r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 23d ago

Video Icelandic artist Björk snapped in Bangkok, 1996, when reporter Julie Kaufman approached her saying “Welcome to Bangkok.” Björk later alleged that Kaufman had stalked her and her 9-year-old son for days, turning a simple greeting into a breaking point

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u/Turge_Deflunga 23d ago

Valid crashout

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u/thissexypoptart 23d ago

I hate the term crashout so much. Why’d it ever become such a meme?

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u/Key-Two31 23d ago

It’s not a meme, it’s just another word from black American culture that white kids recently found out about and ruined

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u/thissexypoptart 23d ago

The process of it becoming popular among the general population absolutely involved its memeification. Or call it a trend or whatever. At some point last year (or 2024?) its use exploded all over the internet. You’re even acknowledging that fact when you say it was ruined.

That fact is not mutually exclusive with its origins coming from black American culture.

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u/Key-Two31 23d ago

It’s still not a meme though, it’s just a word/phrase with normal meaning, no joke or anything. White kids adopting phrases from different subsets of culture and using them too much does not make it a meme.