weird flex, but OK

English

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• weird flex but OK, weird flex but ok

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Phrase

weird flex, but OK

1. (Internet slang) Used to indicate that one finds an action or statement to be showy and strange.
   • 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, 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

   • 2019 September, Abby Paul, “What essential school supply did you forget?”, in The Bridge, University of Alberta, page 15:

     Pencil – Doing assignments in pen? Weird flex but ok.

   • 2020, Bethany Morris, Chase Kelly O'Gwin, Sebasteinne Grant, Sakenya McDonald, Subjectivity in Psychology in the Era of Social Justice, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Much like when an actor in a play breaks the fourth wall and speaks to the audience, but the other characters on stage, who also witnss the actor speaking and acting, don't understand to whom the actor is actually talking, and in this case neither does the actor himself, as it is an unconscious address. One is left asking, "why are you telling me this or doing this?" Or in more modern lingo, "that's a weird flex, but OK."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:weird flex, but OK.

See also

• sir, this is an Arby's