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Bye, Felicia
In American English, the phrase "Bye, Felicia" or "Bye, Felisha" is an informal phrase and internet meme intended as a dismissive send-off, which originated in the 1995 film Friday. According to Ice Cube, who starred in Friday and co-wrote its script, "'Bye, Felicia' [...] is the phrase to get anyone out [of] your face that's saying something stupid". Nicole Richie said "Felicia is, like, some random that you just do not even care about."
The phrase originally comes from a scene in the 1995 American comedy film Friday. The supporting character Felisha (Angela Means) is depicted as a pest who bothers lead characters Smokey and Craig (Chris Tucker and Ice Cube, respectively). She asks to borrow Smokey's car and then begs to share any marijuana he has, but is rebuffed by both men. Craig dismisses her with the phrase "Bye, Felisha" which is intended to end the conversation. Due to the phrase being spread orally, it was incorrectly recorded as "Bye Felicia", now the most popular variation.
In an interview with Vibe magazine to commemorate the film's 20th anniversary, Means said she believes the phrase wasn't in the script and Ice Cube ad-libbed the line "based off what I gave him as an actor."
According to Robert Thompson, a media professor at Syracuse University, the phrase went relatively unnoticed at first and it was regarded as a "throw-away line." He suggested that it only became popular with the advent of social media and YouTube. On Google, "bye felicia" first began to grow in popularity as a search term around August 2012 and peaked in September 2015. The phrase has been gradually dwindling in popularity as a search term ever since, although it had a brief resurgence in December 2017. According to Twitter analytics site Topsy, the hashtag "#ByeFelicia" was used over 35,000 times in August 2014.
In 2009, the phrase entered the lexicon of the LGBT community due to its usage on RuPaul's Drag Race, an American reality competition television series.
In 2014, VH1 launched a reality show titled Bye Felicia starring Missy Young and Deborah Hawkes. Each episode sees Young and Hawkes give a young woman a makeover and help them "say goodbye for good to their inner 'Felicia.'"
In the 2015 movie Straight Outta Compton, Ice Cube (played by his son, O'Shea Jackson Jr.) said, "Bye, Felicia!", while throwing a girl named Felicia out of his hotel room. Naming the girl Felicia was not an intentional reference to Friday, but when Jackson ad-libbed the line as a "coincidental joke", the filmmakers decided to keep it in the film.
The phrase was also used by Jesse Gemstone, played by Danny McBride, on the first episode of the second season of the HBO American television series The Righteous Gemstones during a heated exchange with his siblings, Judy and Kelvin, to which they responded "Bye Felicia to you, Jesse" and "Who's Felicia?"
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Bye, Felicia
In American English, the phrase "Bye, Felicia" or "Bye, Felisha" is an informal phrase and internet meme intended as a dismissive send-off, which originated in the 1995 film Friday. According to Ice Cube, who starred in Friday and co-wrote its script, "'Bye, Felicia' [...] is the phrase to get anyone out [of] your face that's saying something stupid". Nicole Richie said "Felicia is, like, some random that you just do not even care about."
The phrase originally comes from a scene in the 1995 American comedy film Friday. The supporting character Felisha (Angela Means) is depicted as a pest who bothers lead characters Smokey and Craig (Chris Tucker and Ice Cube, respectively). She asks to borrow Smokey's car and then begs to share any marijuana he has, but is rebuffed by both men. Craig dismisses her with the phrase "Bye, Felisha" which is intended to end the conversation. Due to the phrase being spread orally, it was incorrectly recorded as "Bye Felicia", now the most popular variation.
In an interview with Vibe magazine to commemorate the film's 20th anniversary, Means said she believes the phrase wasn't in the script and Ice Cube ad-libbed the line "based off what I gave him as an actor."
According to Robert Thompson, a media professor at Syracuse University, the phrase went relatively unnoticed at first and it was regarded as a "throw-away line." He suggested that it only became popular with the advent of social media and YouTube. On Google, "bye felicia" first began to grow in popularity as a search term around August 2012 and peaked in September 2015. The phrase has been gradually dwindling in popularity as a search term ever since, although it had a brief resurgence in December 2017. According to Twitter analytics site Topsy, the hashtag "#ByeFelicia" was used over 35,000 times in August 2014.
In 2009, the phrase entered the lexicon of the LGBT community due to its usage on RuPaul's Drag Race, an American reality competition television series.
In 2014, VH1 launched a reality show titled Bye Felicia starring Missy Young and Deborah Hawkes. Each episode sees Young and Hawkes give a young woman a makeover and help them "say goodbye for good to their inner 'Felicia.'"
In the 2015 movie Straight Outta Compton, Ice Cube (played by his son, O'Shea Jackson Jr.) said, "Bye, Felicia!", while throwing a girl named Felicia out of his hotel room. Naming the girl Felicia was not an intentional reference to Friday, but when Jackson ad-libbed the line as a "coincidental joke", the filmmakers decided to keep it in the film.
The phrase was also used by Jesse Gemstone, played by Danny McBride, on the first episode of the second season of the HBO American television series The Righteous Gemstones during a heated exchange with his siblings, Judy and Kelvin, to which they responded "Bye Felicia to you, Jesse" and "Who's Felicia?"