2017.10.04

Meh, I don't think it's really getting worse. There always was some kind of thing all the kids said until it was overused and the next thing happened.
- I had some high school friends in the early 00s who spoke to each other entirely in references. They quoted movies, their jokes came from stand-up specials, etc. They cracked each other up, and most other people just let them do their thing. They weren't "cringe" or unpopular, but there was a certain amount of humoring them.
  A friend of mine ended up marrying one at 18 and then divorcing eventually. I spoke to her recently, and she said he's basically still a teenager. Maybe that's unrelated?
  
  Some people just peak in high school.
- Hell I'm over 30 now and probably half of the communication that happens between my main friend group and I happens via Monty Python and LOTR references.
- Not!
- It's just ingroup/outgroup stuff which kids are very sensitive to, particularly thanks to us shoving them in massive assemblages of other kids. And adults are always, by default, outgroup.
  
  It's because kids are treated like property of adults/their parents so they have to evolve basically slave languages to communicate outside of their captors
- I think this is fair. I've noticed a fair amount of new, and to me, nonsensical words and phrases in recent years. Perhaps the only thing that has changed is that I'm just older and out of touch. And that's fine with me if that's the case.
  If this stuff sticks around and becomes part of the vernacular, I'll adapt to it. If it's just a current trend, then no need to.
- Whatever... you're not even my real dad
- Will Ferrell movies come to mind, Super Bad, Hot Rod, Napoleon Dynamite
- Cool, Farout!. Heavy.

I remember one time in 2015... oh man. I was on skype with my gf at the time, she told me in no uncertain terms to stop using internet phrases, and I, completely reflexively, said "Challenge Accepted!" She almost laughed, and true to her word, hung up immediately. She called me back in a few minutes, but my friend witnessed it, gave me no end of shit about it for years.
Good times.
Edit: wow I forgot there was a point to that story. I always try to make my comments an actual contribution. Point is, I don't talk like that anymore. But I really did back then. Same with the friends that I've kept. I do think that traditional internet culture used to be more separate from pop culture, but now cultural tropes/memes make a big venn diagram.
- You gotta make the switch to more obscure meme references. Real niche or ancient shit so they don't notice, but you still get that neuron activation
- That's fantastic hahaha
  I miss rage memes...
- 'Hold my beer' would've been a panty dropper. Amateur...

I went to a Reddit meet up once. Everyone was talking in internet lingo like this kid. It was cringe.
- Did it have a ball pit like the Tumbler one?
- See that second panel? That’s you, that is.
- Were any narwhals claimed to be baconing at midnight?

Grok, is this real?

I was very active on Twitter for a long while and realized that I was starting to think in Tweets - as a grown man. That's not good. Additionally I have the suspicion that Memes have replaced what once humour was, which is why I don't find most of the funny stuff in movies funny anymore. Slowly everything feels like an empty shell. And yes, I am old. But that's why I'm aware that it can be different. People are now satisfied with decals.
- It’s all been done. Using someone else's words to write your story.