2018, Michael Cella, "Mellow On The Mat", Submerge Magazine, 2 January 2018 - 16 January 2018, page 18:
So when I attempted to do both at the same time, I just ended up spending a lot of time doing exercises in the wrong direction, trying to avoid the instructor’s glare that said, “Weird flex, but OK.”
2018 fall, “Let’s Chat: Loving and Losing with Ariana Grande”, in Tufts Observer, volume CXXV, number 6, page 19:
WW [Wilson Wong]: And then she blamed it on obesity? Like, weird flex, but ok.
2018, Lauren Franco, "Pink and green since 1919, ACU's oldest club", The Optimist (Abiline Christian University), 12 October 2018, page 10:
In an ACU blog written in 2010, GATA's claim to fame is that they are the "oldest continuously named social club on the ACU campus" (weird flex, but OK).
2018, Sam Puckett, "Fall, football and homecoming fun", The Signal (Georgia State University), 23 October - 30 October 2018, page 11:
Snacks: Fresh fall fruits like apples and pears, leafy green seasonal salads with kale and yams and baked squash dishes will make your friends say, "weird flex, but OK."
2018, Courtney, quoted in "Shoutout," The Badger Herald (University of Wisconsin), 13 November 2018, page 21:
To the girl who kept sending snapchats during lecture with her front flash on...weird flex but ok
2018, Zachariah Chou, "SG falsely claims credit for early voting. Again.", The Independent Florida Alligator (University of Florida), 16 November 2018, page 6:
As it turned out, Chomp the Vote took the "minimum mandatory [early voting] period" of eight days from the Florida Division of Elections website, which means it omitted the fact that Alachua county had five additional early voting days. Weird flex, but ok.
2018 November 29, Doyin Richards, “Why We Should Teach Our Kids To Say 'Happy Holidays' Instead Of 'Merry Christmas'”, in HuffPost[1], archived from the original on 14 February 2019:
Your son probably looked at this lady and thought, “Weird flex but OK.”
2019, Taylor Washington, "A student guide to Valentine's Day", The Daily Gamecock (University of South Carolina), 11 February 2019, page 8:
Your family owns five vacation homes on both coasts, you guys travel out of the country for every holiday, you've been spotted with an authentic $950 Gucci belt on multiple occasions and you take laps around Five Points in your Italian race car for sport. Weird flex, but OK.
2019, Emily Crowe, "'Star Wars' Live: I've got a good feeling about this", The Georgetonian (Georgetown College), 6 February 2019, page 8:
This event had everything one might expect when you gather a very large number of Star Wars nerds in a very small space: people with their own personal lightsabers, random middle-aged white men complimenting you on the t-shirt you got on sale in the young men's section at JC Penney, and small children running around in Spider-Man costumes (the actual definition of "weird flex but ok").
2019 May 31, Bettina Makalintal, “It's Time We Admit That Tote Bags Are Trash”, in Vice[2], archived from the original on 6 May 2021:
The niche media tote bag is the epitome of 'weird flex but ok.'
2019, Abby Paul, "What essential school supply did you forget?", The Bridge (University of Alberta), September 2019, page 15:
Pencil – Doing assignments in pen? Weird flex but ok.
2020, Shinry [Terrance Johnson], Love Be Damned (The Chronicles of Wayne; book 1), Xlibris, →ISBN:
“Um, I didn’t even know what I was going to have for breakfast this morning so like weird flex but ok.”
2020, "The Foodie Issue", Total Girl, January 2020, page 49:
Rumour has it; Bey likes to snack on bananas dipped in tomato sauce. Weird flex but OK.
2020 May 27, Lauren O'Neill, “This Is Paul Mescal's Summer, We're Just Watching It”, in Vice[3], archived from the original on 4 November 2020:
b) Crabbie’s cider / Weird flex but OK.
2021 March 4, Ian ‘Ages’ Dransfield, “Backwards compatible”, in Wireframe, number 48, page 106:
It’s not often ploughing through retro gaming elicits that sort of reaction, and I doubt it will come from many other machines – there are few big ones I’ve missed (Weird flex, but OK – Ed), so few opportunities to engage in an entirely new experience.
