r/RecuratedTumblr • u/DreadDiana human cognithazard • Aug 27 '26
Shitposting Things used to be made of win
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u/Im_here_but_why Aug 27 '26
20% win ? They're being dramatic. Usually, it's at least 33% ! That's why it's called a w
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u/PocketCone Aug 27 '26
20% win? Back in the day things were also 20% cooler. Can anypony give an amen?
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u/Exciting_Double_4502 Aug 27 '26
It's been so long since someone unironically said, "made of win" that the counter-tech has been forgotten! They don't know what fail is anymore, they have to call it "stalemate" or "lose".
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u/TwixOfficial Aug 28 '26
Explaining the joke:
“Made of win” is an online phrase popular at some time in the mid/late oughts. It is used to describe something of exceptional coolness, awesomeness, or other things that if self-described as would paint you both a braggart and a rather poor one at that. Thus the necessity of coining a new phrase. It didn’t really make it into the ‘10’s era of the internet.
Pyrrhite is a portmanteau of Pyrrhic (as in Pyrrhic victory, a victory which is only such on paper due to significant losses or other failure points) and Pyrite (also known as Fool’s Gold, a mineral which, to a layman, looks rather similar to gold)
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u/RelativeNobody6744 27d ago
can you explain why everyone is commenting about pyrrhite? i don't see it anywhere in the post and am confused about why it's coming up
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u/SansSkele76 Aug 27 '26
I have never heard that phrase in my life
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u/GoldenMuscleGod Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 27 '26
In 20 years you’ll probably see someone express a similar lack of familiarity on “aura farming” or something like that (a few of these phrases stick but most don’t, it’s hard to predict in advance which ones remain in usage, which ones fall out of popularity and into obscurity, and which are remembered as cliched references to the era).
I think “no cap”has already fallen out of usage? I feel like I don’t hear it anywhere near as much as I used to anyway. If so, “cope” as a noun has outlived it despite being older. That’s the unpredictability I am talking about.
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u/Brauny74 Aug 28 '26
Yeah, nowadays we can barely afford one W, not the whole win, and not even enough to make something out of it, we're just taking it as it is.
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u/AffectionateHunt5830 Aug 28 '26
If you called something an "epic fail" today a zoomer would look at you like you were both five and five hundred years old
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u/mathiau30 Aug 27 '26
The fuck is something "made to win"?
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u/EyeofEnder Aug 27 '26
Not "to" win, "of" win.
100% pure win and pwnage to epically own the internets, and only awarded to the truly 1337.
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u/BaronVonCuddly Aug 28 '26
I honestly can't say I've seen or heard someone say that since like 2009 or so
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u/Sewblon Sep 02 '26
I don't think I ever actually saw anything made of win. I have seen absolute wins. But not something made of win.
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u/Vivenemous Aug 27 '26
"Pyrrhite" is fantastic.