Along with tang ping, or lying flat, it has become an anti-rallying cry of sorts for young people tired of social competition and feeling hopeless about the future.
You've been watching people all day and I guarantee you, like ping pong balls – bam-bam-bam and everytime you have an idea, what do you do? – Hit the snooze!
This is The English We Speak from the BBC and we're finding out about the word 'ping' which is an informal way to describe sending an email or a text message. And Rob, I'm going to ping you something.
A 2010 paper by Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert describes how they developed a smartphone app that would randomly ping people throughout the day to ask what they were doing and how happy they were.
Wondering what to do, ferreting in his bag, he found a copy of the Declaration of Independence he had been given at the grocery store, and a light-bulb pinged on in his head.