yassification
yassification noun: the process of making something relevant to or suggestive of LGBTQ+ culture.
Noun
yassification (countable and uncountable, plural yassifications)
- The process of making something relevant to or suggestive of LGBTQ+ culture.
- 2020 August 26, @puppyoveralls, “I’m choking on the yassification gas”, in Twitter, retrieved March 7, 2022.
- Referring to itself as the “yassification” of Wordle, this take on the original puzzle game asks you to guess words which have relevance to the LGBTQIA community.2022 February 15, Sian Bradley, “The Best Wordle Alternatives”, in Huddersfield Daily Examiner
- The act of beautification; (originally) applying several beauty filters to a picture using a photo-editing application.
- To yassify yourself and get stuck in with the yassification trend on Twitter, it’s kind of up to you on your best photo editing method. The most commonly used one, though, is FaceApp.2021 November 16, Harrison Brocklehurst, “Okay So What Is the ‘Yassification’ Trend on Twitter and How Do You ‘Yassify’ Yourself?”, in The Tab
- The Twitter account takes “yassification” requests and transforms people’s photos in the same glamorized fashion.2021 November 22, Stephen Yang, “Yassification: Contestation of the Extremes and the Binaries”, in The Cornell Daily Sun
Examples of yassification in a sentence
- Earlier I outlined the way “yaas” functioned as in-group slang, and then as a meme in the form of yassification.2023, Abbie Levesque DeCamp, Queer Memes: Forms and Communities of Composition (PhD dissertation), Northeastern University, →ISBN, page 114:
- All memes have a shelf life, and yassification fatigue has already set in.2021 November 24, Shane O’Neill, “What Does It Mean to ‘Yassify’ Anything?”, in The New York Times:
- The term "yassification" has been circulating in LGBTQ+ spaces on social media since 2020.2021 November 24, K-Ci Williams, “Yassification Memes Have Taken Over Twitter, Thanks Greatly to Yassify Bot”, in Teen Vogue:
- The idea that pop stars such as Lady Gaga would even need to go through yassification felt misogynistic to them.2021 November 25, Tom George, “Like Frankenstein and His Nonster, @yassifybot Regrets Yassification”, in i-D, archived from the original on...
Forms of yassification
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Origin of yassification
From yass + -ification. Attested on Twitter from August 2020 with a now-deleted reply by Twitter user @puppyoveralls.
Questions about yassification
- What does yassification mean?
- Yassification means the process of making something relevant to or suggestive of LGBTQ+ culture.
- How do you use yassification in a sentence?
- Earlier I outlined the way “yaas” functioned as in-group slang, and then as a meme in the form of yassification.
- What part of speech is yassification?
- Yassification is a noun.
- What is the plural of yassification?
- The plural of yassification is yassifications.
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