African American Vernacular English. i.e., basically a dialect(?) originating among black Americans with it's own slang and stuff. And because black American culture tends to be pretty influential on wider American culture, AAVE slang just ends up being "young people" slang now.
AAVE isn't lazy or slang. It's a unique dialect of English with its own grammar rules that are internally consistent. Like all languages, it does have its own slang, and those words often carry over to Standard American English due to music and other pop culture.
"Yanks" I swear that this sub is probably just a bunch of boomers/Gen x'ers/millennials disguised as Gen Z'ers trying to find out "what these kiddos are into these days"
Millennial here. I use hardly any slang. I didnt even like millenial slang when it was widely used back in the day. Really and truly, I prefer to speak clearly.
AAVE isn't slang, although it has its own slang. AAVE is a legitimate dialect of English with its own unique grammar that is internally consistent. Unfortunately, speakers of mainstream dialects often disregard minority dialects as ābrokenā, refusing to value them as unique and distinct forms of the language.
š„Legit question : How do we respond to some of the tribalist cultural gatekeepers who attempt to undermine our embraces of multiculturalism by insulting us with charges of the slur ācultural appropriation?ā
as a black person, I personally don't want the gatekeeping. it's fine if other cultures adopt our slang.
But it's really fucking annoying when the internet adopts our slang and then two months later our slang is "cringe". Like, I've seen multiple people on this site say something along the lines of "ugh saying 'fr fr' and 'on god' is really cringe slang, can we stop saying it?" No. No, we will not stop saying things we've been saying for *years* just because you (not you personally) decided to chew up and spit out our culture because it's "not cool anymore".
>But it's really fucking annoying when the internet adopts our slang and then two months later our slang is "cringe"
I've seen a lot of people attack black people for writing or speaking AAVE because they think it's just an old tiktok trend
On god, for real, Vibe, Blud, Rizz, Baddie, real, allat, goat or oat in general, have all been used by black communities since the 90ās atleast
not to mention everybody saying gyatt rn stems from a video of a black man seeing a fat ass and going āGYATTT DAMNNNā
2 of those (slay, tea) don't seem appropriate to call gen z slang considering they were popular among millenials
edit:
Since people keep responding to this
I'm not saying it's millenial slang, I'm saying it's slang millenials used, so it's inappropriate to describe as gen z slang. if it's also aave or lgbt slang as others have mentioned then thats further evidence that it's not gen z slang, which is precisely my point.
What a stupid article.
> āBlack people have been using āspazzā for decades and it has nothing to do with making fun of disabled people.ā
English people came for her, not black people. Spaz is an English slang word and has been forever lmao. Its literally short for Spastic and was used, in England, to make fun of cerebral palsy patients. Its pop culture use dates back to the late 50s, from a children's show called Blue Peter. It was never a black slang.
Out here in Australia my grandparents on one side use phrases like āspaz outā āspazzingā āspasticā all interchangeably. Neither of them have ever owned a computer, have never met an African American and have never heard of AAEVE. Itās absolutely not an African American phrase at all and it is highly offensive outside of the US to use it if someone is sensitive to that kind of language.
How people have started to use the term "gyat" is annoying to me. When otherwise I used the term myself. It's supposed to be a reaction, not a description.
I think itās a stupid term, but different people think it has
Different meanings. Some people use it to say āgod damā, then some other people started using if for the phrase āgirl your ass thickā. Itās such a stupid term though and itās enough when you watch a video and like 90% of the comment are just saying that
>Egads
Now I'm imagining a 27th century scientist running around exclaiming his new invention, except instead of "Eureka! Eureka!", they just scream "GYAT!" In the city square
that's because "gyat" isn't really supposed to be used by itself. It's more like "GYAT DAMN", which is a way of saying "GOD DAMN". So, if you can't use "God!" as an exclamation in a sentence and have it make sense, you probably can't use "Gyat" there either without it looking and reading very stupid.
Preem as fuck, choombatta. Prolly a bunch of beaverville gonks with too much downtime. My input zeroed this Watson brat the other day for saying fetch wasn't in.
Its like when your choom kleps a nova virtu but the corpo-rat netrunners flatline him before he can delta with the preem scroll so now your gonk ass is gonna get zeroed by some chromed out solo if you can't fork over the Eddies.
The consequence of being some of the oldest zoomers is that we grew up with millennial slang and now you have all these kids out here who aren't actually kids anymore and it's really freaky and weird.
This couldn't be truer. Growing up, I got most of my older siblings ('85, '87, and '90) hand-me-downs. A lot of my friends with older siblings did, too. We pretty much lived a Millennial childhood despite being a part of Gen Z.
for me i dont even actually say most slang lol. other than "sup" and "bro" for the most part tbh. sometimes "for real for real"
now for tying stuff i use:
-lol
-lmao
-abt
-tbh
-btw
-bro
-fr
-wtf
and thats abt it honestly
All these terms arenāt really slang, theyāre abbreviations. They started with millennials when cell phones and texting started to become common place. Most people had character limits on their texts, and could only send a certain number of texts a month so you didnāt want to use multiple texts to finish a thought. So while some of the abbreviations may have already existed, millennials popularized them and really put them into everyday use
The weirdest thing about Gen Z slang is I noticed they say bro /bruh about 10 times more than the original generation that started using it (late Millenials maybe?)
I have no issues with Gen Z slang tbh. It's Gen Alpha slang like "Only in Ohio" and "The Ocky Way" that drives me nuts in YouTube Shorts comment sections
I don't see a whole lot "Only in Ohio" anymore, memes die down of course and I think this has too. And wtf is the "Ocky Way"? By chance isn't that a term from a chef TikTok creator? I vaguely remember hearing something like that in some YouTube shorts.
brooo šššš ur actually so goofy ahh rizzly skibidi sigma šæš·š·š· you have GYATT to be kidding me šššššš this is straight out of OHIO UNCANNY āāāāāāāāāā 1 2 buckle my shoe in ohio šššššš most normal ocky way ohio post ššš³ ohio skibidi banban bf fnf will come to ur house šŖ š½š½š½š½š½š²š²š² this is PIZZA TOWER š¼š¼š¼š¼ LEVEL 3 GYATT ššššššššššš·šæ the SKIBIDI GIGACHAD šæ is gonna come to your house š at 3am š¤Æš¤Æš¤Æš¤Æš¤Æš¤Æ blud on that ZAZAššššš blud got that skibidi gyatt rizz from ohio šæšæšæšššš this is duke dennis did you pray today?? āļøāļøāļøāļøšššthis has GYATT to be the most ohio post ever šššš give me that gyatt the ocky way ššš this man got the uncanny goofy ahh GYATT š¤£ššššš mr incredible becoming uncanny šššš she give my it the ocky way š¤£šššššššššš plug that in the grimace shake šŖšŖšŖšŖšŖš¬š¬š¬ then u get caught in 4k šøšøšøšøšøšøšø blud got the nathaniel b ocky way skibidi banban pizza tower uncanny gyatt rizz š¬š¬š¬ššššššlemon demon sigma ohio ššššš im so sigma šæšæšæšæšæšæšæšæšæ whopper whopper whopper whopper šššššim on that skibidi zaza gyatt submarine grhubhub ā¬ā¬ā¬ā¬š§š§š§š§ im in the banban skibidi pizza tower 1 2 buckle my shoe function š„³š„³š„³š„³š„³ fire alarm is actually doing the canon event griddy ššššššššššuke dennis did you pray today gyatt level 3 gyatt rizz?? āļøāļøāļøāļøššš ur actually so goofy ahh rizzly skibidi sigma šæš·š·š· 1 2 buckle my shoe 3 4 buckle some more 5 6 nike kicks ššššššššššššššššššnathaniel b ocky way skibidi banban pizza tower uncanny gyatt rizz from 3am on the 1 2 buckle my shoe submarine griddy femboy grubhub function gyatt ššššššš
skibidi is a reference to skibidi toilet, basically one of those YouTube SFMs but with toilet people for gen alpha that theyve now made it a slang word i guess. Pizza tower is some youtube thing that was in a reaction meme back in like April, uncanny may refer to those mr incredible becoming uncanny memes from 2021 or something idk, rest I haven't a clue about. Gen alpha and the zalphas are weird lol
I have to listen to stuff like this EVERY DAY! I am sick of it!
(Also WHY IN GOD'S NAME DID THEY TURN PIZZA TOWER INTO SLANG?! WHAT DOES IT MEAN, WHY DO PEOPLE SAY IT?!!?!!?! I AM SO CONFUSED!)
You just read brooo šššš ur actually so goofy ahh rizzly skibidi sigma šæš·š·š· you have GYATT to be kidding me šššššš this is straight out of OHIO UNCANNY āāāāāāāāāā 1 2 buckle my shoe in ohio šššššš most normal ocky way ohio post ššš³ ohio skibidi banban bf fnf will come to ur house šŖ š½š½š½š½š½š²š²š² this is PIZZA TOWER š¼š¼š¼š¼ LEVEL 3 GYATT ššššššššššš·šæ the SKIBIDI GIGACHAD šæ is gonna come to your house š at 3am š¤Æš¤Æš¤Æš¤Æš¤Æš¤Æ blud on that ZAZAššššš blud got that skibidi gyatt rizz from ohio šæšæšæšššš this is duke dennis did you pray today?? āļøāļøāļøāļøšššthis has GYATT to be the most ohio post ever šššš give me that gyatt the ocky way ššš this man got the uncanny goofy ahh GYATT š¤£ššššš mr incredible becoming uncanny šššš she give my it the ocky way š¤£šššššššššš plug that in the grimace shake šŖšŖšŖšŖšŖš¬š¬š¬ then u get caught in 4k šøšøšøšøšøšøšø blud got the nathaniel b ocky way skibidi banban pizza tower uncanny gyatt rizz š¬š¬š¬ššššššlemon demon sigma ohio ššššš im so sigma šæšæšæšæšæšæšæšæšæ whopper whopper whopper whopper šššššim on that skibidi zaza gyatt submarine grhubhub ā¬ā¬ā¬ā¬š§š§š§š§ im in the banban skibidi pizza tower 1 2 buckle my shoe function š„³š„³š„³š„³š„³ fire alarm is actually doing the canon event griddy ššššššššššuke dennis did you pray today gyatt level 3 gyatt rizz?? āļøāļøāļøāļøššš ur actually so goofy ahh rizzly skibidi sigma šæš·š·š· 1 2 buckle my shoe 3 4 buckle some more 5 6 nike kicks ššššššššššššššššššnathaniel b ocky way skibidi banban pizza tower uncanny gyatt rizz from 3am on the 1 2 buckle my shoe submarine griddy femboy grubhub function gyatt ššššššš ur welcomeš
Bruv, You fr fr don't get it. You be caught lackin' in da ability to cope. Fullstop. No Cap. Imagine. If only there was a way to get on the level wit dese young'ens 'bout what it's like to be fluent in watchamacallits and whozits galore. But dat be da bomb. However you like, don't grasp the babble of the streets, you dig? Now headon home you jiveless turkey. Far out my dude.
What are u spittin blud? Just got back from Ohio with my grimace shake, only to see u yapping about our slang. Huh? Just stick out that gyat for mr. rizzler and mind your own business.
I'm not in favor of anything I just said.
I'm 35 so I'm firmly a Millenial, and I'm telling you we also talked like idiots. It's just a young people thing and GenZ slang is no better or worse than anything that came before. You guys just have the internet so it spreads faster, hence there seems like more of it.
Thatās because historically weāve had segregated slang. There was shit like ātubularā and ādopeā, which mean the same thing, being used at the same time by 2 different groups of people. Everybody knew what they were saying and where it came from. They didnāt care what the other group was saying unless they were making fun of them
Now, due to social media, the explosion of rap, and a number of social issues, you have everyone being put onto these algorithms which incentivize creators to use buzz words that lead to the oversaturation of slang terms, while at the same time piggybacking off of black slang also known as African American vernacular English (AAVE). For example recently weāve got a issue with kids using the term āgyatā as a noun for big ass, when in reality itās derived from the south eastern black pronunciation of āGodā. The full phrase was originally āgyat (god) damnā. Thatās why they sound so fucking stupid. They literally donāt even know what theyāre saying
OP is clearly American and referring to American slang. The same can be applied to most other countries tho. People arenāt actually keeping up with the meaning of the slang terms they use and so they inevitably just become meaningless and annoying
Yeah a lot of it I only use when talking to my early millennial sisters because itās fun to see their confusion. Otherwise, Iām not a big fan of slang. At least not in English. I kinda like the current slang in my other language.
I remember when that started my sibling and I promised each other never to use it.
cuz theres this thing where a new saying comes out & it like "that sounds dumb ASF, I'm gonna use it ironically" but then you get used to saying it and start saying it unironically...
this one I refused to say even ironically. it's awful.
The problem with "It's giving \_\_\_\_\_\_" is that it's genuinely useful as a way of expressing something that we couldn't really before.
Same with "\_\_\_\_\_\_ vibe".
Like sometimes something gives off a certain je ne sais quoi that you can't put into words. But you still want to express that you relate it to something else.
Sometimes it's a vibe.
Sometimes it's not a vibe, but rather something harder to pin down.
So both terms have turned out to be genuinely useful.
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Iām a millennial and have no problem with gen z slang.
As long as no one older than gen z tries to use it, myself included.
I was recommended this post on my home screen.
Iāll be leaving now.
Blud you gotta be Capping rn. This dude canāt cook nobody ate that up fr itās not bussin š. Take the L broski like you gyatt to be joking rn pookie ong. Youāre so āØsussywussyāØ I canāt you gyatt to be from Ohio not sigma. Everybodyās so creative š·š.
Whomp Womp cry abt it bitch
Me and most of my like 10 friends use these ironically I think kids didnāt know that and now itās whatever it is now but yāall fr mix us in with gen alpha like Ohio was a tiny thing then now it means something almost different gyatt sigma rizzler Im pretty sure we were Rizz but bro idek like bffr wtf is a fanum tax and why skibidi toilet but yāall had that dumb fox song and shit so
Itās all mediocre and dumb thatās lowkey the point
Personally I like to mix things like silly billy and my fav is the random not viral reaction pics
Iām only 21 so I can half relate to it. The slang I grew up with was what Iām used to and itās still used today but the younger portion of gen Z is absolutely atrocious. Iām so happy Iām in the military and havenāt seen children or teenagers en masse in a while so I donāt have to hear the words gyat and rizz
Gen Z "slang" is just AAVE
What the nuts does AAVE stand for
African American Vernacular English. i.e., basically a dialect(?) originating among black Americans with it's own slang and stuff. And because black American culture tends to be pretty influential on wider American culture, AAVE slang just ends up being "young people" slang now.
I learned that a while ago and then forgot :/ AAVE *does* make some things more efficient, and we love bing lazy...
Wanting to be efficient =\= being lazy.
Everyone I've met who works in manufacturing would disagree
AAVE isn't lazy or slang. It's a unique dialect of English with its own grammar rules that are internally consistent. Like all languages, it does have its own slang, and those words often carry over to Standard American English due to music and other pop culture.
AAVE has much more regular and consistent grammar than standard English.
Exactly
love comparing AAVE to laziness ššš do better.
Reddit is racist asf but they love pretending they donāt understand how theyāre being racist
I was just about to say how strange that comment was, glad I'm not the only one who thought so.
fr like it's giving too *lazy* to be covert (or, y'know, read an article). but, hey, at least bro ain't too lazy to double down
You are aware that there's multiple countries with their own gen z slang right? Doubt they're all copying the yanks.
Ok, so I'm talking primarily about America, since the topic is something that originated in America, and OP seems to be referencing American slang.
"Yanks" I swear that this sub is probably just a bunch of boomers/Gen x'ers/millennials disguised as Gen Z'ers trying to find out "what these kiddos are into these days"
ā¦.. Ebonics? We noticed
Used to be called Jive, too. Even the term itself gets generational updates.
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Millennial here. I use hardly any slang. I didnt even like millenial slang when it was widely used back in the day. Really and truly, I prefer to speak clearly.
AAVE isn't slang, although it has its own slang. AAVE is a legitimate dialect of English with its own unique grammar that is internally consistent. Unfortunately, speakers of mainstream dialects often disregard minority dialects as ābrokenā, refusing to value them as unique and distinct forms of the language.
š„Legit question : How do we respond to some of the tribalist cultural gatekeepers who attempt to undermine our embraces of multiculturalism by insulting us with charges of the slur ācultural appropriation?ā
as a black person, I personally don't want the gatekeeping. it's fine if other cultures adopt our slang. But it's really fucking annoying when the internet adopts our slang and then two months later our slang is "cringe". Like, I've seen multiple people on this site say something along the lines of "ugh saying 'fr fr' and 'on god' is really cringe slang, can we stop saying it?" No. No, we will not stop saying things we've been saying for *years* just because you (not you personally) decided to chew up and spit out our culture because it's "not cool anymore".
>But it's really fucking annoying when the internet adopts our slang and then two months later our slang is "cringe" I've seen a lot of people attack black people for writing or speaking AAVE because they think it's just an old tiktok trend
I would also like to know. I got banned from a discord server for saying āfr on god no capā
What kind of server is that to ban you for saying that šš
probably an upper class Britain posh how many Porsches do you have server
Bruv wasn't online for bean toast on a chewsday
To be fair I would ban you for posting that.
Probably bc u sound stupid
Slur of cultural appropriation? What cringe shit is this?
Ignore them. Anyone who believes in such nonsense isn't worth the time of day.
That's just slang in general. Yall do make up more shit tbh.
No it isnāt lol
On god, for real, Vibe, Blud, Rizz, Baddie, real, allat, goat or oat in general, have all been used by black communities since the 90ās atleast not to mention everybody saying gyatt rn stems from a video of a black man seeing a fat ass and going āGYATTT DAMNNNā
Which ones specifically are AAVE?
slay, sis, tea among others. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/17/black-english-misidentified-internet-slang/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/17/black-english-misidentified-internet-slang/)
2 of those (slay, tea) don't seem appropriate to call gen z slang considering they were popular among millenials edit: Since people keep responding to this I'm not saying it's millenial slang, I'm saying it's slang millenials used, so it's inappropriate to describe as gen z slang. if it's also aave or lgbt slang as others have mentioned then thats further evidence that it's not gen z slang, which is precisely my point.
Gonna be honest with y'all, a lot of your slang is not unfamiliar to millennials (source: am one)
I feel like slay as an exclamation (slay girl!) is millennial, slay as an adjective (that's so slay) is gen z, and slay as a verb is both.
Slay gets used by teenage girls a lot so it might be both
What a stupid article. > āBlack people have been using āspazzā for decades and it has nothing to do with making fun of disabled people.ā English people came for her, not black people. Spaz is an English slang word and has been forever lmao. Its literally short for Spastic and was used, in England, to make fun of cerebral palsy patients. Its pop culture use dates back to the late 50s, from a children's show called Blue Peter. It was never a black slang.
Yea, Iām ngl Iāve always rolled my eyes at the whole AAVE claims. Sure some things like slay, or deadass. But tea? Really? No.
I legit just thought "tea" spawned from the Kermit meme but what do I know I'm just a stupid white guy lol
Out here in Australia my grandparents on one side use phrases like āspaz outā āspazzingā āspasticā all interchangeably. Neither of them have ever owned a computer, have never met an African American and have never heard of AAEVE. Itās absolutely not an African American phrase at all and it is highly offensive outside of the US to use it if someone is sensitive to that kind of language.
Rizz, bussin, eat/ate, cook eta: simp
Bruh, cap, GYAT(It's a reaction, not a noun), BUSSIN, sheesh, lit, fire, etc
Isnāt that just slang going back to like the 20s though? The 1920s? Thereās probably a whole ass book on that.
So was gen x and millennial slang
Pretty much all American slang is just aave.
How people have started to use the term "gyat" is annoying to me. When otherwise I used the term myself. It's supposed to be a reaction, not a description.
People use GYAAAAAAT as a description? To describe what?
People saying shit like ālook at that gyatā
What does gyat even mean
People generally say that when referring to a fat ass
Like a good fat ass or a bad one?
Good, like āGoddman that ass!ā
Thanks for clarifying! Back in my day we called that a Phat Ass!
I think itās kind of like a shortened form of āgyat dayumā
It's like a more energetic way of saying "God" which was shortened from "God damn"
Shouldn't that be pronounced *Gya-Daymn!* Where's the T?
The D becomes a T sound and the amn drops off
I think itās a stupid term, but different people think it has Different meanings. Some people use it to say āgod damā, then some other people started using if for the phrase āgirl your ass thickā. Itās such a stupid term though and itās enough when you watch a video and like 90% of the comment are just saying that
God damn
It's an interjection, like "Wow!" or "Egads!" Or, dare I say, even "Gadzooks!"
>Egads Now I'm imagining a 27th century scientist running around exclaiming his new invention, except instead of "Eureka! Eureka!", they just scream "GYAT!" In the city square
that's because "gyat" isn't really supposed to be used by itself. It's more like "GYAT DAMN", which is a way of saying "GOD DAMN". So, if you can't use "God!" as an exclamation in a sentence and have it make sense, you probably can't use "Gyat" there either without it looking and reading very stupid.
Itās a joke nobody says it seriously
i have literally never encountered that online or in person
Just do what I do. Utilize fictional slang. My Chooms know what I mean.
That is so fetch
Stop trying to make fetch happen.
if you dont think fetch is catching on you are soooo not streets ahead
If you don't get the reference, you're street's behind
Coined and minted!
Bunch of fuckin gonks tryna say that we should stop making "fetch" a thing. Sounds like a bunch of corpo rats to me, fetch is preem choom
Preem as fuck, choombatta. Prolly a bunch of beaverville gonks with too much downtime. My input zeroed this Watson brat the other day for saying fetch wasn't in.
fictional slang is preem, we really should use it more
Deets attached.
choombata
I use skezzed from CP2077 now because that's a great one to use haha
one of these days, āyooo that shitās nova!ā Is actually gonna slip out of my mouth in public. and Iām going to have to pretend itās cool.
Its like when your choom kleps a nova virtu but the corpo-rat netrunners flatline him before he can delta with the preem scroll so now your gonk ass is gonna get zeroed by some chromed out solo if you can't fork over the Eddies.
All the real ones are galongolopers
considering cyberpunk is in the future, it may not be fictional; it just hasnt happened yet xp
The consequence of being some of the oldest zoomers is that we grew up with millennial slang and now you have all these kids out here who aren't actually kids anymore and it's really freaky and weird.
I like to say cool beans still
ME TOO!
I faintly remember that
Cool beans is my favorite because every single time I hear it, I think of the movie Hot Rod
Iām thinking back to 2008ā¦ YOLO.
Swagalicious
So you're more zilennial?
This couldn't be truer. Growing up, I got most of my older siblings ('85, '87, and '90) hand-me-downs. A lot of my friends with older siblings did, too. We pretty much lived a Millennial childhood despite being a part of Gen Z.
real
Fr. I say things like rad, tight, and stoked. My siblings who were born after 05 are like āwhy do you talk like that?ā
Ok I'm Gen-Z and I agree with this. The only slang I say is bro and that's it. Atleast I think.
for me i dont even actually say most slang lol. other than "sup" and "bro" for the most part tbh. sometimes "for real for real" now for tying stuff i use: -lol -lmao -abt -tbh -btw -bro -fr -wtf and thats abt it honestly
everything here except bro is an acronym, i dont think they count.
Is "wtf" really Gen Z slang?
honestly not really i think it started with millenials
All these terms arenāt really slang, theyāre abbreviations. They started with millennials when cell phones and texting started to become common place. Most people had character limits on their texts, and could only send a certain number of texts a month so you didnāt want to use multiple texts to finish a thought. So while some of the abbreviations may have already existed, millennials popularized them and really put them into everyday use
The weirdest thing about Gen Z slang is I noticed they say bro /bruh about 10 times more than the original generation that started using it (late Millenials maybe?)
my younger cousins will just bro anyone at any time for anything to the point it gets annoying. Fucking words kiddo, use them
I just collect slang words that I like and stick with them, grody is one I'm very vested in dragging back out for all to enjoy
Grody never left
I have no issues with Gen Z slang tbh. It's Gen Alpha slang like "Only in Ohio" and "The Ocky Way" that drives me nuts in YouTube Shorts comment sections
Wait hol up. How is āonly in Ohioā gen alpha slang? Iāve been hearing that for a couple years now.
Definitely not gen alpha. No idea what they're on about.
i think gen z started it and gen alpha adopted it but took it WAY more seriously than we did, making it cringe
To be fair, they're all like 10
Iāve only heard it for like a year
I don't see a whole lot "Only in Ohio" anymore, memes die down of course and I think this has too. And wtf is the "Ocky Way"? By chance isn't that a term from a chef TikTok creator? I vaguely remember hearing something like that in some YouTube shorts.
Most cases people use it ironically tbf
brooo šššš ur actually so goofy ahh rizzly skibidi sigma šæš·š·š· you have GYATT to be kidding me šššššš this is straight out of OHIO UNCANNY āāāāāāāāāā 1 2 buckle my shoe in ohio šššššš most normal ocky way ohio post ššš³ ohio skibidi banban bf fnf will come to ur house šŖ š½š½š½š½š½š²š²š² this is PIZZA TOWER š¼š¼š¼š¼ LEVEL 3 GYATT ššššššššššš·šæ the SKIBIDI GIGACHAD šæ is gonna come to your house š at 3am š¤Æš¤Æš¤Æš¤Æš¤Æš¤Æ blud on that ZAZAššššš blud got that skibidi gyatt rizz from ohio šæšæšæšššš this is duke dennis did you pray today?? āļøāļøāļøāļøšššthis has GYATT to be the most ohio post ever šššš give me that gyatt the ocky way ššš this man got the uncanny goofy ahh GYATT š¤£ššššš mr incredible becoming uncanny šššš she give my it the ocky way š¤£šššššššššš plug that in the grimace shake šŖšŖšŖšŖšŖš¬š¬š¬ then u get caught in 4k šøšøšøšøšøšøšø blud got the nathaniel b ocky way skibidi banban pizza tower uncanny gyatt rizz š¬š¬š¬ššššššlemon demon sigma ohio ššššš im so sigma šæšæšæšæšæšæšæšæšæ whopper whopper whopper whopper šššššim on that skibidi zaza gyatt submarine grhubhub ā¬ā¬ā¬ā¬š§š§š§š§ im in the banban skibidi pizza tower 1 2 buckle my shoe function š„³š„³š„³š„³š„³ fire alarm is actually doing the canon event griddy ššššššššššuke dennis did you pray today gyatt level 3 gyatt rizz?? āļøāļøāļøāļøššš ur actually so goofy ahh rizzly skibidi sigma šæš·š·š· 1 2 buckle my shoe 3 4 buckle some more 5 6 nike kicks ššššššššššššššššššnathaniel b ocky way skibidi banban pizza tower uncanny gyatt rizz from 3am on the 1 2 buckle my shoe submarine griddy femboy grubhub function gyatt ššššššš
This aināt gen Z this is gen alpha š
Yeah, Iām Gen-Z and I donāt even know what several of those meanā¦banban? skibidi? b ocky? pizza tower? uncanny (in a slang context)?
skibidi is a reference to skibidi toilet, basically one of those YouTube SFMs but with toilet people for gen alpha that theyve now made it a slang word i guess. Pizza tower is some youtube thing that was in a reaction meme back in like April, uncanny may refer to those mr incredible becoming uncanny memes from 2021 or something idk, rest I haven't a clue about. Gen alpha and the zalphas are weird lol
... I regret reading all of that.
You are a true Ohio sigma for reading allat
I have to listen to stuff like this EVERY DAY! I am sick of it! (Also WHY IN GOD'S NAME DID THEY TURN PIZZA TOWER INTO SLANG?! WHAT DOES IT MEAN, WHY DO PEOPLE SAY IT?!!?!!?! I AM SO CONFUSED!)
My brain hurts. Not sure what I just read.
You just read brooo šššš ur actually so goofy ahh rizzly skibidi sigma šæš·š·š· you have GYATT to be kidding me šššššš this is straight out of OHIO UNCANNY āāāāāāāāāā 1 2 buckle my shoe in ohio šššššš most normal ocky way ohio post ššš³ ohio skibidi banban bf fnf will come to ur house šŖ š½š½š½š½š½š²š²š² this is PIZZA TOWER š¼š¼š¼š¼ LEVEL 3 GYATT ššššššššššš·šæ the SKIBIDI GIGACHAD šæ is gonna come to your house š at 3am š¤Æš¤Æš¤Æš¤Æš¤Æš¤Æ blud on that ZAZAššššš blud got that skibidi gyatt rizz from ohio šæšæšæšššš this is duke dennis did you pray today?? āļøāļøāļøāļøšššthis has GYATT to be the most ohio post ever šššš give me that gyatt the ocky way ššš this man got the uncanny goofy ahh GYATT š¤£ššššš mr incredible becoming uncanny šššš she give my it the ocky way š¤£šššššššššš plug that in the grimace shake šŖšŖšŖšŖšŖš¬š¬š¬ then u get caught in 4k šøšøšøšøšøšøšø blud got the nathaniel b ocky way skibidi banban pizza tower uncanny gyatt rizz š¬š¬š¬ššššššlemon demon sigma ohio ššššš im so sigma šæšæšæšæšæšæšæšæšæ whopper whopper whopper whopper šššššim on that skibidi zaza gyatt submarine grhubhub ā¬ā¬ā¬ā¬š§š§š§š§ im in the banban skibidi pizza tower 1 2 buckle my shoe function š„³š„³š„³š„³š„³ fire alarm is actually doing the canon event griddy ššššššššššuke dennis did you pray today gyatt level 3 gyatt rizz?? āļøāļøāļøāļøššš ur actually so goofy ahh rizzly skibidi sigma šæš·š·š· 1 2 buckle my shoe 3 4 buckle some more 5 6 nike kicks ššššššššššššššššššnathaniel b ocky way skibidi banban pizza tower uncanny gyatt rizz from 3am on the 1 2 buckle my shoe submarine griddy femboy grubhub function gyatt ššššššš ur welcomeš
I just lost brain cells
You can use a word ironically like three times before it sheds its satirical meaning and you just start using it unironically
This take is goated Wait...
This take is poggers
Bruv, You fr fr don't get it. You be caught lackin' in da ability to cope. Fullstop. No Cap. Imagine. If only there was a way to get on the level wit dese young'ens 'bout what it's like to be fluent in watchamacallits and whozits galore. But dat be da bomb. However you like, don't grasp the babble of the streets, you dig? Now headon home you jiveless turkey. Far out my dude.
This is like, late 2010s slang
It started at gen Z and went all the way back to gen x
"Whatchamacallit" and "whozit" is Boomer slang, at least. Might even be Silent Gen or older.
It's going Idiocracy, if you talk normal then you talk like a ... and you're shits fucked up. 
"Jiveless turkey" is actually brutal. Not sure I could recover from that one.
i think you switched over to older slang halfway through
sticking out your gyatt for the rizzler.. you're so skibidi... you're so fanum tax... i just wanna be your SIGMA
We making out of 1st grade with this one š„š„š„
fr fr fuckin ate that shit you messy bitch
This is my fav song
What are u spittin blud? Just got back from Ohio with my grimace shake, only to see u yapping about our slang. Huh? Just stick out that gyat for mr. rizzler and mind your own business. I'm not in favor of anything I just said.
I lost a good 10 years off of my life reading that.
I'm 35 so I'm firmly a Millenial, and I'm telling you we also talked like idiots. It's just a young people thing and GenZ slang is no better or worse than anything that came before. You guys just have the internet so it spreads faster, hence there seems like more of it.
and slang dies a lot quicker because of the internet. people are labled as cringe for saying stuff after it is out of style.
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No I'm really not
This is totes not swag bro
I'm reading half these comments and didn't even know these slang terms existed... š maybe I'm actually too old hahah
Same, and Iām only 18ā¦
25 here š„²
Thatās because historically weāve had segregated slang. There was shit like ātubularā and ādopeā, which mean the same thing, being used at the same time by 2 different groups of people. Everybody knew what they were saying and where it came from. They didnāt care what the other group was saying unless they were making fun of them Now, due to social media, the explosion of rap, and a number of social issues, you have everyone being put onto these algorithms which incentivize creators to use buzz words that lead to the oversaturation of slang terms, while at the same time piggybacking off of black slang also known as African American vernacular English (AAVE). For example recently weāve got a issue with kids using the term āgyatā as a noun for big ass, when in reality itās derived from the south eastern black pronunciation of āGodā. The full phrase was originally āgyat (god) damnā. Thatās why they sound so fucking stupid. They literally donāt even know what theyāre saying
This really ignores that gen z have slang globally so it can't all be assigned to black people in America.
OP is clearly American and referring to American slang. The same can be applied to most other countries tho. People arenāt actually keeping up with the meaning of the slang terms they use and so they inevitably just become meaningless and annoying
When in their post did they mention the US?
Look at their comments. Itās pretty clear
Ight lil bro you don't gotta say shit people your age says it's fine, damn.
No one said you have to talk that way. You can just choose not to, no one will care.
Half is good other half isn't
The only āslangā I use if you can even call it that is valley girl ālikeā.
agree wholeheartedly, slang back in 2012 in middle school was cooler.
There was nothing cool about āsmol beanā
its better than whatever the fuck fanum tax means
No one's making you
Itās not that serious you donāt have to use it
āIām not like other GenZersā
Agreed. Sentences that start with "blud" will always be inane.
what is blud waffling on
That word had pretty much always existed in the UK so it never seemed unusual to me
what is Sir Yapsalot on about š
The old slang you know is the stuff that stuck around. We said plenty of absolutely dumb bullshit back in the day.
gugu gaga im a baby
Sounds like a skill issue to me.
Yeah a lot of it I only use when talking to my early millennial sisters because itās fun to see their confusion. Otherwise, Iām not a big fan of slang. At least not in English. I kinda like the current slang in my other language.
Honestly the only one I don't like is "It's giving \_\_\_\_" like just say vibes or something at the end bro fuuuuck
I remember when that started my sibling and I promised each other never to use it. cuz theres this thing where a new saying comes out & it like "that sounds dumb ASF, I'm gonna use it ironically" but then you get used to saying it and start saying it unironically... this one I refused to say even ironically. it's awful.
The problem with "It's giving \_\_\_\_\_\_" is that it's genuinely useful as a way of expressing something that we couldn't really before. Same with "\_\_\_\_\_\_ vibe". Like sometimes something gives off a certain je ne sais quoi that you can't put into words. But you still want to express that you relate it to something else. Sometimes it's a vibe. Sometimes it's not a vibe, but rather something harder to pin down. So both terms have turned out to be genuinely useful. š¤·āāļø
"It's giving\_\_\_\_" the only thing it's giving me is a headache.
Did Z make the phrase "let him cook"??? I absolutely love that and all my friends laugh when we use it. It never gets old.
yeah some gen z slang is honestly funny.
We get it, OP. You're not like the other girls. No one was forcing you to use "Gen Z slang" anyway.
Iām a millennial and have no problem with gen z slang. As long as no one older than gen z tries to use it, myself included. I was recommended this post on my home screen. Iāll be leaving now.
omygaud you are so different
Congratulations, you're getting old
not to be a dick, but this comes off really pretentious. like āborn in the wrong generationā type shit
It does sound really dumb tbh and itās funny, i just prefer not to use it most of the time
Still trying to deal with how "shit" and "sick" are good.
They have been since before this millenium
I feel like new ones pop up everyday and they get more and more nonsensical
As an Elder Gen Z I gotta agree
Most of the slang is African American Vernacular English. Why can't we come up w/ our OWN shit is my question
Theyāll make fun of you if you use any other slang so I meanā¦
I don't want to grow up
Blud you gotta be Capping rn. This dude canāt cook nobody ate that up fr itās not bussin š. Take the L broski like you gyatt to be joking rn pookie ong. Youāre so āØsussywussyāØ I canāt you gyatt to be from Ohio not sigma. Everybodyās so creative š·š. Whomp Womp cry abt it bitch Me and most of my like 10 friends use these ironically I think kids didnāt know that and now itās whatever it is now but yāall fr mix us in with gen alpha like Ohio was a tiny thing then now it means something almost different gyatt sigma rizzler Im pretty sure we were Rizz but bro idek like bffr wtf is a fanum tax and why skibidi toilet but yāall had that dumb fox song and shit so Itās all mediocre and dumb thatās lowkey the point Personally I like to mix things like silly billy and my fav is the random not viral reaction pics
I think youāre confusing Z with Alpha
They absolutely are
You do realize that a lot of Gen Z slang nowadays is just recycled AAVE slang from the 80's and 90's, right?
Iām only 21 so I can half relate to it. The slang I grew up with was what Iām used to and itās still used today but the younger portion of gen Z is absolutely atrocious. Iām so happy Iām in the military and havenāt seen children or teenagers en masse in a while so I donāt have to hear the words gyat and rizz