Talk:Netflix and chill

RFV discussion: November 2015–April 2016

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Netflix and chill

I've heard this phrase, but I can't find any CFI-compliant cites. The definition also doesn't seem quite right (shouldn't it involve Netflix?), but cites should help clarify that, if they can be found. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 14:05, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

This is a neologism. I found one citation from 2015. We should be able to find more in a few weeks when it's 2016. Purplebackpack89 14:19, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

• (Edit conflict) This certainly won't pass CFI in the regular way, since it was only coined this year, so it should be at the very least a {{hot word}} Smurrayinchester (talk) 14:21, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

  I have tagged it as such. Purplebackpack89 14:50, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

• Know Your Meme has a tweet from October 2014, so it may be there are older citations out there. Keith the Koala (talk) 22:46, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Unfortunately not in BYU's GloWBE corpus of texts, which may be deemed durably archived. DCDuring TALK 00:37, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

• I will just note that the current citation "If you invite me to 'Netflix and chill,' that’s exactly what I’m going to do." uses it in the literal sense. Maybe we should focus on improving our entry for Netflix and save the subtext for when/if it becomes an established idiom rather than just a fad. --WikiTiki89 15:34, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
  • To the best of my knowledge, the current definition is correct without mentioning Netflix; it supposedly originated as a euphemism intended to disguise the true purpose of the visit from the ears of people who weren't supposed to know what was actually going to happen. But I'm in no position to provide CFI-compliant sources to verify that. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 15:45, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
    • I always thought it originated from someone inviting someone literally to watch Netflix and chill, with the hope or expectation that one thing would lead to another. --WikiTiki89 15:59, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
      • A euphemism could be used either way, I'd think. DCDuring TALK 16:02, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
        • I saw something like 'at my age, Netflix and chill actually means we're going to watch Netflix and chill'. It does seem real in the Facebook/Twitter domain but I don't know if it's really justifiable as a hot word. In this case 'don't know' kinda means 'let's keep it just in case'. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:04, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
• What makes the expression, either as verb or noun, Internet slang? DCDuring TALK 16:02, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
  • Nothing. If anything, it's more text messaging slang, i.e. somebody would send a text saying something along the lines of "Hey, wanna come over for Netflix and chill?" FWIW, this Halloween, a couple I knew dressed as...Netflix and chill (she as Netflix and he as chill). Purplebackpack89 16:29, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

This article may be of interest in resolving this discussion. Contrary to what is either stated or believed above, it apparently dates (on Twitter) to at least 2009, at least in its literal sense; the connotations seem to have emerged in 2014. Daniel Case (talk) 22:50, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

• RFV passed as a hot word. We can re-assess it next year. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 02:54, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

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