low key yerrr

Low key yass is the quieter, more personal version of yass energy — the kind you keep mostly to yourself but is genuinely felt. It's not the roaring crowd approval, it's the internal standing ovation. When someone does something impressive without making a big deal of it, you extend a low key yass: acknowledgment that they did that, even if neither of you are going to make a whole thing about it. Understated appreciation for understated excellence. The yass is real; it just doesn't need a spotlight.

The delightfully contradictory admission that you're being way more openly enthusiastic or emotional than you intended — or that what you're saying is technically out loud but you're still pretending it's a private confession. 'Low key highkey' is the verbal shrug of someone who knows they've crossed into full-emotion territory but can't quite commit to dropping the cool-person filter entirely. Equal parts self-awareness and inability to just say the thing without a disclaimer.

When someone talks quite a lot but does it in a calm, understated way that doesn't feel as overwhelming as full-on yapping — they're yapping, technically, but gently. The low key yap is harder to detect in the moment; you only realize an hour later that they never actually stopped talking. It's conversational endurance disguised as chill energy. These people are the stealth yappers: no drama, no volume, just an endless stream of mild observations and tangential stories.