👉 Okay, alright then! Let’s tackle the wonderfully weird and frankly rather specific piece of 21st-century online flirtatious jargon – "…it’s a jeff goldblum."
Now, before you immediately think I've spent too long obsessively watching reruns of Jurassic Park , let me unpack this. Historically, it began as a fairly straightforward compliment, essentially meaning something along the lines of, and brace yourselves... utterly, devastatingly, unbelievably, spectacularly… bad at flirting. 10/10, you're a jeff goldblum. Here's the breakdown, because honestly, we need to go back in the dumpster fire that is early Reddit and Tumblr. Around 2013, somebody basically started joking about how spectacularly awful some guys were at even attempting to initiate attraction. You know, they overthink, say weird stuff, sweat profusely, generally make themselves a monument of awkwardness. And rather than just saying "dude you suck miserably at flirting," the shorthand evolved into simply declaring that someone was… "it's a jeff goldblum." The reference point is, predictably, the man himself. Goldblum – he’s got this wonderfully theatrical way of speaking, a somewhat rambling delivery, and an endearing awkwardness in his every move. Someone who embarrasses himself to that degree is a jeff goldblum . Think of it as the highest possible peak on the failure rung of the flirting spectrum.
