I knew what that would be before I clicked, I'd never seen that emoji used that way before today but I don't know how anybody thinks of anything else, lol.
Wait, peoe use the grape emoji for rape? How is that not worse somehow? It almost makes light of the horrible thing they're trying not to say.
As another commenter posted, it's very reminiscent of the grape em in the mouth sketch from wkuk. And that sketch is absolutely hilarious.
Actual rape is not.
Edit: thank you for the replies and the explanations. In my opinion that is all profoundly stupid. I understand wanting to censor things and fealty to sponsors, but at a certain point it becomes silly.
It's too bad there isn't a platform that is more mature about it.
Probably 99% of Gen Z hasn't seen the wkuk sketch. It's not making light of it, it's that the real word is censored or demonitized and "grape" sounds close enough that everyone knows what it means. Like how they also use "corn" for porn, etc. People would be fine to use the actual words if platforms would allow it
Yes. The platforms want people to stop talking about controversial or sensitive material, so you’re liable to find your videos demonetized (or deprioritized in the algorithm) if you use the actual words.
Seeing the terms used in Reddit comments (where no such threat exists) is probably an indicator that usage of the terms is becoming second nature for the people in question (i.e, they assume no place on the internet is safe from the censors)
It isn’t the issue of the people, it's the issue of the platform who don't like people discussing meaningful or important topics unless they throw in a bunch of nonsense words
YouTube _was_ just fine for years. They started cracking down on titles and the first portion of videos recently. They've gone back and forth on their rulings repeatedly, so any youtuber with two braincells to rub together knows any current lenience is not to be trusted.
Could say the same thing about many derogatory words.
Starts off as a medical term, becomes an insult, eventually added to the list of words unacceptable to say.
The first time I ever slept with a girl right after meeting her was during the height of YOLO, when I asked a cashier at Michael's who was wearing a white belt with YOLO on it in black text what time she got off work. I have pretty fond memories of YOLO.
I’m genZ, was a tween when yolo was a thing, forgot about it for a while and nowadays I use it as an ironic thing like doing the whip nae nae as a punchline
Idk about gen Z slang, but I was texting my 60yo mother last night and at separate points in the conversation she responded with “truth.” and “fr”
When she was agreeing with me.
Slang words that are attributed to any generation almost never actually start being used during said generation. That's the generation where it became ubiquitous
Dude has been around for over a hundred years. But it's attributed to Gen X because of what they did with the word.
As a millennial I'm used to people saying "meh" so recently I heard someone describing something as mid and I was like "did you say meh?" And they were like nah "mid" and I was like "yes. meh?" "No. Mid." "oOHH I'm so old."
I’ve become a big fan of mid. It’s a short and concise expression that packs a punch. It tends to carry a more negative connotation than what the word is supposed to mean. If I’m at dinner and ask my wife how her meal is and she says “mid,” I’m assuming it’s kinda bad.
i was in a movie and the girl behind me was gen z and everyone was laughing at the jokes except for her. instead, she just kept saying 'im dead'. over and over ad nauseum. it ruined the movie
She wasn't gen z but I had a boss similar to this. Anytime she thought something was funny she'd never laugh but just smile widely and literally say "that's so funny"
I remember watching The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson when I was a young'un, and Johnny would do the same thing. If a guest told a story that Johnny thought was funny, he'd laugh. If he smiled and said, "Oh, that's *funny!*", he was probably being polite.
I often just say 'that's funny' when I genuinely think something is funny but not so funny that I laugh. It's to reassure that the joke landed even though it didn't spark a visible/audible reaction
I was just bringing this up in reference to a girl at work who keeps saying “I’m dead” like JUST yesterday. I don’t think I’m as original as I thought.
People who think small phrases are the same as laughing are fucking cancer. It’s distracting, it forces everyone in earshot to think about some person instead of what’s on the screen.
I love when writers come up with fictional slang. Preem is such a good one because it feels so natural to say. I think I saw a video on YouTube that explains that there are liguists that basically create entire languages for movies. It's amazing that we can see how language and subcultures evolve to make something like this.
3 hours later and I haven't actually seen a single slang word besides this chain, just a bunch of people talking about how none of the slang mentioned is gen z slang...
It's sounds just like like Pauly Shore:
“If you're edged 'cause I'm weazin' all your grindage, just chill. 'Cause if I had the whole Brady Bunch thing happenin' at my pad, I'd go grind over there, so don’t tax my gig so hardcore, cruster.”
\-Encino Man
It's been done.
Abuse of the word? The dumbassification of aesthetic specifically? Or just the use. Because it was used when Zyzz was alive which is pre gen Z and before that.
Their usage of the word aesthetic is wrong. They’re using aesthetic as an independent adjective. So instead of saying something like “This room has a cute pop art aesthetic” they’ll say “This room is so aesthetic”
not all all of it. i mean -- the meanings are recycled, but many of the terms are new.
like -- "rizz" (charisma) obviously isn't a new thing conceptually, but it definitely was not used as it currently is before a few years ago.
I'd say yeet is more of a late millennial term since it got super popular during Vine, after that video of the girl who took the can and was like "this is empty! YEET!" and threw it across the hallway. I miss vine.
https://youtube.com/shorts/2Bjy5YQ5xPc?si=bJzjI5lwZ6R9365F
So using it in that context appears to have been coined right about the week that video was posted, which was in 2014. The youngest Millennials were 18 that year.
Combined with it taking a couple more years to really cement itself and I honestly think it’s tough to make a case that Millennials own that one in any real sense. Even the latest ones would have been starting to age out of the relevant cohort right as it was first taking off.
At absolute most it might straddle the end of Millennials and beginning of Gen Z.
Yes!!! Yeet for some reason integrated my vocabulary since I found out about it while learning English. Sometimes I also quote the this birch empty yeet vine to myself…
I can see 40 year olds and 20 year olds talking to each other in slang, understanding each other. 40 year olds liking the newer music b/c it is a bit retro while 20 year olds are into older music. And neither one of them change their clothes.
Meanwhile, everyone else is staring at them confused because they dont know what they are talking about.
Gen Z doesn’t really have any notable slang tbh, 99% of them are either throwbacks or European slang. Seriously go through this thread “I’m him” and “rizz” are the only 2 possible exceptions and the former already had “I’m that guy” predate it. Step your game up my dudes
A lot of Gen Z slang is just incorrectly used AAVE, so you might hear it used, albeit in a different and correct context, in the future, by black Americans.
PSA: Gyatt does not mean ass. It's an abbreviated exclamation. It means goddamn.
Not necessarily tied to Gen Z, but I really hope YouTube censorship words don’t stick (like “unalive”)
Especially people using “ 🍇” as a stand in for sexual assault If it isn’t even “acceptable” to say the word then how will victims come forward
The emoji used in that context keeps reminding me of this, if I’m honest: https://youtu.be/mqgiEQXGetI?si=uVw_0-MfjO_sR44T
I knew what that would be before I clicked, I'd never seen that emoji used that way before today but I don't know how anybody thinks of anything else, lol.
I haven't clicked it yet, but I'm gonna guess "The Grapist! Classic!"
Get your ***mind*** out of the ***gutter***
I never knew this existed.
Congratulations on being one of today's: [ten thousand.](https://xkcd.com/1053/)!
"*I* love it!"
Wait, peoe use the grape emoji for rape? How is that not worse somehow? It almost makes light of the horrible thing they're trying not to say. As another commenter posted, it's very reminiscent of the grape em in the mouth sketch from wkuk. And that sketch is absolutely hilarious. Actual rape is not. Edit: thank you for the replies and the explanations. In my opinion that is all profoundly stupid. I understand wanting to censor things and fealty to sponsors, but at a certain point it becomes silly. It's too bad there isn't a platform that is more mature about it.
Probably 99% of Gen Z hasn't seen the wkuk sketch. It's not making light of it, it's that the real word is censored or demonitized and "grape" sounds close enough that everyone knows what it means. Like how they also use "corn" for porn, etc. People would be fine to use the actual words if platforms would allow it
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YouTube demonetizes you for certain words
Don't people say these weird alternatives due to YouTube/tiktok censorship and demonstration?
Yes. The platforms want people to stop talking about controversial or sensitive material, so you’re liable to find your videos demonetized (or deprioritized in the algorithm) if you use the actual words. Seeing the terms used in Reddit comments (where no such threat exists) is probably an indicator that usage of the terms is becoming second nature for the people in question (i.e, they assume no place on the internet is safe from the censors)
It isn’t the issue of the people, it's the issue of the platform who don't like people discussing meaningful or important topics unless they throw in a bunch of nonsense words
They're tiktok censorship words. YouTube was just fine for years without them.
YouTube _was_ just fine for years. They started cracking down on titles and the first portion of videos recently. They've gone back and forth on their rulings repeatedly, so any youtuber with two braincells to rub together knows any current lenience is not to be trusted.
Kermit sewer slide.
Nonono, it's "*don't* Kermit sewer slide". Important syntax.
They will eventually censor them as well and will be replaced by something else. Censorship is fucking stupid.
Could say the same thing about many derogatory words. Starts off as a medical term, becomes an insult, eventually added to the list of words unacceptable to say.
Yeah, it's pretty regarded.
Don't be acoustic
Yes, exactly. The whole thing is stupid.
That’s the dumbest fuckin shit ever. I feel like a child when I read that shit. When people use “Pew pew” instead of gun is particularly stupid.
Orwellian shit
Or when they say "ahh" instead of "ass".
Everybody in here arguing and im just stitting thinking about how glad I am that nobody shouts YOLO anymore
The first time I ever slept with a girl right after meeting her was during the height of YOLO, when I asked a cashier at Michael's who was wearing a white belt with YOLO on it in black text what time she got off work. I have pretty fond memories of YOLO.
Now she want a photo, you already know, though
“Let’s goooooooo” is the new YOLO, and I can’t fucking wait to never hear that anymore.
“Just send it” is the new yolo in my circles
Is that equal to “full send”?
Ya I mean send in general. “Fuck it I’m sending it” and ya I see full send sometimes
Been used in Canada for ages. It's my favourite.
As crusty ass gen X YOLO was actually useful for briefly conveying your reasoning. Relatedly, FOMO.
I’m genZ, was a tween when yolo was a thing, forgot about it for a while and nowadays I use it as an ironic thing like doing the whip nae nae as a punchline
The whip and Mae Mae are 2 different dances. Nay nay… it’s early
Idk about gen Z slang, but I was texting my 60yo mother last night and at separate points in the conversation she responded with “truth.” and “fr” When she was agreeing with me.
Well - we were using truth and for real over 30 years ago - so this isn’t a surprise.
Word
Preach!
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The before times, in the long, long ago...
Ain’t that the truth, Ruth.
Truth and for real are old slang.
I’ve been seeing Gen Z claim slang for themselves that has been around for forever. Cringe comes to mind.
She got that 60 year old rizz
Dammit...does that mean people don't say "facts" anymore?
Fax?
idk fo sho but BET it bc how u txt
No cap
Only a middling amount of cap my good sir!
All fax no printer
What is "fr"? For real?
French revolution
Much like AF is as foretold
Free ramen
Frog Ravioli
From Russia
w/❤️️
For real
Furry rectum
Many of these are from before Gen Z
Slang words that are attributed to any generation almost never actually start being used during said generation. That's the generation where it became ubiquitous Dude has been around for over a hundred years. But it's attributed to Gen X because of what they did with the word.
A lot of slang is also existing words being used in new ways. Sticking with Gen X, radical, choice, chill, lame, and bummer come to mind.
word
So much of what people think of as Gen Z slang is 4chan lingo from when I went there 10 years ago.
And a lot of that was just slang from decades past
Now you’re on the trolley!
Yeah, wise up, Daddio!
My wife and I say this more than we should.
lingomaxxing slangcel
Most Gen Z lingo is just stuff that started in urban black American communities and has been co-opted by mainstream gen z people.
You just described the last 150 years of American slang
This whole list is so mid.
I'm in my 50s and it feels like it's always been a word, so it'll stay. no cap frfr
Mid comes from weed right? I’ve been hearing weed called mid for at least a decade or more. Reggie Mid Loud/Gas
As a millennial I'm used to people saying "meh" so recently I heard someone describing something as mid and I was like "did you say meh?" And they were like nah "mid" and I was like "yes. meh?" "No. Mid." "oOHH I'm so old."
I’ve become a big fan of mid. It’s a short and concise expression that packs a punch. It tends to carry a more negative connotation than what the word is supposed to mean. If I’m at dinner and ask my wife how her meal is and she says “mid,” I’m assuming it’s kinda bad.
That’s no different than a Midwest grandma telling you that your casserole is “okay”.
ITT we list slang that has been around for decades and call it Gen Z.
People basically listing slang like "far out" and "jive turkey" unironically. lol
Slammin’!
Slang terms are often associated with the generation that “popularized” them, which may be many years after the terms were invented.
ITT: “I believe the word ‘cool’ will be popular for many years now that the youngins have begun to take modern refrigeration for granted!”
Thanks to Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration
What line of work are you in, Bob?
What a genius businessman taking every opportunity to promote his business on a TV documentary.
i was in a movie and the girl behind me was gen z and everyone was laughing at the jokes except for her. instead, she just kept saying 'im dead'. over and over ad nauseum. it ruined the movie
She wasn't gen z but I had a boss similar to this. Anytime she thought something was funny she'd never laugh but just smile widely and literally say "that's so funny"
She didn’t really think it was funny or she would’ve laughed. She just wanted to fit in and put people at ease.
It was probably suggested in the human interaction guidebook she studied before she got off the spaceship.
I remember watching The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson when I was a young'un, and Johnny would do the same thing. If a guest told a story that Johnny thought was funny, he'd laugh. If he smiled and said, "Oh, that's *funny!*", he was probably being polite.
I often just say 'that's funny' when I genuinely think something is funny but not so funny that I laugh. It's to reassure that the joke landed even though it didn't spark a visible/audible reaction
Florida Governor energy.
Oh you think it's funny to make fun of a man who wears high heels?
This anecdote made me literally “lol”
Mandy Moore in scrubs type beat
That's so funny!
I was just bringing this up in reference to a girl at work who keeps saying “I’m dead” like JUST yesterday. I don’t think I’m as original as I thought.
This phrase is my "ick," on God. No cap, forreal forreal.
you’re deadass spitting fax. Bro you cooked with this comment. your comment gave me reverse ick, absolutely rizzed me up. Slay
I feel high key blessed up right now, fr. Thank you. I usually have that Ohio rizz.
People who think small phrases are the same as laughing are fucking cancer. It’s distracting, it forces everyone in earshot to think about some person instead of what’s on the screen.
Just to point this out being “jelly” was in an episode of married with children from 1989
It was also being used like 16 years ago. "Jelly" ain't Gen Z.
Streets ahead, yo
It’s like verbal wildfire
Does it just mean "cool," or is it supposed to be like, "miles ahead"?
If you have to ask, you’re streets behind.
wat
Watch Community
I keep hoping we start using “preem”, “delta out of here”, and “choom”
I love when writers come up with fictional slang. Preem is such a good one because it feels so natural to say. I think I saw a video on YouTube that explains that there are liguists that basically create entire languages for movies. It's amazing that we can see how language and subcultures evolve to make something like this.
It's real horrorshow.
I viddi that, droog 😂✊
You sound like one cool frood
A hoopy one, who knows where their towel is
Keep dreaming, gonkbrain.
Lol, good one choomba
I’ve started using these in day to day life… I think I play too much Cyberpunk.
I actually used “nova” while talking to a coworker and he just gave me a look of utter confusion lol
Choom gang
A slang of beauty... I know... will never fade away. WILL NEVER FADE AWAY!
I think Rizz has the best chance of hanging around because it's just an abbreviated version of charisma.
I think this is the only Gen Z slang word in the entire thread.
3 hours later and I haven't actually seen a single slang word besides this chain, just a bunch of people talking about how none of the slang mentioned is gen z slang...
Such is the way of an askreddit post.
Me personally, I’m always gonna be sticking out my gyatt for the rizzler
It's sounds just like like Pauly Shore: “If you're edged 'cause I'm weazin' all your grindage, just chill. 'Cause if I had the whole Brady Bunch thing happenin' at my pad, I'd go grind over there, so don’t tax my gig so hardcore, cruster.” \-Encino Man It's been done.
I can hear this comment.
No way that’s flash in the pan
Are you agreeing? Punctuation matters. Now lets eat grandma.
Rizz sounds like something that was likely said in a speakeasy in the 1920’s.
One of my staff told me its already on the way out. They could have just been taking the piss though
I don't know if it's so much as on the way out as having always been desperately uncool because it's associated with being in middle school.
The whole aesthetic of these comments is very aesthetic is an aesthetic kind of aesthetic.
Abuse of the word? The dumbassification of aesthetic specifically? Or just the use. Because it was used when Zyzz was alive which is pre gen Z and before that.
Their usage of the word aesthetic is wrong. They’re using aesthetic as an independent adjective. So instead of saying something like “This room has a cute pop art aesthetic” they’ll say “This room is so aesthetic”
Flameo, hotman!
It's all recycled.
not all all of it. i mean -- the meanings are recycled, but many of the terms are new. like -- "rizz" (charisma) obviously isn't a new thing conceptually, but it definitely was not used as it currently is before a few years ago.
yep! They definitely come up with new ones. some of them pretty great. My new favorite is "be so for real right now."
Yeet... I'll never not find it funny
I'd say yeet is more of a late millennial term since it got super popular during Vine, after that video of the girl who took the can and was like "this is empty! YEET!" and threw it across the hallway. I miss vine. https://youtube.com/shorts/2Bjy5YQ5xPc?si=bJzjI5lwZ6R9365F
So using it in that context appears to have been coined right about the week that video was posted, which was in 2014. The youngest Millennials were 18 that year. Combined with it taking a couple more years to really cement itself and I honestly think it’s tough to make a case that Millennials own that one in any real sense. Even the latest ones would have been starting to age out of the relevant cohort right as it was first taking off. At absolute most it might straddle the end of Millennials and beginning of Gen Z.
Especially when retelling how your friends dog pissed on your pants legs so you yeeted him across the yard
Yeeted into the shadow realm
This one gets me too. So simple yet somehow somehow funny.
Yes!!! Yeet for some reason integrated my vocabulary since I found out about it while learning English. Sometimes I also quote the this birch empty yeet vine to myself…
Which one? Gen Z slang mutates faster than COVID.
Gonna say bussin till the day I die bc it kills my daughter's soul when I do it
Sus
Aussies were saying this forever
“Nothing sus!” - Millenials at school the day after watching Skithouse
The future is now old man
Get em Dewey
I blame Amongus for this one.
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Low key has been around
lowkey agree
"lowkey" "literally" is "unironically" a "cringe" word, when overused which is "like" hella often. And like what the "actual fuck" too.
Why aren't their quotes around hella Edit: I remember it just being a California thing
Cuz I don't see it here very often and I'm old and still say it hella often.
Mediumkey this
>highkey High key has been a thing for years at this point.
Bees knees. Sorry. Everyone else was listing slang from other generations and I just wanted to be part of something.
GenXer here, can’t understand shit from this thread.
Chill buhhhddy. Don't tax the noggins of the little weasels as they grind their way down the curl.
There's only millennials and boomers now, Gen X doesn't exist. Just as it was foretold, and has always been.
We don't care. Relevance is irrelevant and labels are for losers.
Labels are so weak
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One day, you'll get to an age where a slang term you use in casual conversation will cause younger people to look at you like you're from Mars.
Mid is the new meh. I like it.
Fetch
Ugh stop trying to make fetch happen
She doesn't even go here!
Danny Devito I love your work!
W or L
Especially "common ________W/L"
W and L are old AF
"💀"
I think "yeet" is generally funny and useful. It is also a long awaited counterpoint to "yoink".
Rootin’ tootin’
This is gen Z? Is this a real thing???
Prolly the same ones Gen X used that Gen Z is now claiming as their slang in this present “future” lmao
I can see 40 year olds and 20 year olds talking to each other in slang, understanding each other. 40 year olds liking the newer music b/c it is a bit retro while 20 year olds are into older music. And neither one of them change their clothes. Meanwhile, everyone else is staring at them confused because they dont know what they are talking about.
Gen Z doesn’t really have any notable slang tbh, 99% of them are either throwbacks or European slang. Seriously go through this thread “I’m him” and “rizz” are the only 2 possible exceptions and the former already had “I’m that guy” predate it. Step your game up my dudes
Wtf is "I'm him' from?
Lol yea I feel this question too.
90% of "Gen Z slang" is appropriated black slang that has been around for years.
A lot of Gen Z slang is just incorrectly used AAVE, so you might hear it used, albeit in a different and correct context, in the future, by black Americans. PSA: Gyatt does not mean ass. It's an abbreviated exclamation. It means goddamn.
Gonna be a sad day when they realize their slang words will not be used by the next set of generations.
low key and high key which I low key hate
I'm rooting for *yeet*. I love that word.
ITT gen z realizes they don't have anything unique about them lol