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It's insipid, trite and is primarily used in reference to superficial sentiments.

You do realize that not everything you do in life has to show effort, and that not everything has to be original right?

Example: "Oh, bae, what a day at work. I'm about to crash."

The little effort he used to say bae let's me know that things are okay, and he's not trying to cut me short -- but god damn he's tired.

I agree fam and shade are pretty stupid, but I don't agree with bae.

I do realize that not everything has to show effort or originality, but I'm not obligated to like those things.

I wholeheartedly agree with you @Brute , It like people are getting lazier and lazier with typing words. -_-

Baby -> Babe -> bae, it's retarded as to how it came to this.

It's not just typed though... lol

No you are not obligated to like it, but I think overusing the word "hate" is just as irritating as spamming a slang word that has its purposes.

I am less critical of actual words being used for their literal meanings than I am of slang; a standard I don't feel to be unfair. In this instance, "hate" is not hyperbolic.

Oh Brute... the world has been quite mean to you. I can appreciate your sincerity.

Don't forgot to add "put respeck on my name" to that list

That shit is lit fam

@VAND1TA it's an acronym for "before anything else"

Shade got ruined by overuse in social media and tea is getting there

These weird ass internet slang terms do tend to annoy the hell out of me

@Chapstick Which is a shame. I recently found out that "Shade," and "tea" both have a rich cultural history. The dominant white, straight society has culturally appropriated them from their black NYC drag scene in use since the 70s. Until 92 when Paris is Burning was released. Its lexicon has -- through media, and Netflix's pickup of PiB - got a resurgence. Which I agree has ruined it. Damn white people. ;)

.... which is why I agree with Brute insofar as, shade, tea, reading, bae have been reduced to slang instead of used correctly in their native lexicon; developed in order to show that you are a part of a specific minority of people who share common experiences and goals. Instead, it is on social media lol used by everyone

So basically what you're saying is that black "drag scene" people culturally appropriated an English word ("shade"), which was most likely created by straight white people, and then made it mean something else. Then "the dominant white, straight society" culturally appropriated it again and used it in this new manner, and that somehow ruined it?

It doesn't matter who is using these terms. No group has exclusive ownership over language of any kind.

It was definitely surreal seeing it used by straight guys here a few times with things that weren't actually shade. btw I believe Paris is Burning just got removed from US netflix

Can't forget about "Bruh". Though I have fellow associates who abuse this and nothing totally against it, but how hard is it to write -Bro-?

@Brute, please understand I did not mean my comment to be antagonistic. I understand your logic. From a linguistic standpoint, you are arguing for "shade"'s denotation. You are right; however... I think we are having two different conversations. The black NYC drag scene (BND hereafter) doesn't own that word. Nor do I make such a case --

There are several things: 1) When minorities borrow linguistic features such as words (or lexemes) from the dominant culture it is a strategy akin to adaptation in the form of reinterpretation; not appropriation. Cultural appropriation is taking their reinterpretation and adopting/exploiting it without the less privileged community's consent....

2) "The dominant white, straight society" ideology is so naturalized to many of us -- even those of us who are minorities -- that we like to think that challenging what people view as "standard English" -- which is a heteronormative-, white-, often male-aligned viewpoint -- is absurd and irritating.