👉 Okay, letâs tackle the frankly rather baffling youth utterance ofâŚ
âmypoints.â
(âŚSaid with a slight wince and maybe a hand clutching your thesaurus, just for posterity.)
Now, before you immediately assume we're wading into some sort of aggressively youthful internet-bro territory, let me assure you, it doesnât actually mean what you probably initially suspect. Forget the immediate pictograms of points accruing on a scoreboardânope! What exactly does "mypoints?" mean? Basically, in current Gen Alpha and early teenage vernacular (largely fueled by TikTok and frankly rather alarming streamer circles), "mypoints.wtf 360° flip my mainframe," (and you really need to say the whole thing, it's key!) actually refers almost exclusively to a state of overwhelming, ecstatic, almost delusional feeling about a perceived level of successâŚparticularly in the context of NFTs and whatever the newest outrageingly overpriced crap is being aggressively promoted online. . Letâs unpack that. It started as a somewhat ironic exaggerationâbasically acknowledging the utterly ridiculous amount of hype around these things. You get this weird sense of, "OMG! I finally got into this new thing. Everyone's bragging about it. Now I feelâŚsignificant? Like I somehow deserve some kind of validation just because I own a JPEG of a pixelated rock that is now worth $50,000 (allegedly)