Cheugy School Dropout
Be There in Five
Kate Kennedy
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2021
⏱️ 150 minutes
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Summary
This week, Kate takes on a new term, "cheugy," a made-up word from Tiktok that, via aggressive media coverage, has been thrust into the social lexicon. This episode examines the struggle between being lighthearted/letting comedy exist and the diversity that lies within financial security of millennials that is often forgotten when slinging semi-classist tropes. She dives into the definition of cheugy, attempting to validate the concept of being 'off-trend' by examining which items named were actual trends, and if this legitimately is a term that would be fairly applied across genders and social classes. Fearing the reincarnation of society's love for terms like 'basic,' Kate argues why there is millennial sensitivity to the early 2010s trends, and what Pinterest, bloggers, early influencers, etc. did for women. And as a result, the ways in which their entrepreneurial efforts are often dismissed in favor of mocking their hobbies. TLDR, it's cheugy as hell.
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WORKS CITED
Kiera Breaugh: Tiktok; Instagram; YouTube
Original Cheugy Tiktok: User deleted
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/style/cheugy.html
https://www.thecut.com/2014/10/what-do-you-really-mean-by-basic-bitch.html
https://www.thecut.com/2021/05/cheugy-is-hard-to-define-but-easy-to-identify.html
https://popcrush.com/what-is-cheugy-slang-describe-millennials-explained-tiktok/
https://archive.curbed.com/2019/12/19/21024424/interior-design-trends-2010-2019
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So let's start with this New York Times article called What is Chooky? You know it when you see it. |
| 0:06.9 | Okay, TikTok. I have a new word for you that my friends and I use that you clearly are all in need of. |
| 0:12.8 | Ali Kane, 24, a copywriter in Los Angeles, says in a TikTok posted on March 30. |
| 0:18.8 | In the video, she gestures to another video of a girl who is describing the type of people who get |
| 0:23.6 | married at 20 years old or have millennial girl boss energy and who wonders what to be called this |
| 0:29.2 | kind of person. I keep seeing videos like this as Kane says in her TikTok. The word my friend is |
| 0:36.8 | Chooky. It's not quite basic, which can describe someone who is a conformist or perhaps generic in |
| 0:42.8 | their taste, but not quite uncool. It's not embarrassing or even always negative. |
| 0:50.0 | Chooky can be used broadly to describe someone who is out of date or trying too hard. |
| 0:56.7 | You can't can you imagine? And while a lot of Chooky things are associated with millennial women, of |
| 1:01.9 | course, the term can be applied to anyone of any gender of any age. It's not just a way to describe |
| 1:10.0 | people. According to people who have embraced the word, the following are also Chooky, the hype house, |
| 1:15.9 | Golden Goose sneakers, anything associated with barstall sports, that bar card sports. Gucci belts |
| 1:21.8 | with the large double G logo, being really in disneycriculture, red and pottery, and anything |
| 1:27.2 | chevron. One of my friends at Lasagna is Chooky, said Miz Kane. |
| 1:36.4 | No shade to Halley Kane, but I think it's safe to say that was more of an Annie comment, |
| 1:40.9 | first of all, and second, you know, much like this, Lasagna, I think it's safe to say. |
| 1:48.8 | This story has layers. |
| 1:58.6 | Hi everybody, welcome back to the Be There In Five Podcast. I'm Kate Kennedy, your host. |
| 2:04.0 | I'm on this kick right now of taking on an entirely new topic every week. |
| 2:09.1 | You know, these things all have their areas of overlap, but kind of like just learning about |
| 2:15.2 | the herbal life source and just learning about Chooky. It doesn't give me a ton of time to prepare |
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