There is a new word appearing more and more often on TikTok and is used by the very young of generation Z: è Cheugy and pronounced "chew-gee". A way of the youngest to indicate something that is out of date and obsolete, often used to address the "older" millennials.
In a short time the new slang went viral on social media, so much so that on Instagram the page Cheug Life shows examples of anything that can be labeled cheugy. They range from memes about Despicable Me minions to belts with the Gucci logo, as well as for shoes, dresses, but also women or men. The word is therefore used to describe deemed things and objects obsolete, or people who are defined as "cheeky", because they try too hard to appear in a way considered out of step with the times. The popularity of the new word is such that the term has become a NFT, Or a non-fungible digital token, and was put up for sale at an online auction.
Cheugy: what does it mean and when the new word is born
According to the New York Times, the word cheugy it was first used in 2013 by a high school girl in the United States, Gaby Rasson. The intent was to describe something or someone that was out of date and outdated, or to a person who is trying too hard to appear, so much so as to be cheeky. The word can therefore refer to people, objects and even experiences.
As often happens, slang has become more and more widespread, so much so that in 2018 it was also included as a voice on Urban Dictionary and then make its appearance on social networks. While there is no hard definition of what cheugy, the Instagram page is Cheug Life allows you to better understand what it refers to. You will be able to see objects such as shoes, from Uggs to Birkenstocks, or even minion memes and more. Meanwhile, in 2021 cheugy has become a word that is especially popular on TikTok and with which generation Z defines millennials, judged by them to be obsolete. The hashtag #cheugy in TikTok videos has surpassed XNUMX million views.
Cheugy: NFT of the word auction
Cheugy's popularity became such in 2021 that Rasson decided to take it one step further: to sell it.NFT auctioned on the Internet. The young woman explains that she coined the word in 2013 when she was in high school and that she always used it with her friends, until the launch of The Cheugy NFT: a non-fungible token version of the word that thanks to the blockchain becomes a unique work to buy for digital collectors.
NFTs are therefore the basis of crypto art, a new form of digital art that is gaining ground, with digital works sold at auction for several million dollars. The Cheugy NFT it is available for auction on the Foundation website, where you can pay in virtual currency Ethereum (ETH). At the moment the starting price is 0,1 ETH, around 410 dollars, but the price could soon rise.
What does Cheugy mean, the word that depopulates on TikTok and is up for auction
