tank szn
Tank szn — tank season — is borrowed directly from sports, where a struggling team intentionally loses late-season games to secure a higher draft pick.
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Tank szn — tank season — is borrowed directly from sports, where a struggling team intentionally loses late-season games to secure a higher draft pick. In internet slang it spread to any context where someone is strategically enduring a bad stretch in hopes of a future payoff: a rough semester, a dead-end job you're grinding through to build resume credit, a creative dry spell before the breakthrough. You announce tank szn not to wallow but to reframe: this isn't failure, it's positioning. The losses are intentional. The draft pick is coming.
Not quitting the awful internship until I have three clips and a reference — it's tank szn and I'll be back stronger.
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