The massively popular, if controversial, YouTuber Logan Paul made a variant, ya yeet, a catchphrase. Gamers took to yeet when making powerful moves. Young people, apparently, delighted in saying yeet, like one of those things we like to say compulsively over and over again until we wear it out. Yeet went viral again in 2016, this time in a video featuring a young woman throwing an empty beverage can into a crowded school hallway while saying Yeet! This video help spread yeet as an exclamation issued when heaving something, often at someone in a playful manner, or when doing something spectacular, as when dunking over someone in basketball. Perhaps because people often say yeet while doing the dance, yeet was further popularized as an interjection all its own to show enthusiasm and approval, e.g., Yes, I got an A on that paper. The memes photoshopped a still of Lil Meatball, arms extended, into various settings, such as playing baseball or drumming. Internet users made remixes of Lil Meatball-and plenty of memes. Yeet went viral Vine user Jas Nicole posted a video of a young man, called Lil Meatball, doing the dance, noted for a prominent arm chop, in March 2014 over the hip-hop track. A hip-hop song by Quill called “YEET” was released, featuring yeet as a general exclamation akin to the earlier, 2008 definitions we saw. More YouTube yeet demonstrations of yeet followed. Several people are credited for the dance, including YouTuber Milik Fullilove, who calls out Yeet! as he does his moves with personal flourishes. The term spreads as a dance in black social media culture in February 2014.
It doesn’t sound too dissimilar, after all, from exclamations like Yes! or Aight! Yeet, then, appears to be an organic interjection. Another defined yeet yeet as an expression of approval, à la That’s what I’m talking about it! Yeet Yeet! An Urban Dictionary entry from 2008 defined yeet as an excited exclamation, particularly in sports and sexual contexts.
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