Citations:flop era

Noun: "(Internet slang) a period marked by failure, lack of success, or the inability to function"

 * 2020, @teaxtarot, quoted in "Tweets of the Week", Utah Statesman (Utah State University), 2 November 2020, page 8:
 * Hi Professor, I was just wondering if it is possible to get an extension on the assignment? I'm in my flop era. Thanks
 * 2021, Maddy Black, "Unearthing Your Truth: Astrology Edition", Greater Expectations (University College London), Spring 2021, page 14:
 * We're in a collective flop era and there's a gorgeous sense of community in that.
 * 2022, Jill Gutowitz, Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays, page 5:
 * This period is sprawling, yes, but it's also an expanse of time in which female queerness was erased from history–just scrubbed entirely from our texts and accounts, a homphobic outlook that didn't really begin to morph until the 1980s. Basically, it was humanity's flop era.
 * 2022, Evan Ross Katz, Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts, unnumbered page:
 * “7 was the flop era.”
 * 2022, Gillian Maltz, "New Year's Horoscopes", The Melange, January 2022, page 16:
 * Your resolutions: Exit your flop era, resolve all conflicts that riddle your relationships, purchase a disco ball for your bedroom
 * 2022, Rida Chaudhry, "Girlboss too close to the sun", The Queen's Journal (Queen's University, Kingston, ON), 4 February 2022, page 11:
 * After the girlboss era we've entered a niche type of feminism, wherein we're more comfortable with self-destruction. It's our flop era, it's our year of rest and relaxation, it's our Fleabag era.
 * 2022, Alex Rivera Grant, "Reflecting on how I did that", Marquette Tribune (Marquette University), 26 April 2022, page 3B:
 * I won't touch on this because let's be real, we do NOT need to relive that flop era.
 * 2022, Alisa Bressler, "The Case For Movie Musicals", MUSE, Issue XXVI (2022), page 36:
 * Even in a supposed “flop-era,” these projects can still encapsulate a Broadway-dreamer like myself into a world that is larger-than-life and unapologetically optimistic.
 * 2022, Oliver Dunn, "Fixing Your Flop Era", Nexus Magazine (University of Waikato), Volume 55, Number 17, August 2022, page 18:
 * I actually want to just talk about the state of Rugby and how it's kind of in its flop era.
 * 2022, Trixie Mattel & Katya Zamolodchikova, Working Girls: Trixie and Katya's Guide to Professional Womanhood, page 35:
 * Likewise, Big Tech is going to enter its flop era soon, and all Mark Zuckerberg will have going for him is that fat techie dumper.
 * 2022, Daisy Jones, "Social Media Is Entering Its Flop Era", Vice, 13 December 2022 (used in title only):
 * Instagram is dying, Twitter's imploding and TikTok is for a certain kind of person. Where does that leave us now?
 * 2023, Jesse Boland, "Do Gay People Actually Know How To Talk?: An Investigation", IN Magazine, January/February 2023, page 19:
 * This is not to say that the casual dropping of “she's in her flop era” equates to that of Laganja Estranja adjacent butchering of AAVE, but we would all benefit to sometimes question our proximity to the root source of the jargon we are recycling in our day-to-day dialogues.