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From hobbitmaxxing to Catholicmaxxing: how well do you know your maxxes?

theguardian.comFrom hobbitmaxxing to Catholicmaxxing: how well do you know your maxxes?Maxxing trends – going all in on a particular trait, habit, quality or pastime – tend to burn brightly and briefly. But how many of the following are real?

10/7/26, 9:44 am4 reposts19 likes

Patrick

@patrickisdead.bsky.social

10 July

Can we not

Howard Wright

@howard-wright.bsky.social

10 July

Stop. Using. Ridiculous. Here. Today. Gone. Tomorrow. Meaningless. Trendy. Words.

Russell Parker

@pussellrarker.bsky.social

10 July

Douglas Price

@peaceanddoug.bsky.social

10 July

Fuck off

CarrieT 🗽 ⚖️ 🇺🇸 🐶 📚 🛩 🌏 🐘 🗳 ⛩️ 😆 🎶 🪙 🤷‍♀️

@uclabruin1998.bsky.social

10 July

Many of us are antifacistmaxxing here in the good ole US of A.

Not A Bot A Lot

@notabotalot.bsky.social

10 July

I'm no etemologist, but adding "maxxing" to words is straight up garbage and anyone that uses such a clumsy portmanteau deserves to be tried at the Hague for crimes against humanity.

I am Jane Doe

@juhneenhowe.bsky.social

10 July

Humans are so stupid

Gustave Flubber

@siduspreclarum.bsky.social

10 July

I'm going to make Maxxmaxxing a thing, for all of us people with ADHD.

Gustave Flubber

@siduspreclarum.bsky.social

10 July

When I was a wee lad, I would semi-jokingly declare to people asking me if I was collecting anything as a hobby, that I was collecting collections. Between this, the fact that the first written trace of a medical opinion on me was a laconic "hyperactive", and that all my teachers eventually

Gustave Flubber

@siduspreclarum.bsky.social

10 July

complained that I was distractible to the point of being *utterly unmanageable*, how the hell have I, the son *of a bloody school psychologist* only been diagnosed at like *40 yo*?! Oh, well… *pops his mid-day Medikinet™ dose*