I don’t know the reason it started recently and I can’t emphasize enough how incredibly irritated I get every time I hear this phrase. After a little bit of research, I found out it’s a film industry term dating back to the mid-1900s. In short, a “meet cute” is when two people meet in an untraditional way. For instance, they bump into each other and one of them spills all their things and the other one bends down to help pick up, they make eye contact and go on to start a relationship. They meet in a cute way.
That’s fine. Whatever. There are plenty of terms in specific industries that haven’t become part of social culture. This needs to be one of those. But why has it been popping up in society in the last couple of years? It’s even part of a dating app now… which is pretty much the opposite of a meet cute.
If you’re getting in the habit of saying “meet cute,” please stop. It’s not funny. It’s not endearing. It’s not cute. It’s very, very annoying.
-Out of the Wilderness
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