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"A selfie to brag about helping." Typically a American or European volunteer in Africa or Southeast Asia taking a picture of themselves with a child or children that are obviously poor, often showing the American or European offering help to the child or children, or implying such help. These photos are often used as Tinder profile pictures, and eventually are featured on Humanitarians of Tinder.

Also can be a photograph of a humanitarian aid worker in the act of helping a needy person, used in the context of fundraising for the humanitarian organization. As referenced in an official USAID response, "Small et. al 2007 has shown that well-lit photos and helpies generate more funding than text-based, and data-driven presentations of complex, global problems."
"She took a beautiful helpie of her and a child at the village school in Uganda where she volunteered for a week. Now its her Tinder profile picture and her organization is using that photo as a helpie in their annual report"
Helpie by JadedAid October 12, 2017
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helvie • Helpies • Helfie • helpie • Helvetica • helvette • Helie • helier • helvin • halvie
Noun (s.)

1. A musical terrorist, killing hundreds a day through YouTube and through Jason playing his musical shitstorms.

Adjective

1. ANY music masterfully formulated by Helvian.

2. A piece of music that has been torn apart, mutilated, and/or peppered with bullshit to cause massive pain to innocents watching YouTube and Guitar Hero streamers alike.
1. "Did you watch Jason play that Helvian song, Africa? I nearly fucking died watching that ending!"
2. "That fucking Helvian's done it again with that stupid fucking Justin Bieber song!"
A term used to describe large breasts, implying that they are so large that they are heavy.
Damn, she's got the heavies
Heavies by Ugly dirtbag May 26, 2021
A Swedish curse, Helvete is the same place as hell.
Helvete is used instead of saying fuck or hell
*Bob falls down the stairs*
Bob: HELVETE!
Helvete by NeverDie March 22, 2008

the helvetica scenario

Derived from an experiment (carried out in Switzerland, aka Helvetica) where the nucleus of a calcium molecule in skin was removed, leaving a temporarily stable electron/proton shell, causing a mutation that made the skin grow over all the openings in the skin. The helvetica scenario is a nightmare scenario that occurrs when this technique of removing the calcium nucleus- called quantum superpositioning- is used irresponsibly to harm people.
Political advisors feared that the country would resort to biological weapons, causing something like the helvetica scenario to happen.
the helvetica scenario by m3770r December 4, 2012

Helvetica 

A popular modernist typeface that's used just about everywhere, such as in corporate logos, signs, posters, operating systems, advertisments, and et cetera. Odds are you've seen it more than enough times in your life to memorize the distinct shape of each letter.

Graphic designers love and loathe Helvetica for its modernist appearance and practicality, and its adaption for any practical purpose.
I watched that Helvetica documentary last night, and I fell asleep at the 20 minute mark. Pretentious documentary is pretentious.
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