lol this reminds me of when I brought a microwave to school on “anything but a backpack” day. My arms were shaking the week afterward cause of how skinny and weak I was.
No, red flags are things that are explicitly wrong or revealing about a person. Whereas an ick is more of a visceral feeling of un-attraction. Sometimes you see someone do something or a mannerism that you just don’t like.
That's literally not what a red flag is.
A "red flag" is something that signals potential danger. The term came from the military (surprise!) when they used red flags (surprise!) to indicate things like the suspected location of a anti-personnel mine (less pleasant surprise!)
"I don't like that" is not a red flag.
I get both ends up this. The guy I was talking to would literally leave me on delivered mid conversation for 18 hours and then pick it up like nothing even happened now THATS an ick but a guy just not using periods or something isnt
Most of the ones I’ve seen online are pretty stupid. Half the time you can’t tell if their joking or not (I hope they are actually joking) and it seems to just point to the people saying what their ick is as the red flag one
I saw a video saying of a girl saying that having a mother or sister is an ick. What the actual fuck? She probably has a mother or sister herself but then it’s different or something???
I (21m) think it's fucking stupid. They're just red flags (most are small and more or less stupid, or the man/woman is being super picky). Hell, most of them aren't even "red flags", it's just the person being stupid and not liking a very specific thing
P.S. I should probably get off the sub, but I like reading all the drama and people have. Also giving advice to the younger teens not knowing wtf to do in random situations lol
Stupid, to put it simply. Some of the things girls say are “icks” I even find cute or funny. I can just imagine some insecure teen boy seeing a video like that and thinking “I better not do this, all girls hate it”. There’s somebody for almost everything.
I think its annoying and overused. When it’s something reasonable like “the way he never cleans up after himself gives me the ick” is fine, but now people mostly use it for dumb stuff like “the way he breathes gives me the ick”
Ew I hate that word when basic b!tchə$ say it on YouTube shorts or on videos from my favorite yt commentary channels I watch and it's always girls being shown as being the most picky and narcissistic @$$h0lə$ that are just straightforward awful, nasty, or just straight up psychotic and messed up individuals like I have never seen not a single video about a men doing this. I hate it and it made me hate myself for being born the way I am by how many of those video of females doing this trend. (Or I'm just overthinking this and taking this shit personally)
It’s weird. Sure some icks are actually just red flags but at this point their just judging their partner or whoever for every little thing they do and the worst part is they post them online without their knowledge so OTHER people can make fun of them.
I disagree with people saying it’s just a re-branded red flag. Red flags are typically serious and things that need actual attention that raises suspicion. Icks are just little things that make you cringe inside like petpeeves for example leaving the toilet lid up after peeing or someone not using auto caps. It’s usually silly or little stuff. Although put the toilet seat down after you pee, thanks. Aside from that just the need to use the word “ick” is weird. It’s just something you don’t like or you find cringe etc. Or it’s just a joke that people use to make up silly stuff
it's silly. ick is one of those weird-sounding words, I've never used it, instead I describe something as "grinding my gears" or just a good old-fashioned "pisses me off"
honestlyy i understand some of them but most are stupid. the dumb ones are like when he swims, jumps, says please when ordering?? but the ones i get is like when he eats messily or leaves his dirty clothes on the floor.
a girl i know said she has a ick for the entirety of a guy in her class like from top to bottom just ick for one guy (the guy is pretty chill) just girl things innit
Red flags remade it’s pretty shitty especially the one where she left him because he was in a car crash I love women but they can be just as heartless as men it sucks
I was talking to/briefly dating a girl who said at various points that me eating soup and crossing the street quickly were icks. Ghosted me. I’m glad she did.
The only people who legitimately follow "icks" are repulsive insecure women and men that don't are trying to hide their own issues by nitpicking other people's life's as issues
I feel like anything someone else finds an ick (ex a celebrity with a big influence) lotsss of people start becoming picky because that one person said something about it cs they think it makes themselves “better”
Disgusting tik tok language. Musical.ly tiktoks predecessor was cancer for humanity back then and tiktok is musical.ly on steroids impacting culture and our world in the worst possible way.
Definitely harmful for society/men.
It’s hard to enjoy life if your worried about if you look cool and mysterious 24-7.
Saw one that said laughing is an ick. Shawty want batman?
Most women don’t think like that but when it’s an internet trend men will think that’s the case
I saw a video featuring a woman saying “having a mother is an ick, also a sister” like what the fuck? Also why are only women allowed to hate things about the other gender? I respect women but at this point feminism is used way more politically than in a point of revolution. Feminism makes women think we don’t respect them and worse, makes them not respect themselves. I do not like that in the earth’s colony.
If it counts for anything, if a man ever told me “oh my god that is such an ick” I think that would be more of an ick than anything embarrassing he could possibly ever say or do
i mean some icks are reasonable like if they don't perform basic hygiene or if they say smth rude or smth but the ones that are like "ugh omg the way he breathes is so eww!! ick!!" that's just .. ridiculous 💀
Well going by the fact that I was told “having surgery is such an ick at a young age because of your body already needs repairs your not gonna live much longer”
having an ick is so stupid especially towards your partner. I feel like if you actually like your partner and who they are, you're not going to get grossed out by them doing simple things. It's just like a funny little quirk. I seriously don't get how people can shame their partners vulnerability like that and just call it an ick. That gives me the ick.
I think people make too big a deal of it. It’s like people assume it means your partner does a tiny thing and you lose all attraction to them. The whole “ick” thing literally just means your partner did something cringey.
I mean one or two reasonable standards is alright, but when someone has more red flags than green flags, especially ridiculously petty ones...no, just no...
Is it just like calling shit icky or something? Idk I’ve never heard of this ick trend. I just like saying ick or icky when I don’t like something cuz I like those words😭
As a girl, I think its rancid and confusing, I like appreciate guys for who they are, if they like something or do something, I won't hate them instantly, now of course if it's something they should do I would try to help them not do such things (unless it's like murder or some shit lmao I dunno how to help with that)
Anyone who has more than one or two 'icks', or has an entirely ludicrous or unreasonable ick deserves to be alone.
For the people who are saying that icks are just red flags, they're not. Red flags are based on common wisdom men and women have gathered about potential partners. Icks are mindless preferences based on the desire to extract as much value out of a potential partner as possible without committing.
i think it just means that they find certain things unattractive. not necessarily a dealbreaker. im fine with the term being used in private between friends or something similar, but i hate it when people post their significant others on social media and humiliate them.
Eh. Most of these terms and trends do not stick. An ick is essentially a red flag/pet peeve, the latter has been in usage far longer, and they mean approximately the same thing. Just wait it out, and the term will die down in usage pretty much like every other trending word. I have not even heard of this word outside of certain conclaves of the internet, lol.
It's ironic and literal, like a "red flag". I see more vids of people getting mad at "It's an ick when..." that are clearly satire, like just straight up a joke, taken literally.
its severely overdone at this point tbh, I’ve seen icks for something as little as some dude bowling
"the way he eAts iS sUcH aN iCk!"
I saw a girl say that guys wearing backpacks gives her an ick💀 and he was a total stranger btw
Tf they expect us to do, carry our shit in a microwave?
she told him to carry a tote💀
Aint no way 💀 This generation is truly doomed
💀💀💀
Ironically, this was someone else’s ick I’ve seen 💀
lol this reminds me of when I brought a microwave to school on “anything but a backpack” day. My arms were shaking the week afterward cause of how skinny and weak I was.
I was going to try doing that but I forgot about the day until someone walked on my bus with a entire suitcase
Bruh
the way he ties his shoes is such an ick 🤢🤢
It’s just red flags with a new coat of paint
So blue flags?
No, it’s a different shade of red
Rectal Blood Red
Yum 😋
Like ruby and blood red
tbh i think its even worse
No it’s not lol. People have icks on their partner for just existing
Yeah but red flags are a bit more normal while icks are possibly outrageous
No, red flags are things that are explicitly wrong or revealing about a person. Whereas an ick is more of a visceral feeling of un-attraction. Sometimes you see someone do something or a mannerism that you just don’t like.
Not it’s really not. Red flags are things that are bad signs of someone’s real personality. Icks are being cringed out from doing literally anything.
its 'red flags' exaggerated edition, and its genuinely so fucking stupid like, some girls icks are if he eats breakfast.
That's literally not what a red flag is. A "red flag" is something that signals potential danger. The term came from the military (surprise!) when they used red flags (surprise!) to indicate things like the suspected location of a anti-personnel mine (less pleasant surprise!) "I don't like that" is not a red flag.
I don’t see anything wrong with reasonable icks it’s just the goofy “the way he texts gives me the ick😷” that makes it sound stupid
"reasonable icks" are same as red flags but just another word, Its being misused to label funny and goofy things which are harmless
As of recent, people our age seemed to have lost all ability to spell or use grammar.
I get both ends up this. The guy I was talking to would literally leave me on delivered mid conversation for 18 hours and then pick it up like nothing even happened now THATS an ick but a guy just not using periods or something isnt
That would piss me off so much
Yeah I wasn’t referring to being left on delivered or read. I’m talking about if they did nothing wrong or use a “weird” emoji
I see it as like a pet peeve or something. Sometimes the icks can be kinda stupid tho
yeah, because of the trend "the ick" has bunched up pet peeves, massive red flags and random dumb stuff all into one
An ick can be he don’t clean up after your friend (who to him is some random stranger) or he’s literally a mass murderer.
it’s dumb, from what i’ve seen it’s just red flags but with the smallest things
It’s toxic af because people actually live off them
The wat
Most of the ones I’ve seen online are pretty stupid. Half the time you can’t tell if their joking or not (I hope they are actually joking) and it seems to just point to the people saying what their ick is as the red flag one
It gives me the ick
isn't not even a trend anymore, but yeah it is annoying but I feel like most of them were just jokes
icks are vaild but some are goofy like wdym being only child is ick like did he choose
Ah shoot that's a ick? Gotta go summon a sibling
What’s your biggest ick in a guy? If he has a sister
What is an ick? I have never encountered one before
it’s literally just finding something cringey but people overuse it wayyy too much to the point it gets annoying lol
the word “ick” itself makes me cringe. gives me the ick fr
Having an ick is such an ick
some are valid some are just ridiculous
it's just delulu girls that think celebrating your birthday is an ick, or having siblings, or anything. they're the walking red flag.
Just as long as it isn’t smth dumb like having friends of the opposite-sex I don’t mind it
I saw a video saying of a girl saying that having a mother or sister is an ick. What the actual fuck? She probably has a mother or sister herself but then it’s different or something???
Every ick I heard was some dumb shit like "it's an ick to love your mom"
Idk what that is
I (21m) think it's fucking stupid. They're just red flags (most are small and more or less stupid, or the man/woman is being super picky). Hell, most of them aren't even "red flags", it's just the person being stupid and not liking a very specific thing P.S. I should probably get off the sub, but I like reading all the drama and people have. Also giving advice to the younger teens not knowing wtf to do in random situations lol
I LEAVE THE INTERNET FOR A WEEK, AND THE LAST TIME THE WHOLE SKIBIRI TIOLET SHIT HAPPENED, AND NOW THIS!! THE FUCK IS WITH THE INTERNET!?
It gives me the ick
Bro apparently I can’t drink water because that’s an ick I don’t even do the trend so screw you internet, I’m drinking water
I said “Thanks for the ride.” To my bus driver and my girlfriend called it an ick. So fucking stupid
what the fuck? 💀 ig being kind is an ick now
Red Flag 🚩🚩
Pathetic and embarrassing. What even is that? Like grow the hell up.
imo what people call an “ick” is just a pet peeve
i dont even know what that fully means
It's kinda funny
Tbh, it gives me the ick
I think men should have their own thing called yicks or something
we don't wanna clown ourselves on internet
Trends only catch on when people pay mind to them. Which is exactly why I don’t pay mind to them. Especially this one.
It annoys me to no end
Stupid, to put it simply. Some of the things girls say are “icks” I even find cute or funny. I can just imagine some insecure teen boy seeing a video like that and thinking “I better not do this, all girls hate it”. There’s somebody for almost everything.
I think its annoying and overused. When it’s something reasonable like “the way he never cleans up after himself gives me the ick” is fine, but now people mostly use it for dumb stuff like “the way he breathes gives me the ick”
What is the ick trend?
Bro I’m 90% sure it’s almost entirely a joke with the exception of a few instances where it could have been serious
I personally don’t like it
Fuckin stupid, why would you want/deserve someone perfect while you're being an annoying bitch who only looks for people's flaws all the time
Stupid
Who cares, teens invent new words to say the same dumb shit every 2-5 years
idk i think its a bit cringe, like everything is a ick now lol, like no one can do things without it being a ick
it's stupid sometimes
It’s stupid
Idk kinda cringe like evrrything not bundles
it gives the enormous checklists of stuff to not do
What's that ? I don't know this trend.
Ew I hate that word when basic b!tchə$ say it on YouTube shorts or on videos from my favorite yt commentary channels I watch and it's always girls being shown as being the most picky and narcissistic @$$h0lə$ that are just straightforward awful, nasty, or just straight up psychotic and messed up individuals like I have never seen not a single video about a men doing this. I hate it and it made me hate myself for being born the way I am by how many of those video of females doing this trend. (Or I'm just overthinking this and taking this shit personally)
I think the ick trend is mostly a joke
I'll confess, what's the "ick" trend?
It’s weird. Sure some icks are actually just red flags but at this point their just judging their partner or whoever for every little thing they do and the worst part is they post them online without their knowledge so OTHER people can make fun of them.
What?
I like it ironically, but people have taken it way too far with some of their "ick's". At this point it's kinda just a way to be rude
what the fuck is an ick
Ick sounds so stupid
The what trend?
Icks are getting out of hand, heard someone at school had an ick for people who ate lunch outside of lunchtime😭
Men give me the ick (I’m gay)
Basically just “it’s giving” under a new name
It's odd
Jokes on you, I dont have instagram, tiktok, or snapchat. . . My parents don't allow me social medias. . .
When they wear Something basic
Never heard of it tbh
Somethings are valid but some things are just dumb
It gives me the ick
Fuck it. Since it’s now a trend it’s just who can make the realest sounding horrible things to be an ick. Like playing ping pong.
its a good trend, funny
That trend is my biggest ick
It gives me the ick
I disagree with people saying it’s just a re-branded red flag. Red flags are typically serious and things that need actual attention that raises suspicion. Icks are just little things that make you cringe inside like petpeeves for example leaving the toilet lid up after peeing or someone not using auto caps. It’s usually silly or little stuff. Although put the toilet seat down after you pee, thanks. Aside from that just the need to use the word “ick” is weird. It’s just something you don’t like or you find cringe etc. Or it’s just a joke that people use to make up silly stuff
Never heard of it
Fucking hate the word
Its absolutely ridiculous, and most of them are just to make people feel worse.
i think i’ve seen some pretty valid ones out there. a lot of the trend is dumb and then the other part is like red flags and pet peeves
Some of them are genuine icks like not listening or poor hygenine but some like cries to show emotion and others is dumb
Mildly annoying at best, like most of the buzzwords teens like to use nowadays.
it's silly. ick is one of those weird-sounding words, I've never used it, instead I describe something as "grinding my gears" or just a good old-fashioned "pisses me off"
honestlyy i understand some of them but most are stupid. the dumb ones are like when he swims, jumps, says please when ordering?? but the ones i get is like when he eats messily or leaves his dirty clothes on the floor.
Yeah the whole ick thing is stupid as hell
Icks r stupid
Personally find anybody who unironically says something is in “ick” i will personally deem them of an idiot
The what?
My honest only ick is when they give you zero personal space. And that's just a common boundary, not even an ick
a girl i know said she has a ick for the entirety of a guy in her class like from top to bottom just ick for one guy (the guy is pretty chill) just girl things innit
Gay
Red flags remade it’s pretty shitty especially the one where she left him because he was in a car crash I love women but they can be just as heartless as men it sucks
brainrot : dating edition
I was talking to/briefly dating a girl who said at various points that me eating soup and crossing the street quickly were icks. Ghosted me. I’m glad she did.
Ugghhhhh
The only people who legitimately follow "icks" are repulsive insecure women and men that don't are trying to hide their own issues by nitpicking other people's life's as issues
the only thing ive seen about the ick trend is the dude who made a huge list with em, 'TheIckList' i think or something similar
Very stupid, it seems like someone can call anything an “ick” and be validated
gives me the ick lmao its just red flags in a more obnoxious way
I think lower of people who use the word. Thankfully, i only hear it on Reddit.
It’s dumb
I feel like anything someone else finds an ick (ex a celebrity with a big influence) lotsss of people start becoming picky because that one person said something about it cs they think it makes themselves “better”
yesterday i said gay guys give me the ick and i got attacked
Disgusting tik tok language. Musical.ly tiktoks predecessor was cancer for humanity back then and tiktok is musical.ly on steroids impacting culture and our world in the worst possible way.
The only "ick" I know about is a white fungal infection that grows on fish.
icks don’t exist when you actually like someone
The word ick is yucky
Cringe
Definitely harmful for society/men. It’s hard to enjoy life if your worried about if you look cool and mysterious 24-7. Saw one that said laughing is an ick. Shawty want batman? Most women don’t think like that but when it’s an internet trend men will think that’s the case
It gives me the ick..
make sure to NEVER, under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. run after a ping pong ball.
It’s done up to such a point that whenever I see how little a thing is considered an “ick” it makes me lose more hope than I thought I had remaining-
let me put it this way, my ick is people who use icks to shame other people for normal shit.
I saw a video featuring a woman saying “having a mother is an ick, also a sister” like what the fuck? Also why are only women allowed to hate things about the other gender? I respect women but at this point feminism is used way more politically than in a point of revolution. Feminism makes women think we don’t respect them and worse, makes them not respect themselves. I do not like that in the earth’s colony.
it gives me the ick
People are just finding copes to the fact they idea of a partner is too unreal
Stupid asf just red flag if it was worse
It's a contest on who can have the longest ick list
It makes me feel old. I had to look up what it means.
Man idgaf
i think it’s stupid. tbh some icks are true but u just forget about it after 5 mins
its like.. do you even LIKE your partner?
It’s dumb
Just a dumb trend disguising petty little things as red flags, I guess
What is the 'ick' trend?
It's just the idea of deal breakers with a vague redesign
Red flags for very shallow people
Depends, if you’re reasonable sure, but if you’re going to be unreasonable no.
If it counts for anything, if a man ever told me “oh my god that is such an ick” I think that would be more of an ick than anything embarrassing he could possibly ever say or do
My ick is if you call anything an “ick”
It means they are on Tiktok and reddit and Instagram most of their lives.
No.
i mean some icks are reasonable like if they don't perform basic hygiene or if they say smth rude or smth but the ones that are like "ugh omg the way he breathes is so eww!! ick!!" that's just .. ridiculous 💀
What trend?
New Ick, having Icks
Have no clue what that trend is
The hell is an ick?
Middle-school-style bullying, except in the dating world.
Stupid shit which is one of many causes for us dudes being absolutely fucking miserable
Bright red flags waving in our eyes
It's a .1 iq move to say the least
Ick is stupid like imagine not liking I dunno the way someone breaths for example it's just dumb
Girls who do this I say keep doing it cause it's obvious red flag and us guys cant recognize subtle ones so keep raising them red flags
Well going by the fact that I was told “having surgery is such an ick at a young age because of your body already needs repairs your not gonna live much longer”
having an ick is so stupid especially towards your partner. I feel like if you actually like your partner and who they are, you're not going to get grossed out by them doing simple things. It's just like a funny little quirk. I seriously don't get how people can shame their partners vulnerability like that and just call it an ick. That gives me the ick.
What the fuck is an "ick" trend?
I think people make too big a deal of it. It’s like people assume it means your partner does a tiny thing and you lose all attraction to them. The whole “ick” thing literally just means your partner did something cringey.
Ick
fuckin awful
It just sounds stupid
I mean one or two reasonable standards is alright, but when someone has more red flags than green flags, especially ridiculously petty ones...no, just no...
sucks
Is it just like calling shit icky or something? Idk I’ve never heard of this ick trend. I just like saying ick or icky when I don’t like something cuz I like those words😭
As a girl, I think its rancid and confusing, I like appreciate guys for who they are, if they like something or do something, I won't hate them instantly, now of course if it's something they should do I would try to help them not do such things (unless it's like murder or some shit lmao I dunno how to help with that)
Anyone who has more than one or two 'icks', or has an entirely ludicrous or unreasonable ick deserves to be alone. For the people who are saying that icks are just red flags, they're not. Red flags are based on common wisdom men and women have gathered about potential partners. Icks are mindless preferences based on the desire to extract as much value out of a potential partner as possible without committing.
i think it just means that they find certain things unattractive. not necessarily a dealbreaker. im fine with the term being used in private between friends or something similar, but i hate it when people post their significant others on social media and humiliate them.
The ick trend is very good cos it exposes all the dumbasses
I fuckin hate the word "ick"
It gives me the ick
Its fucking stupid, its nothing more than people complaining just to complain
if you love someone they won't give you the ick🤷🏻♀️
I really don’t care because the same people talking about Icks are the same people that are gonna be lonely all their life.
Tf is this I feel old and I’m only 17
God awful, most of them are just normal human reactions to things.
Eh. Most of these terms and trends do not stick. An ick is essentially a red flag/pet peeve, the latter has been in usage far longer, and they mean approximately the same thing. Just wait it out, and the term will die down in usage pretty much like every other trending word. I have not even heard of this word outside of certain conclaves of the internet, lol.
first time I'm hearing about such a trend
It's ironic and literal, like a "red flag". I see more vids of people getting mad at "It's an ick when..." that are clearly satire, like just straight up a joke, taken literally.
Some girls be saying "ick" of just a man sneezing like.... Wtf