Don’t pretend you didn’t become obsessed with whatever cool new slang was flavour of the month when you were a child
I don’t remember getting any new slang as a kid.
Yeah, we just called people fags (sorry) or gay.
90s and early 00s were N O T LGBT friendly
Companies 12 hours after June ends
“PRIIIIIDE 🏳️🌈”
next day
“So you fags wanna buy our products or what”
Don’t forget how casual the r word was. Every comedy of the 90s and 2000s called somebody that. It’s still too commonly used but nothing like it was back then.
not to mention the casual use of the hard R. even Linus from LTT admitted to have dropped his fair share of hard Rs back then.
What’s the r-word?
“retarded”
Oh. I know it’s not a nice word but didn’t think it was bad enough to include on the same level as the n-word. Times do change I guess
It’s a weird one. “Retard” is a technical term, jargon. It became a perjorative term.
Unlike the n-word that was always a pejorative.
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Plus there was a lot of n*rcissist thrown around back then
Ok now THAT’S a weird one to censor.
Yeah unless that n is the n-word I don’t get the censoring.
I censored it because it’s a bad word. A slur against people with disabilities.
fags
This is what we called cigarettes in Australia.
Same in Britain. Damn homophobia ruining perfectly good slang!
We had a couple weeks calling people “F.A.G.s’ and “M.A.G.s” for 'female ass grabber” and “male ass grabber”. As in someone how grabd a females ass or or a male ass. I have no idea how the teachers were able to do anything about that with a straight face.
That’s because to you it was just normal.
What I remember from the 90/00s: sinch, hella, coolio, jam (going), spaz, poser, chillax, bitchin, burn, noob, booyah, aight, duh, phat, sup, stoked, jiggy, harsh, buzz kill
There’s a shitton more, but that’s what I got off the top of my head
Yes to all except jiggy. I feel like that was just Will Smith trying to make Fetch happen.
He was streets ahead!
Idk, I got like all the jiggy’s before beating gruntilda
Don’t casually throw “spaz” in there with a load of inoffensive stuff!
You were learning slang along with everything else. At that age, it doesn’t stand out against everything else the same way it does when you’re older.
I think this is true, but I also grew up without Internet or social media so maybe things were more regional as opposed to this larger shared culture those things have enabled. So that may be part of it?
As someone who grew up in rural Canada, I feel that. We always felt a decade out of date on fads and slang lol.
Just because you don’t remember it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. You had to learn it at some point. You weren’t born with a lexicon of slang that revealed itself when it suddenly became modern/relevant lol
80s had a ton.
I did not, for I was a loser who didn’t know slang
No shot fellow cool kid
Watching millennials/gen x pick on Gen Z for the same behaviors we all had gets old doesn’t it?
And the kids playing tag are likely not even gen z but gen alpha. No one can even pick on the right generation.
Dude practically became a verbal tick
Fr, no cap
True dat
You have a point, but when I was a kid we at least made sure the slang came from black people first. I don’t think anything good can come from white kids out there making up words.
LOL who’s that
what
You forgot the /s right?
I kind of figured it was implied but eh. Some things don’t land.
Yeah, well. World is full of racists. Can hardly even make fun of 'em without being mistaken for one, now.
This reminded me of the month ‘wigga’ was every fucking one’s favorite word at my very-nearly-all-white school. Nothing good, indeed.
Yikes
penis
GenX here. Kids enjoying doing kid things even if we don’t understand why they do that hurts no one? Keep it up, kids. You’re doing fine. No cap.
she freak on my gyatt till I baby gronk
Damn I bet she hit you with that hawk ptui fr fr.
Excuse me the correct slang here would be to hit someone with that “hawk tuah”
Chiming in to say I that I understood “ptui” for what it was more clearly than “tuah.”
Is this true?
For riz.
Am i doing it right?
On god
No cap frfr
No gods, no kings, only man. ^Am ^I ^doing ^this ^right?
the children do not hear the canon
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I… I don’t know. I DON’T KNOW !
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In the 2000s my brother asked our grandma to wrap a gift for his crush. She wrote something like “You’re quite the foxy young lady” and that was a good day for laughs.
Who needs a wingman when you have a wingnan?
A lot of my friends complain about about the “youth”, how they dress and talk and stuff like that. I always found that odd, because i for example had either a bleached blonde mushroom haircut or bleach blonde spiked up hair. Paired with a way too big fubu shirt and weird baggy pants. They weren’t jinkos, but very close.
I have no ground to stand on when i make fun of young people and i know that. Why don’t my friends remember how ridiculous we were at 14?
If they’re like some of my family, they see the lived-in familiarity of their youth as “quirky” in contrast to the unfamiliarity of today’s youth which is “bizarre”. They eased into the bizareness of being a child over time, whereas they are getting dropped in the deep end when they encounter children now.
It’s all silly. Everyone is quirky and weird on some level. Some are just more open and honest about it than others and successive generations have been pushing more to be themselves.
I remember as a kid in my area this game was called Toilets.
If you got caught you were a toilet and had to stand with your arm out until someone pushed on it and said ‘flush.’
I miss the toilet game haha
When we played it you also had to go down on one knee, and the person unfreezing you had to sit on your knee while they flushed your arm.
I actually love these new slangs! Based.
Lit FR FR
The emotional damage of simultaneously realising that you are old and understanding all the people you laughed at for yelling “get off my lawn”
Bussin
Like… tables?
Or like bussy?
How would one rizz someone else? Basically, what is rizzing?
rizzing is effectively flirting with someone. and I don’t mean like “it has the effect of flirting” I mean you flirt with someone, and it’s being effective.
Aka abbreviated “charisma.”
rizz is charisma. you can have all the rizz in the world and still fail to “rizz someone up” if they’re not interested
conversely, you can have absolutely no charisma and successfully rizz someone right up
absolutely no charisma and successfully rizz someone up
That’s my strategy - rizz’m with the tizm.
TIL. Huh. Thanks! Now it makes sense.
Don’t ask the children, they don’t know either
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And is “mew” just making a cat noise or something more?
A technique attributed to a British orthodontist named Mike Mew that involves putting pressure on the roof of your mouth with your tongue to try and change the shape of your face by moving your maxilla up and forwards with the lateral pressure of your tongue. This fits into the broader looksmax approach to self-modification in the name of love and romance.
Stacy “Yh Chad has some nice ass jaw now. He’s been mewing for 6 months now”
I love how alt right chuds are making themselves sound like trans catgirls these days
you do it so you can mog
As in “moggy”?
So it’s cats all the way down.
Outside of tag (I guess), it’s like chatting someone up.
So to unfreeze them they’d have to like, “How you doin?”
Joey Tribbiani entered the chat
Thats not even what it means.
STOP!
STOP, UPON ME!
FORCE THE TOOLS AVAILABLE!
YES… I’M ALRIGHT…!
BWA HAHA HAHA HAHA…!And kids at the Catholic school play jizz tag.
Even had some mewing going in the break room at work last night
What’s everyone’s take on mewing?
It seems to make sense to me.
I’ve seen others say it’s bullshit.
I started doing it periodically a few weeks ago, and I just had an oral bone spur break through my gums from a tooth extraction I had over ten years ago.
So it makes me think the mewing changed something in my lower jaw enough for some fragments of bone to come loose and make their way out.
Meanwhile, half of them are illiterate. The parents need to get themselves and their children off the internet.
Let’s start with you then.
Done. I don’t have any children and am not using a device to occupy them.
In all seriousness, this outright angry reaction is really surprising. People should be angry that their children are illiterate, but I suppose if they were, the children wouldn’t be.
Using slang doesn’t mean they’re illiterate dawg
Slang is actually a better way to communicate. You can communicate more, in a shorter amount of time, language is fluid, luddites gonna Luddite.
I didn’t say or imply that. The spread of the slang is over media they consume because parents are using devices as babysitters. Them being illiterate means they’re illiterate, dawg.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/education/students-cant-read-education/
What? The only thing with any definitiveness in what you linked is that 72% of teachers are using an outdated method for teaching early level reading skills (letter and word recognition).
As a secondary point, it says that teachers feel their kids can’t read anymore so the teachers have taken to tiktok about it.
There’s nothing there indicating high levels of illiteracy, or that they’ve been caused by an over use of devices as babysitters, dawg.
I think you need to brush up on your literacy.
It sure as hell isn’t a good thing, and it isn’t helping kids read or develop, but this is the same argument that’s as old as fucking time itself where older adults blame new technology for degeneration of the youth. People literally made the same complaint about radio dramas leading the youth astray.
The core of the issue is that it has become increasingly easy for parents to use technology to avoid properly taking care of their damn kids.
I literally just pulled the first link by searching “childhood literacy US,” because I know many would be in denial. It really is hilarious how angry people are about this.
Your unwillingness to read the link you post while asserting children are illiterate, is both tragic and funny.
And that you then act like everyone else is silly for countering you? Go find a bridge, troll.
So you admit you did no actual research and just grabbed the first thing you found, and expect us to applaud you for it? GTFO
It’s a little sensational for the headline. 72% of fourth graders are reading below expected levels. And they are blaming decades old teaching tactics, which seems odd as you would expect a larger percentage of adults not to be able to read if this was truly the problem.
I don’t have any children
Who’d have thought?
The amount of people with no kids that have strong opinions about how children should be raised is like the people with no uteruses that have strong feelings about abortion and pregnancy, or white college kids who have strong opinions about what words and phrases should be offensive to minorities. There’s nothing wrong with having an opinion, but the arrogance to think they have something to contribute to that conversation is exhausting.
As the population of people raised on the internet increases, you’ll see far more anger responses to the idea that being raised on the internet is bad for you.
Nobody wants to believe they might not have done it right.
That being said, kids generally do dumb things, and your initial comment seems a bit harsh for something as silly as rizz tag.
There’s a correlation that these kids are spending hours of their time on the internet (that’s how this slang spreads to them) and the fact they can’t read. I don’t see how it’s harsh to point it out, I just think maybe it hit too close to home for some folks.
You just have a chain of unprovable assumptions there.
Kid’s use slang -> they must have picked it up on the internet -> many people are illiterate -> the parents of these specific kids are not raising them right
I do not see the connection between kids using slang and illiteracy. I’m guessing you never use(d) any yourself?
Also good luck prohibiting kids from the internet lol clearly someone doesn’t have kids!
Their parents give them devices so they don’t have to deal with them. That’s how this slang spreads to them. Do you think 6-10 year olds devoloped “mew?” It was grown ass “influencers” and it spread through media.
You are aware that 6-10 year olds spend time around adults and other kids older than they are right? Did you never pick up anything from an older sibling or kid at your school?
My 4 year old has all sorts of isms and habits he learned from me and my wife, aka his parents. There are tons of explanations beyond “all slang is the result of parents too lazy to raise kids so they drop them in front of an iPad.”
We live in a society (seriously). We have communities. People spread language and customs every day between each other.
The unhinged ramblings of a chronically online person.
Uh uh
And slang didn’t exist before phones and the internet.
- Slang spreads offline as well
- The devices were TVs for a good while not too long ago
Do you mean half of the world’s children, or half of the children in your own, unspecified country?
Literacy in my country is over 80%, which is still too low in my opinion, but fast better than half, thankfully.
Literacy, in my country, which is specified because it is the origin of the slang in the meme. You really thought you had a gotcha, there, didn’t you?
“Kids can’t read” is certainly a take. 😂
If everyone should learn to read, it would not only ruin writing but thinking as well.
—some embittered philosopher probably
What a “damn kids these days” quote
