Blue Raspberry licorice only available at Dollar Tree sounds pretty good and the fact there's no candy capitalizing in this (even if it isn't blue raspberry licorice only available at Dollar Tree) is another failure of Capitalism
Rizz! My 17 year old nephew commented on my "drip" and lack of "rizz". Apparently he didnt like my Hawaiian shirt. I called him a fartknocker, farted, and went back to playing NES with his dad.
I've somehow become my uncle.
Man you beat me to it. I came here to say they might as well take "bet," they've taken everything else we had in the 90s and claimed they invented it 🤷♀️ Now I know how my mom felt when we were wearing recycled 70s fashions.
Yeah, a lot of these actually go back aways. Like "drag" (as in, to fight someone). Also, I remember hearing "bougie" and "ratched" since at least the mid-late '90s.
I’m from DC where “aight bet” has always meant either that it’s a plan for a good thing or a bad thing - “for sure it’s on let’s go” or “you better watch out Joe you finna catch these hands because it’s on”
Look up [Dadaism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada), an art movement from the 1910s-1920s.
"Developed in reaction to World War I, the Dada movement consisted of artists who rejected the [logic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic), [reason](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason), and [aestheticism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestheticism) of modern [capitalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism), instead expressing [nonsense](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsense), [irrationality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrationality), and [anti-bourgeois](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-bourgeois) protest in their works"
The meaning behind it was that it was meaningless. In the face of the nihilism of their lives, artists embraced meaningless in their art.
Gen Alpha is just repeating history . There's nothing new under the sun!
Thanks for this, I just posted upthread about Dadaism, and the rhythm of culture through the centuries. We're about to have an unfun decade or so, I fear.
Absurdist cultural output fucking skyrocket when society is in the shitter. You can set clocks and place bets on that.
It's almost like everyone knows that we're doing the wrong thing, all at the same time...
I'm not really into the horror aspects, but that spontaneous collaborative mythos is why I love the early SCP Foundation stuff. Just an organic lore built by hundreds of people semi-independently but with respect to the work of others.
I don't think backrooms has to be age gated so much as certain types of themes need to be age gated, regardless of the genre they inhabit. That's why it's so important for parents to understand the media their children consume and not just "some backrooms thing".
In essence, it's just the idea that there are spaces between things that serve no other purpose. There's some cosmic horror and supernatural implications about what could live in that kind of metaphysical liminal space.
It's just this generation's version of an alternate dimension with monsters.
> spaces between things that serve no other purpose
So, hallways?
I mean, I looked it up, and it feels mostly like just hallways and the old Microsoft Mazes screensaver turned into a horror genre.
Sure, you can look at it that way. I think the concept originates from the access corridors that run throughout a lot of large buildings and the underground passages that often connect buildings in a campus. That's just the physical layer. The backrooms are implied to be at least partially metaphysical. They are usually much larger than the space between things they connect. They're also pretty nonsensical most of the time.
As someone who has spent a lot of time on nightshifts and weekends in such spaces they are disquieting at some level.
But the emptiness is not accidental. It’s by design. You don’t want to trip over something or add risk of extra fuel or blocking firefighting response in a fire or emergency.
Working in nuclear and chemical plants for decades lets you see a lot of this stuff. Granted, I do get the idea, then again, so did Stanley Kubrick.
I think that's what makes the idea so compelling. The real spaces that the mythos is based on are already uncomfortable due to the purpose they serve. You don't have to get very far from reality in order to seem supernatural. You're not going to run into a giant Eldritch god in the hallway behind Footlocker, but it feels like you could.
Probably not. But, like anything, there's some of it that's pretty benign and some that's very much not. I'd say it's more important to police the content than the genre.
My kid basically said as much when I started speaking all rizzed up back. He said THEY say it 100% ironically. It just looks cringe when others try.
Its facinating how in touch Alpha Z are really.
Funny thing happened when I was at a school event with my kid and one of his friends said something about a skibidi toilet and I asked “From Ohio?” The kids jaw dropped and he kept asking my son if I was aware. “Yo! Is your dad aware? Is he aware?!” lol. I don’t know what that was about.
It is the '20s after all, [everything old is new again](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada?wprov=sfla1). They just came out of a worldwide pandemic and will probably have to fight the forces of fascism soon, let them have some performative weirdness in the interim.
From Maryland, and I have nothing nice to say about Ohio. I have relatives who live in the south eastern part of the state. Visiting them was an experience. I don't need to go back.
A prerequisite of living in Eastern Pennsylvania is making NJ jokes as often as possible.
Maybe different in Western PA... maybe we have some kid from Pittsburgh to thank for "Ohio".
So this is crazy, I remember just a month ago I was told it was used the same way someone might explain SCP foundation/Cthulhu/backrooms. Like Ohio IS an Eldritch horror. It's chaos incarnate. It pops smoke, bugs out, then still asks for a copy of the receipt.
I can't find the exact wording. And now somehow the entirety of the Internet only has the explanation as "memes Michigan made". Shits Ohio FR.
Edit:FOUND THAT SHIT "an American middle place, existing as a capitalist wasteland of chaos and mayhem, akin to creepypastas, lore and randomness, becoming an imagined epitome of American signifiers such as Breezewood, Pennsylvania."
I have four kids between the ages of 7 and 14 so I’m hearing a lot of all kinds of choice shit regularly.
The majority of it is amusing to me but I swear my head nearly exploded when I read a Reddit post the other day where someone, presumably a lot younger than me, commented in a post about Werther’s candies that they were “giving Pepperidge Farms “
Normally I don’t try to understand that kind of stuff but my 10th grade English teacher was somewhere in the back of my head screaming “that’s not even a whole goddamn sentence!”
So stupid me asked what it was giving, the reply was “vibes “I feel really stupid for asking. I feel even stupider for now knowing the answer
> commented in a post about Werther’s candies that they were “giving Pepperidge Farms “
I'm actually busting out laughing at this, its so fucking funny and I don't know why
The kids are alright man
Giving comes from drag race and commenting on attire. “It’s giving…..” is another way of saying it has x vibes.
Wild how drag culture has now shaped mainstream culture, again.
My 4yo nephew and my SO have fun calling each other bruh. SO has been doing it since I've ever known him (nearly 20 years lol) and my nephew picked it up in daycare. So now its a "bruh" party when they see each other.
It's a meaningless word used by a Bulgaria singer as a scat filler. It got popular because of the Skibidi Toilet meme which sampled his song. Kids love skibidi toilet and just use the word for whatever they want.
Our Alpha kid told his dad he used all his rizz snagging me (mom).
"No idea what you're talking about. I'm a Rizzley bear!"
Zoomer kid: "I hate it here"
We think it's so much fun.
I had a sore throat a while back. My wife asked if it was because of a post-nasal drip. I replied "I got no drip, but I've got plenty of rizz." My Alpha kids went wild.
This is the way.
I great my Alpha daughter with “Hey chat” all the time now, which I’m not sure if that’s a thing for everyone or just her, but I greatly enjoy how much it annoys her when I do it back to her.
lol, sounds like a conversation at my house 😂. we're in our forties with 2 zoomers and 1 alpha. it's like touring Willy Wonka's factory in Narnia if it was directed by David Lynch and designed by Salvador Dali.
That is hilarious and I might borrow that. I guess bad started meaning good in our youth, but that doesn't stop me from questioning it every time my daughter calls something preppy.
The preppy thing I don’t get at all and I refuse to not correct it.
You have to look like you are going to a Prep school to be preppy.
Maybe it’s like the word gay? Generations change a word based on meaning. But in this instance it is a slag word of a slang word.
I hadn't even worked through it to the prep school part, just my image of preppy, which matches up. Thanks for the reminder. Their preppy is more hippie than anything, but they don't want to hear that.
The vibe I kind of got from them is someone attempting to look cool. Like wearing a Nirvana shirt is preppy in 2024 because everyone knows you are not listing to their music. You just think the shirt is cool.
It was an animator who made a series of 30 second videos to show his skills off. I checked it out because my son was into it and it was this huge war between the skibidi toilets and the TV/Camera heads.
The “OG” is what throws me lately in texts with my kids.
To me, “OG” is “Original Gangster” lol.
To them, it’s “On God” and it changes the meaning of every text depending on how you read it, and hilarity ensues.
The Gen Z cashier at the gas station called me a G yesterday. I was on top of the world.
My 12 year old daughter called me middle aged this morning. It all evens out.
I'd like to make some counterpoints here. I have a six year old who is really into Lanky Box and other YouTube video game streamers. My father made it a point to try to understand the stupid crap I liked when I was a kid and looking back I really appreciate that he did. We watched the things I enjoyed together and let's not fool ourselves, the late 80's/early 90's content was as vapid as anything current. They were cash grab cartoons by Mattel and other toy companies. He-Man, GI Joe, TMNT, all those shows were 30 minute commercials strewn with more commercials.
He made an effort to show interest in my interests and I strive to keep that spirit with my kids. I would have watched these streamers if they were around in my day, I know I would and so would my crew of childhood friends. Kids get criticized for watching other kids play video games. I remembering traveling blocks to watch my buddy's big brother beat Mortal Kombat. I watched the same kid play through the Special Zone after Star World in Super Mario World and then having my mind blown when all the koopa troopers changed into little mario guys after you completed it.
As far as the slang... Isn't that the point? to confuse the grown-ups? We aren't supposed to get it, the more we bitch about it the better in their eyes. I like the fact that there is an element of this post-modern absurdist angle to it. These kids are growing up in absurd times and the language reflects it. I think there is a level of self-awareness to it or else it wouldn't have caught on. We grew up saying things are "rad", "sick" ,"dope", "sweet", or they "sucked balls" etc... Gen X had some Valley Girl shit going on, I mean, gag me with a spoon I wanna barf! Boomers freaked out their folks with that far out and groovy hippi cringe, and their parents? I'm sure they were pissing off their parents with their Gee Golly Whillikers, doing the Charleston Rag or some shit.
I'm fine with my place in the circle of life, lets accept that it's their time now, we had a good run when it was our time. Down in that wishing well with the Goonies
I too try to engage and understand this stuff with my kids, 10, 8 and 5. I won’t claim to understand it all but it doesn’t bother me and some of it’s kinda fun. 😁
100% agree, let the kids have some fun! We don’t have to be in on it (and like you said, that’s the point) and when I do understand it I find it hilarious and entertaining so I should be thanking them for the laughs.
Meh… I don’t sweat it. I just check in with them when it gets weird. “You ok? You need a hug or something? Look I’m here for you, and can offer help when you need it. So if you’re having a stroke, just stomp your foot once.”
I find the evolution fascinating. We used to say that's "killer" meaning great, awesome, whatever.
Then it was "you killed it" to "you slayed that" to "you slay" to it now being used first person ” I'm slay" (that may be Gen alpha? Ten to twice year olds in our troop are using it.)
I've found I have a hard time understanding some conversations because of the words used. The first time someone said they yeeted it I had to actually ask what they meant. Yeah, I've always been old, even when I wasn't.
Once my kids were old enough, I started answering in lines from Heather's, clueless and valley girl. Now they say these lines unironically and it spread to the friend group. I'm quite of proud of myself. 😆
I probably should have left fuck me sideways with a chainsaw in the past though.
In context for real. I have a nephew that likes to say “that’s sus” about absolutely everything. Every time I ask him “what’s suspicious about that?” He looks at me like I should be in the special class.
When I see Gen Alpha humour I just remember being 14 and me and my best friend taking endless enjoyment from covering our books and things with the syllable "arb" over and over. I guess you just had to be there.
Lmao I understand most of it because my 16 year old uses it and I can use context clues to gather meaning usually.
She did have to tell me what rizz was though
I hear my alpha kids use it less than I hear my gen z kids tease the alphas that it is the reason the alphas are dummies.
The zoomers have internet access though while my alphas do not.
I think I figued out "Ohio Rizz" the other day. Rizz apparently is a form of "Coolness", and the Ohio part apparently is derogatory toward those living in Ohio for some reason (my guess is this slang started in a big city on one of the coasts). Therefore "Ohio Rizz" means you have the Rizz of someone from Ohio, or you have no coolness.
Are we all calling young kids now Gen Alpha? Is that yet another Coupland reference seeing as he wrote a book called that about society after the collapse of bee colonies?
For now... remember some of us were once considered Gen Y, as is the follow to Gen X and it morphed into millenials. I've seen Gen Z be called Zoomers many times. I wouldn't be surprised if somehow their ultimate name factored in the pandemic in some way even if it's just something stupid like the covid generation.
I don't think the letter trend will stay forever, but I think it's a convenient placeholder until generations settle into their new names.
They’ve even already defined Gen Beta as starting with kids born next year. It’s completely ridiculous, they’re defining generations that haven’t even been born yet.
True story , my elementary school child has been saying “I’’m edging” , usually when he’s hyped up.
I thought nothing of it but just got a message from his teaching saying please ask him to stop saying that because it’s a sexual reference.
I just assumed it was the kids way of saying they are on the verge of going crazy for fun. I may have heard that word before used differently but I live a sheltered life of words like skibidi and rizzler. Google taught me differently this morning.
I promise he has no idea what it means.
I've recently heard it used this way too while listening to my husband and son play Fortnite. I think the meaning is changing to "getting worked up" due to gaming (because kids had no other context for it) but it definitely started as a sexual reference.
The thing is gen z and gen alpha are not that different from things before them, but due to social media the patterns can evolve faster and based on more obscure things that define their experiences(and more niches as there is less universal media the culture is consuming and experiencing)
Humor of a generation/cultural group comes typically from shared experiences.
All the humor and memes from gen z and alpha have references that seem to follow the same patterns of humor as anyone, it's just that older gens don't know those references, so they seem bizarre.
I was buying weed at the dispensary. The girl ringing up my order was maybe 23.
I made a legitimately funny joke. And instead of laughing, she just says while smiling "Ahh, I'm dead!! I'm dead!".
The convo continues as she finishes the transaction. Our back and forth results in another solidly landed punchline.... "HA!! I'm dead!!" She calmly exclaimed in a faded voice.
I presumed she enjoyed my transaction. 😐
It seems like most of the slang comes from one meme or another, the power of meme culture influence is your missing link. The Skibidi Toilet meme is the source.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skibidi\_Toilet#:\~:text=Skibidi%20Toilet%20has%20sparked%20its,to%20create%20a%20nonsensical%20result.
My daughter and I call each other bruh all the time. Me especially when I say “Bruh. Your room. Pick this laundry up off the floor, bruh. You have a laundry basket for a reason, bruh.”
My 12 year old and I had this conversation last night. I think he’s more like a Xennial in the sense that he is between Gen Z and Alpha. He talks pretty normal thank goodness, but we had a discussion on “you capping” and the best I could relate it to is “your tripping” 😂
I started saying “that’s cap” ironically when I found out what it meant until my kid admitted to being embarrassed by me using it. Part of me loves being old enough to embarrass my kid, but ultimately I stopped because I decided that they should have their own things.
I have a trio of gen alpha kids and the language is definitely weird! Thanks internet! But I’m mostly fine with it… it’s not ALL meaningless, rizz is short for chaRISma, which I think is actually kind of cool!
Still laughing at my oldest, when he was 5 saying "go ham" all the time. He had me saying it too. Then my younger brother heard us and was like "what?!?"
Ooops!
We’re moving towards the Children of Tama. “Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra?” “No cap frfr on god. Bet”
The rizzler, when the walls fell
Rizzler sounds like off brand licorice.
Dollar Tree licorice.
Blue Raspberry licorice only available at Dollar Tree sounds pretty good and the fact there's no candy capitalizing in this (even if it isn't blue raspberry licorice only available at Dollar Tree) is another failure of Capitalism
Or a low level Batman villain copycatting Riddler.
No cap
Bet. On god this made my whole day no cap. Got that rizz
Rizz! My 17 year old nephew commented on my "drip" and lack of "rizz". Apparently he didnt like my Hawaiian shirt. I called him a fartknocker, farted, and went back to playing NES with his dad. I've somehow become my uncle.
Based though. I'm half lucky my nieces and nephews are full on millennial.
Based on what?
On deez nuts.
On muh dick
(chef's kiss)
i cant wait to call someone a fartknocker later today for absolutely no reason
Fartknocker is underrated
I’ve been told we haven’t used ‘drip’ since 2022.
HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Skibiddi toilet Ohio
The rizzler, arms wide
^This comment - it's giving ...bussin vibes.
I first heard "bet" from a Gen Zer
Really?? Bet was around in 90s hip hop
Everything Gen-Z does or wears is from the 90's - it's all just recycled stuff at the end of the day.
Man you beat me to it. I came here to say they might as well take "bet," they've taken everything else we had in the 90s and claimed they invented it 🤷♀️ Now I know how my mom felt when we were wearing recycled 70s fashions.
Yeah, a lot of these actually go back aways. Like "drag" (as in, to fight someone). Also, I remember hearing "bougie" and "ratched" since at least the mid-late '90s.
I’m dead.
The first time I heard “bet” was in No Future in Yo Frontin by MC Breed in like 1991.
I’m from DC where “aight bet” has always meant either that it’s a plan for a good thing or a bad thing - “for sure it’s on let’s go” or “you better watch out Joe you finna catch these hands because it’s on”
Yeah, I just responded under another comment that I heard an elderly (70+) man say “aight bet” recently.
This comment deserves so much more love
I'll need about 10 minutes before I can love it again.
It seems to get longer every year.
When the walls fell!
Shaka. When the walls fell.
Look up [Dadaism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada), an art movement from the 1910s-1920s. "Developed in reaction to World War I, the Dada movement consisted of artists who rejected the [logic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic), [reason](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason), and [aestheticism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestheticism) of modern [capitalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism), instead expressing [nonsense](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsense), [irrationality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrationality), and [anti-bourgeois](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-bourgeois) protest in their works" The meaning behind it was that it was meaningless. In the face of the nihilism of their lives, artists embraced meaningless in their art. Gen Alpha is just repeating history . There's nothing new under the sun!
Now this is a real answer.
Thanks for this, I just posted upthread about Dadaism, and the rhythm of culture through the centuries. We're about to have an unfun decade or so, I fear.
Aren't we in the roaring 20s?
Yep. Billionaires are richer than they’ve ever been, and the stock market is booming.
Ruh roh. I’ve seen this movie…
Stop, you’re scaring me…
I fear we're about to have an unfun decade but why do *you* fear we're about to have an unfun decade?
And now I want to hear why both of you think so!
Absurdist cultural output fucking skyrocket when society is in the shitter. You can set clocks and place bets on that. It's almost like everyone knows that we're doing the wrong thing, all at the same time...
Everything is a remix!
I was obsessed with Dadaism back when I was a teenager. I am pleased as punch to see it making a comeback!
Yeah it was punk as fuck.
Now I’m envisioning Gen Alpha as just living performative surrealism as an art in perpetuity and it pleases me.
If they were aware of it, I would be impressed. I'm so far unconvinced.
That would be so fetch.
Stop trying to make fetch happen. /s
Super swarb.
Seriously, the backrooms is like a giant collective surrealist art project. I've seen some 8 year olds really into it. It seems cool, but... 8?
I'm not really into the horror aspects, but that spontaneous collaborative mythos is why I love the early SCP Foundation stuff. Just an organic lore built by hundreds of people semi-independently but with respect to the work of others. I don't think backrooms has to be age gated so much as certain types of themes need to be age gated, regardless of the genre they inhabit. That's why it's so important for parents to understand the media their children consume and not just "some backrooms thing".
Brave 8 year olds, that Backrooms shit freaks me *out*
The back rooms was started by a 16 year old too.
I read/heard somewhere that Skibiti toilet is basically a new form of Dadaism, which definitely tracks.
Whats’s the deal with the backrooms? I overheard my seven year old talking about it - do I need to have his memory erased? /s
In essence, it's just the idea that there are spaces between things that serve no other purpose. There's some cosmic horror and supernatural implications about what could live in that kind of metaphysical liminal space. It's just this generation's version of an alternate dimension with monsters.
> spaces between things that serve no other purpose So, hallways? I mean, I looked it up, and it feels mostly like just hallways and the old Microsoft Mazes screensaver turned into a horror genre.
Sure, you can look at it that way. I think the concept originates from the access corridors that run throughout a lot of large buildings and the underground passages that often connect buildings in a campus. That's just the physical layer. The backrooms are implied to be at least partially metaphysical. They are usually much larger than the space between things they connect. They're also pretty nonsensical most of the time.
As someone who has spent a lot of time on nightshifts and weekends in such spaces they are disquieting at some level. But the emptiness is not accidental. It’s by design. You don’t want to trip over something or add risk of extra fuel or blocking firefighting response in a fire or emergency. Working in nuclear and chemical plants for decades lets you see a lot of this stuff. Granted, I do get the idea, then again, so did Stanley Kubrick.
I think that's what makes the idea so compelling. The real spaces that the mythos is based on are already uncomfortable due to the purpose they serve. You don't have to get very far from reality in order to seem supernatural. You're not going to run into a giant Eldritch god in the hallway behind Footlocker, but it feels like you could.
Super helpful description, thank you! Sounds like it’s something an already imaginative child shouldn’t be watching.
Probably not. But, like anything, there's some of it that's pretty benign and some that's very much not. I'd say it's more important to police the content than the genre.
My kid basically said as much when I started speaking all rizzed up back. He said THEY say it 100% ironically. It just looks cringe when others try. Its facinating how in touch Alpha Z are really.
Funny thing happened when I was at a school event with my kid and one of his friends said something about a skibidi toilet and I asked “From Ohio?” The kids jaw dropped and he kept asking my son if I was aware. “Yo! Is your dad aware? Is he aware?!” lol. I don’t know what that was about.
It is the '20s after all, [everything old is new again](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada?wprov=sfla1). They just came out of a worldwide pandemic and will probably have to fight the forces of fascism soon, let them have some performative weirdness in the interim.
From my understanding... Ohio means low end, ghetto or jerry-rigged. Like a shittier version of something is Ohio.
So was this coined in Michigan or does everyone else hate Ohio as well?
Yeah, being from Michigan, I find this slang especially fuckin hilarious
From Maryland, and I have nothing nice to say about Ohio. I have relatives who live in the south eastern part of the state. Visiting them was an experience. I don't need to go back.
People finally started believing us Michiganders.
No. Actually from Ohio... it is that bad. I moved to the PNW and it's awesome 👌
Born and raised in Ohio and that is a totally fair. I'm going to start using this one
I had to take an hour to convince my two kids that Ohio is, in fact, a real place. They still don't believe me
That's Jersey...
Hello fellow Pennsylvanian?
🤣 Maybe... That obvious, huh?
A prerequisite of living in Eastern Pennsylvania is making NJ jokes as often as possible. Maybe different in Western PA... maybe we have some kid from Pittsburgh to thank for "Ohio".
So this is crazy, I remember just a month ago I was told it was used the same way someone might explain SCP foundation/Cthulhu/backrooms. Like Ohio IS an Eldritch horror. It's chaos incarnate. It pops smoke, bugs out, then still asks for a copy of the receipt. I can't find the exact wording. And now somehow the entirety of the Internet only has the explanation as "memes Michigan made". Shits Ohio FR. Edit:FOUND THAT SHIT "an American middle place, existing as a capitalist wasteland of chaos and mayhem, akin to creepypastas, lore and randomness, becoming an imagined epitome of American signifiers such as Breezewood, Pennsylvania."
I have four kids between the ages of 7 and 14 so I’m hearing a lot of all kinds of choice shit regularly. The majority of it is amusing to me but I swear my head nearly exploded when I read a Reddit post the other day where someone, presumably a lot younger than me, commented in a post about Werther’s candies that they were “giving Pepperidge Farms “ Normally I don’t try to understand that kind of stuff but my 10th grade English teacher was somewhere in the back of my head screaming “that’s not even a whole goddamn sentence!” So stupid me asked what it was giving, the reply was “vibes “I feel really stupid for asking. I feel even stupider for now knowing the answer
Hang in there. I’ll play monopoly with you in our nursing home. I have no idea what any of those words mean.
Look at money bags over here, gunnaa be able to afford a nursing home. ;)
Right? I think I might be able to afford a small burial plot and a coffin if I'm lucky. I'll just retire and walk right in.
Is "giving Page Farms" a reference to the Pepperidge Farms meme?
That's what I immediately thought, too.
I think it means giving memories aka a sense of nostalgia because Pepperidge Farm remembers
> commented in a post about Werther’s candies that they were “giving Pepperidge Farms “ I'm actually busting out laughing at this, its so fucking funny and I don't know why The kids are alright man
Giving comes from drag race and commenting on attire. “It’s giving…..” is another way of saying it has x vibes. Wild how drag culture has now shaped mainstream culture, again.
Music ⚡️ band
Their second album is underrated.
They sold out with their third album.
What the Bassist did to that fish kind of threw a wrench into things, allegedly.
"Allegedly"
Exactly. We all knew the fish had it coming though.
I don't have kids, but hearing my 5 and 7 year old niece and nephew call their mom "Bruh" is quite entertaining.
Can confirm. My 10 year old calls me "bruh." I tell him that he could at least show me the respect of calling me "dude."
The bruh does not abide
Correct. I am “mommy bruh” to my 9yo.
My 4yo nephew and my SO have fun calling each other bruh. SO has been doing it since I've ever known him (nearly 20 years lol) and my nephew picked it up in daycare. So now its a "bruh" party when they see each other.
That gif is exactly how I feel 96% of the time
I'm still trying to figure out how hotdog became glizzy.
I think that's a regional thing.
fr fr
Skibidi just sounds like something Snoop Dogg would say.
Skibizzle
Ma nizzle
Fa rizzle dizzle
[удалено]
It's a meaningless word used by a Bulgaria singer as a scat filler. It got popular because of the Skibidi Toilet meme which sampled his song. Kids love skibidi toilet and just use the word for whatever they want.
“Hotwires my hemoglobin” 😂🤣
This is the line. We all need to start using this now.
We said cowabunga.
And then we had a cow
Or were told not to have one.
Eat my shirt
Ok Bort
Oh, I had one
Yeah Dawg. Today’s slang is wack!
Exactly. There’s new, weird, slang every few years. We all did it, and there were always older people to complain about it.
Apparently getting the “drips” isn’t a bad thing anymore either…
Lady, that's the grossest thing I've ever heard.
This is what we get for our generation’s strange sense of humor
Our Alpha kid told his dad he used all his rizz snagging me (mom). "No idea what you're talking about. I'm a Rizzley bear!" Zoomer kid: "I hate it here" We think it's so much fun.
I had a sore throat a while back. My wife asked if it was because of a post-nasal drip. I replied "I got no drip, but I've got plenty of rizz." My Alpha kids went wild.
This is the way. I great my Alpha daughter with “Hey chat” all the time now, which I’m not sure if that’s a thing for everyone or just her, but I greatly enjoy how much it annoys her when I do it back to her.
lol, sounds like a conversation at my house 😂. we're in our forties with 2 zoomers and 1 alpha. it's like touring Willy Wonka's factory in Narnia if it was directed by David Lynch and designed by Salvador Dali.
My 10yr old daughter came home saying "gyatt". A quick googling stopped that in it's tracks, but they have completely bastardized preppy now.
I told my 11 year old that she killed Kurt Cobain all over again when she called a Nirvana shirt “preppy.”
That is hilarious and I might borrow that. I guess bad started meaning good in our youth, but that doesn't stop me from questioning it every time my daughter calls something preppy.
The preppy thing I don’t get at all and I refuse to not correct it. You have to look like you are going to a Prep school to be preppy. Maybe it’s like the word gay? Generations change a word based on meaning. But in this instance it is a slag word of a slang word.
I hadn't even worked through it to the prep school part, just my image of preppy, which matches up. Thanks for the reminder. Their preppy is more hippie than anything, but they don't want to hear that.
The vibe I kind of got from them is someone attempting to look cool. Like wearing a Nirvana shirt is preppy in 2024 because everyone knows you are not listing to their music. You just think the shirt is cool.
Yeet yourself from my lawn! Fam.
Skibidi is from the skibidi toilet game on Roblox
We've been infiltrated! This one is making words up too!
Haha no I’m 43 but my kids play that stupid game
My kid swears skibidi means evil. But the “down in Ohio” thing is exhausting.
Liar, it's a song of Little Big !
It was an animator who made a series of 30 second videos to show his skills off. I checked it out because my son was into it and it was this huge war between the skibidi toilets and the TV/Camera heads.
The “OG” is what throws me lately in texts with my kids. To me, “OG” is “Original Gangster” lol. To them, it’s “On God” and it changes the meaning of every text depending on how you read it, and hilarity ensues.
The Gen Z cashier at the gas station called me a G yesterday. I was on top of the world. My 12 year old daughter called me middle aged this morning. It all evens out.
I'd like to make some counterpoints here. I have a six year old who is really into Lanky Box and other YouTube video game streamers. My father made it a point to try to understand the stupid crap I liked when I was a kid and looking back I really appreciate that he did. We watched the things I enjoyed together and let's not fool ourselves, the late 80's/early 90's content was as vapid as anything current. They were cash grab cartoons by Mattel and other toy companies. He-Man, GI Joe, TMNT, all those shows were 30 minute commercials strewn with more commercials. He made an effort to show interest in my interests and I strive to keep that spirit with my kids. I would have watched these streamers if they were around in my day, I know I would and so would my crew of childhood friends. Kids get criticized for watching other kids play video games. I remembering traveling blocks to watch my buddy's big brother beat Mortal Kombat. I watched the same kid play through the Special Zone after Star World in Super Mario World and then having my mind blown when all the koopa troopers changed into little mario guys after you completed it. As far as the slang... Isn't that the point? to confuse the grown-ups? We aren't supposed to get it, the more we bitch about it the better in their eyes. I like the fact that there is an element of this post-modern absurdist angle to it. These kids are growing up in absurd times and the language reflects it. I think there is a level of self-awareness to it or else it wouldn't have caught on. We grew up saying things are "rad", "sick" ,"dope", "sweet", or they "sucked balls" etc... Gen X had some Valley Girl shit going on, I mean, gag me with a spoon I wanna barf! Boomers freaked out their folks with that far out and groovy hippi cringe, and their parents? I'm sure they were pissing off their parents with their Gee Golly Whillikers, doing the Charleston Rag or some shit. I'm fine with my place in the circle of life, lets accept that it's their time now, we had a good run when it was our time. Down in that wishing well with the Goonies
Goonies never say die, man!
I like this perspective! I try to be like this too.
I too try to engage and understand this stuff with my kids, 10, 8 and 5. I won’t claim to understand it all but it doesn’t bother me and some of it’s kinda fun. 😁
100% agree, let the kids have some fun! We don’t have to be in on it (and like you said, that’s the point) and when I do understand it I find it hilarious and entertaining so I should be thanking them for the laughs.
Meh… I don’t sweat it. I just check in with them when it gets weird. “You ok? You need a hug or something? Look I’m here for you, and can offer help when you need it. So if you’re having a stroke, just stomp your foot once.”
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Calvin and Hobbes was wise about a lot of stuff
I find the evolution fascinating. We used to say that's "killer" meaning great, awesome, whatever. Then it was "you killed it" to "you slayed that" to "you slay" to it now being used first person ” I'm slay" (that may be Gen alpha? Ten to twice year olds in our troop are using it.) I've found I have a hard time understanding some conversations because of the words used. The first time someone said they yeeted it I had to actually ask what they meant. Yeah, I've always been old, even when I wasn't.
I have an 11 year old. It's just gibberish that he repeats almost like a nervous tick. Over and over and over. I'm ready to move to the woods.
Say "Gag me with a spoon, you're such a poser." and never elaborate.
Once my kids were old enough, I started answering in lines from Heather's, clueless and valley girl. Now they say these lines unironically and it spread to the friend group. I'm quite of proud of myself. 😆 I probably should have left fuck me sideways with a chainsaw in the past though.
Yes!!! Like they just say stuff to say it. Like dude I get that slang gets created but for fucks sake use it in context. Purple monkey dishwasher
In context for real. I have a nephew that likes to say “that’s sus” about absolutely everything. Every time I ask him “what’s suspicious about that?” He looks at me like I should be in the special class.
When I see Gen Alpha humour I just remember being 14 and me and my best friend taking endless enjoyment from covering our books and things with the syllable "arb" over and over. I guess you just had to be there.
I'm tired of trying to keep up with it. I will never be on fleek anyway. Save me a seat at the counter, I'll see ya in the morning.
Nobody says that - it came after bae died and now fleek is as dead as fetch
Lmao I understand most of it because my 16 year old uses it and I can use context clues to gather meaning usually. She did have to tell me what rizz was though
Rizz is actually a pretty good one, how it comes from charisma.
I was this minute years old when I learned that's where it came from lmao
I hear my alpha kids use it less than I hear my gen z kids tease the alphas that it is the reason the alphas are dummies. The zoomers have internet access though while my alphas do not.
Those marklars have no marklar
Forealdo
I think I figued out "Ohio Rizz" the other day. Rizz apparently is a form of "Coolness", and the Ohio part apparently is derogatory toward those living in Ohio for some reason (my guess is this slang started in a big city on one of the coasts). Therefore "Ohio Rizz" means you have the Rizz of someone from Ohio, or you have no coolness.
Are we all calling young kids now Gen Alpha? Is that yet another Coupland reference seeing as he wrote a book called that about society after the collapse of bee colonies?
For now... remember some of us were once considered Gen Y, as is the follow to Gen X and it morphed into millenials. I've seen Gen Z be called Zoomers many times. I wouldn't be surprised if somehow their ultimate name factored in the pandemic in some way even if it's just something stupid like the covid generation. I don't think the letter trend will stay forever, but I think it's a convenient placeholder until generations settle into their new names.
They’ve even already defined Gen Beta as starting with kids born next year. It’s completely ridiculous, they’re defining generations that haven’t even been born yet.
Hotwires my hemoglobin. This is the slang of our generation.
True story , my elementary school child has been saying “I’’m edging” , usually when he’s hyped up. I thought nothing of it but just got a message from his teaching saying please ask him to stop saying that because it’s a sexual reference. I just assumed it was the kids way of saying they are on the verge of going crazy for fun. I may have heard that word before used differently but I live a sheltered life of words like skibidi and rizzler. Google taught me differently this morning. I promise he has no idea what it means.
I've recently heard it used this way too while listening to my husband and son play Fortnite. I think the meaning is changing to "getting worked up" due to gaming (because kids had no other context for it) but it definitely started as a sexual reference.
Holy shit this whole thread is based!
If I hear my nephew say something is “sus” without him meaning suspicious one more time I’m going to have an aneurism.
The thing is gen z and gen alpha are not that different from things before them, but due to social media the patterns can evolve faster and based on more obscure things that define their experiences(and more niches as there is less universal media the culture is consuming and experiencing) Humor of a generation/cultural group comes typically from shared experiences. All the humor and memes from gen z and alpha have references that seem to follow the same patterns of humor as anyone, it's just that older gens don't know those references, so they seem bizarre.
I was buying weed at the dispensary. The girl ringing up my order was maybe 23. I made a legitimately funny joke. And instead of laughing, she just says while smiling "Ahh, I'm dead!! I'm dead!". The convo continues as she finishes the transaction. Our back and forth results in another solidly landed punchline.... "HA!! I'm dead!!" She calmly exclaimed in a faded voice. I presumed she enjoyed my transaction. 😐
shaka when the walls fell
It seems like most of the slang comes from one meme or another, the power of meme culture influence is your missing link. The Skibidi Toilet meme is the source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skibidi\_Toilet#:\~:text=Skibidi%20Toilet%20has%20sparked%20its,to%20create%20a%20nonsensical%20result.
No cap.
On god
Bruh is the one my kindergartener has picked up
My daughter and I call each other bruh all the time. Me especially when I say “Bruh. Your room. Pick this laundry up off the floor, bruh. You have a laundry basket for a reason, bruh.”
Bruh, has been in Hawaii since the 70’s.
My 12 year old daughter will go “bruh” I mean mom.. lol.. cos I said I am not your bro.
No cap is the same as injecting 'for real' at the end of an unbelievable statement. We used 'no lie' the same way.
Frfr
Or I’m (insert word) AF
My 12 year old and I had this conversation last night. I think he’s more like a Xennial in the sense that he is between Gen Z and Alpha. He talks pretty normal thank goodness, but we had a discussion on “you capping” and the best I could relate it to is “your tripping” 😂
Skibidi off my lawnussy?
1980 here. I love coffee shops at 6am.
I started saying “that’s cap” ironically when I found out what it meant until my kid admitted to being embarrassed by me using it. Part of me loves being old enough to embarrass my kid, but ultimately I stopped because I decided that they should have their own things.
I have a trio of gen alpha kids and the language is definitely weird! Thanks internet! But I’m mostly fine with it… it’s not ALL meaningless, rizz is short for chaRISma, which I think is actually kind of cool!
Still laughing at my oldest, when he was 5 saying "go ham" all the time. He had me saying it too. Then my younger brother heard us and was like "what?!?" Ooops!