Moving Past Basic and Learning That I’m Cheugy
Why am I always the last one to know?
I was almost reconciled to being Basic.
Depending on where you look Basic is almost generic. Unexciting. Plain. Unoriginal. Could mean naïve. Unsophisticated. The thing is, it’s been around for years now, since 2013, so I’m kind of used to it. Basic is practically a classic.
But now my world is rocked and I think I’m cheugy.
Pronounced CHEW-gee, it laughs at Basic. It’s another level of mean, and when I read about it (because that’s how Basic I am!) all of the signs are there: cheugy.
Cheugy has been around since 2013, too, but has now been reborn on TikTok (or Reels for the Boomers who use Facebook and have just discovered ‘Hey, honey- now there are cats on Facebook videos’) and the Gen Zs and Millennials are tossing back and forth at each other.
Cheugy is being an interested fan of things that USED TO be on trend years ago, instead of things that are trending right now. I must admit: that is me all over. I read a list of the stuff that mean you are cheugy and there’s no denying it. And, as it turns out, to admit that you know you know definitely means you are a cheug (chew-g).
