“Hello,” a girl about my age says into the microphone. “It’s me,” she adds, and the crowd of 300 girls in the room erupts in laughter. It takes everything I can not to roll my eyes or snatch the microphone at her lame, overused attempt at humor.

You know exactly what I am talking about. First, there were memes of a grumpy cat, then there were #goals, then DJ Khaled and his keys, and now? Now there is “Damn, Daniel!”

Our generation cannot let a joke go. Instead we find it necessary to repeat the phrase until we use it to death.

Let’s take DJ Khaled’s “keys to success,” for example. The week it hit, everything all of a sudden become a “major key.”

For those of you who have no idea what I am talking about, I’ll give an example. DJ Khaled had a lot of signature phrases. One in particular was, “They don’t want you to have ___.” In the blank he named something really nice that others might be jealous of. For example, “They don’t want you to have a hot tub.” or “They don’t want you to have this new Range Rover.”

In response to that, people started making their own “keys.” This was funny at first but then resulted in over-hyping of average scenarios. A kid would Snapchat himself making breakfast, saying “They don’t want you to have this 5-star meal (insert several key emojis)!” Except it’s not a beautiful DJ Khaled meal. It is usually more like one egg, poorly cooked, in some dirty apartment kitchen.

It’s not that funny. We know it’s overused and we still laugh.

Our generation seems to be saying, “Look at me! I am so hip and rad! I know what is pop culture and I will prove it to you by quoting the words that are trending right now on the Twitter.”

I am beginning to miss the days when humor reflected individualism. When the richest type of comedy was a person unexpectedly caught on video doing something embarrassing. Now it is repeating someone else’s line, someone else’s experience and saying it over and over again until truly it is not even funny anymore.

So maybe it’s time to say goodbye to Adele, #goals, keys and overusing anything else slightly humorous we see on the web.