40 of the Freshest and Funniest Tweets of the Week (June 8, 2024)

JR Atkinson • Writer and Editor

Jun 8, 2024 8:00 AM EDT

The way the language of social media has penetrated our everyday lexicon is astounding. We take it for granted that the word "tweet" has taken on a completely different meaning than it once did. One upon a midnight dreary, tweet was only the sound that a small bird would make. It was one of our few true onomatopoeias. To say it would be to invoke the whimsy of a small child learning animal sounds.

Who could have guessed that one day, the same word would take on a whole new, brutally contemporary meaning? It's a noun, a verb, something you can get canceled for, and something that could go viral (another word that has radically changed meaning since social media). I wonder what commonplace words are going to transform in the next decade or so. Maybe people will say "That's so Memebase" when they mean "That's so cool." A girl can dream.