To take a word, phrase, or anything that is extremely cool but not well known and spread it to the world so profusedly even its creator abandons it and dubs it uncool.
Yeah so I used to play Guitar Hero but then the song track got so convoluded and the developers were just trying to attract random losers instead of picking songs with good guitar and make the game fun because of the constant earthhumping that I don't even want to talk about it any more.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)