Updated Featured Social Media Slang Words Quarter 01/2025

Let's take a look at Buzzmetrics 11 Social SlangsHighlights of the first 3 months of 2025 let's go through:

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1. What kind of rice isn't beautiful?

“What rice isn't beautiful?”, a social slang used to be. Buzzmetrics analysis in February, collected all 5,777,288 discussions. Although it exploded and peaked in discussion in mid-February, through March, social slang continued to remain hot with more than 1.5 million discussions.

In February, JSOL, Cris Phan and Han Sara were the celebrities who contributed to making social slang more viral. In March, social slang continued to be “used” by some celebrities such as Quang Hung MasterD and Son Tung M-TP for media posts.

2. Winning Life/Losing Life

“Winning/Losing Life” is a slang duo that emerged from the 2025 Chinese New Year. Initially, the slang duo was used to summarize or share memorable moments from the beginning of the year.

• “Victory” usually refers to a slight “flex” about personal fortunes.
• “Losing your life” is a way of “mocking” yourself in a humorous way in front of things that do not suit you.

Despite appearing for a relatively long time than the lifespan of a hot topic, the duo “Win Life/Lose Life” attracted 440,415 discussions in March. The social slang duo is commonly used in posts related to love.

3. +1 Machine

“+1 Machine” is the expression used to express the state of “I too...” — the same view, the same situation, or the same feelings as someone. The formula of this slang is extremely simple: “+1 Machine” + a prominent action/state of self, e.g.

• “+1 vomit machine to watch the parade”
• “+1 nyc camcorder”
• “+1 parking machine scholarship”

In Q1 2025, this slang recorded 1,971,111 discussions, mostly on TikTok. Thanks to its versatility, easy to understand, and easy to integrate into any context, “+1 Machine” is quickly widely used by the online community to share their personal stories.‍

4. Generations of whack-a-mole

The “laid-back generation” is the social slang used by many Gen Z youth to describe themselves: Young people who enter the labor market with a chill guy/laid-back style of communication. So far, the “slacker generation” has appeared in many different contexts: the generation that releases concerts, the generation that releases mothers, the generation that releases as teachers, etc. However, the phenomenon of the “release generation” has also caused controversy as older users claim that Gen Z guys get off in some serious, professional situations.

Social slang is the latest to appear (it began to emerge in the last week of March) but the “slacker generation” garnered 307,311 discussions.‍

5. Strainer

“Sít rào” is a Vietnamese social slang for “secret”. Initially, “squeaky” to speak of rare specimens, which have a very low rate of occurrence in the flow of tear of the blind bag. Spray strainers are used in both positive and negative cases:

• Positive: Encountering an unexpected happy event. For example, in the promotional journey for the film about Brother Say Hi, the Brothers would appear “by chance” in theaters to socialize with fans. Fans almost had to guess the identity of the Brother before the Brother came out, similar to tearing a blind bag.
• Negative: Having a bad luck or a secret of the sun. For example, many users have joked that the 2k7 class has hit “hard” with the new changes in the exam.

This social slang has appeared in the posts of many influencers such as singer My Tam, singer Duc Phuc, Hai Dang Doo, Duy Shen, Thu Beo U40,... During the measurement period, Buzzmetrics noted that the social slang “Slut” reached a total of 287,011 discussions.

6. Joke of the day

“Joke of the Day” is a social slang that is both funny and unpredictable, and the essence of “treeless” has stirred up a stir social networksfrom the middle of February this year. This Social Slang revolves around creative puns or inanimate “jasmine” jokes, for example:

• What is a senseless person who faints? → Faint Silver

• What is the play bee called? → Bee drama

“Joke of the Day” attracted 268,909 mentions in Q1 2025. In addition to creating jokes to swing the trend, the online community also enjoys the trend by saving aggregated articles to read gradually.

7th. I was born to honor each of you.

“I was born to each of you” is meant to express admiration and admiration for a certain character. “I was born in honor of each of you” is often used by plum expatriates in the following circumstances:

1. Expressing affection, liking for a celebrity or a phenomenon
2. “Betraying” other characters, daring to do things few people do

In statistical time, this social slang has received 160,182 discussions with TikTok as the main discussion platform.

8. Are you really saying that, Poet?

“Are you really saying that, Miss Poet?” which is a line from Aunt Tao, a character from the LGBT community in the film Osin Rebellion. The line is used by Aunt Tao to express her shocked attitude when Poet's character confesses that she is pregnant with her. Thanks to the humor of the scenes and the characters' natural expressions, Social Slang has gone viral on social networks. In the first three months of 2025, “Are you really talking, Mrs. Poe?” has attracted 135,837 discussions,

This social slang is used by the online community to express amazement at unbelievable, unexpected situations or “falling from the sky”. Thanks to the “drama queen” tone, the phrase is also used to increase the drama and humor of personal stories, video parodies, reactions and especially the headlines of entertainment news sites such as Theanh28 Entertainment, Insight Losing Heart, Showbiz Soot,...

9. Tyre Head

“Tire-head” is synonymous with “Michelin Boy”, also to refer to the “spare” boys in a relationship, willing to be on hand to wholeheartedly be beside the people they love. “Head tire” is widely used in the community of Manga - Anime lovers, the League of Legends game community.

Social slang “Tyre Chief” recorded 89,934 discussions during the measurement period, and TikTok was the main discussion platform.

10. Losing Gia Cat Amount Per Fan Plant

“Losing Gia Cat to Every Fan” is a social slang for praising the brilliant intelligence of a certain individual with a slightly prickly tone. Social slang has been used by some personal accounts in posts since January but until March, social slang has only started to become popular thanks to the popular post vocabulary of major entertainment sites such as Cheating Rent, My Saigon, TOP Comments,... Various variations of social slang have emerged, such as:

• Losing the King to Every Throne
• Losing Lee min coughs every face
• Lose Conan Every Miniature Pill

Besides entertainment pages, the fanpage with the green tick “Da Nang City Police” also surprised the “trend swing” with the article: The young man posted the clip holding the sword on social media, then declared “I was afraid not to post” and the end. It's true that this show only loses to Mr. Confucius by every fan!

In Q1 2025, social slang received a total of 48,634 discussions, with TikTok as the main discussion platform.

11. Michelin Boy

“Michelin Boy” is a fun way of calling guys who are always “behind” waiting, ready to “substitute” when a love affair breaks down. Some netizens often mistake Michelin for cooking, but in fact, in this context, Michelin is the name of a manufacturer of quality tires. “Michelin Boy” is often used by netizens in a somewhat sarcastic tone, somewhat sympathetic to the guys who are “behind” in love.

According to Buzzmetrics, this social slang received 47,262 discussions during the measurement period.

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