Why Are People Saying Yeet?

[Midnight Solace 5,129]

Oh my Celestia.

I just heard some person say "yeeted" and "yeetiest" 

[Dreambiscuit 8,021]

I've never heard the term in use, and I'm glad. These fleeting absurd trends are so silly, and used often enough, can be downright irritating.

[Olly 1,008]

 

I never yeet, myself.

[ExplosionMare 18,007]

On 10/28/2018 at 4:17 AM, Midnight Solace said:

So, humans at school keep saying yeet randomly and it’s starting to get on my nerves. Even my sister says it randomly.

To my understanding, yeet is said in basketball when some human shot a three pointer and are sure that it will go in the hoop. Before 2017, that’s what I knew it as. Now, it is one of the most annoying words I have heard.

I asked my sister what yeet even means and they she said she has no idea   Does anyone else feel me?

YEET

[Midnight Solace 5,129]

Now I just heard somepony say, "just yeet it."

[Kevin Tang 2,422]

Is "yeet" = "reeeeeeeeeeeee"?

[Nsxile 25,630]

I haven't heard the expression being used IRL... So IDK.

[Sunlight Glisten 368]

YEET!!!! Among my students it usually implies the throwing of an object behind ones self typically with a stiff arm motion like a catapult. That may just be our micro culture. As in you finished eating an apple and you yeet the core. 

[Lucky Bolt 34,914]

It’s a meme. Me, I prefer yee yee! 

[Envy 5,996]

I've seen that used online many times and I still have no clue what it means.

[Jasmine 91]

I always thought it was a variant of "yee" ...