Have you heard about ‘Turnioniown’? It is the funniest thing this month
It is only the first month of 2019, but it feels like we already have the trend of the year. “Turnioniown” has quickly become one of the most popular trends on Nigerian social media platforms this year.
With something as random as an egg making international news for acquiring the highest number of likes on Instagram, weird social media trends no longer come as a surprise to us. We’ve said it countless times that Nigerians on social media know how to make the best memes out of random trends.
If you’ve been wondering why people are tweeting about ‘turnioniown’, we will attempt to explain the meaning of the trend in this post. Unlike previous trends like “Stew”, and “My Ye is different to your Ye” ‘Turnioniown’ does not make much sense at first glance. Yet, many social media users have taken to this trend like fish to water.
The origin of Turnioniown
The trend was coined from a hilarious viral video of a man who was amazed to see a car move in circles without a driver behind the wheels. In a hilarious attempt at explaining his excitement, he said, “The car is turnioniown”, meaning “the car is turning on its own”. He seems to be one of those Nigerians who suddenly develop an accent as soon as they sight any type of recording device.
How Nigerians snatched it up
If there’s any chance that any random thing will go viral, Nigerians will snatch it up and put it to very hilarious use. And this is how we got the first trend of 2019. ‘Turnioniown’ has been used to describe things you have no control over or situations out of the ordinary. A good example is, our unstable economy and in this case, we would say, “Nigeria is just turnioniown”.
Me: Ah ah wetin happen?
Barber: the clipper was just turnioniown
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Are you single, taken or your heart is just turnioniown?
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Some days I'm all hyped and seem to have my life all figured out and know exactly what I want. Other days, my life just be turnioniown
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Have you tried explaining to your girlfriend why you saved another girl’s name with theemoji? I tried it yesterday and my relationship is now turnioniown
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The rain beat me today ehn and now my phone is turnioniown.
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Whenever is see this face, my stomach will be turnioniown
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Fela is just turnioniown,he has gone from wizkid to burna boy to falz in few months
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Everywhere Stew
Asides social media though, where ‘Everywhere Stew’ continued to roll in on pictures of the interested parties, nobody could care less. But there, everyone wanted to be the stew to someone’s rice, even though some were too spicy and salty to every stand a chance. The idea might seem self-empowerment, but it came from vanity and to vanity it returned.
Sweet Boys Association
When this trend became a hit, Pulse wrote, “Women owned small girl, big god back, “Na dem dey rush us” became of more popular demand than gold circle condoms and men were still scum and trash — men needed to find a happy slang/hashtag to restart the fires of male relevance on social media. “Enter, the multi-talented, multi-functional creative, Folarin Falana, also known as, Falz to save the day with another widely relevant trend for us to munch like a pack of sugary plantain chips by tired Lagosians in traffic. Sweet Boys Association is Falz’s gift to men on social media.
Falz - Sweet Boy : The Presidential Address#SweetBoy #Falz #SweetBoysAssociation #Lit #IbCity #Turnt #rap #hiphop #Party #dancevideo #afromusic #naijaDJs #ibadan #naijaclubs #musicvideos soundciti.com/2018/09/falz-s…
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“Like anything related to Falz, it has since created a storm on social media that looks set to be another weapon in the near-perpetual gender war. Even when Falz does not intend it, his products create a storm — it seems.” SBA was a moment that men truly owned their need for empowerment for what they are. Falz’s SBA carefully handpicked the men who truly shone for what they simply are; men – and also created a standard of decency for his inductees.
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