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side questing

[ SLANG ][ LIFESTYLE ][ GAMING ]

FORCE: Gen Z BrainrotUNIVERSE: Lifestyle TrendsCLUSTER: gaming_borrowing

Doing small, unplanned or optional activities in real life alongside or instead of one's main routine, borrowing from video games where a side quest is an optional mission that does not change the main story. Typical examples are trying a new cafe or taking a spontaneous solo trip.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

""Skipping the gym for a pottery drop-in: side questing again.""

LORE & ORIGIN

Wiktionary lists a figurative internet-slang sense of side quest as a real-world activity pursued alongside or instead of a main task, extending the older video game and chivalric-romance senses. No dated page for the verb form was opened.

FIRST SEEN

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PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

2022-2024

CURRENT STATUS

Legacy / Decaying Slang

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