Living for
Etymology
Rooted in African American Vernacular English and Black LGBTQ ballroom and drag culture, where "I am living" or "living for this" expressed rapturous approval. It moved into wider use through drag culture and pop media in the 2010s.
phrase · /LIV-ing for/
Loving or being thrilled by something so much it feels like a reason to be alive.
What it names
It names delight pitched at a joyful extreme — declaring that some outfit, plot twist, or piece of pettiness is sustaining you right now. The hyperbole is the point: it performs enthusiasm rather than merely reporting it.
Example
The way she read him for filth in one sentence? I am living for it.
Related idea
More intense and more performed than simply saying you love something — it frames the thing as briefly the whole point of existing.