In the movie “Alexander and his worst day”, Alexander’s elder brother says:
“I'm dating the hottest girl in school. I'm getting crowned at prom,
and once I get my license tomorrow. I kind of have everything I've
ever wanted. Hashtag blessed, you know.”
What does “hashtag blessed” mean here? I conjecture it has the same meaning with “God blessed”, but why use “hashtag”? Does it mean: I was labelled by a hashtag which was written by God “I bless you” ?
Best Answer
'hashtag' has become part of modern speech thanks to twitter - it's a label preceded by a # (or hash) that's used as a way to categorise a tweet’s topic(s), which then makes it easier for people to search for other tweets about those topics. (It has since been used in other social media outlets).
for example, #StackOverflow hashtag the returns all tweets tagged with this hashtag.
Although it's a social media tag, due to its popular usage in social media, it has followed that unfortunate trend of becoming a part of spoken English, particularly in 'teen-speak', similar to when people used to actually say 'LOL' when speaking due to its usage in online forums.
An example of hashtag would be:
The speaker is 'tagging' his or her sentence with 'You Only Live Once'
In your example:
...the speaker is 'tagging' his previous sentence with #blessed - in other words, he's saying that he is blessed, or experiencing good fortune in life.