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With social media booming and hashtags becoming more common than proper spelling, a range of new words and phrases have emerged online.
“Bye, Felicia” is one of the more common phrases that have emerged as a result of Twitter and other sites, but what is the Bye, Felicia origin?
In the 1995 film, “Friday,” there is a scene where Felicia, played by Angela Means-Kaaya, wants to borrow a car from her friend Smokey (Chris Tucker) and her request is shut down.
When she turns to another guy sitting there, Jones, played by Ice Cube, to now ask him. Jones replies “Bye, Felicia” before she even spits out the question. So there you have it.
That was back in 1995, wayyyy back when Twitter and hashtags didn’t even exist. So how did it randomly gain popularity so recently? In the more recent 2000’s, this clip from the movie has been uploaded to YouTube and gained hundreds of thousands of views, almost instantly.
According to Know Your Meme, once the clip became well-known, tweeters with large followings, like makeup artist Jeffree Starr, started using the phrase as a hashtag in iconic tweets like this:
“Bye, Felicia” is the ultimate dismissal. No one wants to be “Bye, Felicia”-ed, especially with the sassy hand wave it is usually accompanied with.
If someone cuts you off in traffic and then you get to watch them sit in the slow lane, this is the perfect situation to yell “BYE, FELICIAAAA” as you zoom past them. No, we don’t have road rage.
When the guy you’ve been texting all month hits you with the fact that he doesn’t *really* like dogs. Hit him right back with the “Bye, Felicia” because no one needs that kind of person in their life.
Is there even a comeback to “Bye, Felicia”? We’re yet to think of one.
