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GMFU, also known as You GMFU or Got Me All Fucked Up, is an acronym and slang term that stands for the phrase "you got me fucked up." The catchphrase is commonly employed to express one's reaction to something, often conveying negative feelings about something, but it's also used to say that someone has been misunderstood or misread. The slang term was popularized and received viral usage on the internet after 2016, though the phrase has been somewhat common since the 1990s.

Origin

According to Dictionary.com, the phrase "got me fucked up" has its origins in urban slang and popular rap culture,^[1] with the earliest known rap song to have used the phrase being Three 6 Mafia's "Crank This Bitch Up" in 1994,^[2] and Tommy Wright III's "Junkie Junt" in 1995.^[3] The phrase "Got Me Fucked Up" was first added to Urban Dictionary on February 6th, 2003 (seen below, left), while "GMFU" was added on October 12th, 2009 (seen below, right).

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In more recent years, the acronym "GMFU" was used as the title for various songs by artists in the 2010s, including Keke Palmer (2016), Adrian Marcel (2017) and DC the Don (2018). Palmer's track, in particular, was uploaded to her YouTube^[4] VEVO page on November 23rd, 2016, where it gathered over 1.7 million plays in over six years (seen below).

The earliest viral use of the acronym GMFU was posted to Twitter^[5] on May 30th, 2017, by Twitter user @vnanay in a tweet that gathered over 13,000 likes in roughly five years (seen below).

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