"Sít rít" is the Vietnamese translation of secret and "bốc quả sít rít" comes from the blind bag tearing trend - the blind box playing culture of young people. Initially, blind box players' picking a secret simply meant finding a rare version (secret) with an extremely low appearance rate.
However, the online community has transformed it into a way of speaking when accidentally falling into an unexpected situation, whether positive or unwanted, or even negative.
From receiving unexpected good news, buying something online and receiving a poor quality product, or suddenly receiving a request to be fired… all can become humorous and light-hearted in the eyes of netizens.
"When I go out, I only respect you" and "When I go out, you only respect me" are ways of saying to praise others in a humorous way. This saying comes from a chat between two friends when one person praised the other to borrow money. When a screenshot of the chat was posted online, the saying "When I go out, I only respect you" became a standard text when needing to flatter, praise or flatter someone close.
"Being an introvert for the rest of your life" describes when you encounter something that makes you feel ashamed, humiliated, and need to "hide" to avoid embarrassment. Introversion is used to refer to people with quiet, reserved personalities who are afraid to communicate, especially in crowded places. From this characteristic, netizens use the expression "being an introvert for the rest of their life" when falling into situations such as failed confessions, singing the wrong lyrics, raising your hand to speak but not correctly...
"Hiding from debt comfortably" is a joke of Gen Z when a person has a dramatic change in appearance. When getting a new hairstyle, transforming with makeup to the point that even the phone cannot recognize the face, changing style, getting a nose job... is enough to make the other person exclaim: "Hiding from debt comfortably" because Gen Z thinks that the creditor - the person who cares the most about the debtor - also does not recognize it.
"Neutralizing the general" is a gaming term that Gen Z has brought into everyday life. In many video games, a "general" is a player-controlled character with its own set of powers. When a "general" appears that is too strong, the publisher needs to adjust to reduce its ability or effectiveness to bring balance to the game.
With this frame of reference, young people bring out into the world and can consider anyone they appreciate as a "general". "Decreasing the general's power" means complimenting someone whose appearance, ability, education or actions are too outstanding, too excellent.
"Novels don't even dare to write male/female protagonists of this caliber" is a way of saying that someone is too comprehensive and excellent in appearance, personality, and ability. This saying comes from the main characters in novels, which are fictionalized to possess ideal circumstances and conditions to shine perfectly, which is hard to achieve in real life. When using "novels don't even dare to write male/female protagonists of this caliber", the speaker implies that the male/female in front of them has nothing to criticize.
Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/giam-suc-manh-con-tuong-huong-noi-het-phan-doi-con-lai-la-gi-2444942.html
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