Being the contraction of "I ought to get more screen time from my parents", this slang term refers to the phenomenon where your parents always limit your screen time that you suddenly lose your "appetite" to binge-watch YouTube. Hence, it eventually "shapes" your habits of limiting your own screen time whilst paradoxically teaching children how to get more screen time from their parents.
Ever since my parents started limiting my screen time, I’ve developed this ought-screen mentality—now I barely want to binge-watch anything, even though I’m always scheming ways to convince them to let me have more!
by Emotional Cruiser September 25, 2025
Get the ought-screenmug. Hym "How do you derive an 'ought' from an 'is?' Well... You lie of course. Just make something up."
Iam "Hey, look at that! The thing in the sky is turning red! What do you think it means?" 🤔
Hym 💡 "Well, obviously it means that the create is mad. You ought give that old kiddo of yours a stabbin over there on that rock."
Iam 🤨 "But... Why does it want me to do that?... and why did it tell you instead of me?"
Hym "Look... You need this. You need to do this. If you don't everything falls apart. It isn't control. It's benevolence. It's mercy. You need to do what the creature wants."
Iam 🤨 "Yeah... But how do you know what it wants? Do you know what it THINKS? And, if not, then how do you know what you're telling me to do is correct?"
Hym "Look, it told someone what it thought and they wrote it down. 2000 years ago."
Iam "But... How would I know the difference between what it wanted then and what it wants now? It's a memory. It happened before I was born so I literally wouldn't know the difference between what it wants now and what it wanted then. Do it's wants never change?"
Hym "Hey guys!! He's not doing what the creature wants! Look at him! Look at him! He's not doing what it wants!"
Guys "What an idiot! You have to do what the creature wants."
Hym "Yeah, he said the creature is bad."
Guys "BAD!? The creature isn't bad! What a piece of shit! Hey, fuck you buddy! The creature's not bad! YOU'RE the bad one!"
Iam "Hey, look at that! The thing in the sky is turning red! What do you think it means?" 🤔
Hym 💡 "Well, obviously it means that the create is mad. You ought give that old kiddo of yours a stabbin over there on that rock."
Iam 🤨 "But... Why does it want me to do that?... and why did it tell you instead of me?"
Hym "Look... You need this. You need to do this. If you don't everything falls apart. It isn't control. It's benevolence. It's mercy. You need to do what the creature wants."
Iam 🤨 "Yeah... But how do you know what it wants? Do you know what it THINKS? And, if not, then how do you know what you're telling me to do is correct?"
Hym "Look, it told someone what it thought and they wrote it down. 2000 years ago."
Iam "But... How would I know the difference between what it wanted then and what it wants now? It's a memory. It happened before I was born so I literally wouldn't know the difference between what it wants now and what it wanted then. Do it's wants never change?"
Hym "Hey guys!! He's not doing what the creature wants! Look at him! Look at him! He's not doing what it wants!"
Guys "What an idiot! You have to do what the creature wants."
Hym "Yeah, he said the creature is bad."
Guys "BAD!? The creature isn't bad! What a piece of shit! Hey, fuck you buddy! The creature's not bad! YOU'RE the bad one!"
by Hym Iam July 24, 2022
Get the Oughtmug. by davidr1701 May 12, 2016
Get the oughtnessmug. A word that RCHS kids used when responding to anything anyone says ever. Generally used in replace of 'bet'.
"I bet you won't leave class early."
"Ought."
"Wanna go get some lunch?"
"Ought."
"Fucking ought Mr. Haut."
"Ought."
"Wanna go get some lunch?"
"Ought."
"Fucking ought Mr. Haut."
by Kesha_3 February 13, 2019
Get the Oughtmug. Generation Z:
Generation X came after the Baby Boomers.
Generation Y were coined the "Millennials" because they came about at the turn of the millennium.
Generation Z started in the ought years. ('01, '02, etc.) Hence, Ought Baby.
Generation X came after the Baby Boomers.
Generation Y were coined the "Millennials" because they came about at the turn of the millennium.
Generation Z started in the ought years. ('01, '02, etc.) Hence, Ought Baby.
The Millennials grew up in a world that was never without the internet whereas an Ought Baby will grow up in a world that was never without smart phones.
by AmadeuS469 June 22, 2018
Get the ought babymug. by yeraurasux June 2, 2024
Get the another clean shirt ought to see you outmug.