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It's an unpaired word. The same reason why we never describe someone as "hinged".

Hinged seems like a great candidate for a slang term. Like, that guy's totally hinged. Logically, I would use it for people that seem to have their head on straight, or things that make sense.

Imagine how deranged someone would sound calming saying "I'm very whelmed by this"

I actually know someone who says this, or at least they used to.

I've said "this is very.... Whelming" as a sort of insult that it's particularly middle of the road.

Almost always just for a bit of a personal chuckle since it sounds funny to me.

See also: "this is certainly one of the movies of all time"

You can in Europe

Source: am currently whelmed in Europe.

Yeah this post must come from uncultured (but likely very popular) teenage girls, probably sophomores.

Source: I am, as well, currently whelmed in Europe.

Judging from my memory of the documentary evidence, those teenage girls might have been quite Mean to boot!

I was intrigued by this so I had a look in the good ol' dictionary, and whelmed is a word... Although it's meaning is closer to overwhelmed than it is to, say, nonplussed as you might assume. The "over" has been added for emphasis rather than to change the meaning, and I assume underwhelmed came later.

One might say that I am currently whelmed. We generally don't have much to complain about when everything is fine.