[TylerE]

It’s not new. It’s been a thing in writing about rom coms since at least the early 90s, if not earlier.

Edit: Wikipedia cites a first usage in print of 1941, which implies it was already a common trope at the time: The earliest example given by the Oxford English Dictionary is from Anthony Boucher's mystery novel The Case of the Solid Key (1941), in which a character says "We met cute, as they say in story conferences."

[js2]

Also, everyone should watch Roman Holiday because honestly they never needed to make another romcom after that and the meet cute is the sweetest you'll ever see.

[toyg]

But it was largely limited to professional storywriters, Hollywood / Broadway types. The internet spread their lingo much more widely, and terms like that have become more common and fashionable in recent years.

[lloeki]

Ha, lucky 10k + frequency illusion.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

Never heard meetcute before, so, today I'm a lucky 10k as well!