It informed me that the #1 trend of 2015 is ‘bae’ with the definition of ‘before anyone else’, but has been adopted to be synonymous with ‘babe’ or ‘sweetie’”. In The Huffington Post, an article titled, 5 Words That Are On Fleek For 2015, And 5 That We Literally Can’t With Anymore, just happened to catch my attention with its completely casual name. Wondering exactly how popular ‘bae’ has become, I turned to a pretty reliable source: Google. If a person loves someone or something, they should just say it, not hide behind an overused term that our social media community has created. Exactly how important can one person mean to another if they are too scared to call them by their real name, resorting to a made up acronym. The most basic terms, boyfriend and girlfriend, have slowly been disappearing from our mouths as well. Society has adapted this trend, making it so lucky to be used as both a noun and an adjective. no longer good enough?” asked Natasha Zarinsky from in her article What the Hell is Up with ‘Bae’?. “Are descriptions such as actual proper names and the terms best friend, irreplaceable, incomparable, etc. It is at that realization where I began to question, why bae? Why use a word that stands for “Before Anyone Else” to describe everything from food to people, thereby losing the meaning of this newfound ‘word’ completely. Whether it’s an Instagrammed picture of someone and their ‘bae,’ a tweet about ‘ Netflix and chilling with bae,’ or a Vine with the caption ‘When bae posts a selfie,’ with the heart-eye emoji of course, we tend to see bae everywhere. I would not be surprised if you saw exactly what I do each time I log on: for example, countless captions and hashtags including ‘Bae’. Imagine yourself after a typical day, scrolling through your Twitter, Instagram, or Vine feeds.
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