👉 Okay, settle into your seats, class, let’s tackle something delightfully… granular today. You’ve undoubtedly stumbled upon the wonderfully, aggressively specific bit of 21st-century argle bargle that is, quite simply:
"With fog over it."
(Let the record state, I genuinely wish we could just stick with a perfectly cromulent descriptive phrase – honestly, why mess things up so much?)
Now, before you start picturing a perpetually damp, vaguely miserable sheep, let’s unpack this. It originated in the somewhat tragically short-lived and frankly rather aggressively online community of Fuck Yeah 90's Stuff (Y).—A collective obsessed with early 2000’s internet culture and whatever was trending at the time. Basically, a nostalgic fever dream. What began as a GIF overlay for that specific community started being appended to basically anything remotely disappointing, or just... off. The effect is a very pointed, almost aggressively understated way of saying something’s rubbish, it's underwhelming, it sucks. It doesn't yell, you don't see the immediate outrage—the disappointment is there , but it is, as the name suggests, “with fog over it." You can almost taste the wet wool and the general sense that nothing really quite sticks there. The point of the visual is to imply a lack of clarity or a kind of grey-on-grey failure, as if you were peering
