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"Sweet summer child" comes from game of thrones and I am sick of hearing it said unironically in public. It makes no sense outside of game of thrones. It is such a Reddit phrase. "Oh but banme actually it shows up-" it has been used in literature about 2 times before game of thrones and neither of those times with the meaning it has in public use and of course not! Because it doesn't make sense outside of game of thrones.
Might as well be out here exclaiming Excelsior or Bazinga
on one hand yeah but on the other it's one of the most basic 'human consuming art' things in the world, to take a phrase or an idea from the art and bring it with you into your day-to-day. 'sweet summer child' presumably took off because it's immediately digestible even without the context of game of thrones, despite the literal meaning depending on that worlds fantasy elements
doesn't mean it can't be annoying or cringe to you but it should be expected
Yeah it is very normal for people to do it and it makes sense and all that. I find it annoying still, mainly because
It would be like if "may the odds be ever in your favor" became a thing people just said
You really bazingaed with this comment.
I totally cowabungaed. turtle power. holds three fingers up and whistles that thing from the hunger games may the odds be ever in your favor
I've never seen GoT, didn't know it was from GoT, and it made perfect sense to me from the get-go. I will continue to say it and frankly you just sound like you're whining lmao
I am whining! I am whining about the phrase being used because it annoys me, that is what whining is. There's this weird cultural obsession with not having emotional reactions, to which I do not subscribe. The whole "oho you seem to care about something? What a loser!" Seems deeply toxic to me. Even when it's about pointless bs like this. It's a common trick used to belittle others, and thankfully it's against hexbears code of conduct now.
I feel like it's perfectly sensible on its own. Summer is childike, you think it's gonna be warm and bright forever, and winter is harsh reality that you become accustomed to with age. There are plenty more inane phrases that we treat as normal
It really doesn't make sense on it's own. You don't think its gonna be warm and bright forever, that connotation only exists because of game of thrones.
The life can be, and historically has be likened to the seasons of a year. Summer child in that respect is just to say one is young, but necessarily a child (spring), but still early enough in the year that days are long, nights are warm, and everything is generally enjoyable. And GoT is enjoyable media, and people are gonna take bits from it like they’ve been doing since 2000bc and before.
Oh wow I hadn't considered that, thank you so much for the insight
when you're a kid summer feels like forever
So does spring and winter and autumn.
Okay, but summer is warm and fun and the days literally last longer. Generally people want the nicer weather to stay around, especially when you're a kid and don't have to be in school.
This is much more justification than many other common phrases have. If it's still around in like 30 years no one's gonna care that it's from Gambo, much like no one now cares about the actual content of gangbusters, just that they can invoke it to suggest success and popularity
Yeah and winter has snowflakes which are fleeting and delicate and the days are ever so short making them even more fleeting. Spring is usually the season associated with youth. Autumn is harvest time, the time to feel your oats, the time for kids to go out and steal apples and other hijinks. There's justifications like that for every season to have that phrase.
You can look on google trends and see how usage of the phrase corresponds exactly with release of either a GoT book or show. When you sit down and actually think about how that phrase has come to mean what it does, it is asinine to insist it's from anywhere else, when you likewise look at how it shows up in literature and just regular communication. It's from game of thrones. And I'm allowed to be annoyed at a phrase from a piece of fiction I don't enjoy having entered popular parlance AND people insisting it's not from there being annoying to me too. That isn't some horrendous faux pas, it's not some massive fault of mine. I find it annoying, it is grating to me. You trying to explain how it isn't from Game of Thrones, despite the fact it is, doesn't make it less grating.
Oh I'm sorry I never meant to imply it's not from the show! It definitely is, I just feel like it stands pretty well on its own even removed from that context
Thanks for the clarification, i felt like i was going crazy lol. I feel like it stands fine on its own, which is why its seeing the adoption it is but it only makes sense (to be introduced initially) in a world like GoT. Im not phrasing myself very well, but I hope what I'm trying to say is conveyed
Pretty sure my grandma and mother said it often before got but im just a ssc or sweet summer child as it were.
Yeah, cause it sounds like something an old person would say.
worse, it's a redditism
Where do you think reddit got it from?