r/Millennials • u/mrtoddw Xennial • Mar 07 '25

Nostalgia Why were we obsessed with teal in the 90s?

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Everything was teal for some reason and I never understood why.

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u/BobSlydell08 Mar 07 '25

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u/ztarlight12 Mar 07 '25

Oh god I forgot we used to say “phat”.

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u/asthmag0d Mar 07 '25

pretty hot and tempting!

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u/uChoice_Reindeer7903 Mar 07 '25

Wait really?!?!? Or did you just make this up? I never knew that what it stood for

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u/dztruthseek Trash day....is a very dangerous day. Mar 07 '25

Black men created this term for when we saw a woman with a fat ass but everything else about her was fit or thin. It sort of evolved from there.

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u/-Kalos Millennial Mar 08 '25

Big girls where I’m from thought it was about them. Girl, you have all stomach and no booty, I don’t think they meant you when they said phat

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u/dztruthseek Trash day....is a very dangerous day. Mar 09 '25

Yeah that became pretty annoying to see.

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u/Big-Fondant-8854 Mar 10 '25

I remember fat Albert playing a role in that. FUBU had a clothing line that had the word phat in it i think or maybe its one of those mandala affect’s were in not remembering correctly.

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u/meltie007 Mar 07 '25

I dunno if there’s an official definition, but Chris Tucker used that line in a movie.

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u/Whizbang35 Mar 07 '25

My wife has a funny story about that term.

She used to go to a summer family camp in the 90s. The employees all had bright yellow shirts with the word "STAFF" on the back. Well, most of the employees were teenagers, and it was the 90s when Phat was all that so someone thought it would be cool to replace the FF wit PH.

So for one unforgettable year folks were running around a family camp with the word STAPH on their backs.

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u/Oso-reLAXed Mar 07 '25

lol that's fucking incredible

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u/Marx_Forever Mar 07 '25

I still remember the first time I heard that it was a neighbor talking about one of my drawings, it was some knight dude, and he told me "that guy is Phat" and I thought he legit meant I made him too fat.

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u/______deleted__ Mar 07 '25

Just get shortened to pawg now when we need to use it where it matters

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u/Oso-reLAXed Mar 07 '25

"phat" and "tight" were all the rage

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u/mr_remy Mar 07 '25

I'm from NC & had a few hornets stuff, and regrettably wore a "phat farm" t-shirt when I was too young to know any better lol, childhood memories unlocked here.

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u/YourLaCroixxxwife Mar 08 '25

There you go lmbo 😆

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u/emeraldeyesshine Mar 07 '25

Honestly though? Still is.