👉 Okay, letās tackle this ratherā¦specific little linguistic hot potato that is "travis scott astroworld netflix." Frankly, itās a phrase that practically vibrates with awkwardness and a hefty dose of internet weirdness.
Basically, the whole thing started during Travis Scott's infamous Astroworld 2018 incident, the disastrous megaflink where, tragically, many were trampled in the ensuing crush. Immediately afterwards, he did an "Astroworld, StillĻĪ¹ĪŗĻĪ½" livestream on Netflix and Twitch that wasā¦ letās just say aggressively underwhelming. It involved a lot of him just staring into the void while people commented with increasingly desperate and frankly disturbing emojis (lots of š¤āthe broken heartāwas prominent). The shorthand that emerged amongst some corners of the internet, particularly younger ones obsessed with meme culture, became this somewhat dismissive, almost pityingly critical shorthand. You essentially use it when you want to describe something inoffensively underwhelming, vaguely unsettling, and steeped in a weird kind of tragic irony. Here's what I mean by unpacking its weird undertones: Travis Scott himself: He's a hugely successful, albeit sometimes frustratingly aloof, superstar. There's this immediate association with massive hype and then... this very quiet disappointment. Astroworld 2018 (the whole thing!): That was a horrific tragedy, obviously. The phrase is
