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What Does 'Aura Inflation' Mean?

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The devaluation of 'aura' as a status metric once everyone started claiming huge aura gains for increasingly trivial actions.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"Everyone's claiming a thousand aura for holding eye contact now, total aura inflation."

LORE & ORIGIN

Named by analogy to currency inflation once the term's constant overuse across every minor flex diluted what actually counted as impressive.

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2024
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2024-2026 (Current Slang Era)
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