touch grass

What it means

A (usually teasing) command to go outside, take a break from the internet, and reconnect with the real world. It's often aimed at someone who's too deep into online arguments or terminally online behavior.

Examples

• You've been arguing about this for six hours, go touch grass.
• Bro needs to log off and touch grass for real.
• I've been gaming all weekend, time to touch some grass.
• Maybe if they touched grass they'd chill out a little.

Where it comes from

Emerged from gaming and meme culture (Reddit, Twitter) around 2020-2021, mocking people so glued to screens they should physically step outside and 'touch grass'.

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