noun · first recorded 2020 · status: emerging
Money bukkake
1.Capital raining on a small group of people from every direction at once: mega-rounds, tender offers, nine-figure researcher packages. It is how you explain SF to your friends back home, and it never comes out sounding better.
His mom asked why a two-year-old startup was worth more than her bank. He thought about it, sighed, and said, "Money bukkake."
01Origin
The phrase came out of retail-trading forums before SF adopted it. The earliest traceable exact use is a February 4, 2020 r/wallstreetbets post about Tesla options, which promised that if you "buy FDs," "the money bukkake shall be yours." During that spring's stimulus, WallStreetBets used the same metaphor for central-bank liquidity, and the vulgar "money printer go brrr" crowd kept it alive through the meme-stock years. Whoever coined it is lost, along with their options.
It went SF-mainstream on October 19, 2026, when Scale AI cofounder Alexandr Wang posted that whenever he explains SF to non-tech friends, he ends up saying "money bukkake" at some point in the night. The timing fit: frontier labs were raising rounds in the hundreds of billions, OpenAI had just run a $7 billion employee tender, and individual researchers were getting nine-figure offers. The term covers what how much have you raised counts and what the permanent underclass watches from outside. It is also the opposite of gpu poor: an economy where the rain falls on a few blocks of the city and everyone else gets to watch.
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