A Pick-me American is someone who feels insecure or ashamed for being an American citizen and dunks on the US and fellow Americans to get validation from people in other countries. Some will make videos on social media, blanketing the whole US as a monolithic hellhole with no diversity in state, culture, or ethnicity. They harmfully project their personal experience like it's true everywhere in the States. This creates a false view of Americans abroad, even if it's skewed by Pick-me's self-hatred, causing prejudice or misunderstanding about Americans or the US. Pick-me's have a rose-colored lens when viewing the world vs. the US and tend to cherry-pick topics. They think culture (European)abroad is only authentic. Ignoring cultures like Appalachian, Cajun, Tejano, and indigenous people whose history is older than the founding of the US because it's not Eurocentric. Nothing validates them more than having Europeans agree with them while they bash other Americans. Some pick-me's try hard to show how un-American they are, but when they say something stupid or false and get called out, they say, "I'm just an American🤪" to save themselves.
Americans who want to travel or move abroad are fine. What's wrong is Americans who go abroad and say they're Canadians, bash fellow Americans, or apologize for being born in the US. The US and its people aren't perfect, but what you see online can be skewed to show the bad and wrong, ignoring the good aspects, of which there are many!
Americans who want to travel or move abroad are fine. What's wrong is Americans who go abroad and say they're Canadians, bash fellow Americans, or apologize for being born in the US. The US and its people aren't perfect, but what you see online can be skewed to show the bad and wrong, ignoring the good aspects, of which there are many!
Pick-me American examples
Vanessa said calmly, " I don't know why the US always has to be different from the rest of the world. Unlike other Americans; I use metric, not imperial!"
Other Americans watching this pitiful display." Who is going to tell her that we actually use a mixed system like Canada and the UK and use Metric for things such as science, etc, and use US customary, not imperial."
An American Tiktoker trying to earn pity points"Stupid Americans, it's so horrible how they want to put hot sauce on a schnitzel they paid for!"
only to delete her post after getting called out by others.
Vanessa said calmly, " I don't know why the US always has to be different from the rest of the world. Unlike other Americans; I use metric, not imperial!"
Other Americans watching this pitiful display." Who is going to tell her that we actually use a mixed system like Canada and the UK and use Metric for things such as science, etc, and use US customary, not imperial."
An American Tiktoker trying to earn pity points"Stupid Americans, it's so horrible how they want to put hot sauce on a schnitzel they paid for!"
only to delete her post after getting called out by others.
by Just a normal American April 4, 2024
Get the Pick-me Americanmug. An insult (usually directed towards teenage women) which implies that that person is an attention seeker but doesn’t like to say that they are one or a person who is addicted to their phone and constantly is scrolling on tiktok with the volume on max
Person 1:Emily is such a pick me
Person 2:I know she keeps on trying to slap my phone out of my hand around everyone else
Person 2:I know she keeps on trying to slap my phone out of my hand around everyone else
by Calamari toast August 21, 2022
Get the a pick memug. a girl or a guy (but stereotypically a girl) who literally begs for attention and brings other people down just so she can feel better about herself. constantly insults and complains/backstabs other people because she “felt hurt”, extreme crybaby especially to males. says things about other girls appearances or maintenance like “oh i could never wear makeup im naturally pretty”
pick me bitch: “i’m one of the boys girls are too much drama and i would never wear makeup im SOOOO naturally pretty”
normal girl: “shut the fuck up you literally are moto moto and you create half the drama in our school. besides, not even the boys like you”
normal girl: “shut the fuck up you literally are moto moto and you create half the drama in our school. besides, not even the boys like you”
by anti misogynist February 14, 2025
Get the pick me bitchmug. An actor who gets in a play with a lot of assistance from actor friends and then ditches said actor friends in the play THEY ALL AUDITIONED FOR, then proceeds to suck up to other, 'superior' actors, director, stage manager, etc.. Typically acts different around friends than around superiors, much like the pick me girl.
by Cephalopedia December 1, 2023
Get the pick me actormug. A pick me girl is a girl (most likely in middle school or high school ) is a girl that is very loud and clingy to a group of mostly likely gamer/skater boys, and claims to be one of them.One of the worst traits of the type of girls is being very delusional.One more trait is they will reject any sort of girly or slightly feminine activity like painting nails , doing hair, and even wearing makeup, and if they see you doing anything remotely feminine they will criticize and critique that.Btw you can say pick me instead of pick me girl.
by Feet are not cool August 17, 2022
Get the Pick me girlmug. a person, specifically a woman, who will do anything extra to receive the attention and validation from men.
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speaking from experience (being friends with a pick-me), there are many people today who will do anything for the attention and validation from men.
there are men who will find humor off of r@pe/SA, misogyny, homophobia, racism, and more. a person who craves the attention from men will adapt to that type of humor to please problematic men. a person who craves attention from men will throw their own friends under the bus (specifically non-men) to praise other men; to put them first before anything.
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speaking from experience (being friends with a pick-me), there are many people today who will do anything for the attention and validation from men.
there are men who will find humor off of r@pe/SA, misogyny, homophobia, racism, and more. a person who craves the attention from men will adapt to that type of humor to please problematic men. a person who craves attention from men will throw their own friends under the bus (specifically non-men) to praise other men; to put them first before anything.
i really dislike sara, she is a pick me. i remember one time she purposely made fun of me in front of a huge group of boys just to see them all laugh... i never felt so embarrassed yet so betrayed in my entire life.
by gissguu March 19, 2022
Get the pick memug.