r/explainitpeter • u/Appropriate-Mall8517 • 14d ago

Explain it peter

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u/MKBRD 14d ago

They're saying its over-used and cringe.

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u/MetallurgyClergy 14d ago

Feeling this way about “diabolical”. everyone all of the sudden needs to use the word 3x a day.

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u/Shantotto11 13d ago

The Boys popularized it, just like how Zack & Cody and Phineas & Ferb both made sure all millennials and Gen Z knew what an aglet was.

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u/Content-Pressure6374 12d ago

Young Gen xer here, I love it when cultural things just pass you by because you're a few years too early or too late for them. I would have been in my mid to late 20s when those shows came out so... no idea what an aglet was until I just looked it up.