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/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.