Being called a "try hard" is apparently an insult now. What is our society coming to?

I've never heard that expression used to describe anyone.

I bet you're one of those people who whines about the war on Christmas, too.

You made that up. 0/10

Oh no you dint wrote:

You made that up. 0/10

This ^

Huh?? wrote:

I've never heard that expression used to describe anyone.

Nor have I.

The OP is a jamin wannabe. There is only one jamin.

I've usually heard this phrase used to refer to people whose efforts come across as insincere. If I'm doing a ton of volunteer hours and joining a bunch of clubs, but it's clear that I am really only trying to check boxes for my med school application and I just show up to meetings/shifts and play on my cell phone, I might be called a try hard.

I actually heard this term once at work. A guy I work with went on a zog sports singles event at a Dave and busters type place. Zog sports is a social recreational coed sports league, but this event was specifically for singles and included a ski ball tournament. Someone made a joke to the coworker "don't tell me you were a try hard". I think in this situation it would be to your detriment to be competitive.

I guess the OP is a try hard.

Oh no you dint wrote:

You made that up. 0/10

Lol, is that your normal response when you're first exposed to new knowledge? "You made that up"?

Try google.

You are welcome :-)

Apparently :-/

Chewbacca wrote:

I bet you're one of those people who whines about the war on Christmas, too.

Not at all. I am just for the war on PCness, that's all :-)

I can speak for this as I just graduated high school last year. Its mostly used in high schools by athletic kids to make fun of the kids who go hard in gym class. Currently it is very uncool to go hard in 99% of high school gym classes, there are some advanced classes that you are required to "try hard" in, but your standard gym class includes girls that just stand there and the athletic kids that don't have to try to be good enough in gym class, there are other subsets but those are the two main groups that aren't usually try hards. If you are sprinting around and "trying hard", yet not very coordinated, you can still compete and be just as good as the athletic kids and so if you win the athletic kids will call you a "try hard" signifying that they didn't put in any effort and that if they tried, they would crush you. Also, many try hards will play at full effort against the girls that just stand there, which shows how bad they are at sports because they have to try against non caring girls, that the athletic kids would destory. This is comparable to an xc team like colorado or syracuse going to a d3 meet and jogging it, and after they got beat, they would just call the other d3 teams that beat them "try hards".

It has also taken on meaning in the first person shooter, call of duty, where talented people that play together are just messing around and some trash talking scrub(s) beats them, then they "try hard" and crush the scrub(s).

This term has been coined by the millennials, so none of you older people would know.

tl;dr: A term coined by millennials. Used by athletic kids to show that after losing in gym class, they didn't try, and if they did try, they would have crushed the nonathletic "try hards".

^^^^^I have also just graduated high school. Couldn't have explained it better.

Though I suppose I'm technically a millenial, "try hard" has been around for a while.

I graduated high school 14 years ago and I used that term all the time to describe kids who were of average intelligence but got straight 'A's. There was one kid in particular, who wrote a 7 page conclusion to some tiny, insignificant grade 9 science lab, probably worth less than 1% of our final grade. He would go up to the teacher after class and ask if he could book an appointment with her during her lunch break to discuss the grading of his lab. I'm fairly certain that she hated him.

Ha ha. The OP is posting under to different names to make it appear that he didn't make this shit up. Epic failure!!!! Ha ha ha ha.

I'm not the OP.

Why don't you try googling "try-hard definition" and see for yourself whether this term exists.

Not the OP? Sure. (Wink, wink)

Thejeff wrote:

It is used to describe someone without much relative talent, but who gives a lot of effort. It is meant to be condescending.

I thought that trait was admirable? What did I miss?

You dolt! This has always been around. I remember this from 20 years ago.