"Living Rent Free In Your Head" Is The Worst Comeback In Sports And It's Time To Retire It For Good
Sam Greenwood. Getty Images.This isn't even a blog about Bryson DeChambeau. It's one that I've wanted to write for a while and it just so happens that Bryson is the latest chud to break out this ePiC bUrN.
Personally the place I see the "rent free" comments come the most are Capitals fans when they're talking to other fanbases about Tom Wilson. But if Bryson has to be the poster boy for how much this comeback sucks, then so be it.
I don't know exactly where or when this one started but I'd imagine the first time someone broke out the "living rent free in your head" line, it was a massive hit. Just one of those phrases that immediately stops everybody in their tracks as they try to process what they just heard. But much like everything else that is good in life, it has been ruined by the internet. People are far too quick to break out this phrase now any time they feel they've struck a nerve with somebody else, and then act as if that's a mic drop moment. When the reality of the situation is that you're actually admitting that you're the loser here.
If you're celebrating taking up real estate in someone's head, doesn't that just mean that you think you shouldn't be there in the first place? If just having somebody else thinking about you is considered to be a win, wouldn't that mean that you're already down? It's a bizarre premise where you're essentially just celebrating bringing someone else down towards your level. It's the real life version of this guy.
Extremely "rent free, bro" energy.
And hopefully making Bryson the poster boy for this comeback will be the turning point which gets people to stop being so damn quick to break it out. Maybe everybody just needed to see how big of a dork it makes you look like in order to remove it from their repertoire forever.
Also, yes. I fully understand that the people who constantly say "living rent free in your head" are living rent free in my head. I'm aware of the irony.