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Looking through your Facebook feed is like entering the wilderness. It’s a sea of engagements, new babies and creepy right-leaning political rants. What do we call the sources of these things? Well, generally they’re people you went to high school with, the people from your hometown or the surrounding area and they’re just kinda there. Not necessarily friends, but not “enemies” either.
Well, Twitter has finally come up with a name for those people and it’s extremely fitting: locals.
Social media users may have noticed the term appearing on their Twitter timelines. It’s kinda tough to place at first, but its definition is one that hits you in the face once you get it.
Locals are the people you went to high school with who generally never left their area of origin. They tend to remain stuck in the past, meaning that they’re not super up with pop culture and tend to prefer to keep things very basic. They’re usually the ones getting married/engaged/pregnant, making strangely vague Facebook posts and talking about songs or artists that you’ve known about for a year. They’re putting photos of themselves kissing their significant others on Instagram, using Pinterest religiously and think Tinder is for “sluts.”
After reading a few of these tweets, you may have a better grasp of what exactly a local is. Here it is in a few sentences.
https://twitter.com/MADBLACKTHOT/status/935285114136821760
this guy put every single annoying combination of words into one tweet so locals would eat it up and it worked https://t.co/Gzj8ZkSJXa
— β§ (@mixedhunty) December 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/mamadulcee/status/937484215238537216
locals stop getting married challenge
— Djeaux Oui (@thottielamottie) December 4, 2017
locals: how come we never see you?
me: pic.twitter.com/gKE07KPBJ3— πππ―ππ₯ (@xfarahalyx) November 30, 2017
https://twitter.com/givenchyass/status/935983050541928449
https://twitter.com/punksdan/status/937322440287555584
https://twitter.com/_WhitneyJadee/status/936856802695639040
https://twitter.com/ravii97/status/936052131181842432
https://twitter.com/ahleeyou/status/935548744623382528
Locals b like brooo have u heard of 21 savage
— clai (@lnteIligents) November 27, 2017
Locals will tell you they only listen to βreal shitβ and then proceed to use the aux cord to play blackbear
— hell girl β‘ (@rugbrat69) November 29, 2017
me trying to seem engaged in the conversation when locals speak to me: pic.twitter.com/AufyKgI4JG
— queen quen (@quenblackwell) November 26, 2017
https://twitter.com/SK8TER_G1RL/status/935326728205012992
Now you know what’s been plaguing your Facebook: locals.
If you’re tired of seeing them, it just might be time to delete that social media app from your phone.
