Used to describe something that is remotely interesting that involves internet culture, like a hyper-realistic picture of a corn on the cob swinging a golf club.
1: Thoughts on this pic?
2: Goes hard. May I save it?
1: Go on then
An image that “goes hard”, refers to an image that firstly looks like something you would only usually encounter on the internet or something that reflects on internet culture (memes, artistic content, etc.).
Secondly the image has to invoke either a sense of humour, (often sarcastic) bad-assery and/or coolness, sarcastic relatability, or a mix of the above.
These elements combined will result in the formation of an image that goes hard.
"Hey check out this image, it goes pretty hard right?" my friend said as he showed me the image on his phone. "That is in fact an image that goes hard man" I replied.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.