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  • oscarmeyer82@lemmy.world
    28·
    1 day ago

    I definitely associate FTW with ‘for the win’ first. Now I’m heading to wikipedia to read the disambiguation page to see what else it means.

    Edit: for the win, for those wondering, and fuck the world have wildly different meanings.

      • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
        15·
        1 day ago

        I’m positive it was “for the win” long before “fuck the world”. This sounds like Gen Z co-opting our acronym and gaslighting us into thinking we’re wrong, to me.

        • xylol@leminal.space
          3·
          1 day ago

          I guess it meant ‘forever two wheels’ or ‘fuck the world’ pre-internet. Im not sure exactly where i picked it up as fuck the world but thats just always what it meant to me growing up in the 90’s

          • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
            5·
            24 hours ago

            I’m an older millennial, and I definitely never heard it used for anything other than “for the win”, but if we’re talking pre-internet, it’s very possible that it was a regional thing. I don’t recall ever seeing the acronym pre-internet at all.

      • xylol@leminal.space
        2·
        1 day ago

        weird im also a millennial, I asked my brother who is older just now what FTW meant, and he said the same thing, fuck the world. we probably picked it up on tv at some point. looking it up it looks like it was a hell’s angels tattoo thing ‘forever two wheels, or fuck the world’

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      21 hours ago

      for the win, for those wondering, and fuck the world have wildly different meanings.

      Whereas “fuck the world for the win” is the general career strategy of Bonnie Blue.