current thing
English
Etymology
From I support the current thing, a phrase that is used to mock people who show support to a cause but abandon it when it is no longer newsworthy.[1] First used in early 2022.
Noun
current thing (plural current things)
- (Internet slang) Something that is popular, trendy or newsworthy at the moment but is unlikely to remain so long-term.
- 2022 April 7, @pmarca [Marc Andreessen], Twitter[1] (post), archived from the original on 27 April 2023:
- Why am I so fascinated by the current thing? Well, in part, the exact same dynamics play out in tech, business, and finance every day. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
- 2022 May 2, @greg_price11 [Greg Price], Twitter[2] (post), archived from the original on 12 May 2022:
- And just like that, the current thing has changed.
- 2022 May 9, Max Read, “What Is “The Current Thing”?”, in Slate[3], New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2026:
- From there, the meme will slowly leak into more popular mainstream-right punditry, and then into the Republican Party, until Ted Cruz sweatily asks a judicial nominee if they “support the current thing” and the Times writes some stilted, breathless article about the meme as disinformation.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see current, thing.
- 2025 January 24, @vixsheikh [Waqas], X[4] (post), archived from the original on 28 September 2025:
- Your ability to rationalize current things is what’s holding you back from imagining new things.