15+ Tweets That Are Lowkey Goated When Being Too Online Is the Vibe

Ada Elder

Nov 19, 2022 11:00 AM EST

Getting older is weird for a lot of reasons, but feeling nearly illiterate where Internet slang is concerned has gotta be up there, at least for me. While being online pretty much 24/7 is kind of my job, I'm still not hip to (or happy about) what kids these days are saying on social apps or even in regular conversation.

It feels like people started saying GOAT years ago to describe something that is some variation of "greatest of all time," but using "goated" as a verb is definitely a more recent phenomenon, and to my millennial ears and mouth, it feels pretty damn foreign. The first real meme to feature the verb is probably "Quirked Up White Boy Goated With The Sauce," an example of a "slang overload" meme. Memes like QUWBGWTS (lol) can be pretty alienating to those who are not in the know, but they're really handy for perpetuating the slang that they're making fun of. It was only a matter of time before another meme utilized the term "goated," and brothers. That time is now.

Back in March, Twitter user Cameron Bradford tweeted that "Legs are basically goated in any situation where walking is the vibe." As cringey as that sentence is, we know it's an example of self-aware humor.

The format didn't really gain traction until this fall, when people began adopting it for their own clout-hungry purposes.
There's something really funny about referring to our most basic acts as goated, and judging by the format's explosion this month, we're not the only people who see that humor. The exploitable template has many users scrambling to tweet their own variation of the theme, dripping with varying degrees of irony. We've put together our favorite examples because, after all, memes are lowkey goated when wasting time is the vibe. What else were you supposed to do today?
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