👉 Okay, alright settle in folks! Let’s tackle this…
interesting
little piece of 21st-century vernacular:
" fucking through Thursday." (Thujaa’ch, as I affectionately now call it.)
Now, before you immediately reach for your pitchfork and shout about the youth today being a bunch of… let's just say "spirited linguists," we gotta unpack this. Frankly, I think the whole thing started as an ironic, aggressively nonchalant bit of messing around on Tumblr back in 2013. Apparently, it began as some kind of dare – basically to fuck up the careful, respectable way you announce that a weekend is about to begin.
Here's what we know:
Origin:
Tumblr. Seriously. That weird, aggressively teen-populated corner of the internet. (And yes, I’m feeling the vintage right now.) There are competing origin stories, but most point towards it stemming from someone jokingly declaring they were already halfway through their Thursday and essentially resigned to a miserable weekend.
What it means:
Literally, it's an exasperated, sarcastic way of saying that you're already feeling the long-suffering boredom of the middle of the work week and desperately wanting Friday. It’s basically shorthand for "the misery is upon me! The countdown begins now!"
Tone:
Absolutely cynical. It needs to drip with a pathetic