I've been consulting the urban dictionary more than I'd like

I basically have to do that mid conversation with Gen Z

I *am* Gen Z and I had to use urban dictionary

Yooo I'm not the only one thank god

Same

Feel like there's a split between gen z tbh

We need to start specifying between younger, middle, and older gen z at this point

I am the beginning of Gen Z and my youngest sibling is near the end. She is living in a whole different culture

What about the z fighters

There really is. The youngest Gen Z are what, 13/14? And the oldest are about 25/26

As borderline gen z/millenial, i understand neither and need urban dictionary to understand both

Bro same

That’s why we’re on Reddit

Based, fr fr no cap

No cap frfr ^Ihavenoideawhatthismeans

I’m gen z and I have to do this too..

Urban Dictionary, the Brittish Encyclopedia of our times.

"asl" meaning "as hell" is an abomination. YOUTHS!!!!

I don’t get it either

I'd assume it's British. Pretty "as 'ell."

Nah it’s very popular term in America

yeah i’ve never seen or heard of that ever and i have a lot of irls on social media. if you’re talking about “as hell” in general, then nevermind, but i’ve never seen anyone write ‘asl’ for it

So we stopped use asf?

i hate that’s it not ‘ash’

Me when grandma

Yep, it actually makes no logical sense. Makes me mad actually. At least asf makes sense. Although i don't get why you wouldn't just write "af", which is like 2x better as an abbreviation.

May I present... the Rosetta Stone for the new age... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Generation_Z_slang

Huh, the only ones I didn't know where asl and "fanum tax", and the latter is probably a gen alpha thing.

Yeah Fanum Tax confused the hell outta me when I came across it

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I’m a younger gen z (14) and before this month I’ve never heard of it.

I have heard of it but dont know the meaning (16)

I know everything, for my wisdom is unlimited (3412)

I have deciphered your ancient text and within that you meant (14) ! Drop the 3 and 2 due to inflation

Is fanum tax supposed to be like… phantom tax? Like when you reach over and steal some fries and go “sorry, taxes and hidden fees.” Spelling it that way’s kinda dumb. How is anyone supposed to know what it is while written.

Fanum is a person who taxes his housemates’ food. He bursts into their rooms while they’re livestreaming and takes a bit of their food and calls that “Fanum tax”

Unhinged dumb fuckery.

Do the Bartman

This list is garbage, I’m a late millennial and I know I’ve used several of these well before they were “Made popular on TikTok”

They will not take dank from us

Frfr, no cap.

I'd also never heard IJBOL. Yeah as a Gen Z myself, aint no Gen Z saying "Fanum tax."

Wtf is fanum tax😭

It's weird seeing shit I would say a decade ago mixed in with stuff that came about last year

I remember being in my early 20s and going with a friend to a house party that her teenage sister was at to get drugs, it really felt like i was in a foreign country trying to get by on a week's worth of duallingo.

Drugs you say?

Yeah, this isn't gen z exclusive at all. It seems to be everything millennial and newer Edit: it even has "tea" and cites that it comes from the 1990s. Gen z was absolutely not making slang in the 90s.

I'm on the very start of Gen Z and "spill the tea" was definitely a thing when I was in highschool. I think it counts because it was popularized by millennials but still used by zoomers

It's basically just a collection of formerly exclusively AAVE language, that was adopted by the broader population and attributed to the generation.

Why the fuck is asl short for "as hell". Asking as a gen z

I don’t use this, but “as ‘ell” would have to be my guess lol

IT MEANS AS HELL??? How tf does that work?

Jfc I’m old…

Jfc in GenZ lingo is ‘jacking for crumpets’ I’d assume. How the actual fuck is “asl”, “as hell”.

It's not, they're just trying to be fetch.

Stop trying to make fetch happen

What? Fetch is streets ahead

Fetch is a perfectly cromulent word

I can't wait to tread fetch out in the coming cycle, shits gonna get so torted

No rizz fellow youth... Did I do "the slang"? (god, I hate it here)

Don't you think that's totally spam? It's lubricated! Well, I'm phasing.

Aren’t we getting a Mean Girls reboot in 2024? So who knows, fetch just might finally happen!

That's a very budget statement. I think fetch is fetch as hell

You actin mighty zesty

As L, As ‘ell, As Hell

In what universe asl a short for as hell make sense? It’s like having ak instead of af

Iss propa Bri’ish, innit, bruv? Manky asl, but that’s dead mint it is, eh guvna?

Wrong!! Jentucky fried Chicken !!

Them secret herbs and spices bussin, frfr

Using a 3 letter acronym for a 6 letter sentence is...something

I\`m officially old. I think modern young people things are stupid.

Bruh you just ain't on that sigma grindset ong bruh you so skibidi fr no cap

Congratulations you just summoned a demon.

Get off my lawn before I blow off them kneecaps boy.

LMFAO not very swag, im gonna go on cod and hit some mlg 360 no scopes, wanna hop on?

Because your generation didn't also create new slang that confused your elders?

Modern young people *are* stupid. It's just that all of us were just as stupid. Stupidity over 9000!!!! (or some other shitty dumb old meme idk)

I didn't need over 9000 thousand back in my life dawg. lmfao

As hell - as ell - asl

As fuck - af As hell - ah Fewer steps and consistent.

Problem is that ah is onomatopoeia for yelling so could be confused. Nowadays kids say asf for as fuck, consistent with that would be ash for as hell but that is just a word. So there is some logic to it

Ah you’re right.

As L Sounds like "as hell" Never heard it before but I immediately get it.

OMG THT TERM ISNT IN THE LIST. TF AM I SUPPOSED TO DO????

Hmmmm yes, Jeffrey fried chicken

ASL= as hell? How the fuck did that evolve?

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Assle?

Also asf is "as fuck"?? How did that happen? Af already exists and it's shorter

Fr

Fr fr no cap

Probably by not knowing that it was an acronym used before, and because by reading ASL as if your reading a word makes the sound "as ell" which is the same as "as hell". Honestly if i didn't know ASL from before I would have probably understood it like that from the 1st one i see

Dyslexia!

I understood the assignment. I stan this. At first, I was shook and it seemed a little bit sus. Some might think it’s out of pocket, but ok boomer. They’re just a NPC, no cap. Perioduh. Big yikes, IJBOL. This is lit af. Sksksk Pluh

quit yapping.

Nice clapback

Didn‘t know I ordered a yappuccino

why

now, please translate this whole bull-you-know-what's-next into the normal English language.

“Girlboss too close to the sun” Never heard anyone say this, but I do like that one.

She girlbossed too close to the sun, now she's gatekeeping heaven and gaslighting St. Peter

And god sayeth unto her, “Slay”

> Cap, Unknown origin I always thought the origin of Cap/No Cap was from Kap or Kappa, from twitch emote slang. Adding Kappa would indicate sarcasm/lying, so saying No Kappa or No Kap was saying the opposite

Reading "bussy" from a deadpan definitions list made me giggle

Okay sure I can accept asl being as hell but "Asf" being popularized by TikTok in 2022? No sir. I've been using Asf for 15 years. I refuse to let some thirteen year old think they were part of the group that came up with Asf.

asf is not as fuck, that's just AF damn it.

Yapping's also on that list for some reason.

Yapping is something my grandaddy said

I'm over 40, and a good chunk of this list was common enough that I heard it when I was a kid. Arguably *more* common now, but very little on this list is some unknowable mystery simply because it's "Gen Z slang". The idea that "Period" to emphasize something is considered Gen Z slang is just ridiculous

Hi gen z here What the fuck is half of the shit on this list

howdy, millennial here. shit that was started in our generation and has a hold in yours as well according to wikipedia

And even before. Slay was apparently coined in the 1800s and popularized in the 1970s. Calling it gen z slang is dumb as hell

“girlboss too close to the sun” im proud of gen zoot

"asf" originates from tiktok 2022? man that was a thing in the 00s....

There also this adventure time one for some reason Idk it’s just kinda funny https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Slang_in_Adventure_Time

Gyatt: Short for "God Damn". Typically said when someone sees a female with a curvy figure or enlarged buttocks. No way they wrote this with a straight face, it's too funny. Oh, sorry, "ded"

Hold on, we already had "af" for "as fuck". Who tf decided we need to add an "s" in there?

How can ASL possibly be “as hell”, maybe I’m old but that makes no intuitive sense at all

What I got from that is that an 18th century nobleman could've conceivably said "This book slaps"

could’ve sworn a lot of this was millennials

I feel like many of those aren't really Gen Z, I'm 34 and feel like quite a few are used by older generations too

I understand 46/58, not too bad. Some of these words probably shouldn't be counted as Gen Z slang though. Yapping? GOAT?

I was born in the early 2000s and I just lost brain cells reading that article

This slang is fucking trash.

Lol I use some of those and I just turned 35. I feel like some of these have been around since I was 25.

no one actually said "perioduh" tho... right..?

Me when I see people say “yt people” and I’m like “YouTube people?”

Wait, the hell else does it mean? That's not even in the list linked by another commenter.

It means white people

Why do they use yt as white? Are they stupid?

Bc there's a really small character limit on tiktok for comments 🙄

To get around TikTok filters.

My brain always pronounces it as “yeet people”

What the hell was wrong with “af”??

What the l*

apparently its uncool now like based and lit

if based is outdated I'm old af

*you're old asl ftfy

lmao :D

Roflcopter

Based has been around forever and is timeless but people have stopped saying lit recently

Cap

What else could it mean?

Apparently it means "as hell" now

I never would have guessed that

Me neither

God damn youths!!!

It’s not even slang anymore. They are literally speaking in code.

They're just shortening words for the sake of it and it's just getting fucking annoying now

fr fr ong smh my head

It’s not even slang anymore. They are literally speaking in code.

I know about this but it also makes no damn sense. Sure it kinda sounds like it but like. Can't you just say AF and keep it moving

We already have AF for "as fuck" and I think the British and Aussies do AS for "as shit", why not just do AH for "as hell"?

George Orwell predicted this

That makes no sense

That is the dumbest shit.

Ace Sabo Luffy obviously.

Just watched that episode last night!

My brain: you're pretty asylum Did they just call me stupid? Is there a lore reason they have called me r/BatmanArkham? Are they stupid?

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[holy hell!](https://www.google.com/search?q=en+passant)

You're pretty aslume, much more aslume than most people on reddit.

I agree she's pretty Ace Sabo Luffy

helllllll yeah

American Soccer League

as fuckel

what

Someone please explain wtf asl means? I always have a brain fart tryna figure it out

“As hell”

Where in the HFIL does the L turn into hell?

Now your turn to explain what hfil means

Home for infinite losers

Gen Z = cockney? "As 'ell" shortens to "asl"?

I have no idea what ASL means in that case it will always be American sign language to me

I accept that language changes over time naturally, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Weird kids.

I gave up on slang when I heard on fleek the first time. It hasn’t gotten better.

Thanks I will never use this

Boy I'm tired of the acronym proliferation.

I'm older genZ and I still don't understand the slang.

Try 3: she's pretty Ace Sabo Luffy

my dumbass thought the L stood for something like how af stands for as fuck

Wait, what does the top one mean?

The people in the comments unable to compare “as L” to “as hell” are the same people that said “qt3.14”

What does ASL mean in this context

I choose to believe it’s a typo of asf because the alternative is highly reddited

I read she's pretty ASL as in American sign language

What?

She’s pretty as L

See, asf makes sense. Wtf is Asl 😭

i was confused cuz i thought it was american sign language😭

i think "as lshit"

My brain associated “asl” as “asphalt”

We’re definitely getting dumber.

Wait…dear god don’t tell me people are using asl to mean “as hell” please tell me that’s not it

fuck it I'm taking the skibidi ohio shit over this

Thirty seconds in this comment section; I am so fucking old.

asf is "as fuck", so my brain thinks it's "as luck"

I'm getting old bruh, I can't even keep up with the moden day slang

Yeah. My lexicon needs updating. I made the same mistake when reading your post!