'To be honest' — the prefix for opinions, and, in 2015, a whole teenage Instagram genre: 'like for a tbh', in which you were given an honest sentence about yourself in exchange for a like. The record's entry for honesty as a currency.
Small fix: the peak year is right but the peak was shorter than a year — closer to six weeks. The rest of 2015 was people explaining it.
Sighting: my mother-in-law said "TBH" out loud at dinner and then looked at me to check it had landed. It had not. Filing this as evidence of terminal spread.
I did a 'like for a tbh' in 2015 and received 'tbh ur nice and we should talk more'. We did not talk more. The record notes this is the standard outcome.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
