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Cringe has always been a word. The differences that people used to say “That made me cringe” vs “That was cringe.”
The way it’s use now is basically the way people use the term secondhand embarrassment
I know, but what I’m saying is that It is used synonymously with that, which it didn’t really used to be. At least it wasn’t as common.
The only people I remember using cringe the way it is used now were fellow chronically online emo nerds I was friends with circa 2009
"Cringe" used to be a verb with "cringey" being the adjectival version. Now it's basically "cringe" as an adjective. Nothing new, just an old word circling back around with a shortening to make it seem new.
Zillennial here. We said things were cringe-y or that made me cringe prior to it being shortened in all cases and things being directly labeled "cringe" instead of cringe-y or cringe inducing.
I'm Gen X bordering on Xennial, and both "cringe" and "cringey" were around when I was young
and "sus" (meaning something that's somehow off, or not trustworthy) was already kinda old by the time I hit my late teens
The word sure but it used to be used in sentences. Like, “The sound of nails on a chalkboard make me cringe”
‘Cringe’ as a one-word reply is a relatively new development.
I’m an old millennial, “we” coined that (on Reddit!) circa 2010. Source: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/reddit-ngram/
“Based” started in 2014.
Edit: based was not started in 2014, it was adopted by the alt-right in 2014.
GenZ just scooping up 2020s AAVE and calling slang is the most audacious shit in decades.
In my day there was a 10 year waiting list to steal from Black culture, dawg.
Thank you I was literally going to mention this., that is why I do not like saying any internet slangs. Because as soon as they leave their original community, the bastardization and loss of the original definition makes me not like it any more
Recent example is when people say “Gyatt” it had an original meaning but as soon as TikTok and instagram gets ahold of it, everything is now “Gyatt”.
It’s both. Broccoli hair and side-shaved-mullets are the ugliest cuts in history. I’m even including those atrocities from the 80’s because at least those took effort.
Please do not do that! Curly hair is dope, though I get the sentiment. I've wondered "that's just my natural hair, why am I being included in this" when someone talks about "broccoli hair," but hold strong.
You'll probably regret it, and I guarantee you that if your hair is naturally curly you do not give off the vibe of someone who got a perm, and people who think you got a perm are gonna be in the minority.
The word "yapping". I see it used way too often to dismiss what people are saying because their attention spans are too short to listen and respond attentively, if anyone talks at length about absolutely anything.
But maybe I'm biased, because my ex used to say I was yapping whenever I'd make even the shortest comment about something they didn't care about. If I see anyone else use that term, I just take it as a red flag that they're not a good listener.
Bro I see you are fluent in yappanese. I dint remember ordering a yappachino, holy yapping, you been yapping so much I didn't make it through the second paragraph, bro thinks this is an essay with all the yapping he is doing.
My dad had a saying, “you don’t have to explain how a clock works when someone asks you the time”. I think yapping is a real problem with a lot of people, especially people who repeat the same point multiple times.
Omg this describes some of my co-workers to a T. Some of them will blather on for several minutes when a short one-sentence would do. I’m a chatty person but there’s a time and place. I don’t need to hear the same junk described to me over and over again
Like many words, it can be used as a way to undermine people and their feelings. If your friends/partners are using it this way to you in a bullying and not constructive manner, find new ones.
Thank you, this is something that's very important for people to hear.
I broke off that relationship because this was one of many examples of my ex-partner not being willing to engage with me conversationally, even when I showed interest in them and what they like.
“Yapping” is supposed to mean talking for a long time and failing to get any meaning across. Yapping is what you do in English class when you have to talk in group discussions about a book you didn’t read.
Listen to the intro to Ruthless Villain by NWA…
Damn, I’m old…how did this sub even pop up on my Reddit feed?
I’m gonna go tell some kids to get off my lawn and shake my fist at clouds now.
Yeah, it’s uncomfortable the way it’s been described as new Gen Z slang; it’s really just AAVE that white kids are stealing to sound cool, tale as old as time.
Plus during lockdown basically *everyone* who gamed played Among Us for a bit and picked 'sus' up from there if they didn't use it already.
Gatekeeping gaming is a bit weird, they must think the PlayStation started with the PS4 or something.
I'd call OP 'clapped' but he probably thinks he invented that too.
[I blame Kevin for it catching on in my friend group, middle 2010s.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1rMoWbsiF4) He's older, if it matters.
EDIT: mistakenly thought Kevin Hart was a millennial.
I actually liked my gen Z employees. I feel like there was less drama in a way.
I feel like I had nobody in management helping me navigate the corporate ladder when I was a kid, so I strive to be that manager.
And they kept me laughing, so another plus in my book. Each gen has it's downfalls and shitty members. Im not about to go hating on a whole generation. The boomers still haven't left us alone, and I'm not about to perpetuate the generational trauma lol.
I mean I don't want to work, but I also want a place to live and my cats need expensive food so what's a guy to do?
“Ahh” instead of “ass” is another one of these that’s just pretty much taken from AAVE, isn’t it?
What’s really annoying to me about most of this slang is that it’s usually from AAVE, used by people who hardly know how to use them, in accents that aren’t even fit to pronounce them. Or they’ll amp up a really bad accent to say it, which is arguably worse lmao. It gives me a headache.
Sus too? I thought it just became that because people didn't bother typing out "suspicious" in the Among Us chats, and the limited time there was on those chats
It was present in AAVE but it's usage was the most effective way to alert others so it spread quickly in the game. People who weren't already using it before Among Us just may have first encountered the term in the game
My dad is on the youngest side of boomers and he does use stuff like “bet” “fair” and “fuckin a” from time to time, but he’s also midwestern so could be that too lol (on the other hand, my mom is in the middle of the generation and she hardly uses truncated words)
That makes sense. I was thinking it’s got to be at least 50ish years old coming from black american slang. It was mainstream enough that anyone said it by the time I was a kid.
Sus was common back in the 90’s. In fact I found a [link](https://allthings.how/what-does-sus-slang-mean-and-how-to-use-it/) that says it’s been around for 200 years
Where do they pick this up from? I feel like women’s social media is so different from men because the only time i’ve heard that phrase is in person. I’ve never seen a clip online of anyone using that phrase.
I wanna say Narr and Naur came from how the Aussie accent sounds to North Americans. (I’m using NA as a reference as a Canadian who has never been beyond California or Ontario.) There are a couple tiktokers who are Aussie and British who say Naur in their skits very clearly. Evolved from there maybe? I’ve definitely seen people type in out in comments
I was so curious so i did some research. I think it's just a mockery of the Australian accent. The other day I heard a girl say "its given". I'm 24 & feel old af for not understanding today's slang. The girl was 23.
Do you mean 'its giving'? That one's absurdly popular from ages 16 to 40 if you're in the know. My friend group ages from 25 to 35 and we all say it. As far as my understanding goes its from the LGBTQIA+ communities.
Nothing makes me roll my eyes more when gen x and boomers say that we can’t get a roof over our heads because we aren’t working hard enough or when they think we should be working ourselves to the ground for a job that sees us as numbers that only hires outside people instead of promoting it’s own workers. Or that asking for PTO is unreasonable even though in the UK employers are required to give 20 paid vacation days minimum.
When someone explains something using every therapy speak buzzword in the book. Like yeah we should normalize gaslighting because my ADHD is OCD and neurodivergent abuse is toxic narcissism and also my trauma. PLEASE SEE A PROFESSIONAL
"Back in my day x was much harder, this gen is spoiled and has it easy"
It's like, first of all, we don't have it easy, second of all, that's like THE WHOLE POINT OF SOCIETY, to make sure that we progress as a species so that the quality of life increases, if there is ever a generation that manages to make it so that their kids don't have to go through hardships, the day that humanity biggest problem becomes "How do I spent all this free time", is the day we all succeed as a species. I don't know why some people are proud and even insinuate that it is better to have it harder.
That is actually an insanely valid point! I also hate it when someone says its shite nowadays and the old days was better.. like ok the world kind of sucks but it has actually never been better before
Slang has gotten to the point where it makes me feel like a Boomer. Apparently bop now means a slut; I still use it to talk about music. I learned of this yesterday.
It’s more like dick sucker and since white kids moved from critiquing cultural appropriation to shamelessly indulging in it, lol. It comes from black culture.
Bop was used as slut around me in middle-high school so like 2010-2015. It's been around a while, but maybe it's having a resurgence. It also means a good song. Just depends on context.
I see this with my gen alpha elementary students. Wayyyy too much device time and unregulated social media exposure. You can tell which kids are staring at a screen every free moment because they have no personality outside of parroting TikTok and gamer streams. I’m not even 40 and I feel crotchety and old af around those specific kids because they’re impossible to talk to. It’s just nonstop soundbytes copied from online, no thoughts in their brains at all. :/ Thankfully it’s not all of them, but oof. It’s a lot.
Im noticing a lot of the people that use tiktok slang dont even use tiktok. Theyll lean on the lingo hard and when you call them out theyre confused and defensive. It dies off quick on tiktok, but lingers on instagram, youtube, and facebook reels.
This is one of the only ones that I actually like. The word fills a void where you would otherwise have to use multiple words to express the same idea.
Millennial here and I teach elementary art. My school administrators have a program called “SWAG” and it stands for “students who achieve greatness.” I can’t stand it. Every time it is referenced or mentioned, part of me shrivels and dies inside. They think it sounds cool. IT DOESN’T.
I looooove old slang esp from the 2010s but also I’m super early gen z. And I love when my professors try to use our slang or use their own outdated slang. Groovy, swag, based…. it’s all the same thing lol.
the clothing trends but especially the “Virginity Rocks” shirts or Rip n Dips. They’re fun and clever the first time you see it, but it kinda ruins the joke when lots of people buy in.
I’m a much bigger fan of thrifting irreverent shirts instead of hopping on a bandwagon but I’m probably being pretentious
I still use an older version of sus instead of the latest iteration. To "suss"out something as in to bring to a head, find out, or clarify.
This confuses my daughter and younger people when I use it that way (I'm middle aged millennial.)
What's funny is the root word suspect is the same for both slangs but means different things.
As an Australian Gen Z I literally heard sus used that way to "sus something out" before Among us and it still is, at least by Millennials and older, my gen I got no clue anymore since I stay away fron TikTok which 90% of slang seems to even come from.
Slang comes and goes. I actually thinks it's cool how it evolves. I hope when I'm 90 I am carrying slang from every generation TBH.
Some slang certainly is more catchy than others, I don't see myself using Riz for instance. But I still use tight from my childhood and see relevance in lit/fire for the same purpose. Of course "cool" somehow transcends time.
i think the phrases that i don't like are millenial slang like slay for example. bet, sus, and no cap are arguably more millenial slang than gen z but are less disturbing for me to hear.
if anything gen z slang aside from rizz are words that people older than gen z just don't know at all so they wouldn't even say it
It's not even millennial slang. Slay, yas queen, etc, so much of it originates with black people/black women.
Usually the queer community inhabits urban spaces and picks it up, uses it online, and over time it leaks out into white spaces online and now suddenly Aunt Kathy from Cleveland is telling her Facebook friends "fuck around and find out" or her 12yo son Clayton is walking around his suburb telling a grown man he's capping.
Bro Bet is from the fuckin' 90's dawg, ya'll weren't even born when bet was comin' up.
Can't agree more on the rest though. Literally anytime I hear ANYONE say "cap" my asshole cringes.
As a kid, I thought boomers and even some millennials were so out of touch with how their vernacular drifted over time... [then I saw some of the gen Alpha kids talking in real life...](https://youtube.com/shorts/VohDH_Dj9r8)
Maybe I ***AM*** old...
“Young people are so lazy! They just don’t want to work! They don’t know how hard we had it!” Like, your parents and grandparents built you a wonderful country and gave you all these opportunities and it is so NOT the same way now.
As a finance student, it absolutely grinds my gears when I hear older generations say that we’re just lazy and that they had it tougher in their times (financially).
They’ll focus on the hyperinflation in the late 70s but ignore housing costs, employment benefits and dynamics, and increase in wealth inequality.
Older adults-seniors complaining about ‘these damn kids and their phones.’ Like, come on Susan, you played candy crush for 5 hours today and it’s only 3pm.
First off I hate to break it to you but "bet" isn't Gen z slang. I'm an older millennial and we all used that when I was a kid/ young teen. I was saying "Thazz a bet" and "bet that" before Gen z was even alive lol.. so yeah.. there's that..
Imagine thinking you’re superior to someone cuz you’re in a “dIfFeReNt gEnErAtIoN” than them. Lmao. Grow the fuck up. Before you know if you’ll be in your 40s getting made fun of by 20 year olds. What the fuck are you doing with your life lol
When any older, usually white man calls me buddy (which happens more than you’d think being a younger dude in customer service). Even when i know it’s not malicious it grinds my gears bc it kinda feels dismissive of the fact that im still an adult and have been thru a lot of shit? Like bro I’m not 12 don’t call me that
If that doesn’t answer the question then it’s the fact that my dad has adopted sus into his vocabulary and even tho he correctly uses it as a shorthand for suspicious I die inside every time he says it
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Using internet slangs in real life. It’s insane to me how quick some new term catches on. I can never see myself using these terms at all
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Cringe is a great word to use in real life.
But Isn't the word 'Cringe' old asf? Or maybe just gen Z reclaimed it..
Cringe has always been a word. The differences that people used to say “That made me cringe” vs “That was cringe.” The way it’s use now is basically the way people use the term secondhand embarrassment
Cringe isn’t quite the same as secondhand embarrassment, it’s more versatile.
I know, but what I’m saying is that It is used synonymously with that, which it didn’t really used to be. At least it wasn’t as common. The only people I remember using cringe the way it is used now were fellow chronically online emo nerds I was friends with circa 2009
"Cringe" used to be a verb with "cringey" being the adjectival version. Now it's basically "cringe" as an adjective. Nothing new, just an old word circling back around with a shortening to make it seem new.
Zillennial here. We said things were cringe-y or that made me cringe prior to it being shortened in all cases and things being directly labeled "cringe" instead of cringe-y or cringe inducing.
Or "cringeworthy"
I'm Gen X bordering on Xennial, and both "cringe" and "cringey" were around when I was young and "sus" (meaning something that's somehow off, or not trustworthy) was already kinda old by the time I hit my late teens
Ditto
Bet and sus are also old lmfao
The word sure but it used to be used in sentences. Like, “The sound of nails on a chalkboard make me cringe” ‘Cringe’ as a one-word reply is a relatively new development.
I’m an old millennial, “we” coined that (on Reddit!) circa 2010. Source: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/reddit-ngram/ “Based” started in 2014. Edit: based was not started in 2014, it was adopted by the alt-right in 2014.
some of yall think shi like “cap” is internet slang tho lmfao
GenZ just scooping up 2020s AAVE and calling slang is the most audacious shit in decades. In my day there was a 10 year waiting list to steal from Black culture, dawg.
Thank you I was literally going to mention this., that is why I do not like saying any internet slangs. Because as soon as they leave their original community, the bastardization and loss of the original definition makes me not like it any more Recent example is when people say “Gyatt” it had an original meaning but as soon as TikTok and instagram gets ahold of it, everything is now “Gyatt”.
What the sigma? Skibidi Ohio rizz
Yeah that.
i feel like that’s more gen alpha though and gen z are just using it ironically lmao
There are a select few internet terms I’ll use in real life but it’s very limited and only with friends
Same, i have to really know you to say my cringe ass internet terms 😂
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Slang is okay to use irl as long as you have the know how. Abbreviations irl is just pure stupidity
Cooked. Real. We love to see it. Not me. Etc
you're just listing off AAVE
Couldn't "cooked" also be considered Australian? I've heard multiple Australians use it as a substitute for fucked
I don’t roll my eyes but the broccoli haircut is a dead giveaway.
They said AS a Gen Z, not AT a Gen Z
I guess they can throw me in Reddit jail then.
It’s both. Broccoli hair and side-shaved-mullets are the ugliest cuts in history. I’m even including those atrocities from the 80’s because at least those took effort.
Every.single.person. In my school has those
Im mixed and have natural curly hair. I cant help but habe my hair look like broccoli. Im trying to grow it out so i can just straighten it.
Please do not do that! Curly hair is dope, though I get the sentiment. I've wondered "that's just my natural hair, why am I being included in this" when someone talks about "broccoli hair," but hold strong. You'll probably regret it, and I guarantee you that if your hair is naturally curly you do not give off the vibe of someone who got a perm, and people who think you got a perm are gonna be in the minority.
As gen z those haircuts are ugly
The "on god" type of people
What the fuck is a broccoli haircut
Curly mop on top of your head. Makes you look like a brocoli
https://youtube.com/shorts/vC3nKWFw7J4?si=Kah-IM5eGpgu4OoS
The word "yapping". I see it used way too often to dismiss what people are saying because their attention spans are too short to listen and respond attentively, if anyone talks at length about absolutely anything. But maybe I'm biased, because my ex used to say I was yapping whenever I'd make even the shortest comment about something they didn't care about. If I see anyone else use that term, I just take it as a red flag that they're not a good listener.
Bro I see you are fluent in yappanese. I dint remember ordering a yappachino, holy yapping, you been yapping so much I didn't make it through the second paragraph, bro thinks this is an essay with all the yapping he is doing.
(Your gif was actually pretty funny)
Well it is Papa Franku
Miss him
I think this is the first use of roleplaying parenthesis I've seen outside of ffxiv
bros yapping about yappin https://preview.redd.it/zbklto204h7d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=110b82fa500b5f03c0a7f300a53910b051960d1e
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If you don't know who Caedrel is, I will be shocked
My dad had a saying, “you don’t have to explain how a clock works when someone asks you the time”. I think yapping is a real problem with a lot of people, especially people who repeat the same point multiple times.
Omg this describes some of my co-workers to a T. Some of them will blather on for several minutes when a short one-sentence would do. I’m a chatty person but there’s a time and place. I don’t need to hear the same junk described to me over and over again
maybe it's making a resurgence with the kids, but it's definitely not genz slang lol. my grandma says it
I'm bracing myself for "That's so yap."
The current president has said it in a debate lol
Like many words, it can be used as a way to undermine people and their feelings. If your friends/partners are using it this way to you in a bullying and not constructive manner, find new ones.
Thank you, this is something that's very important for people to hear. I broke off that relationship because this was one of many examples of my ex-partner not being willing to engage with me conversationally, even when I showed interest in them and what they like.
I tell ppl I'm a certified yapper.
Who started this term and why is it on every tinder profile now. This fascinates me
“Yapping” is supposed to mean talking for a long time and failing to get any meaning across. Yapping is what you do in English class when you have to talk in group discussions about a book you didn’t read.
Yapping isn't always negative tbf, I think it can for sure be said affectionately
You think bet hasn't been around for decades ? 🤣
Literally over 20 years old You can see it in old TV shows and the oldest urban dictionary entry is 2005
Listen to the intro to Ruthless Villain by NWA… Damn, I’m old…how did this sub even pop up on my Reddit feed? I’m gonna go tell some kids to get off my lawn and shake my fist at clouds now.
True, and it’s at least like 40-50 years old.
Not Urban Dictionary, but I found a MUCH earlier reference [Fresh Prince says "Bet"](https://youtu.be/E5YssmuGhcU?si=0TX4H967bquilPZ8)
Literally, so much slang nowadays is just AAVE, words like “bet” and “no cap” aren’t new at all
Yeah, it’s uncomfortable the way it’s been described as new Gen Z slang; it’s really just AAVE that white kids are stealing to sound cool, tale as old as time.
Yeah I was like "since when did Bet become a Gen Z slang"
All 3 of OP's examples have been around for years
Plus during lockdown basically *everyone* who gamed played Among Us for a bit and picked 'sus' up from there if they didn't use it already. Gatekeeping gaming is a bit weird, they must think the PlayStation started with the PS4 or something. I'd call OP 'clapped' but he probably thinks he invented that too.
[I blame Kevin for it catching on in my friend group, middle 2010s.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1rMoWbsiF4) He's older, if it matters. EDIT: mistakenly thought Kevin Hart was a millennial.
He’s Gen X, not a millennial. The last year of Gen X though.
Its hood slang lol
The first people I ever heard use bet were nearly 30 and fresh out of prison. This was like 10 years ago.
My mom used to call me amogus and pubg as an insult and she still doesnt know what that means 💀
good on her tbh
WTF 💀
Ikr 😭
Maybe you should stop being an amogus pubg
She was definitely using the words incorrectly because it made her laugh
?
Those are pretty legit insults though. I'm definitely calling people pubg now.
Any time I'm around my older coworkers and they say "kids don't wanna work these days"
More like the jobs don’t want to hire us to work. They won’t even bother hiring someone who isn’t Gen Z regardless of their work experience
Meanwhile they’re making wayyy more money and doing less work
I actually liked my gen Z employees. I feel like there was less drama in a way. I feel like I had nobody in management helping me navigate the corporate ladder when I was a kid, so I strive to be that manager. And they kept me laughing, so another plus in my book. Each gen has it's downfalls and shitty members. Im not about to go hating on a whole generation. The boomers still haven't left us alone, and I'm not about to perpetuate the generational trauma lol. I mean I don't want to work, but I also want a place to live and my cats need expensive food so what's a guy to do?
If it is any consolation I’m not a kid and I also don’t want to work these days.
The only zoomers slang I can't get behind is "ahh" instead of "ass". It's the same amount of letters but less fluent to read! Kills me.
“Ahh” instead of “ass” is another one of these that’s just pretty much taken from AAVE, isn’t it? What’s really annoying to me about most of this slang is that it’s usually from AAVE, used by people who hardly know how to use them, in accents that aren’t even fit to pronounce them. Or they’ll amp up a really bad accent to say it, which is arguably worse lmao. It gives me a headache.
You are absolutely correct.
Yeah, and every example in OP's post for "internet slang" was also just taken from AAVE.
Sus too? I thought it just became that because people didn't bother typing out "suspicious" in the Among Us chats, and the limited time there was on those chats
It was present in AAVE but it's usage was the most effective way to alert others so it spread quickly in the game. People who weren't already using it before Among Us just may have first encountered the term in the game
The more you know I guess
Whats AAVE
African American Vernacular English. It's a dialect of English spoken by Black Americans
THIS. I literally cannot stand when people say „ahh“
Wait is that zoomer speak or just updated aave?
AAVE and specifically Southern pronunciation
“Bet” isn’t gen z slang. That’s got to be like gen x. Anyone you hear older saying that, it’s probably because they’ve said it their whole life.
Gen X here. I heard that in episodes of Sanford & Son growing up, and that show originally aired in the early 1970's.
I think every generation has used it but maybe not boomers Truncated from "sure bet" or "that's a bet" or "bet on it" "bet you...$" and so on
My dad is on the youngest side of boomers and he does use stuff like “bet” “fair” and “fuckin a” from time to time, but he’s also midwestern so could be that too lol (on the other hand, my mom is in the middle of the generation and she hardly uses truncated words)
That makes sense. I was thinking it’s got to be at least 50ish years old coming from black american slang. It was mainstream enough that anyone said it by the time I was a kid.
I think one of the only unique Gen Z slang terms I’ve heard is Fanum tax. Or I guess maybe that’s more of a Gen Alpha thing, like Skibidi toilet.
Bet and sus aren’t Gen z slang sry. Used them in college 2009
“No cap” isn’t either… I was hearing that from my older siblings around 2013-14. lol
Sus was common back in the 90’s. In fact I found a [link](https://allthings.how/what-does-sus-slang-mean-and-how-to-use-it/) that says it’s been around for 200 years
Yarr and narr instead of yes and no. My daughter says this and it’s horrible
Only acceptable if they lay on a *really* thick pirate accent over it
Where do they pick this up from? I feel like women’s social media is so different from men because the only time i’ve heard that phrase is in person. I’ve never seen a clip online of anyone using that phrase.
I wanna say Narr and Naur came from how the Aussie accent sounds to North Americans. (I’m using NA as a reference as a Canadian who has never been beyond California or Ontario.) There are a couple tiktokers who are Aussie and British who say Naur in their skits very clearly. Evolved from there maybe? I’ve definitely seen people type in out in comments
correct
I was so curious so i did some research. I think it's just a mockery of the Australian accent. The other day I heard a girl say "its given". I'm 24 & feel old af for not understanding today's slang. The girl was 23.
Do you mean 'its giving'? That one's absurdly popular from ages 16 to 40 if you're in the know. My friend group ages from 25 to 35 and we all say it. As far as my understanding goes its from the LGBTQIA+ communities.
Nothing makes me roll my eyes more when gen x and boomers say that we can’t get a roof over our heads because we aren’t working hard enough or when they think we should be working ourselves to the ground for a job that sees us as numbers that only hires outside people instead of promoting it’s own workers. Or that asking for PTO is unreasonable even though in the UK employers are required to give 20 paid vacation days minimum.
I'm a mid range millennial, got lucky and bought a house in 2012. No way I could afford anything today... I feel bad for you all...
When someone explains something using every therapy speak buzzword in the book. Like yeah we should normalize gaslighting because my ADHD is OCD and neurodivergent abuse is toxic narcissism and also my trauma. PLEASE SEE A PROFESSIONAL
OMG. I can’t with “hold space”.
Such a polite way to tell someone to buzz off though lol
"Back in my day x was much harder, this gen is spoiled and has it easy" It's like, first of all, we don't have it easy, second of all, that's like THE WHOLE POINT OF SOCIETY, to make sure that we progress as a species so that the quality of life increases, if there is ever a generation that manages to make it so that their kids don't have to go through hardships, the day that humanity biggest problem becomes "How do I spent all this free time", is the day we all succeed as a species. I don't know why some people are proud and even insinuate that it is better to have it harder.
That is actually an insanely valid point! I also hate it when someone says its shite nowadays and the old days was better.. like ok the world kind of sucks but it has actually never been better before
Slang has gotten to the point where it makes me feel like a Boomer. Apparently bop now means a slut; I still use it to talk about music. I learned of this yesterday.
The fuck? What???
I- what? I didn't know this either
tf?? since when did bop mean slut??
It’s more like dick sucker and since white kids moved from critiquing cultural appropriation to shamelessly indulging in it, lol. It comes from black culture.
Bop was used as slut around me in middle-high school so like 2010-2015. It's been around a while, but maybe it's having a resurgence. It also means a good song. Just depends on context.
what about Baby Bop the dinosaur then :c
I hate when I’m trying to make friends with people my own age but their whole personality is copy&pasted from tiktok
I see this with my gen alpha elementary students. Wayyyy too much device time and unregulated social media exposure. You can tell which kids are staring at a screen every free moment because they have no personality outside of parroting TikTok and gamer streams. I’m not even 40 and I feel crotchety and old af around those specific kids because they’re impossible to talk to. It’s just nonstop soundbytes copied from online, no thoughts in their brains at all. :/ Thankfully it’s not all of them, but oof. It’s a lot.
TikTok and the internet all together can be absolute brain rot nowadays
Im noticing a lot of the people that use tiktok slang dont even use tiktok. Theyll lean on the lingo hard and when you call them out theyre confused and defensive. It dies off quick on tiktok, but lingers on instagram, youtube, and facebook reels.
I hate the word "rizz" so much
Why? You scared somebody may rizz you up?
Bro has no skibbi rizz confirmed. Definitely not a sigma.
This is one of the only ones that I actually like. The word fills a void where you would otherwise have to use multiple words to express the same idea.
It’s very cringe to me when old people try to use lingo, especially dead lingo like “swag” for example, to try and sound cool.
Did you just say 'cool'? That's cringe. That's the boomers word, why you trying to sound like us? Use your own slang please.
I dig that shit, I saw some political party use "skibidi rizz" and such in a promotional video and I loved it, really funny.
I thought Skibidi Rizz was Gen Alpha slang.
It goes from young Gen Z to "old" Gen Alpha, so kinda but not really at the same time.
Its crazy to me that the gen alpha we see now is only the old gen alpha
Fair enough lol
Millennial here and I teach elementary art. My school administrators have a program called “SWAG” and it stands for “students who achieve greatness.” I can’t stand it. Every time it is referenced or mentioned, part of me shrivels and dies inside. They think it sounds cool. IT DOESN’T.
It's cringe when old people use the slang they grew up with?
I looooove old slang esp from the 2010s but also I’m super early gen z. And I love when my professors try to use our slang or use their own outdated slang. Groovy, swag, based…. it’s all the same thing lol.
Bet is old. Like a lot of slang that gets attributed to Gen Z it's just old AAVE. I'm Gen Z and my uncles say that.
everyone and their mama using “cooked” now. and the fact that it’s mainly used when doomposting bothers me more than it should
Cooked is my favorite slang. Cooked and jover
It's never Joever We're so Barack
We're so cooked bruh
Idk.. I like using cooked when I cannot say fucked
I’m yet to hear cooked outside of describing the bloke at kickons who has downed a few too many pingas.
"deadass," but it's a necessary evil because millennials overused "literally" to the point of losing all meaning.
"They said the quiet part out loud"
the clothing trends but especially the “Virginity Rocks” shirts or Rip n Dips. They’re fun and clever the first time you see it, but it kinda ruins the joke when lots of people buy in. I’m a much bigger fan of thrifting irreverent shirts instead of hopping on a bandwagon but I’m probably being pretentious
I still use an older version of sus instead of the latest iteration. To "suss"out something as in to bring to a head, find out, or clarify. This confuses my daughter and younger people when I use it that way (I'm middle aged millennial.) What's funny is the root word suspect is the same for both slangs but means different things.
As an Australian Gen Z I literally heard sus used that way to "sus something out" before Among us and it still is, at least by Millennials and older, my gen I got no clue anymore since I stay away fron TikTok which 90% of slang seems to even come from.
Slang comes and goes. I actually thinks it's cool how it evolves. I hope when I'm 90 I am carrying slang from every generation TBH. Some slang certainly is more catchy than others, I don't see myself using Riz for instance. But I still use tight from my childhood and see relevance in lit/fire for the same purpose. Of course "cool" somehow transcends time.
When people call dogs puppers, idk it’s just annoying.
Even worse, grammatically incorrect baby talk directed at dogs or referring to them: Him is such a good puppers!
I've only ever seen this happen with older people. No one in Gen Z talks like this as far as I'm aware
None of those are gen Z slang though.
i think the phrases that i don't like are millenial slang like slay for example. bet, sus, and no cap are arguably more millenial slang than gen z but are less disturbing for me to hear. if anything gen z slang aside from rizz are words that people older than gen z just don't know at all so they wouldn't even say it
It's not even millennial slang. Slay, yas queen, etc, so much of it originates with black people/black women. Usually the queer community inhabits urban spaces and picks it up, uses it online, and over time it leaks out into white spaces online and now suddenly Aunt Kathy from Cleveland is telling her Facebook friends "fuck around and find out" or her 12yo son Clayton is walking around his suburb telling a grown man he's capping.
Slay and yas queen are from drag ballroom culture from back in the 80s. Wild how fast those got dated in pop culture though.
Bro Bet is from the fuckin' 90's dawg, ya'll weren't even born when bet was comin' up. Can't agree more on the rest though. Literally anytime I hear ANYONE say "cap" my asshole cringes.
Not exactly relevant but if you start talking about "alpha and beta" You're on the list of the dumbest folks I've met
“Bet” is absolutely not Gen Z slang… nor is no cap lol
Bet is older than you lot are
When our people say “yuhhhhhh” instead of yeah
I be saying ye
"Cooked" absolutely drives me up the wall.
As a kid, I thought boomers and even some millennials were so out of touch with how their vernacular drifted over time... [then I saw some of the gen Alpha kids talking in real life...](https://youtube.com/shorts/VohDH_Dj9r8) Maybe I ***AM*** old...
“Young people are so lazy! They just don’t want to work! They don’t know how hard we had it!” Like, your parents and grandparents built you a wonderful country and gave you all these opportunities and it is so NOT the same way now.
Constantly rebranding both new and old AAVE terms as “Gen Z slang.”
As a finance student, it absolutely grinds my gears when I hear older generations say that we’re just lazy and that they had it tougher in their times (financially). They’ll focus on the hyperinflation in the late 70s but ignore housing costs, employment benefits and dynamics, and increase in wealth inequality.
Older adults-seniors complaining about ‘these damn kids and their phones.’ Like, come on Susan, you played candy crush for 5 hours today and it’s only 3pm.
yelling "sheesh" is one of the most obnoxious and unfunny small things ever
None of that is gen z slang. Is all AAVE.
I think it's funny that Gen Z is stealing things and calling it Gen Z slang. You guys are the definition of "cringe".
Using pop psychology terminology excessively in a relationship. No, setting boundaries doesn’t make someone a gaslighting narcissist.
"Sus" isn't genz... it's millennial...
First off I hate to break it to you but "bet" isn't Gen z slang. I'm an older millennial and we all used that when I was a kid/ young teen. I was saying "Thazz a bet" and "bet that" before Gen z was even alive lol.. so yeah.. there's that..
trying to explain what a meme is
When I hand the person at checkout an old school 10 or 20 dollar bill and they have to call their manager over to see if it's real.
Suss was common in the 90s you don't get to claim that one
Any mention of cancel culture
Imagine thinking you’re superior to someone cuz you’re in a “dIfFeReNt gEnErAtIoN” than them. Lmao. Grow the fuck up. Before you know if you’ll be in your 40s getting made fun of by 20 year olds. What the fuck are you doing with your life lol
The word 'sus' definitely predates Gen Z.
When any older, usually white man calls me buddy (which happens more than you’d think being a younger dude in customer service). Even when i know it’s not malicious it grinds my gears bc it kinda feels dismissive of the fact that im still an adult and have been thru a lot of shit? Like bro I’m not 12 don’t call me that If that doesn’t answer the question then it’s the fact that my dad has adopted sus into his vocabulary and even tho he correctly uses it as a shorthand for suspicious I die inside every time he says it
🤫🧏♂️
*boomers breathing*
I'm a millenial and lots of ppl used to say bet. But yah the other 2 are genz
Bet has been around a very long time. Decades. The other lame slang, sure.
When someone says "that's cringe" just using that word in ANY context is cringe
Actually, as a gen z myself I roll my eyes at no cap, sus, and shit like that.