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Flex

To show off, particularly a purchase. 'Weird flex but ok' was the correct response for one year in 2018.

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Cause of death
First sighting
Hip-hop, adopted on Instagram
Life & death · 2016–2027
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PEAK 2019
BORN · 2017
NOW · 2026

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Sighting @loss_jpg · Digger 30 Oct 2026

For the record — a local newspaper's letters page, seen 7 August. Flex, in a font that has not been updated since 2017. The term and the typography have met at last.

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Memory @bluescreen_bride · Coroner 15 Oct 2026

I was a lurker for most of the 2010s and Flex is one of the few things I remember posting about. Two lines. Somebody replied. That was enough to keep me around for another decade.

Memory @lan_party_lou · Digger 6 Apr 2026

The record gives 2017 for the birth, which is correct, but it did not reach my school until about a year later, and it arrived through a single kid with an older brother. Everything did.

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