“I can’t believe I didn’t figure this out on my own.”

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"It means nothing, it's like a joke with no punchline, but it's funny to tell because you're left hanging for the punchline."

"It's from streaming culture. The live streamers often address their viewers who commented on live chat rooms as chat. And it has then evolved to casual vernacular, which has about the same meaning as guys/fella/folks/peeps/y'all."

"I work in mental health and once was so exhausted from working all-night shifts that I wrote in a report that a conversation with a client was 'giving psychosis.' I realized how dumb and unprofessional it was, and vowed to never do it again."

"Looking attractive and showing off, usually making someone or something else look inferior."

"It’s kinda just replaced 'that moment when'."

"This has become one of my biggest pet peeves."

"It's 'On God.' Similar to saying 'I swear to God' or 'For real,' as in, I'm telling the truth."

"It's supposed to mean average, not bad. Like very run-of-the-mill, forgettable, dime-a-dozen."

"If you're doing the cooking, then you are producing something of high quality.

If you are cooked, then you're fucked. Doomed."

"I can't believe I didn't figure this out on my own."

Early 2000s hip hop culture used 'sauce' or 'saucy' to mean stylish, so someone who is showing that to the extreme would be 'dripping with sauce.' Eventually that got shortened to 'drip'."

"It is directly from Lil' B, who also goes/went by the moniker 'The Based God.' He coined it as a phrase to describe his outlook on life, which was to just do whatever your thing was and to not care what others think of it (he was doing all sorts of atypical stuff for a rapper of the era and they would call him weird, wack, or gay for it). This kind of evolved into just generically calling something good but it's meant to kind of have a 'that rules, fuck the haters' kind of context.

He wasn’t a super known rapper in the mainstream but 4chan liked him for being such a silly troll (this was pre-2016 4chan), and it kinda got picked up from there, and then like so much other internet content, it spread to where it is now used a lot by people that have no idea where it came from."

"For some reason the phrase 'aura farming' has always struck me as 'trying too hard' rather than 'effortlessly cool,' which I am pretty sure is the intended meaning."

"Aura farming is when you actually look cool, if it is said like 'bro tryna aura farm 💀' then it is trying too hard."

"It's nepotism. It means you don't have to work hard because Robert Cecil's yer uncle."

"And…Robert's your mother's brother! Sometimes used in England. I like that version."

"'Capping' is old school for one-upping and even implies you are exaggerating/lying."

Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.