What does the letter 'F' mean today?
"F in chat" or "F" is not a keyboard shortcut, it is a widely used phrase on Twitch and other video game platforms and is even used by many famous streamers, such as El Rubius or Auronplay, for example. The meaning of this meme resides in the Call of Duty: Advance Warfare game, in 2014, where one of the friends of the main character dies.
Then a message appeared on the screen telling you to press the F key to pay our respects if you want to continue with the game, this from the PC version.
So this phrase has crossed the screens of video game consoles and PCs and is currently used by streamers and other Internet users when situations occur during the broadcast of video games that they fall into humor and irony.
For example, in the world of video games, you can say "F" when a character dies, they kill us or a friend, you miss a goal or you didn't play your character correctly.
How should I pronounce the letter "F" on Twitch?
If you are already willing to include the expression 'F' in your spoken and written vocabulary, we recommend that you know how to pronounce it and therefore use it appropriately.
The truth is that as far as pronunciation is concerned, it is very simple, because it reads as you normally read the letter in Spanish, that is "Efe". The English pronunciation of this letter, that is, is also accepted, although little used by the Hispanic community "Ef".
Uses of the letter "F" on Twitch and in real life
On Twitch this expression is often used by streamers when they haven't done something right, so it's common to hear them ask their viewers to enter 'F in chat', as a sign of how bad it is. hilarious and ironic the Dadaist situation.
So it's common that if a streamer dies within a game or what they expected doesn't happen, the letter 'F' will appear in their chat thousands and thousands of times, in a sign of respect or condolence with a touch of humor for him. streamer. Even when in Among Us, the impostor turned out to be a friend.
Thanks to this simple letter, the community of gamers has grown, then, to be an expression that is usually used on Twitch, has passed the place where it was born and is now used on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social networks .
As for the real world, outside of video games, social networks and the internet in general, the use of the letter 'F' is also common, especially by younger people, even if this expression does not know the limits of age.
An example of one of the most common uses of "F" in real life is when a friend courts a girl he likes, but she rejects him without remorse. One way to "Show your condolences" to that friend for the situation is to either send an "F" or say it face to face.
Another example of the use of the letter "F" is when you find that in college, school or whatever class you take, they have too many homework left behind, this is a situation worthy of sharing an "F" in chat with your friends, while jokes about the amount of homework assigned.
In short, if a situation is tragic, to the point of being too much exaggerated and ironic, an 'F' in chat can express what you feel and join you and your friends by saying 'F'.
Since this expression denotes more comedy what a real respect, it is not advisable to use it in situations of real seriousness, such as the death of someone you know or some other serious situation that has nothing to do with the joke.
