Citations:weird flex, but OK

English citations of weird flex, but OK

Phrase: "(Internet slang) used to indicate that one finds an action or statement to be showy, pointless, or strange"

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• 2018, Michael Cella, "Mellow On The Mat", Submerge Magazine, 2 January 2018 - 16 January 2018, page 18:

  So when I attempted to do both at the same time, I just ended up spending a lot of time doing exercises in the wrong direction, trying to avoid the instructor’s glare that said, “Weird flex, but OK.”

• 2018 fall, “Let’s Chat: Loving and Losing with Ariana Grande”, in Tufts Observer, volume CXXV, number 6, page 19:

  WW [Wilson Wong]: And then she blamed it on obesity? Like, weird flex, but ok.

• 2018, Lauren Franco, "Pink and green since 1919, ACU's oldest club", The Optimist (Abiline Christian University), 12 October 2018, page 10:

  In an ACU blog written in 2010, GATA's claim to fame is that they are the "oldest continuously named social club on the ACU campus" (weird flex, but OK).

• 2018, Sam Puckett, "Fall, football and homecoming fun", The Signal (Georgia State University), 23 October - 30 October 2018, page 11:

  Snacks: Fresh fall fruits like apples and pears, leafy green seasonal salads with kale and yams and baked squash dishes will make your friends say, "weird flex, but OK."

• 2018, Courtney, quoted in "Shoutout," The Badger Herald (University of Wisconsin), 13 November 2018, page 21:

  To the girl who kept sending snapchats during lecture with her front flash on...weird flex but ok

• 2018, Zachariah Chou, "SG falsely claims credit for early voting. Again.", The Independent Florida Alligator (University of Florida), 16 November 2018, page 6:

  As it turned out, Chomp the Vote took the "minimum mandatory [early voting] period" of eight days from the Florida Division of Elections website, which means it omitted the fact that Alachua county had five additional early voting days. Weird flex, but ok.

• 2018 November 29, Doyin Richards, “Why We Should Teach Our Kids To Say 'Happy Holidays' Instead Of 'Merry Christmas'”, in HuffPost‎^[1], archived from the original on 14 February 2019:

  Your son probably looked at this lady and thought, “Weird flex but OK.”

• 2019, Taylor Washington, "A student guide to Valentine's Day", The Daily Gamecock (University of South Carolina), 11 February 2019, page 8:

  Your family owns five vacation homes on both coasts, you guys travel out of the country for every holiday, you've been spotted with an authentic $950 Gucci belt on multiple occasions and you take laps around Five Points in your Italian race car for sport. Weird flex, but OK.

• 2019, Emily Crowe, "'Star Wars' Live: I've got a good feeling about this", The Georgetonian (Georgetown College), 6 February 2019, page 8:

  This event had everything one might expect when you gather a very large number of Star Wars nerds in a very small space: people with their own personal lightsabers, random middle-aged white men complimenting you on the t-shirt you got on sale in the young men's section at JC Penney, and small children running around in Spider-Man costumes (the actual definition of "weird flex but ok").

• 2019 May 31, Bettina Makalintal, “It's Time We Admit That Tote Bags Are Trash”, in Vice‎^[2], archived from the original on 6 May 2021:

  The niche media tote bag is the epitome of 'weird flex but ok.'

• 2019, Abby Paul, "What essential school supply did you forget?", The Bridge (University of Alberta), September 2019, page 15:

  Pencil – Doing assignments in pen? Weird flex but ok.

• 2020, Shinry [Terrance Johnson], Love Be Damned (The Chronicles of Wayne; book 1), Xlibris, →ISBN:

  “Um, I didn’t even know what I was going to have for breakfast this morning so like weird flex but ok.”

• 2020, "The Foodie Issue", Total Girl, January 2020, page 49:

  Rumour has it; Bey likes to snack on bananas dipped in tomato sauce. Weird flex but OK.

• 2020 May 27, Lauren O'Neill, “This Is Paul Mescal's Summer, We're Just Watching It”, in Vice‎^[3], archived from the original on 4 November 2020:

  b) Crabbie’s cider / Weird flex but OK.

• 2021 March 4, Ian ‘Ages’ Dransfield, “Backwards compatible”, in Wireframe, number 48, page 106:

  It’s not often ploughing through retro gaming elicits that sort of reaction, and I doubt it will come from many other machines – there are few big ones I’ve missed (Weird flex, but OK – Ed), so few opportunities to engage in an entirely new experience.