Merriam-Webster has hysterical response to woman revealing her aunt woke up from a 13-year coma

Trolling on social media is not an acceptable thing to engage in; in fact, studies have shown that the unfair act of attacking someone online may result in severe mental health challenges. However, it is essential to distinguish healthy, laugh-provoking banter from putting someone down. A reaction from America’s oldest dictionary publisher, Merriam-Webster, to an X user’s post recently showed how social media can also be used positively. To make their point, @MerriamWebster chose the most bizarre method and occasion, sparking a laugh riot.

A talk show host named Bruke, who goes by @BrukeFasil, shared that his aunt miraculously awoke from a coma. The elderly woman had been bedridden for more than a decade due to an undisclosed condition. “My aunt woke up from a 13-year coma!!!!!” the YouTube creator and co-host of “Early” wrote, announcing the good news. His well-wishers and regular folks on the microblogging platform were delighted about the development and wished the family a prosperous future.

However, Merriam-Webster saw this as an opportunity to lighten the mood with a surprising response. Instead of wishing Bruke and his aunt well, the dictionary publisher playfully trolled the modernization of the English language. Their social media account, known for its uncanny responses in the past, offered a humorous suggestion to the YouTube creator.

“Please let her know that these are words now,” Merriam-Webster’s social account wrote, adding a list of trending Gen Z lingo. According to the publisher, it was essential for Bruke’s aunt to be aware of these words, especially in today’s environment. Not wanting the recovering patient to experience “fear of missing out (FOMO),” the American company likely complied to help the elderly lady catch up to the current verbiage.

Some of the words on the list include: “rando,” “girlboss,” “selfie,” “twerk,” “bougie,” “clickbait,” “WTF,” “photobomb,” and “rizz.” Notably, these terms are often associated with smartphones and are frequently used in present-day news cycles. While “rando” refers to a random person, often a stranger outside of any group, “girlboss,” on the other hand, describes a woman who is assertively ambitious. “Bougie” is a modern twist on Karl Marx's term “bourgeois” and refers to someone perceived as upper-middle-class or fancy. “Photobomb,” “clickbait,” “selfie,” and “rizz” are more commonly used than the rest, but they would definitely be new for Bruke's aunt.

Merriam-Webster’s response, being dubbed iconic, has been viewed over 116K times on X, sparking hilarious responses from online users. Among them, @dexter_doggie jokingly wrote, “She'll wish she were back in a coma.” Adding to it, @Reavyn said, “And don't forget to tell her that ‘literally’ also means ‘virtually’ now.” “Welcome back, auntie, time to learn a new language,” @eleanorccarey suggested. “’Bougie’ has been in use much longer than 13 years. It was common slang to describe an ‘uppity’ person when I was a kid and teen 30 years ago,” @RAdrien2 pointed out. "Smartphone is a good one for her to know," @dnllyndt assumed as others could not stop themselves from spamming the comments section with laughing out loud emojis.