GenX here. Kids 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.
Make it stop.
Submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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partial_accumen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
shit_of_ass@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
she freak on my gyatt till I baby gronk
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Damn I bet she hit you with that hawk ptui fr fr.
EatATaco@lemm.ee 10 months ago
For riz.
Am i doing it right?
figjam@midwest.social 10 months ago
I… I don’t know. I DON’T KNOW !
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
It’s easy to say that brainrot is a new thing but can any 90s kid argue that this isn’t the same Image
paws@cyberpaws.lol 10 months ago
In the 2000s my brother asked our grandma to wrap a gift for his crush. She wrote something like “You’re such a foxy young lady” and that was a good day for laughs.
FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Who needs a wingman when you have a wingnan?
BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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?
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
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.
Voran@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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
hakase@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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.
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Meanwhile, half of them are illiterate. The parents need to get themselves and their children off the internet.
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Let’s start with you then.
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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.
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
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
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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.
obinice@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
Letstakealook@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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?
s_s@lemm.ee 10 months ago
“Kids can’t read” is certainly a take. 😂
pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
If everyone should learn to read, it would not only ruin writing but thinking as well.
—some embittered philosopher probably
Sidhean@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What a “damn kids these days” quote
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I actually love these new slangs! Based.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lit
RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The emotional damage of simultaneously realising that you are old and understanding all the people you laughed at for yelling “get off my lawn”
eran_morad@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bussin
TheDoozer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Like… tables?
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 10 months ago
Or like bussy?
moistclump@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How would one rizz someone else? Basically, what is rizzing?
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And is “mew” just making a cat noise or something more?
ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Don’t ask the children, they don’t know either
Shkshkshk@dice.camp 10 months ago
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Outside of tag (I guess), it’s like chatting someone up.
moistclump@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So to unfreeze them they’d have to like, “How you doin?”
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thats not even what it means.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Even had some mewing going in the break room at work last night
niktemadur@lemmy.world 10 months ago
STOP!
STOP, UPON ME!
FORCE THE TOOLS AVAILABLE!
YES… I’M ALRIGHT…!
BWA HAHA HAHA HAHA…!SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And kids at the Catholic school play jizz tag.
Zozano@lemy.lol 10 months ago
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.
FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Don’t pretend you didn’t become obsessed with whatever cool new slang was flavour of the month when you were a child
Plopp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t remember getting any new slang as a kid.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Yeah, we just called people fags (sorry) or gay.
90s and early 00s were N O T LGBT friendly
db2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s because to you it was just normal.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
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
systemglitch@lemmy.world 10 months ago
80s had a ton.
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
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Icalasari@fedia.io 10 months ago
I did not, for I was a loser who didn't know slang
sirico@feddit.uk 10 months ago
No shot fellow cool kid
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Watching millennials/gen x pick on Gen Z for the same behaviors we all had gets old doesn’t it?
candybrie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And the kids playing tag are likely not even gen z but gen alpha. No one can even pick on the right generation.
gdog05@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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flat@reddthat.com 10 months ago
what
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You forgot the /s right?
pancakes@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yikes
Mrderisant@midwest.social 10 months ago
Dude practically became a verbal tick
slaacaa@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fr, no cap
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 10 months ago
True dat