A normal person, as an insult from people who spend too long online — someone who uses memes a month late, has friends, goes outside. The record's entry for the word that divides the internet into those who know and those who are fine.
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Correction to the headnote: Normie was not coined, it was noticed. Someone said it, someone else screenshotted it, and the screenshot is the coinage.
Working definition, for the file: Normie is what you call it once you have seen it three times in one day and twice from people who should know better.
'Normie' said by a teenager about their parents for using a reaction GIF correctly. The record notes the crime was competence.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
