I have reached the age where I find gags like this - and the massive cringe effect they inflict on young folks - fucking hilarious.
i’m comfortable with my fate. who ever really needed hair on their head anyway?
I feel so old.
Submitted 8 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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experbia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I admit, the idea of a teenager being highly annoyed by that sign amuses me greatly.
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
The thing is, all of the grammar is correct so it’s not actually that cringe. They definitely did their research!
spizzat2@lemm.ee 8 months ago
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 8 months ago
I wonder what they’ll do if someone actually texts them using that language. Do they have a teenager on staff for the express purpose of translating it?
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
You and me both. They went a little too hard in the middle, but the beginning and end were decent.
Moxvallix@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Translated for gen alpha:
level 5 gyatt rizz livvy dunne rizzing up baby gronk ice spice wat da dawg doin skibidi toilet in real life only in ohio we go jim zyzz creatine alpha sigma cuh dey board
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 8 months ago
okay but that conveys no information whatsoever.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m like 70% sure they just make up words and infer meaning from tone.
Moxvallix@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
(it’s a copypasta)
BestTestInTheWest@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Are you saying that Gen alpha knows who zyzz is? As a millennial that makes be so happy. We’re all gonna make it brah.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fellow millennial here. Dis white boy don’t got a clue.
I replied to the right comment this time. Finally got a clue.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
no. zyzz was niche for millennials.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Groovy!
Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Wassup playa!
Nikls94@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I took this text and made ChatGPT translate it to 2008 teenager lingo:
Yo, what’s good? If you peep anything sketchy or straight-up wack, like a jacked-up toilet or whatever, hit me up at -number- ASAP. For real though, we’re low-key hustlin’ to make this campground poppin’. We ain’t stoppin’ till this spot’s lit AF and everyone’s vibin’ with it. We’re counting on you, fam. Much love, thanks!
That’s hella accurate
Noodle07@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I hate that this feels natural, and I wasn’t even speaking English in 2008
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I’m so sorry. Do you need a hug?
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I feel like ChatGPT pulled this right out of 1999.
steeznson@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“lit” seems like a 21st century artefact to me
PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Thanks park ranger Guy Fieri
lennybird@lemmy.world 8 months ago
damn is lit and low-key really out of date now?
Nikls94@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I tell you the rapper‘s tongue that was lit AF back when Pimp my Ride was the shit is gonna be old lad‘s lingo sooner than…. The PS5 lost its stance to the PS6
Korne127@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Accurate, but cringe
Fyurion@lemmy.world 8 months ago
frfr
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 8 months ago
No cap
UnaSolaEstrellaLibre@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So, accurate.
activ8r@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It would have to be cringe to be accurate
Toneswirly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Forgot to say no cap, on god
citrusface@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fr fr fr
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I have a tendency to read that as “fuck, right?”
Etterra@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That second sign has big “hello fellow children” vibes.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 8 months ago
That’s kind of recursive? It tells me to report the cringe.
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 8 months ago
And standing there texting to report the cringe, after the first time, would be so fucking cringe.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
A principal I worked for one time asked me to write up a student survey. It annoyed me, so I wrote up the entire thing in that type of cringy try hard lingo. It backfired as she loved it and the students took it. The students in my class looked at me when they gave it to the school and said,“WTF sin_free?” I said sorry, they asked why, I explained the situation, they laughed and we moved on.
Maalus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sure, moved on. An entire school has a memory of you being cringe. Every drinking party with new friends will start with “lmao remember when sin_free tried to be funny”
wjrii@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What’s up? Hit me up at -number- if you see anything that is suspect or distinctly uncomfortable or unimpressive, like (I don’t know…) a toilet that got badly messed up or something. To be honest, we are openly and boldly trying to improve the attractiveness of this campground. We are determined to keep at it until this place is obviously desirable and impressive. We need your help, friends. Thank you.
Y’all, I’m an Xennial nerd who likes listening to academic podcasts, NPR, and (as frequently featured on NPR) liberal middle-aged white men singing country-blues-rock. I collect fountain pens and watch college football. I am deeply, deeply uncool. I understood every single word of the teen sign (though I leanred a couple of them several months ago listening to NPR, LOL).
xorollo@leminal.space 8 months ago
You’re lit fam.
– an old
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is…this what Zoomers think millenials are like?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It means you’re cooler than me.
Nikls94@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Same here. 30s around the corner, but to my knowledge of passed youth I might have had considered a sign using my people’s lingo quite… Disdain.
alekwithak@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That NPr piece was cringe AF with words from when I was teenager, and I’m in my 30’s.
wjrii@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You’re gonna have to be more specific, hepcat.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
whostosay@lemmy.world 8 months ago
When your opinions are based on bullshit brand loyalty free marketing
Same.gif
Eheran@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What is a green bubble?
Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Apple, in an attempt to leverage social pressure to drive sales instead of actually providing a quality product, displays texts from Android devices in a deliberately unpleasant to look at shade of green. Teenagers took the bait hook line and sinker.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s hilarious. I love it
aidan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Only if it’s ironic
Toes@ani.social 8 months ago
I’d much rather people text than phone me, it’s like a primative ticketing system
samus12345@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I assume the language used is already dated. They’ll need to change the sign every year.
gimpchrist@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I… read this in John Oliver’s voice?
0x2d@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
hello fellow kids!
257m@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I am a teenager and can’t understand shit. What does HMU even mean?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
It’s weird seeing English become unreadable from the other side. It’s like going back to ye olde Englishe but forward in time.
KuroeNekoDemon@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
This is so cringy. I also feel old
daltotron@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Thought about this a little bit, and I think my conclusions is that the thing that kills when boomers try to relate to and write the youths of today isn’t necessarily that they get the slang wrong, which, I’m sure is the case as well a lot of the time, but it’s mostly that they dial up the intensity to 11, so it ends up sounding like a parody, rather than a legitimate attempt. That’s probably not the point about 95% of the time, because the olds would rather portray like, their kids, basically, as moronic incomprehensible idiots, instead of making a minor attempt to understand them and how they communicate and the world they’re raise in, but I guess that’s just kinda what lead poisoning does.
I dunno, I find it kind of funny, because the youths will be milling about, minding their own business, but then you post like “uhhh skibidi toilet rizzler gyat that monocolored sweater is so preppy” and then all their boomers laugh their ass off, lose their minds, and are like “this is SO true I’m SO old hoo lee”. The zoomers aren’t the ones laughing at the garbled nonsense speak, bro. If that’s not an indication that the elderly are completely cooked, I dunno what is.
Arcity@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Can someone translate this into emojis?
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
I’ve REKT every toilet I’ve ever taken a dump in…at least since I started my high fiber diet.
Ginger666@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ewwwwww do people actually talk like that
femboy_bird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
The translation is accurate and commendable
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I wouldn’t know. Because I am old and I feel it right now.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 8 months ago
A time-proven antidote to aging is incorporating more youthful slang into your vocabulary. And before you clapback at me, I've been trying it myself and it's pretty bussin' bruh. I'm dripping all over the place now!
dadGPT@lemmy.world 8 months ago
i dont get it either, no cap
Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What is HMU? The only thing that sounds right if I rack my brain, is “holler me up”, but idk I’m mentally old and can’t keep up with “hip” culture.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 8 months ago
I think it’s warning us about snakes that can kill? I don’t know…
db2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s got too much punctuation though. That’s not a dig either, it really does have too much for what they’re trying for.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And missing “u” and “ur”
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That was my first thought but then I realized that if I, a 30-something year old old person, understand every word of it, it’s gotta be a lil sus.
Sombyr@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
If that’s accurate then I got old way faster than I thought I would. At least I can take solace in the fact that I’m probably on the younger end of Lemmy users.