darkest timeline
English edit
Etymology edit
Referencing the episode "Remedial Chaos Theory" (2011) of the sitcom Community, which depicts seven alternate universes resulting from a die roll to decide which friend should collect a pizza delivery, including "The Darkest Timeline" in which chaos and destruction ensue.
Noun edit
- (Internet slang, humorous) The circumstances of the present moment in history, viewed as bleak, frightening, ridiculous, or the worst of all possibilities.
- Synonym: worst timeline
- 2016 November 17, Mandy Marciniak, “President Trump? Really?”, in The Frontenac Gazette, Frontenac, ON, page 11:
- I still can't believe that there is a President Trump and this really does feel like the darkest timeline, but there is nothing that can be done.
- 2019 February 19, Jordan Levy, “Parodying people for profit: When brands act like one of us”, in The Daily Targum, Rutgers University, page 8:
- You know we're in the darkest timeline when there are multimillion-dollar corporations roleplaying as people working through a depressive episode.
- 2019, Jessica Bryce Young, in "Selections", Orlando Weekly, 13 March 2019 - 19 March 2019, page 43:
- Living as we all do now in The Darkest Timeline™, it's tough to come up with a plot that exceeds the implausibility and dystopia of reality.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:darkest timeline.