smol bean
noun
a person or animal (usually a pet) that is small, cute, and innocent.
What does smol bean mean?
Smol bean refers to a person or animal (usually a pet) that is small, cute, and innocent.
Examples of smol bean
All the adorableness is super concentrated in such a smol bean 🥰 I’mso happy for you!
—@abriarwall (reacting to a photo of a cat sitting next to a teapot), Threads, 17 Sept. 2026
Hi. I’m 5’ 1”, and skinny. I have a lot of people who call me a “smol bean”, and that I need to be protected. I just find it kind of cringey, and I hate it when people say that to me.
—pov: ur just a smol bean 😢and ur swearing for the first time 🤩
—im loren
I’m just a smol bean who simply got an oppurtunity to make other little beans happy
and I love them so much
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Where does smol bean come from?
Smol bean combines the slang adjective smol, meaning “adorably small,” with bean used as a term of affection.
Purposeful misspellings are also legion, and can take on a life of their own: smol is an interesting one. According to Know Your Meme, it started in 2015 when young fans of a musician called Tyler Josephs took to calling him ‘smol bean’, a cutesy but not entirely weird nickname.
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How is smol bean used?
Increasingly, smol bean is used facetiously of mockingly in situations where someone is feigning innocence, defenselessness, or ignorance in order to avoid responsibility or culpability for something.
Then again, for the characters in this A.I. story, none of them thinks they’re the villains, all the way up to the head of network. In the face of the relentless algorithm, everyone claims to be just a smol bean.
—Another one of those “we’re just a smol bean national paper of record” excuses when part of the issue was how they made Biden’s age the top story day after day after day
—… we’re constantly asked to believe that Trump himself is just a smol bean who can’t be held accountable for anything ...
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