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Referring to overuse of epic (as in epic fail), and bacon mania as signifiers of the late 2000s internet culture. Popularised by a 2014 CollegeHumor sketch titled "The Epic Bacon Boys".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Today it means: A dated, irreverent mode of communication (especially humour) and identification broadly associated with millennials and Redditors, or their lowest common denominators. Full definition →