Bae, as in baby, came into vogue via the bae caught me slippin meme-a selfie that’s meant to look as if one’s sweetheart actually snapped the picture. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Bae”
I’m running through my list of words that I’ve been collecting over the last 12 months.
And one of them that keeps popping up for me is bae, B-A-E.
B-A-E? I don’t know.
Yeah, it all started and turned into a meme because a woman posted a picture of herself with a caption called, bae caught me slipping.
And it was supposed to be, it’s a slang way of saying baby caught me sleeping.
But the problem was it was obvious from the photo, and I think she knew it, that she was taking the photo of herself and pretending that someone else was taking it.
Oh.
Right?
And presenting as if her sweetie somehow had caught this sweet picture of her sleeping.
And really you could see in the mirror that she took it herself.
Okay.
And this started this whole trend of people posting other similar photos, kind of building off of this theme, bay caught me this, bay caught me that,
And often using this irregular spelling instead of sleeping, spelling it slipping, instead of baby, spelling it bay, that sort of thing.
So anyway, I’m looking at bay.
What’s interesting, it actually has a life outside of this meme and this kind of pass-along photo thing that people are doing.
It’s a dialectic pronunciation of babe or baby.
So where kind of the latter sounds just kind of drop off bay.
You know, bay.
Yeah.
All right.
Okay.
Well, keep an eye on that.
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