👉 Okay, alright settle down class! Let’s tackle a wee bit of, frankly, rather…specific vernacular here. Today we're dissecting the wonderfully obnoxious, and frankly quite pointy, utterance:
"55 straight up."
(Let me preface this by saying I personally abhor its existence, it just... radiates unpleasantness.)
Now, where did this monstrosity come from exactly? It’s a relatively recent development in some corners of American teen/YA internet culture. Basically, it originated in 2017 within the aggressively ironic and somewhat disturbing teen melodrama, the "Five Nights at Freddy's (obviously)" fandom. The game itself is about a disgruntled security guard stuck in a creepy old-timey pizza parlour haunted by murderous animatronics. Here’s how the whole thing went down: Within that fandom, someone (nobody really knows who! Conspiracy theories abound, naturally. They probably just wanted to upset people.) decided that a very specific, and frankly rather alarming amount of physical attractiveness was a 55 on a scale of 1–100. Hence, the shorthand, and now rather weaponised, statement: "55 straight up." . You essentially mean something or someone looks absolutely phenomenal . It’s not just pretty. It's... aggressively, almost unnervingly good-looking. The term is, of course, intensely overblown and, frankly, a little weird. There’
