So Last Year: 7 Phrases We Don't Want to See in 2019

Issa – #Issa vibe, Issa dimepiece, Issa (whatever)... It’s not anything but annoying. We need you to write the "i t apostrophe s" and call the thing what it is. But that’s the point, because we automatically know when someone uses this term, issa not the truth.

Broke the Internet – We are on the #Internet every day, and we are almost 100% certain that it’s not broken. In fact, if it really breaks, chaos would ensue. It would make international headline news and #Millennials everywhere would go into mass hysteria. If the Internet broke, we would have an information shutdown and suddenly go into the Dark Ages. If the Internet broke, we’d be without #Amazon, remote jobs and #YouTube videos, causing an economic meltdown. If the person, place or thing doesn’t cause any of the above incidents to occur, they did not “break” the Internet.

Clapped Back – Maybe it’s because we’re a part of Generation X, but when we hear this phrase, we automatically think of an STD (Google “the clap”). Like someone gave somebody an STD, and they politely gave it back. Or we think of a violent act involving a gun (Ja Rule, 2003). Whatever the case, somebody’s life is about to be ruined. But when we find out that “clapped back” simply means to voice one’s opinion and/or silence your critics, we thought it was a bit weak in comparison to what an actual clap back is capable of.

#Goals – This is usually accompanied with a hashtag underneath a photo that couldn’t be farther from the truth. We cringe when we see this, because a lot of these photos, pictures, relationships, people are really nothing to aspire to. Let’s take “goals” back and resurrect it to its original meaning of personal goal setting in 2019. Figure out what you want to achieve in your life, create your "big picture”, break these down into smaller targets, and start working to achieve them.

Dead – Generally followed by successive emojis of coffins and skulls. Here at Lani Bee, we believe that everything communicates, and words have power. Was that joke so funny that you wanted to die? Was the “clap back” so serious that you wanted to lay in a casket? Speak life over yourself. Speak positivity.

Sus – We honestly don’t quite know what this means! We’ve seen it referred to suspect individuals or situations, and we’ve seen it referred to people, as in a deviated form of “sis”. Either way, we just think it should be eliminated altogether in 2019. It’s a 3-letter word with no real purpose or meaning. Kill it with fire, and call people either “sis” or “suspect”, so they’ll know whether they’re a friend or an enemy.

Thank you, Next – Two words: Arianna Grande