Common use in English\n\n The English language does not use the tilde as a diacritic, though it is used in some loanwords. The standalone form of the symbol is used more widely. Informally, it means "approximately", "about", or "around", such as "~30 minutes before", meaning "approximately 30 minutes before".
Bass is Spears' sixth cousin once removed, he discovered in 2024 on Ancestry's 2 Lies & A Leaf podcast. "I mean I feel like she's my little sister and this whole time she's been my little cousin," Bass said on the podcast.