Twitter is an absolute hell hole. You know this. Bad-faith arguments, ad hominem attacks, and low-level discourse saturate the platform like Waffle House saturates your arteries.

Unfortunately, Twitter is a necessary evil for people in sports media, or fans who want the latest information right away. You want all of the Woj bombs and breaking news updates. So that means we have to take the good with the bad, and the bad is mostly overused phrases that need to immediately be banned forever from the platform.

With the help of Crossing Broad readers, we have compiled 35 of these sayings that need to be axed. I’ll give you each phrase and then use it in a sentence:

  1. keep that same energy – “All of the people criticizing Tobias Harris better keep that same energy when he plays well.”
  2. rent free – “I am living rent free in your head”
  3. I don’t know who needs to hear this, but – “I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Jalen Hurts is the Eagles’ franchise quarterback”
  4. no one… no one at all – “No one:  No one at all: (insert referenced topic)”
  5. that’s it, that’s the tweet – “LeBron James is a fraud. That’s it. That’s the tweet.”
  6. good morning to (person) and (person) only – “good morning to James Harden and James Harden only.”
  7. living my best life – “I’m out here at the Aramingo Avenue Wawa, just living my best life”
  8. ratio – (somebody tweets something you disagree with) – “ratio”
  9. imagine thinking – “Imagine thinking that regular Oreos are better than Double Stuf Oreos”
  10. louder for the people in the back – (in response to a tweet about how good the Super Bowl halftime show was) – “louder for the people in the back!”
  11. stick to (topic) – “stick to soccer, you don’t know anything about basketball”
  12. and GO – “weekend getaway suggestions? and GO”
  13. don’t @ me – “mumble rap absolutely stinks, don’t @ me”
  14. using the word literally wrong – “Fortnite is literally the best game ever”
  15. raise your hand if… – “Raise your hand if you had Corey Clement going for 100 receiving yards in the Super Bowl” 
  16. let that sink in – “Carson Wentz might be one and done in Indy. Let that sink in.”
  17. as a (insert experience that justifies your opinion on the topic) – “As a Lansdale resident, I can safely say that Joe Judge is a disgrace to the borough.”
  18. imagine being someone who… – “imagine being someone who doesn’t like Judas Priest”
  19. this aged well – (in response to a tweet about Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid winning a title together) – “this aged well”
  20. any phrase including the word narrative – “it’s just the biased fake news media creating the narrative”
  21. this – (in response to a tweet you agree with) – “this” (sometimes with an arrow pointing up or down)
  22. I see what you did there – “ah, a play on words? I see what you did there”
  23. tell me you don’t watch (topic) without telling me that you don’t watch (topic) – (somebody calls Ben Simmons a great three point shooter) – “tell you don’t watch the Sixers without telling me that you don’t watch the Sixers”
  24. hill to die on – “you think the universal DH is a good rule? that’s a weird hill to die on”
  25. thanks for coming to my TED talk – “the best DMX song was Get at me Dog. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.”
  26. winning the internet – “This meme is so funny. Katie Nolan wins the internet.”
  27. make it make sense – “Doc Rivers keeps running out these all-bench units? Make it make sense.”
  28. how is (topic) still a thing in (year) – “How is America Online still a thing in 2015?”
  29. so I did a thing – “So I did a thing. I got a new job.”
  30. new from me/I wrote about – “New from me:  I wrote about Sam Hinkie and the 2015 NBA draft for The Ringer.”
  31. be better or do better – “You think that Ben Simmons was faking mental illness? Be better.”
  32. sorry not sorry – “I put mayonnaise on my cheesesteak. Sorry not sorry.”
  33. I am in you – (person arrives in Ohio) – “Cleveland, I am in you.”
  34. I can’t even – “Gritty just dumped popcorn on a Red Wings fan. I can’t even.”
  35. unpopular opinion – “Unpopular opinion: IPA absolutely sucks.”

I’m sure there are more, but this is a start. We can make Twitter a better place by immediately removing these phrases and replacing them with something else. Anything else. Doing this will heal the world. Make it a better place for you, and for me, and the entire human race.