10mo ago

I feel old

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A third of those predate gen z. The complete nonsense words are definitely on them, though.
- I think every word ever started out as something that was nonsense to everyone, except the first two people who used that word.
  
  Ruru

No cap fr fr
But isn't OPP other people's.... property or has that changed since Naughty by Nature taught us all what it meant?
- No, it just shouldn't be capitalized. It's short for "operative" and usually refers to somebody you think is (or jokingly think is) working for/with the cops or feds.
  It's "Opp," not OPP
  
  Yeah you know me!
  Sorry, 42 years old, force of habit.
  
  Sounds like Narc would be the translation then…
  
  I think it's short for "opposition", as in a rival gang
  
  It's "opp" with two p's but it's short for "operative", a word with one p? I'm starting to think that you don't really know either.
  
  Oh I thought it was short for "opponent" lol
  
  Oh a narc. That’s funny cuz up here the cops are actually called the OPP
- That's where my mind went, too. I'm 40.
- The last p, well… that’s not that simple. It’s sorta like another way to call a cat kitten. As for the ladies, OPP means something gifted: the first two letters are the same but the last is something different; it's another five letter word rhymin' with cleanest and meanest.
  
  My high school Algebra teacher was once telling the class about ZPP, the zero product property. He told us when he was teaching in the 90s, there was a new song out called OPP and he would say "you down with ZPP?" and the class would say "yeah you know me!" lol
  
  Penist!
- Is it just “OP”? Like how online forums starting Reddit say “original poster” and this just snuck its way into all conversation?

As a younger millenial I gotta say some of these are ours. We were calling things "extra" since like '06. Vibe is as old as the hippies, and mid is weed slang from like the early 2000s.
- Every generation uses old slang they mistakenly believe they invented.
  
  Or in the case of 'out of pocket' every generaation just ignorantly bastardizes random shit.
- You down with OPP?
  
  Yeah You know me
- Wait, those are real?
  
  Unfortunately
- Yeah, our generation was streets ahead of those zoomers.
  
  Ok Pierce.

That’s a dope-ass list, shit’s ill af. Just don’t be bitin someone else’s stilo, cuz that shit’s wack, yo. If ya do, just tell ‘em “my bad, b!”, or expect peeps gonna be poppin caps in your ass, ya heard?
Word to ya motha.
- Wicka wicka Slim Shady. Uh... leave Britney alone!
- Yes, Cuban B!
- Bruh
- sup. /the 'p' is silent and the vowel becomes elongated with a drop; off. "SUh h"
- Okay gramgram, let’s get you to beddy-bye

I shall share a stolen... I meant a borrowed meme
- Does 'else if' become 'cap nocap'?
  
  Only in that context, it loses the meaning they're trying for if you're not using it exactly like that.
- new Cope is nuts
  
  Sheesh yaas

"I feel old"
Picture of something printed on paper

Ick is just short for icky and vibe has been around for decades.
Gnarly list.
- The whole trend is nothing new. Millennials and some GenXers were stealing all their slang from American rappers when they were young, too.
  
  Uh Gen X predates rap.
- Radically tubular
  
  Very heather.
- "Giving" is ballroom slang from like, the 80s. Extra is also LGBT slang that has been around at least since I was a teenager > a decade ago.
  
  Yeah but giving is seeing a surge, particularly as attitudes about LGBTQA shift
- I think they're saying "the ick" or something but that's also pretty understandable by everyone.

List is hella whack
- So you’re playing a little Playstation, huh? That’s whack! Playstation is whack! ‘Sup with the whack Playstation, ‘sup?!
- Is it wiggidy wiggidy wiggidy wiggidy whack?
  
  Straight up, wic wik wac.

where skibidi?
- Thought that was Alpha gen.
  
  It depends, it's generally used by gen z to mock gen alpha, though some of the youngest genz do use it regularly
- Whats the oldies equivalent?
  
  GMod.
- It's not a real slang term as far as I'm aware, it's just a mock slang term that showed up because skibidi toilet happened to also be a meme around the time zoomer slang became a meme.
- yes yes

I seem to recall when they were translating "grunge" slang and it was also mostly bullshit not actually used.
- Does double for drug slang. It's either decades out of date or just plain made up
  
  How am I supposed to ask for my yellow bentines now?

Not rather Gen Alpha already? I too am kinda getting lost here, as a Gen Z.
- I swear to god half of the slang from memes like this is just aspirational. Pretty fetch imo.
  
  Oh my god Gretchen
  
  Usually yeah, but for once those are actually real slang genuinely used the Z/alpha crowd and through them tiktok in general

Gyatt was originally just a different pronunciation of god: GOD DAMN! = GYATT DAYUM!
- That actually makes sense, thank you for explaining.
- I thought the youngsters these days were using thicc to refer to big butts, as in GYAT DAYUM DAS THICC

I'm a very late millennial, borderline Gen Z, and even I feel like all my slang knowledge is outdated.

Gen Z has even ruined our programming!
- TIHI
- I prefer death.

Opp? How can I explain it? Take it frame by frame it, to have y'all all jumping, shouting, saying it? O is for other, P is for people, scratch your temple, because the last P? Well that's not so simple..
- You down with OPP?
  
  You know me
- Opp as in opp(osition)
  
  No actually the last P is sort of...well another way to call a cat a kitten, it's five little letters that I'm missing here. You get it on occasion if the other party isn't gaming. Seems I gotta start explaining. You ever had a girl and met her on a nice hello? Get her name and number then left feeling real mellow? You get home, wait a day, she's what you want to know about, but when you call up it's her girlfriend's or her cousin's house? It's not a front, it's just her boyfriend is at her house. It's OPP, some Other People's when you get it, there's no room for relationships there's just room to hit it. How many lemmings out here know just what I'm getting at? Who thinks it's wrong because I was splitting and co-hitting that? Well if you do that's OPP and you're not down with it, but if you don't here's your membership.
- I have only heard that word in a single thing in my life, it's some British song with the following lyrics:
  "Tea and biscuit hunting, opps are good at nothing..."

Wait till these dusky dewdrops get the vespers when they see my cut of cabbage.
- /c/accidentaldeelite ?
  
  :: grooves to sick bassline and funky beat ::
  :: slide whistle ::
  :: grooves to sick bassline and vocal samples ::
- /c/ihadastroke ?
  
  /c/duskydewdropsgetthevespers

The fuck is "cheugy"? How the hell do you pronounce that?
- I've heard my BIL pronounce it "chew-gee"
  
  Still on the fence here is the g pronounced like in GIF?
  
  today is a terrible day to be literate in english
- I literally had never encountered the term “cheugy” until I first played Pokemon Scarlet/Violet, in which the old principal asks you what kids these days meant by “cheugy”. I had to look it up. Sadge

I think the Gen z column is more like ebonics. B rad from the boo would approve
- Not uncommon for a term to start in AAVE and then later cross over into wider use. Drip is definitely an example of this.

"Vibe" is just a regular noun.
- Okay grandpa, let's get you back to bed

I think 'mid' means middle or mid-grade weed, which means a similar thing as 'mediocre' like the chart says.

You down with O.P.P.? Yeah you know me!
There. Now you can feel even older.
- Object Poriented Programming?

I'm such a fan of gyatt, it's just so damn fun to say.
- Too bad the translation’s not really accurate here. It should say “god damn!”
  GYATT DAYYUM
  
  Too bad the translation’s not really accurate here. It should say “god damn!” GYATT DAYYUM
  tl;dr: gyatt is almost exclusively used to mean, "god damn, phat ass."
  Except it is accurate, in shorthand and meaning. Gyatt started off to mean "god" and people would even say "gyatt damn." Then it moved to be fully "gyatt dayyum" to mean "god damn" as you noted....and then abbreviated to just "gyatt."
  Then it evolved to the present day where gyatt is mostly used to say, "god damn, that's a phat ass" or some variation. When something is terrible or your disappointed, you don't really say "gyatt it" or even "gyatt dayyum it" to mean "god damn it" or if you're pissed off at someone, you don't say "gyat you / gyatt dayyum you" to mean "god damn you." But if someone with a phat ass walks by, you'll say "GYATT," to mean "god damn, that's phat ass.
- it's not even a word, it's more of an expression, which is why its so good

I thought bussin just meant "good" and could pertain go anything, not just food.

Lol for some reason "delulu" hits just as bad as calling someone removed. The only difference is one isn't a medical term. It's a well chosen word.
- Delulu seems like a cute way of telling someone they're insanely stupid. I like it.

"on god" is at least millennial, I heard that one 20 years ago
- A bunch of these terms were definitely used before gen z used them. Vibe, as a slang term, is a boomer creation. Ick is even older, and was first used in the 1940s.

Here I thought OPP was other peoples pussy…
- Original Poster's Pussy
- As for the ladies, OPP means something gifted The first two letters are the same but the last is something different It's the longest, loveliest, lean- I call it the leanest It's another five letter word rhymin' with cleanest and meanest
- Yeah you know me.

I got this as a fax, and it said I had to mail it to at least seven other people to be blessed.
- Mine arrived in a mail box

looks like a intern project at a graphic design shop. get that Gen Z kid to write us up a slang Rosetta stone!

Do all Gen Z speak like this? Or just the really over the top ones?
- did everyone in the 80s say bodacious?
  did everyone in the 90s sat eat my shorts?
  
  Like, totally.
  
  Literally nobody in the 90s ever said "eat my shorts" irl.
- Just the extra ones
- My son, 16, talks like this with his friends. I have to ask for clarification in our texts a lot. I’m not one to down as we had our own slang growing up but I refuse to be okay with Bussin’ it just sounds so dumb to me.
  
  this is definitely not bussin
- No.

I thought cheugy was more a synonym for tryhard, someone working really hard to 'get with th youths'.
- Which would be lame to do in the view of said youths, no?
  
  Sure. I just think lame doesn't quite hit the same meaning.

And now, dear Gen X, imagine that in German. Ooof.

OPP sure swerved

I want a Gen Z Immortan Joe in my life, on God

Most of these either aren't right or I don't understand the older language.

Gen Z/Alpha is fine... except for this shit. Talk like a fucking human, for fuck's sake.
- On god you cheugy fr fr
  
  bro be spitting fax, on God
- Uh ohhh someone is experiencing getting older. It only gets worse!
- I bet they're always on your lawn too
  
  I don't have a lawn. Both, because I'm thankfully not American, but also because millenials don't get to buy houses.
- something something damn kids these days and the way they wear their hair, something something and the fashion they engage in.
  Nothing is new under the sun gramps.
  
  Slang was words repurposed in meaning. Had been for thousands of years. The fuck is a "delulu"? The fuck is a "gyatt"? This is a symptom of terminal online-ness, like kids addressing groups as "chat".

At least cheugy is a new word. All these fucking morons literally redefining “giving” and it’s absolutely terrible. It doesn’t sound good. It just makes you sound idiotic and like you don’t know English.
- I believe giving actually comes from 90s gay/drag culture, and like most of these isn't really as obtuse as it seems. It's just word omission. It's just shorthand for "it's giving me thoughts of" or "it's giving me memories of", basically (okay, admittedly I'm extracting a little bit here).
  Here's an example that I hope helps: imagine your friend or romantic partner comes to you wearing a new tweed jacket they've excited about, but all you can see when you look at it is memories of your tweed-clad college professor. You might respond with "i dunno, it's giving college prof," which is just shorthand for "I dunno, it's giving me flashbacks to memories of my college professor."
  Personally that seems a fairly functional evolution of language in the way it always evolves, not the degradation you seem to be finding, but of course I can only offer my own singular opinion on the topic, so do with that what you want
  edit: typos
- They didn't redefine giving, it's literally being used for its original definition. Just add "energy" or "vibes" at the end of the sentence and it clarifies exactly how it's used. If someone sees your outfit and says "It's giving Beyoncé" -> "it's giving Beyoncé energy", your outfit is reminding them of Beyoncé. As in it is providing/offering said Beyoncé-like energy, aka one of the original definitions of giving something.
  
  they literally redefined it. It no longer means to ' : presented as a gift : bestowed without compensation ' or 'particular, specified' or ' : immediately present in experience ' they're using it as "it gives me the energy of" which already HAD A DEFINITION. THAT'S WHAT VIBE MEANS.
  That's not the original definition of 'giving' something, i have no clue where you got that from.
  Bunch of morons downvoting too, bet y'all saying giving a hundred times a day. fucking idiots.

This is what happens when friends don't give friends shit for acting like a wigger and you end up with a bunch of Pretty Fly for a White Guys making everyone cringe.
- Bruh I don’t think that’s ok,hopefully just ignorance and not malice. even if you change out the first letter you’re still kinda implying other people can be n-words.
  
  That one has me a bit torn because the n-word is used for any black person and obviously meant to hurt them. On the other hand, "the w-word" just means a white guy who dresses and acts like a gangsta rapper from the 90s-00s
  Is that offensive? The root of it is, I just don't know if the actual meaning lessens how offensive it is
  
  You what?
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigger
  About 130 years ago it was a racial slurs but died out and resurged in the 70s as a dergatory term for white people that try to (poorly and offensiviely) emulate black culture. Aka white trash wannabe.
  It could still be used offensively, but it rarely is. I learned the term from a bunch of black American Navy visiting and ended up hanging out with them all weekend. They were shocked to know we have them too and pulled up "beatboxing" videos, realising just how offensive a wigger can be, especially when they start using the n-word in their raps like it applies to them.

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