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Welcome back to eat your Crest podcast.
I'm Jisoo.
And I'm Crystal.
This week we have a Gen Z word to talk about.
Actually, I don't even know if this is Gen Z.
This might be like a millennial word.
I think it's hella funny.
And the origin of this word is from twitch and or the gaming community.
I would say, like, probably twitch because of the emotes and stuff.
The word is copium, and it's a combination of the word cope and opium.
So you could kind of understand it's basically implying that you're holding on to, like, coping mechanisms or, like, hope mechanisms, as if it's an addiction, like opium.
So if you look up this word on urban dictionary, the definitions are quite funny.
I mean, one is like a very simplistic one, like you said, lying to yourself in order to cope with something.
But this other one, it literally calls copium, a metaphorical opiate inhaled when faced with loss, failure, or defeat.
Oh, my God.
And I'm just like, that's the perfect way to describe it.
It's also really funny because there is an alternative variation of this word, which is just hopium instead of copium.
Oh, interesting.
But they're, like, pretty much the same thing.