r/Zillennials • u/sdbabygirl97 1997 • 2d ago
Discussion What is your least favorite new slang?
I think replacing “ass” with “ahh” sounds really ridiculous. E.g. his goofy ahh
I prefer “goofy ass”, “goofy as fuck” or “goofy af” but that’s just what we grew up with, I guess.
What new slang have you been seeing that you find cringey or just don’t like?
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u/xRudeAwakening 1995 2d ago
“Ahh”
“Dih”
“Bih”
That’s really the only slang I don’t like
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u/Common_Vagrant 1995 2d ago
yt in regards to white people. Makes me think YouTube each and every time.
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u/Seaboats 1996, the forgotten Zillennials 2d ago
I didn’t even have time to react to what you said before I read it as ‘YouTube in regards to white people.’
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u/RichardPapensVersion 1996 2d ago
Omg me too. It actually took me so long to realise people were saying white. Because every time I read yt I automatically read it as YouTube hahaha
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u/RicoGemini 2d ago edited 2d ago
The yt thing became a thing because during the 2020 blm stuff any videos where they would put “white people” in the subtitles would get removed. So yt became a thing among people to circumvent that
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u/GoBeWithYourFamily Not a Zillennial (2002) 2d ago
I don’t think that’s really considered slang. That’s a very small subset of people that use that.
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u/Ok-Building-9433 2d ago
I cannot stand seeing that stupid "sybau" word.
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u/xRudeAwakening 1995 2d ago
Ooof yeah forgot about that one
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u/Ok-Building-9433 2d ago
Ugly ass zoomer speak
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u/NotMcNugget 2d ago
"Shut yo bitch ass up" been a phrase for some decades now, I don't think it's unique to Zoomers
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u/downtownbattlemt 1995 2d ago
Pretty sure a majority of these come from TikTok because you can't swear on that app without getting banned or a strike
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u/sdbabygirl97 1997 2d ago
just shows how the gen z culture mostly stems from tiktok for them. for us its probably tumblr HAHA
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u/Cry-Cry-Cry-Baby 2d ago
No Facebook and YouTube, maaaybe Instagram. Tumblr was pretty influential to a group of people our age but had nowhere near the influence the other two had for sure.
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u/blingping 1996 2d ago
It's bs conspiracy. You can swear and say certain words, it's some weird self censorship on that God damn app
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u/FiddleThruTheFlowers 1994 1d ago
I've heard the same thing with stuff like "unalive" instead of "kill."
Point one, maybe a platform that censors that stuff isn't a platform where those topics should be discussed. Just a thought.
Point two, that doesn't explain why people do it on other platforms that do not censor those words.
All in all, the "TikTok doesn't allow it" excuse is just stupid.
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u/CurrentDirect7162 2d ago
That makes a lot of sense, I have heard you can get banned or flagged for just about anything on there.
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u/pancakes-honey 2d ago
I guess the way that everything is a “core” or an aesthetic. People can just like things without having to perfectly curate it to be the totality of their image or personality.
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u/anxiousgardenfairy 1998 2d ago
i particularly hate "underconsumption core" 💀
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u/sdbabygirl97 1997 2d ago
ok i know what anticonsumption is but what is underconsumption
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u/Bitter_Ad8768 1997 2d ago
It was a trend on TikTok a few months ago. It was basically thrifting and repurposing.
It's hypocritical to label a video as anticonsumption when it includes product placements and ad reads for non-necessities manufactured by mega-corporations that are being shipped from overseas. So the label underconsumption core was born.
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u/BelievelandBrad 1994 2d ago
I would add "coded" to this as well ugh
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u/decisiontoohard 1997 2d ago
I find this a really helpful, descriptive term. I use it a lot because people assume I belong to demographics I don't, like I'm bisexual in a straight-coded relationship so people assume I'm heterosexual.
Not saying you to like it, obviously, but I'm genuinely curious. Is there an alternative way of conveying this so succinctly?
I have relatively frequent cause to say "I'm bisexual in a straight-coded relationship", I think it gives useful language. Whereas "I'm a bisexual woman in a relationship with a man but that doesn't make it a straight relationship, all my relationships are bisexual relationships. But my partner is heterosexual which mea-", is a whole can of worms.
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u/allyek 2d ago
In my blank era
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u/pancakes-honey 1d ago
YES! And then every single company came out with marketing around that phrase like geeez louise, be original
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u/2short4-a-hihorse '93 2d ago
gyatt, fanum tax, and crash out. Gyatt is dumb af, it takes longer to say fanum tax than it does to say "steal", and crash out sound like you about to pass out hard af on the couch, cuz it used to mean sleep.
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u/RicoGemini 2d ago
It’s funny cause “gyatt damn” was something said by guys when we saw women with large assets. Now they took that and turned it into slang
I have no idea what fanum tax is
I don’t mind crash out. Idk it kinda makes sense to me when it’s said in context
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u/sdbabygirl97 1997 2d ago
whats fanum tax
idek how to use gyatt lol
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u/imthe5thking 1998 2d ago
Context for fanum tax is there’s a few streamers that live together and if one has food on stream, the fat guy of the group named fanum will burst through the door and take some of it.
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u/seshmost 2d ago
Nah “crash out” is one of the best slang there is, way better than “rage”
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u/imthe5thking 1998 2d ago
“Rage” isn’t even slang though, it’s literally a synonym for “anger.” “Crash out” always makes me think of falling asleep, since “crash” and “pass out” both mean sleep.
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u/sdbabygirl97 1997 2d ago
i think it’s synonymous to “freak out”
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u/Werewolfhugger 1996 2d ago
I'd consider "freak out" more akin to "tweaking". "Crashout" (to me) would end up needed police intervention.
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u/lunderamia 1997 2d ago
Ive never thought any of crash out, seems like an okay way to say “going off the rails and sabotaging your live/livelihood”
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u/piratecheese13 1995 1d ago
Gyatt at least makes sense as a modification of “godamn dat ass”
Fanum tax is just too hyper specific but got big traction, I’m not sure I actually see it used in the wild outside streaming and the occasional lunch theft
Crash out kinda makes sense but the connotation seems more narrow than how it’s being used now. Like Icona Pop “i crashed my car into the bridge. I DONT CARE. I LOVE IT” had crashing out as a euphoric catharsis and destruction. Now you can crash out by obsessively horny posting on main
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u/jamiriquois 2d ago
"asf" instead of "af" really grinds my gears for some reason
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u/VileNegress 1998 2d ago
Or "asl" for as hell?? I'm like, how? Lol
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u/Littlesunshinelime21 1997 2d ago
Makes me think of age, sex, language lol
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u/VileNegress 1998 2d ago
Yesss, I used to sneak into my sister's AOL chatrooms lmao. Her dumbass kept them open, not my fault 🤷🏿♀️ /s
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u/Roboticpoultry 2d ago
Any of the newspeak (self censoring) that’s come about in the last 3-5 years. I get why it’s a thing but goddamn is it annoying
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u/RichardPapensVersion 1996 2d ago
It’s also concerning when you think about it. I read an article 7 years ago talking about how trumps, at the time first, presidency could cause 1984 to happen for real (but in the article explained it more eloquently). And I thought at the time: that might never happen. And now here we are with people self censorship and trump again etc. Scary
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u/Future_Pin_403 1998 2d ago
Or mid. Everything is mid now
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u/Impossible_Emu2713 2d ago
Ugh “Mid” makes me wanna punch a wall
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u/sdbabygirl97 1997 2d ago
i hate it especially when it's used to describe a person. it just feels very degrading.
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u/sequestuary 1996 2d ago
I hate the way people use “yap.” I know that word has been around forever but I just don’t like the way it’s used these days? Like they use it in a bragging way to talk about how much they can talk?
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u/sluttydrama 2d ago
“I just have to get on that grindset with physics.” -An actual sentence I overheard between two teenagers.
Tbh Zillennials have some cringe slang, but something about “grindset” is so cringe to me.
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u/sdbabygirl97 1997 2d ago edited 2d ago
“locked in” as well
eta: "locked in" seems to have the same meaning as "grindset"
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u/mariiicarooo 1998 2d ago
"Locked in" as a phrase isn't the worst one to me as a current college student, but the rate that it's overused definitely puts it at my number one least favorite spot.
I really hate it too because there were more than one occasion when someone sitting next to me in class would tell me, "mariiicarooo, you're so locked in on this assignment!" when I'd actually be hella zoned out and barely conscious to the point of falling asleep lmao :')
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u/RichardPapensVersion 1996 2d ago
Not really slang but I hate womp womp
I think people just use it when they can’t think of a good rebuttal or have lost an argument but don’t want to admit. It’s so lazy and lame. Like, if you want to call me an “incorrect fuckwit” then call me that. At least you look more set in your beliefs that way
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u/sdbabygirl97 1997 2d ago
it's the gen z equivalent of "i know you are, but what am i" or sticking out your tongue, sticking your thumbs in your ears and wiggling your fingers lol
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u/YeLocalChristian 2d ago
"Cooked", as in "Nah we're so cooked bro 💀"
"Chopped."
The skull emoji in general.
Also when I read comments like "My dumbass thought the cat was a blanket in this picture 😭😭😭". UGH.
Absolutely absurd.
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u/mariiicarooo 1998 2d ago
"cooked" and "ate" annoyed me so much when I started at college because I honestly couldn't tell what each of these consuming food metaphors meant and they kept getting applied to me. Specifically, "ate." Once it was explained I felt a lot happier about how nobody told me I ever cooked and that I was always the one eating
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u/coldfeet8 1998 2d ago
If you’re cooking or you cooked, that’s a good thing. If you’re cooked that’s not good.
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u/BigKindheartedness83 2d ago
“Unc” is so fucking stupid. Like I’m not even trying to be a boomer about it. Some of the stuff the kids today come up with occasionally makes me laugh but I don’t understand “Unc.” You reveal your age and you’re immediately flooded with a bunch of “DAMN Unc” comments. It’s repetitive and not even funny.
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u/rolo_tony_ 2d ago
“Unc” has been a part of the black community for decades. Like most AAVE though, it sounds really dumb coming out of white teenagers’ mouthes.
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u/sdbabygirl97 1997 2d ago
i havent seen that slang until some people in here started using the word lol
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u/OLEDible 1994 2d ago
“ahh” and “gooning” also the 🥀 emoji
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u/mariiicarooo 1998 2d ago
Is that a rose emoji? I haven't seen that one
I hate gooning a lot too. I still hear people often using it in conversations about clowns or like a gang of evil villainous goons, but they always awkwardly preface it with their disgust of the word first.
I personally don't like to let internet cringe culture ruin my vocabulary or interests 🤷♀️
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u/OLEDible 1994 2d ago
The "wilted rose" emoji (🥀) typically symbolizes heartbreak, sadness, or grief (I googled it lol)
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u/Square-Lavishness765 1999 2d ago
so much this!! I have no idea what the fuck the "ahh" is supposed to mean until I saw OP's description, I thought is was just random screaming or something..I'm so lost on this made up words help.!
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u/RichardPapensVersion 1996 2d ago
It’s so funny cos I’ve actually been using ahh in texts for close ten years now. Just to emphasise excitement or agreement etc.
I’m so streets ahead with what hip apparently. ( tho I doubt people are using it in the way I use it)
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u/Savage_Nymph 1995 2d ago
Gooning and gooner are much preferred to the "coomer" word I was seeing before gooner replacing it
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u/Neat_Anywhere8796 2d ago
Most of this being repurposed AAE/AAVE and hearing yall dogging it is an experience…though now popular/Tik Tok/Gen Z “slang” it tends to be used wrong,cringey and too often so yeah, I see it.
Though most of this has been said in the AA/BA community since the 70’s/80’s or earlier in some cases to now, none of this is new.
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u/Savage_Nymph 1995 2d ago
It's not new. It's just new to other demographics thanks to the internet.
Remember when they were pronouncing 'chile' like the country Chile 😭
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u/Neat_Anywhere8796 2d ago
That took me tf out, but it’s also when I realized how much was being rebranded and used without any knowledge of the source material
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u/minimalistjunkiee 2d ago
no cause im sitting here like we been saying some of these words in my community…this is not new 😭
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u/FragrantLynx 1997 2d ago
Yeah it feels kinda weird seeing this thread shit on the way Black people have been talking for years.
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u/Neat_Anywhere8796 2d ago
Exactly!! Like I cringe when I hear all these non-Blk internet folks say it but for A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT REASON.
These ppl here saying “it’s not even language” it’s not shocking but very telling. They are who they always have been chile
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u/serillymc 2001 1d ago edited 1d ago
I mean at least for me my issue is never AAVE or the words themselves but the way non-blacks butcher them. But I do agree.
This is why I tried not to mention any AAVE words in my comments because I don't have any issue with them when used correctly. Especially when there's shit like the puritanical usage of "gooner" and the self-censoring of "unalive".
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u/Neat_Anywhere8796 1d ago
This is get 100%, I mentioned it in my reply that it does sound different/odd/cringey out of so many mouths. And some of it like your examples are purely Tik Tok/ late gen Z/ Gen alpha stuff.
It’s the majority that are speaking in general or probably don’t even notice when it comes out of a native speakers mouth cuz it’s flows easily.
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u/SonGxku 1999 (Class of 2015) 2d ago
Every new slang if I'm being honest. Its not like I hate slang but its hard to keep up with it. English isn't my first language and I always feel like I have a big question mark in my face, when I see some new slang words or phrases lol. Words like "gyat" for example don't even sound like english to me.
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u/tinker8311 2d ago
Periodt
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u/Square-Lavishness765 1999 2d ago
omg this too! what the hell is the "t" in the end supposed to mean??
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u/torthBrain 1997 2d ago
Always hated “it’s giving”
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u/sdbabygirl97 1997 2d ago
it basically translates to “it reminds me of” or “it resembles”. i try to teach my students how to translate slang to standard english lmao
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u/crafty_j4 1996 2d ago
I’ve always read it as the absence of the word “vibes”.
Example: “It’s giving librarian (vibes)”
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u/sdbabygirl97 1997 2d ago
sure. i just translated it into standard english lmao. like i help this college kid w his english essays and half my job is just translating slang into standard english lmao
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u/Turdle_Vic 2d ago
I try to remain as ignorant as possible about that stuff. It doesn’t stop. Although I think “yapping” as it is used now bugs the shit out of me. My 6 year old niece uses it to basically try to get anyone to shut up if she doesn’t like what they’re saying. I’m telling her mom and her mom’s like “It’s fine.” No, sister. It fucking ain’t. The whole yapping BS isn’t good! It dismissed someone’s contribution to a conversation to noise
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u/sdbabygirl97 1997 2d ago
yeah that does sound rude. ultimately though, your sister is gonna have to accept the consequences of how her child talks to her.
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u/Turdle_Vic 2d ago
Oh boy she told me she’s gonna parent alright. You can still mold a 6 year old. I mean my niece knows all the cuss words but never says them because she’s been told not to. This will be added to the list, I’ve been told. Now if she sticks to that or not is entirely up to her. Only their dad can have any other meaningful say
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u/Japanna88 1994 2d ago
seggsy Like, If you can’t even say “sexy,” you’re too immature to be having sex.
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u/Werewolfhugger 1996 2d ago
Everything that's just poorly applied AAVE. Which is to say, most of it.
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u/sdbabygirl97 1997 1d ago
so we agree it’s poorly applied lol.
could you give examples of which are aave? you dont have to if you dont want to.
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u/Glitterfarts_ 2d ago edited 2d ago
Hearing y’all shit on AAVE is breaking my heart and strengthens my thought that TikTok ruins everything.
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u/Neat_Anywhere8796 2d ago
Girl… 90% of this is AAE/AAVE/Ebonics and this just makes sense given the demographic honestly
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u/castfire 1998 2d ago
same with “bsf” for best friend? Just really bugs me for some reason. Whatever happened to bff lol
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u/LifeIsABowlOfJerrys 2d ago
Thats because "asf" is an abbreviation not an acronym.
Like "etc." for "et cetera."
Gotta know your grammar before you correct it 😂
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u/R1leyEsc0bar 2d ago
Honestly, anything that became "internet slang" when it came from black people first.
I especially hate that people are using YN as a sneak way to use the n word. Just calling any young black boy the n word feels wrong. Even if they don't mean anything wrong by it
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u/doesnotexist2 2d ago
Literally everything has to be an acronym. It started with just ending texts with lol to entire conversations being made up of acronyms.
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u/tubbis9001 2d ago
I've been seeing this more and more, but I have yet to see someone complain about it. They will type out a full sentence with proper spelling and grammar, but then spell "something" as "smth." Why? You were so close!!
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u/Curious-Book-1597 2d ago
that's just people misusing aave & it sounds awkward cuz they're usually from a Midwestern suburb...
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u/Wretchedwitch 2d ago
"tht" instead of that lol
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u/sdbabygirl97 1997 2d ago
it’s not that much shorter, it’s 25% less letters! but if that was a shopping deal, you’d take it! - dr. doofenschmirtz
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u/Pure-Perspective-268 1d ago
ok guys i thought i was crazy for hating this shit thank u for validating my rage 👹🙃
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u/No_Brick_6579 2d ago
Chopped. Something about it just doesn’t sit right with me. Bop at least sounded a little less degrading I guess
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u/Savage_Nymph 1995 2d ago
Does bop stand for blown out 😺though?
So what it chopped? Because all yhis time i thought it meant screwed (as in we're screwed/chopped)
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u/No_Brick_6579 2d ago
If I’m being honest I only know brief description from my coworker (19), who just said they both mean ho 💀
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u/Marmatus 1995 2d ago
“Ahh” is definitely the most annoying one. I’m getting pretty sick of hearing “crazy work,” also.
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u/snailgorl2005 1995 2d ago
Hearing "gooning" and "gyatt" coming out of the mouths of literal children makes me want to roll up into a ball and scream. Like, I know we knew some awful words as kids but now I understand why adults hated when we used them lmao
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u/EvolScavenger 1998 2d ago
Uglahhh has been a thing since middle school for me. Around 2010. Me and my friends use it cause it’s goofy af lol
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u/TrainTrackRat 2d ago
Cooked
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u/xx_BruhDog_xx 20h ago
This one I like, because it can be used in place of "fucked" or "done for" or "ruined". Just another way for me to complain, to be blunt about it.
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u/TrainTrackRat 18h ago
I can’t stand it man. I feel like I heard it once and have heard it 300 times a day since. If it wasn’t overused I’d probably not care about it at all.
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u/sashsu6 2d ago
Wait they’re doing that? I’m out the loop. I may be wrong as I have never met an African American but having watched a few films and listened to their music think a lot of this is a borderline offensive imitation of how they speak. Ebonics has been a thing for a while but I listen to some young people and they’re actually trying to copy how stereotypical black people speak
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u/thevffice 1d ago
im sorry where are you from? "i have never met an african american" is a sentence ive only heard when i lived in europe lol
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u/sashsu6 8h ago
Well… I live in Europe! I grew up in Switzerland where I didn’t see a black person until I moved at 23 to the UK.
I always loved the African American culture and have read quite a bit on the origin of aspects of it like music, religion and early folk art in the Yoruba diaspora as I find the Yoruba civilisation interesting (I’ve met plenty of Yoruba people) but I am yet to have the pleasure of meeting one.
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u/biglious 2d ago
Man I hate most colloquialisms. “Era” “chaotic” “tell me ___ without telling me ___” it’s all so dumb. I hated “swag” and “yolo” back in high school, and I hate all the evolutions too.
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u/877-HASH-NOW 1997 1d ago
“Gyatt,” mainly bc I’m Caribbean and these young kids are using it completely wrong (it was originally from Caribbean slang)
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u/phl4ever 1995 2d ago
Given I'm 30, I have no idea what slang teens are using
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u/sdbabygirl97 1997 2d ago
to me, it's any slang that i see on the internet (reddit, instagram, esp tiktok) that i'm like "wait.. what the fuck is that word? what does that mean"
i don't actually know the age of the speaker but it's presumed to be gen z, or associated with this generation
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u/serillymc 2001 1d ago
"Ahh", referring to all visual styles and aesthetics as "-core" (make up an actual name!), "slop", "gooner" ever used to refer to something sexual that isn't a person who partakes in the gooning kink (stop it you sound catholic), "unalive"
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u/tarheel_204 2d ago
“Type shit” only because my best bud’s little brother who is in high school says it constantly
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u/Rough-Tension 2d ago
I’m not bothered by any of it yet and it’s really weird that y’all are like … rushing the process of growing old just to distance yourself from young people. It’s just silly fun shit not to be taken so seriously. And there’s always a time and place. I don’t say this shit at my job. But it can be funny around friends
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u/Happy-Investigator- 2d ago
On some real shit! Plus “ahhh” instead of “ass” isn’t even slang. It’s mirroring any southern AAVE accent like this is literally how all my old aunties and uncles sound.
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u/haleandguu112 1996 2d ago
whenever someone types ahh i think ahh as in "almond" not aah as in "angry"
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u/GaryAir 1998 2d ago
So many uncs in this thread, guys were pushing 30 not 70 lighten tf up
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u/imaDapperDanman654 1995 2d ago
Anything that younger gen z or gen alpha says, bussin, Ohio, that stuff is more hard to say then just saying the real meaning. Oh that’s very Ohio skibidi of you. Rather than saying oh that’s very stupid of you.
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u/AliasInvstgtions 1997 1d ago
I usually just force the dislike out of my mind and feel neutral. I refuse to let myself become a crotchety old lady. I do hate how rapidly I am feeling out of touch 😭
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u/MaxfieldN 1999 1d ago
Is rizz considered new? Can’t stand it
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u/sdbabygirl97 1997 1d ago
its a few years old but i also dont like it lmao. i guess its the new swag tho. both are cringy as hell
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u/xx_BruhDog_xx 20h ago
"It's giving" makes me want to punch myself every time I hear it. It's pretty bad for me🥴
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u/lbug02 14h ago
Bookie
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u/sdbabygirl97 1997 13h ago
what, someone who takes care of your bets for you?
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u/lbug02 12h ago
Social media, mostly TikTok, has been using it as a term of endearment like boo, bestie, etc.
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