the video had. The American Dialect Society made it 2021's informal word of the year.
It first appeared in 2021, during short-form and streams.
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Where it came from
There is no original to identify: this spread through many separate posts at once rather than from a first one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is the record.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this, because research established there was not one — it appeared in many places at once.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
- What happens
- Gaby Rasson coined cheugy at a Beverly Hills high school in 2013 for people who were just off trend — mom jeans, live laugh love, Minion memes. It sat in Urban Dictionary until a TikTok in March 2021 got a hundred thousand likes, and then Taylor Lorenz wrote it up in the New York Times, which reached far more people than the video had. The American Dialect Society made it 2021's informal word of the year.