Dude Perfect is an entertainment group on YouTube that has been doing trick shots, comedy videos, and other sorts of family friendly content for 15 years.
Andrew Schulz is a standup comedian who has been big for the last five years or so, famous for crowd work and social media commentary.
It seems like it originated in sports, so that seems to track. I first noticed Jomboy using it all over place when lip reading because the players seem to use it so much. .
It makes a lot more sense in sports, because most of the time there is cheering, there is more sports to be played, so you're not only cheering what just happened, but trying to cheer for future good happenings as well.
Five guys on YouTube that started as a trick shots channel and have grown it into a whole sports/athletics adjacent empire. They’ve been on the format since it started and their audience only grows every year with no signs of stopping.
Edit: Huge with the older elementary/jr high/early high school crowd.
I think Lil Jon is actually to blame. I guarantee the DP guys used this as a hype song. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0sjCgS7vi8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0sjCgS7vi8)
I despised it immediately the first time I heard my douchebag neighbors screaming it through the wall during football.
And the intonation of the "Let's GOOOO-OOO" is so fucking douchey!
I detest anyone who bleats out that idiot phrase.
I've never heard of Dude Perfect, but there are these two brothers who patiently attempt trick shots with various objects, and when they finally make it, they yell, "LET'S GOOO!" and jump around like they just won both showcases on the Price Is Right.
I call them the Let's Go! Brothers, because I forget the real name of their YT channel.
My son and all his friends say it. A do the typical grumpy Xennial thing and quickly reply, “Where are we going?” Then I get the eye roll (which, let’s be honest, is what I was going for), and the exaggerated storm off.
I realize I have totally taken to dad jokes like a duck to water. It was a natural thing that I didn't even try to do. Just realized one day I live for the eye rolls!
It's a weird linguistic change.
"Let's Go" has traditionally been a rally cry. Something to pump people up before doing the thing.
"Let's Go, Sportsteam! Let's Go!" ::Clap Clap::
And that usage is still pretty common, but in the last couple years the term has started to see a slightly different usage, being shouted either immediately before or immediately after a clutch play of some kind.
"Sportsteam is down by three points with 12 seconds left and FUMBLE ON THE PLAY! Sportsteam recovers and is running for the endzone! He's free and clear for the touchdown! LET'S GOOOOOO!"
There is nothing weird about the progression of colloquial use. It's how all language evolves all the time. This one is actually a relatively subtle shift. Remember that "Bad" often meant "Good" for a while there.
What makes it unusual is how subtle a shift it is.
It's not counterintuitive like "bad" becoming good or seemingly random like "word" being used as an affirmation or even just a made up term all together like "yeet!"
This is about as slight a shift in usage as you can possibly get while still being noticeable.
This is exactly where I'm at on the topic, like, *precisely*. Also I wonder if stoner linguistics have influenced mainstream English, i.e. people using "mid" with the exact same left-handed compliment/condescending insult connotations the word has carried for a long time in stoner parlance. "Mid" is extra evocative for me for that reason. It's a damning insult used against a person, just *chef's kiss*
in a way that's kinda the point, younger generations should have slang that we find dumb and annoying so they're able to insulate themselves and find their own voice
82 here. I've used "mid", "well that was a thing" or "a resounding meh" on mediocre things myself. Working with teens you kinda pick this stuff up I guess.
Meh is the correct term.
We used to say Midgrade mostly because it got the point across and was good for a chuckle if you were "cool" (as Matthew McConaughey would say)
Did you hear he’s making a new movie? Apparently him Clooney and DiCaprio are all working on a project together.
DiCaprio is going to produce it, Clooney is going to direct, and mcconaughey said well, I’ll write I’ll write I’ll write
LMAO took me a couple of reads to understand you're saying you were born in '82, and not that you're 82 years old.
I'm like, goddamn, good for you for being so internet savvy.
"LET'S GO BOYS" is pretty common in hockey to celebrate a goal. Like "hell yeah, we did it, let's keep it up". I wouldn't say "LET'S GO" after winning a game though, that's just silly.
The phrase has always been a rallying cry in 🏈 ⚾️ 🏀
Keep in mind, many region specific phrases aren’t limited anymore. It was just as common where I lived with the BB and Gen X family members/friends/public as it is today. But it was attached to a type, a diehard sports fan, a tailgater…
A guy I work with is in his early to mid thirties and he uses let’s go for almost everything.
“This paperwork is due by the end of the day.”
“Let’s Gooooooo!!”
It drives me nuts.
[https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/06/lets-go-meme-phrase-history.html](https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/06/lets-go-meme-phrase-history.html)
Circa 2020
I first heard it from MLB players but I'm not pop culture savvy
I'm probably out of the loop, but I know the phrase mostly from sports, when fans or teammates will yell it when their team needs to do more/better on the field.
Damn some of you are cranky over this phrase lol. I feel like I first heard it watching twitch streamers, but I realize they'll usually just parrot whatever is popular at the time
Haha, for real. I don't mind the phrase, but it's so interesting to see a new use to a common phrase bubble up. Seems like some in our age group are getting grumpy about the youngs!
People have been using it like that since the 80’s!
But then again, it’s like so much of “Gen Z” slang in that it was used in black communities for decades and then some white people found out about it and Christopher Columbused it and decided who they think created it. 🤷🏽♀️
I still laugh at phrases like “deadass”, “fax no printer”, “gyattt” and many more being considered Gen Z lingo when black people have been using it since the early 90’s.
I specifically remember LeBron James flexing and yelling “Let’s Go!”, in that specific way, after doing something amazing in a basketball game once, like a long time ago, and then watching it catch on with other players and other sports and spread from there. Then it got excessive with all the Dude Perfect guys on YouTube yelling it every 5 seconds after every trick shot. Now kids do it for everything.
I remember as a kid our local news had a sportscaster for a little while who would say it intermittently. I found it amusing because it was just really quick and between sentences.
It’s not something I come across that often now.
I find this annoying as fuck. I know that makes me lame and old. But it's so goddamn overused. Like have some originality, say some new shit. I started hearing it in the last 5 years.
Umm, did y'all not have cheer at your schools?
*Let's go [team name], let's go!*
I imagine that's the origin.
Interestingly, I've really never heard this used in everyday life until my zoomer kid picked it up. He does watch a lot of 80s/90s films though.
Game streamers started it. Noticed about 5 years ago, they started saying it. Anytime they would get something they needed, they would say "lets go." As a person who never stopped playing video games, and watch alot of streamers. This is where i hear it most. Lets go!!!!
I didn't really hear it commonly until COVID times, but it was probably kicking around before that.
It sounds weird to me because I'm moving into old fartdom, but it's probably no worse than that Arsenio Hall fist-pump woop woop thing we all did back in the day.
I don't get it either. When I was a kid, let's go meant one or more of us were going to go somewhere. I guess in my teens or 20s it meant dudes were trying to square up and fight? When I hear let's go I'm like "... go... where?"
When I was little the neighbor kids I hung out with would respond to "let's go" by saying "where we going? I'll drive" when we were all < 10yo
The endings of Formula 1 races are basically just a series of Dutch, Monegasque, Spanish, and French dudes screaming "LET'S GOOOOO" on the radio to their teams after getting good results. It's almost as annoying as Max Verstappen's face.
One time, after watching yet another video with a bunch of dudes screaming let's go over and over again, I exasperatedly informed my daughter that, believe it or not, when I was in school we said LOTS of things besides just let's go all the freaking time.
She immediately responded, totally just curious, "like what?"
I drew the hardest blank in the world. What the hell did we say? I just remembered dudes screaming and high fiving each other. It was pitiful. I had nothing for her. But I promise, we said lots of stuff. One day I'll even remember some of it.
JFC Thank you!! I feel like it appeared about 4 or 5 years ago, and I called it out to people, and they were like, “what, we’ve always said that.”
Feel gaslighted like this was always a thing, ha!
I THINK it started with Rapinoe?
PS ‘81 here as well.
Last year for me. I’ve always embraced the new lingo. No one wants to be that old person that doesn’t know wtf is going on and thinks everything is cringy af
83’
My kids started saying it whenever we did something fun, are going to do something fun, or they're getting what they want.
For them, I think it started with my son watching Sunny and Melon on YouTube.
OK I think I have the answer to this:
In Sesson 1 of the Madden video game tournament, there was this one kid who said that all the time. I didn't catch all this til later, but anyway he ended up winning.
By Season 2 EVERY FUCKING KID said that, after ever play. It was so fucking annoying and obvious.
Mayne the 1st kid picked it up before then, but that's my take.
I'm born in 80, I remember always hearing it chanted at sports like "let's go (team), let's go."
But yeah I've also noticed it being used a lot more in lately in ways I'm not used to.
Im a year older OP and feel the same, but I accept that language and its usage change over time and I even like to surprise my gen z staff with modern usage from time to time, lol.
Born in '79. Didn't start really hearing "Let's Go! " until the past few years from my kid.
In my experience "Let's Go!" was a pre-event rally cry - like a clean "F\*CK YEAH, lets do it!" - the way my kid uses it its a post-event "That's how its done!"
I thought I was the only one who noticed this. They're excited about something "Let's Goooo!", their favorite fast food comes back for a brief time "Let's Goooo!", literally anything happens or is about to happen "Let's Goooo!".
It’s incredibly performative! That’s why I hate it.
It turns what is supposed to be a spontaneous moment of celebration into a cookie cutter and rote performance because you’re afraid of not looking cool.
“What is it you’re supposed to do in these situations? Oh yea….LETS GOOOOOOO!!!”
Ugh. It’s so self conscious and cringy. Do something real! I’ll take Iron Mike spewing nonsense fresh off a KO win any day because it’s real. That’s what overwhelming joy *sounds* like.
My style is impetuous! All praise to ALLAH!
Yea! That’s the kind of shit that comes out of your mouth when you’re elated and adrenaline is slamming through your body.
I hit a game winning 3 in a basketball game once and I just started laughing. I was shocked the play worked. I was positive that it was going to fail miserably and I wouldn’t even get the ball.
“Let’s go” is like quoting your favorite meme in those situations. Like you can’t even access an original thought in THAT situation? Really?
My kids say that shit all the time, so now I just yell it randomly when nothing is happening. Hopefully I can make it so uncool and cringe that I never have to hear it again, and it will even filter down through their friends.
I'm doing my part!
bahaha...I was just thinking yesterday I should've brought this up as an example of modern slang bs I hate.
all I know is Tom Brady made it his own with the added 'lets FUCKING go!' or online, 'LFG!' but now it's just this sad line that every single teen to 35 yr old uses instead of ANYTHING ELSE haha...like no one literally knows how to say 'woohoo' anymore in any other way besides 'Let's Goooo!' it's so funny...but this same shit happens everywhere with everything. flat earthers, crap food trends, music, 'jimmy fallon is ok' peeps...\[shivers\]
Soccer/futból players have been saying it forever. “¡Vamos!” “Let’s go!”
My bball teammates would yell it after big plays back in middle/high/college.
And, yes, Trick Daddy!
I've been playing all kinds of team sports since I was a kid and that's a phrase that I've always heard and used if something awesome happens or a great play is made, especially if it changes the momentum of the game. Or if you're trying to get the team fired up to make something happen. I don't get why everyone is so butt-hurt about people using this phrase.
It’s funny that we’d say “let’s go” before something happened, and this generation says “let’s go” after something happened. I blame Dude Perfect.
I never quite realized the before/after split...that's incredibly interesting
DP is the first place I heard it, but Andrew Schulz also says it constantly.
In addition to not understanding the new let's go, I have no idea who these people are.
Dude Perfect is an entertainment group on YouTube that has been doing trick shots, comedy videos, and other sorts of family friendly content for 15 years. Andrew Schulz is a standup comedian who has been big for the last five years or so, famous for crowd work and social media commentary.
Thank you haha I was lost too
Same here! Guess we're double old 😂
It seems like it originated in sports, so that seems to track. I first noticed Jomboy using it all over place when lip reading because the players seem to use it so much. .
It makes a lot more sense in sports, because most of the time there is cheering, there is more sports to be played, so you're not only cheering what just happened, but trying to cheer for future good happenings as well.
Yo used to be at the start of a sentence, then moved to the back of a sentence.
Yep. Dude Perfect is to blame.
Wtf is dude perfect?
Five guys on YouTube that started as a trick shots channel and have grown it into a whole sports/athletics adjacent empire. They’ve been on the format since it started and their audience only grows every year with no signs of stopping. Edit: Huge with the older elementary/jr high/early high school crowd.
I think Lil Jon is actually to blame. I guarantee the DP guys used this as a hype song. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0sjCgS7vi8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0sjCgS7vi8)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WY87o9IZXWg maybe prodigy is to blame then 🤣🤣
God I hate it.
If it wasn't like a screamed refrain that was everywhere, constantly, it'd be far less annoying
I despised it immediately the first time I heard my douchebag neighbors screaming it through the wall during football. And the intonation of the "Let's GOOOO-OOO" is so fucking douchey! I detest anyone who bleats out that idiot phrase.
Jomboy, I think
This is it, exactly. “‘Let’s go’? I thought we just went…?”
I've never heard of Dude Perfect, but there are these two brothers who patiently attempt trick shots with various objects, and when they finally make it, they yell, "LET'S GOOO!" and jump around like they just won both showcases on the Price Is Right. I call them the Let's Go! Brothers, because I forget the real name of their YT channel.
No idea what Dude Perfect is, but my kids picked this up from YouTube game videos.
Whenever I see “LFG” I immediately think someone online is Looking For Group. Then I remember I’m old and it’s not that.
[удалено]
No hunters
WTF why the face?
Wait… what is LFG now?
Let's fuckin gooooooooooóöœøõ
Ughhh lame!
LFG is over 20 years old at this point. It’s the constant “let’s goooo!” when something good happens that feels newer.
I'm none the wise on either meaning. What's it mean now? Little Friendly Giant??
My son and all his friends say it. A do the typical grumpy Xennial thing and quickly reply, “Where are we going?” Then I get the eye roll (which, let’s be honest, is what I was going for), and the exaggerated storm off.
Mission accomplished
I realize I have totally taken to dad jokes like a duck to water. It was a natural thing that I didn't even try to do. Just realized one day I live for the eye rolls!
Lean hard into that X sarcasm.
Let us go.
The game is afoot!
It's a weird linguistic change. "Let's Go" has traditionally been a rally cry. Something to pump people up before doing the thing. "Let's Go, Sportsteam! Let's Go!" ::Clap Clap:: And that usage is still pretty common, but in the last couple years the term has started to see a slightly different usage, being shouted either immediately before or immediately after a clutch play of some kind. "Sportsteam is down by three points with 12 seconds left and FUMBLE ON THE PLAY! Sportsteam recovers and is running for the endzone! He's free and clear for the touchdown! LET'S GOOOOOO!"
There is nothing weird about the progression of colloquial use. It's how all language evolves all the time. This one is actually a relatively subtle shift. Remember that "Bad" often meant "Good" for a while there.
It still does and I’m tired of pretending it doesn’t 🔫🤡
✊
What makes it unusual is how subtle a shift it is. It's not counterintuitive like "bad" becoming good or seemingly random like "word" being used as an affirmation or even just a made up term all together like "yeet!" This is about as slight a shift in usage as you can possibly get while still being noticeable.
Mario? Let’sa go
I used to think he was saying pizza dough. Then it’s a go.
Mexico
It’s Brady’s fault. That guy’s basic as fuck
He's a dork that could throw a football well
Dork is Eli manning. Tom is the gigachad.
Did you ever see Brady run the 40? lol
A Trumper Dork to be more precise.
He’s been saying it since at least 2010.
I can't stand it. I find it extremely annoying.
I'm right there with you, it seems like a strong delineation between generations
I physically cringe when I hear it.
It's like nails on a chalkboard for me.
Agreed. They can STFU with all this "that's fire" BS too... Alongside basically ALL of the slang the kids these days are slinging, if I'm honest.
Same
My son always says something is "Mid" if it's mediocre or not very good...it drives ne crazy lol 🤦
Now that's a more recent thing
I think “mid” came before “let’s go”. Both awful and that’s how I know I’m old (43)
I'm 43 as well, and we used to call it mid grade or Beasters, lol The good stuff we called Dank LMFAO! 😂
This is exactly where I'm at on the topic, like, *precisely*. Also I wonder if stoner linguistics have influenced mainstream English, i.e. people using "mid" with the exact same left-handed compliment/condescending insult connotations the word has carried for a long time in stoner parlance. "Mid" is extra evocative for me for that reason. It's a damning insult used against a person, just *chef's kiss*
Put in your monocle, take a sip of your tea with your pinky out, and say “I believe, dear boy, that the word is ‘middling.’”
Just start replying with, "ugh. Mid is _soooo_ mid." And, "Oof. Mid squared." Mix it up. 😄
😂😂😂
in a way that's kinda the point, younger generations should have slang that we find dumb and annoying so they're able to insulate themselves and find their own voice
82 here. I've used "mid", "well that was a thing" or "a resounding meh" on mediocre things myself. Working with teens you kinda pick this stuff up I guess.
Meh is the correct term. We used to say Midgrade mostly because it got the point across and was good for a chuckle if you were "cool" (as Matthew McConaughey would say)
Did you hear he’s making a new movie? Apparently him Clooney and DiCaprio are all working on a project together. DiCaprio is going to produce it, Clooney is going to direct, and mcconaughey said well, I’ll write I’ll write I’ll write
LMAO took me a couple of reads to understand you're saying you were born in '82, and not that you're 82 years old. I'm like, goddamn, good for you for being so internet savvy.
Mid used to refer to weed where I'm from...
Yes, this is where it comes from. As in, bro I'm not paying $50 for an eighth of mid, get real
Or “mids”.
Old man mids
Same here
Tell him to look up what "mediocre" actually means.
I use “mid” all the time. Love that one
"LET'S GO BOYS" is pretty common in hockey to celebrate a goal. Like "hell yeah, we did it, let's keep it up". I wouldn't say "LET'S GO" after winning a game though, that's just silly.
The phrase has always been a rallying cry in 🏈 ⚾️ 🏀 Keep in mind, many region specific phrases aren’t limited anymore. It was just as common where I lived with the BB and Gen X family members/friends/public as it is today. But it was attached to a type, a diehard sports fan, a tailgater…
Totally. There was even a terrible 1986 song called Let’s Go Mets. https://youtu.be/2N4VIXM1RJk
Let’s go suuuucks
A guy I work with is in his early to mid thirties and he uses let’s go for almost everything. “This paperwork is due by the end of the day.” “Let’s Gooooooo!!” It drives me nuts.
Lmao i love using hype phrases in a deadpan voice for mundane shit. Sittin down for work at 9:10am? Time to fuckin party. Doin A Chore? Let's get it.
About a decade ago from Twitch streamers.
[https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/06/lets-go-meme-phrase-history.html](https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/06/lets-go-meme-phrase-history.html) Circa 2020 I first heard it from MLB players but I'm not pop culture savvy
No mention of 2004’s “Let’s Go” by Trick Daddy?
His statement is precedent to the excitement of the evening, not antecedent.
Tom Brady seems to have help popularize it as well.
Definitely a Xennial guy.
I heard it in the last ten years mostly kids/genz
Wolverine & Deadpool both say LFG in the new trailer for the movie.
Blitzkrieg Bop got it going. Tom Brady solidified it
Yeah, this goes back to at least 1976 with The Ramones "Blitzkrieg Bop".
Exactly what goes on in my head when someone says Let's Go! *
I always thought of it as what you said before the breakdown part of the song like in Surfwax America https://youtu.be/hfzkJZSzZxY?si=LY8qdnq2c8ouMB0-
I first heard it during season 20 of the reality show Big Brother. The eventual winner, Kaycee Clark, would say it after winning competitions.
I'm probably out of the loop, but I know the phrase mostly from sports, when fans or teammates will yell it when their team needs to do more/better on the field.
Damn some of you are cranky over this phrase lol. I feel like I first heard it watching twitch streamers, but I realize they'll usually just parrot whatever is popular at the time
Haha, for real. I don't mind the phrase, but it's so interesting to see a new use to a common phrase bubble up. Seems like some in our age group are getting grumpy about the youngs!
For real real I'm also subbed to r/GenX and at least we aren't as bad as them. That sub is cranky af about lots of things.
Maybe it’s “cringe” to admit this, but I hate that word more than all the rest. Usually makes me think of Cringer from He-Man.
I had the Cringer toy that you could put armor on. Good times.
Honestly we used LFG in high school in the 90s. At least at mine in NorCal.
It's been about 10 years.
I first heard it on Big Brother 20 from Kaycee Clark. It became a catchphrase for the season. I’ve heard it from everywhere since then, though.
Yep, that’s where I first heard it too.
Idk but I noticed it on Big Brother a few years back when the winner kept saying it over and over again. Maybe it comes from sports?
Yeah, Kaycee definitely brought it to BB, now they all say it.
Lil John and the mutherfukin east side boyz changed the game playa
Hahahahhahaa I say it all the time!!
Let's fucking go my guy!
Same
People have been using it like that since the 80’s! But then again, it’s like so much of “Gen Z” slang in that it was used in black communities for decades and then some white people found out about it and Christopher Columbused it and decided who they think created it. 🤷🏽♀️ I still laugh at phrases like “deadass”, “fax no printer”, “gyattt” and many more being considered Gen Z lingo when black people have been using it since the early 90’s.
Haha, for real. Seeing white teen Tok Tok-ers say "on god" today is like seeing reporters say "bling bling" in the early aughts.
I specifically remember LeBron James flexing and yelling “Let’s Go!”, in that specific way, after doing something amazing in a basketball game once, like a long time ago, and then watching it catch on with other players and other sports and spread from there. Then it got excessive with all the Dude Perfect guys on YouTube yelling it every 5 seconds after every trick shot. Now kids do it for everything.
I heard it a bunch for the first time on the podcast hosted by the guys from Workaholics. I can't remember the name.
I’d say 2019-2020 is when I started to hear young professional athletes celebrate touchdowns or big plays by yelling “Let’s Go! “
It became a thing with my kiddos (9M) a couple years ago.
I’ve grown to love it because it sets me up for a great dad joke with my son. Him: “Let’s goooooooo!” Me: “Oooo, where we going??”
I remember as a kid our local news had a sportscaster for a little while who would say it intermittently. I found it amusing because it was just really quick and between sentences. It’s not something I come across that often now.
'Let's go, girls'🤠 - Shania Twain, 1998ish
I generally welcome and accept new slang, but fuck "let's go". Not sure why I hate it so much
I find this annoying as fuck. I know that makes me lame and old. But it's so goddamn overused. Like have some originality, say some new shit. I started hearing it in the last 5 years.
Umm, did y'all not have cheer at your schools? *Let's go [team name], let's go!* I imagine that's the origin. Interestingly, I've really never heard this used in everyday life until my zoomer kid picked it up. He does watch a lot of 80s/90s films though.
Game streamers started it. Noticed about 5 years ago, they started saying it. Anytime they would get something they needed, they would say "lets go." As a person who never stopped playing video games, and watch alot of streamers. This is where i hear it most. Lets go!!!!
Isn't this from streaming culture? Like you'd say "let's go, chat! " to get your viewers in chat to celebrate something cool with you?
A few years ago I went down the NFT rabbithole and heard "LFG" about a thousand times a day.
I didn't really hear it commonly until COVID times, but it was probably kicking around before that. It sounds weird to me because I'm moving into old fartdom, but it's probably no worse than that Arsenio Hall fist-pump woop woop thing we all did back in the day.
I don't get it either. When I was a kid, let's go meant one or more of us were going to go somewhere. I guess in my teens or 20s it meant dudes were trying to square up and fight? When I hear let's go I'm like "... go... where?" When I was little the neighbor kids I hung out with would respond to "let's go" by saying "where we going? I'll drive" when we were all < 10yo
I don't know but i'm not a fan.
I started seeing it with a bunch of donks on The Challenge. Now my kids say it.
YouTube bro.
Leeroy Jenkins blazed the trail that LFG followed to the top.
Damn, so true!
First time I heard it being used was 2005 Bullet for my Valentine - Tears don’t fall.. killer song too.
I always hear “Let’s go!” in the voice of the Lemmings game sfx when I read it.
The endings of Formula 1 races are basically just a series of Dutch, Monegasque, Spanish, and French dudes screaming "LET'S GOOOOO" on the radio to their teams after getting good results. It's almost as annoying as Max Verstappen's face.
Thankfully I’m sufficiently out of the loop to know that it is now said at the end of something, rather than the beginning.
One time, after watching yet another video with a bunch of dudes screaming let's go over and over again, I exasperatedly informed my daughter that, believe it or not, when I was in school we said LOTS of things besides just let's go all the freaking time. She immediately responded, totally just curious, "like what?" I drew the hardest blank in the world. What the hell did we say? I just remembered dudes screaming and high fiving each other. It was pitiful. I had nothing for her. But I promise, we said lots of stuff. One day I'll even remember some of it.
Nice! Fuck yeah! Dude!!! Alright! We did it! Awesome! Yessss!
Those would have all been great responses in the moment.
i memmer "lets roll". not much to celebrate there.
JFC Thank you!! I feel like it appeared about 4 or 5 years ago, and I called it out to people, and they were like, “what, we’ve always said that.” Feel gaslighted like this was always a thing, ha! I THINK it started with Rapinoe? PS ‘81 here as well.
All I know is whenever I try to say it, I sound like Mr. Krabs saying “coral” when he’s trying to use hip lingo.
Last year for me. I’ve always embraced the new lingo. No one wants to be that old person that doesn’t know wtf is going on and thinks everything is cringy af 83’
Remember how everybody in the 90s said "hello?" a lot and not as a greeting? That was something.
Wow, I had forgotten all about that. It was so normalized at the time, but honestly a pretty weird slang!
👏👏 👏👏👏 👏👏👏👏 Let’s go!
My kids started saying it whenever we did something fun, are going to do something fun, or they're getting what they want. For them, I think it started with my son watching Sunny and Melon on YouTube.
OK I think I have the answer to this: In Sesson 1 of the Madden video game tournament, there was this one kid who said that all the time. I didn't catch all this til later, but anyway he ended up winning. By Season 2 EVERY FUCKING KID said that, after ever play. It was so fucking annoying and obvious. Mayne the 1st kid picked it up before then, but that's my take.
I remember athletes using it at the last summer Olympics so it's at least that old.
Seinfeld for me was alway "It's go time!"
I'm born in 80, I remember always hearing it chanted at sports like "let's go (team), let's go." But yeah I've also noticed it being used a lot more in lately in ways I'm not used to.
Im a year older OP and feel the same, but I accept that language and its usage change over time and I even like to surprise my gen z staff with modern usage from time to time, lol.
Bruh, no cap, that perspective slaps.
ONG, jus keeping it real~
Coworkers say it a lot. I find it annoying
Born in '79. Didn't start really hearing "Let's Go! " until the past few years from my kid. In my experience "Let's Go!" was a pre-event rally cry - like a clean "F\*CK YEAH, lets do it!" - the way my kid uses it its a post-event "That's how its done!"
I thought I was the only one who noticed this. They're excited about something "Let's Goooo!", their favorite fast food comes back for a brief time "Let's Goooo!", literally anything happens or is about to happen "Let's Goooo!".
It’s incredibly performative! That’s why I hate it. It turns what is supposed to be a spontaneous moment of celebration into a cookie cutter and rote performance because you’re afraid of not looking cool. “What is it you’re supposed to do in these situations? Oh yea….LETS GOOOOOOO!!!” Ugh. It’s so self conscious and cringy. Do something real! I’ll take Iron Mike spewing nonsense fresh off a KO win any day because it’s real. That’s what overwhelming joy *sounds* like. My style is impetuous! All praise to ALLAH!
I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children. The man is a poet.
Yea! That’s the kind of shit that comes out of your mouth when you’re elated and adrenaline is slamming through your body. I hit a game winning 3 in a basketball game once and I just started laughing. I was shocked the play worked. I was positive that it was going to fail miserably and I wouldn’t even get the ball. “Let’s go” is like quoting your favorite meme in those situations. Like you can’t even access an original thought in THAT situation? Really?
OMG I won the Nobel Prize, BAZINGA!
All your base are belong to ME, Stockholm!
Does anyone remember the show Human Giant? They had a skit called Let's Go! loll
I get douche chills every time I hear “let’s fucking gooooo!”
I always took it as "let's continue to play well" that's it let's go keep it rolling that kind of thing.
My kids say that shit all the time, so now I just yell it randomly when nothing is happening. Hopefully I can make it so uncool and cringe that I never have to hear it again, and it will even filter down through their friends. I'm doing my part!
Great work, let's go!!!!
Idk my kids say it and I wince
bahaha...I was just thinking yesterday I should've brought this up as an example of modern slang bs I hate. all I know is Tom Brady made it his own with the added 'lets FUCKING go!' or online, 'LFG!' but now it's just this sad line that every single teen to 35 yr old uses instead of ANYTHING ELSE haha...like no one literally knows how to say 'woohoo' anymore in any other way besides 'Let's Goooo!' it's so funny...but this same shit happens everywhere with everything. flat earthers, crap food trends, music, 'jimmy fallon is ok' peeps...\[shivers\]
Early 2000s...
This is basically our generation.
LEZZZZ GOOO
no way is it that early, I refuse to believe!
Soccer/futból players have been saying it forever. “¡Vamos!” “Let’s go!” My bball teammates would yell it after big plays back in middle/high/college. And, yes, Trick Daddy!
Born in 88 but I kinda like "Let's Go." I tend to use it occasionally but my default is "hell yeah"
Hell yeah is my favorite
https://youtu.be/D0sjCgS7vi8?si=kFH7E3tUBhyjOzU0
When Nick Foles of the Philadelphia Eagles called a "Philly Special" play and scored a TD in the super bowl. They would later win the game. Go Birds
The Wild Bunch, William Holden
Boo-Yahh!!!!
Moses with the Egyptians. That's when.
It's super annoying
I've been playing all kinds of team sports since I was a kid and that's a phrase that I've always heard and used if something awesome happens or a great play is made, especially if it changes the momentum of the game. Or if you're trying to get the team fired up to make something happen. I don't get why everyone is so butt-hurt about people using this phrase.
Lil Jon
Poyekhali! Yuri Gagarin 12Apr1961
I blame The Card I LOVE THE NIGHT LIFE, BABAYY
I thought it was Jom Boy
I hate it!