Noun. A lowkey crush that's been consistent for years. You might be in other relationships or have overlying crushes on others but still maintain the background crush. You know you will neverdate your background crush but a voice in your head will always say "maybe." Usually some connection to childhood. You can marry a guy but still be like "I wonder how Dennis is doing".
"Wow, you and Dennis are so flirty. You should totally hook up with him!" "No, no, you can't just hook up with background crush. Imagine the emotional baggage"
Having a crush on someone but not a big crush you think that their cute but that’s not main crush. If you’re main crush rejects you then your back crush will be your new main crush.
Ralph is my crush but if he rejects me I just go to Mason who is my backup crush
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flexcash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.