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A burnt take is a perspective or opinion expressed on social media, which used to get a lot of attention for how uncommon or controversial it was, but doesn’t anymore. It may have been overused as a means to farm interaction, causing it to lose its shock value, or it simply may have become a more commonly-held belief among people. It could have also fizzled out because it used to pop up a lot in not-so-civil debates among a community, and said community became bored of the conflict. A hot take that has lost its original spark.
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