adjective🔥 Gen-Z slang

chronically online

out of touch from too much internet

What it means

Describes someone so immersed in internet and social-media culture that they've lost touch with real-world norms. Their takes, references, or outrage only make sense in niche online spaces, not to regular people.

Examples

  • Getting mad about that tweet is so chronically online.
  • Only a chronically online person would understand that joke.
  • Touch grass, you're way too chronically online lately.
  • That discourse is peak chronically online behavior, honestly.

Where it comes from

Coined on Twitter and TikTok around 2021 to call out people whose worldviews are shaped entirely by internet subcultures, often tied to 'touch grass'.

Related slang

#touch grass#npc#yap#delulu

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