Even so, the internet has playfully dubbed it the “Netflix and chill” button, and its arrival represents the next stage in the life of a phrase that began as simply an innocent way of saying, “I’ve had a hard day and all I want to do this evening is put on Netflix, curl up into the foetal position and consume four straight hours of visual entertainment”, but has become an innuendo (and a meme) for hooking up. If you were 16, and your parents caught you texting “Netflix and chill?” to your girlfriend, they might think you were proposing an innocent night of watching Chopped on the couch. “Netflix and chill” is rising in Twitter usage, but so is the usage of other formations: “YouTube and chill,” “Hulu and chill,” and even the backwards “chill and Netflix.” 
 
 Out of work and class for the day…. — Cookie (@cookie07__99) August 10, 2014 
 
 October 2014 
 
 More women (and a few men) start catching on to the second, more subversive meaning of “Netflix and chill.” Scare quotes start appearing around “chill,” indicating that people know what’s really going on. The definition, written by user LaxBuhl7, defines “Netflix and chill” as “code for two people going to each others houses and fucking or doing other sexual related acts.” The sample usage is: 
 
 Brad: “Hey Julia wanna come over and watch Netflix and chill” 
 
 Julia: “Sure I’ll pick up the condoms” 
 
 Brad: “Wait I thought we were just gonna watch Netflix and chill?” 
 
 Julia: “Netflix and Chill means we fuck, dumbass” 
 
 May 2015 
 
 The next evolution of “Netflix and chill” arrives on Twitter—a photo/reaction macro prefaced by some variation of “20/30/40 mins into Netflix and chill.” Hundreds of these tweets appear.
– Hey, do you want to come over, watch some Netflix and chill? For those of you not in the know, "Netflix and chill" is today's euphemism for hooking up, the Guardian reports. (And if you weren't previously in the know, you are not the only one.) Originally (think 2009), the phrase really did mean exactly what it sounds like: People used it to describe their lazy, solo, binge-watching evenings. Somehow, though, those three little words have morphed to the point that Urban Dictionary's definition is: "It means that you are going to go over to your partners house and f--- with Netflix in the background." Netflix is apparently in on the joke, having recently unveiled hilariously complex instructions to create a device it calls "The Switch," which "dims the lights, silences incoming calls, orders takeout, and turns on Netflix" with just one press of a button. (The Internet is calling it "the Netflix and chill button," the Guardian notes.) The company also tweeted a gif this summer that jokingly incorporated the phrase. This summer, Fusion put together a timeline of the phrase's history, from its apparent first use on Twitter in 2009 ("I'm about to log onto Netflix and chill for the rest of the night") to other, similar phrases ("Hulu and chill") to, finally, the phrase's new meaning in 2014 ("Netflix and chill never means Netflix and chill now a days lol") and its current-day "catchphrase" status.