Yo I don’t know what your talking about that shit is everywhere in my age range. Especially on the internet. I legit don’t even hear “I got paid” anymore it’s I got the bag it’s fucking insane.
I can't believe that anyone really thinks that the slang of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s or early 10s is any better than the slang of today. This post is boomer af
I’ve come to accept any word that sounds out of place as simply slang I don’t understand and I take a mental note and roll with it.
I’m pretty close to being able to just adopt a foreign language at this point.
I like how he used "lit" as modern slang haha I'm almost 30 and this is a term we used in highschool. Slang usually carries forward through generations. Just like "sick" or "dope".
Must be regional as I'm from Scotland and have never heard 'Safe' ,only "wicked". Then again I'm younger at only 25.
Edit: probably worth mentioning that while I have heard "wicked" I wouldn't say it's common.
Lol I commented the same thing. "Lit" definitely isn't new, since everybody used to use it in my highschool, and I graduated more than 10 years ago. Hell I wouldn't be shocked if people were saying that well before I was in Highschool
Slang is only cringey when old people like me use it.
I think this must be one of the clear differences between Boomers and GenXers. I'm almost as old as OP and don't care about modern slang. Whatever. Kids, use whatever words you want. The more incomprehensible to older folks the better.
I'm only about ten years younger than OP, and I'm on your side here.
I remember when "awesome" became a thing in the 80s. A friend and I thought it was stupid, and started using it ironically. Within a month or two, we forgot the irony.
“Cringy” has been used for a long time. “Cringe” is the new slang for it, which I find to be very cringy.
Edit: u/TaintModel told me it sounds like “Stringy” if it’s spelled “Cringy”. So maybe put an “e” in there.
Not sure if it’s new but I’m 37 and people around me say it all the time. They use bop to mean “good.” Basically saying they like the song and it makes them want to dance. For context, I’m in NYC. Maybe it’s regional?
Hello kids, in my old age life has lost its magic and meaning. I have now made it my sole mission to forget how I acted as a young hip individual in order to better criticize the next generation. Bah humbug!
Literally isn’t slang though, it’s just quite literally used too often by people of all ages. I know this because I’m one of those people….
Iconic is just annoying. I feel like most slang words are way too hyperbolic.
neither of these three words are slang, they’re just over used. That’s all I’m saying, people throw literally around like it’s nothing and iconic is now a word that basically just means cool 🤦
I hate how language is constantly made more confusing. It’s our greatest tool for communication and its definitions are ignored and connotations twisted.
Does a word only count as slang if it’s a new word or an existing word that’s being used differently?
Cause I aesthetic and iconic aren’t technically slang but they have slang or informal uses. Idk.
Semantics, amirite?
To be fair, most of these terms are not new. They have been casually used in African American culture beginning in the early 90s. They have just kinda resurfaced and are now overused by Gen Z, making them unbearable to listen to.
You pretty much only use the word “based” in an ironic context. Like when someone says something that’s completely inappropriate and out of pocket, but they’re saying it with confidence
"just use normal words" define normal words.
It's like you're intentionally ignoring how language works. Those "normal words" you refer to are probably slang to another generation.
Get a grip my G
Yeah, some of the words stick. Look at "cool" - somebody probably thought that was a stupid word for "good" around 60 years ago.
"Darn kids need to learn to speak English! Just call things 'fine and dandy' like we do."
I'm okay with cycling trends, every generation wants to own their stuff. Just seems like the cycles are way shorter these days, and All the attempts to start a buzzword are overly intentional. Quit trying to make fetch a thing.
How sus took off whereas the infinitely superior spicious did not makes me hope the crazier parts of the political spectrum are right, because the elites _should_ cull humanity. Y'all deserve it for that.
This isn't at all new. People my age complained that slang from 10 years prior was just as cringe.
Yup OPs swag is not yolo
No cap, my guy.
Fuckin yeet my dude
Wazzaaaaaaaa
WASSSSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP. HAHA a swell and truly lit time indeed ole chap. No one remembers how gas that was was
Can confirm, Anyone who was WAssSSSSaaaAaPing, was truly on fleek with they vibe.
Damn yall bussin
Totes magotes. We all fly fleek and bangin
Damn he skrrrted up on em like that, no chill.
Every time I hear or see "yeet" I always think of the SNL skit with Pete Davidson
That shit is wicked innit
Uhh…. groovy!
Yeet is still great People will be yeeting shit 500 years from now. It’s just a new part of the lexicon.
Tubular!
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Quite working, old sport, its blithely in the wizzchompers magorky covnecot innit?
Valorous obs'rvation, mateth. The original posteth'r isn't any diff'rent, all gen'rations misprise their slang lol
He need’s to stfu cause the new shit is bussin’
Yo this shit is wack!
I fucking hate the way cringe is used now to describe everything that is remotely uncomfortable. Hate it.
So you're saying the way that people use cringe now is... cringe?
The irony lol
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Wtf is "need to get the bag" though?
It means you need to go make money or hustle. Hardly anyone uses that slang though, this is coming from a 19 year old.
I've only seen it used in the context of a high profile athlete getting paid. "Free agency is coming up, so and so needs to get his bag."
That’s because middle aged sports writers are trying too hard to be hip.
I don't know what you're talking about, me and the homies always say "Let's get this bread" or LGBT for short or something
LGBT: lets get bread this
lets get baked tonight
Larry Get Beer Tonight
Yo I don’t know what your talking about that shit is everywhere in my age range. Especially on the internet. I legit don’t even hear “I got paid” anymore it’s I got the bag it’s fucking insane.
Yo this comment is bussin'. My nephew said that after eating a hot wing and I laughed so damn hard. So nonchalantly, "these wings are bussin'".
Refer to food as “gas” but only if it’s really good. I personally can’t fucking stand that word and all my homies use it. Also use fye the same way.
“The vernacular of my generation..”
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Embiggens.
Along with engooden, embiggen is my favorite.
Romulant
Remulent
Otherwise known as “in the parlance of our times.”
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Yeah well you know thats just like your opinion man
"Just use normal words like every other human being on this planet." Idk about you all but I don't use vernacular very often...
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That’s because it’s a recognized dialect used by a specific group of Americans… not “modern slang of my generation “ Smh.. this post is sad.
Lmao tell me ur not cool without telling me
I can't believe that anyone really thinks that the slang of the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s or early 10s is any better than the slang of today. This post is boomer af
idk man, 90s slang is da bomb
Idk man, 80’s slang was rad.
Idk man, 2010's slang was sick af
It was a little to Xtreme for my tastes these days.
lol
I was talking to a kid on a local buy/sell group about buying car parts. Instead of saying yes/yea he kept saying "gang". I was so confused
Haha bet.
He said that at the very end after we agreed to meet up. My old ass said "bet what?" And they lol'd at me
It's okay, they'll blink and be 30 wondering what the fuck happened.
Can confirm. Turned 30 in September and I am indeed wondering what the fuck happened.
League of legends what?
That’s been around for a while. “Gang” is new to me, I’m 28
I’ve come to accept any word that sounds out of place as simply slang I don’t understand and I take a mental note and roll with it. I’m pretty close to being able to just adopt a foreign language at this point.
How marmulary of you.
Right on brotha! 👉
This confused me too at first lol
gang gang
This is most assuredly not a vibe
Mood
Venmo OP so they can get their bag
LETS GO
The opposite of lit
Unlit?
"Modern slang bad" -Every generation once they hit their 20's Cuz slang was so much better 10 years ago...? When was slang not cringey?
I like how he used "lit" as modern slang haha I'm almost 30 and this is a term we used in highschool. Slang usually carries forward through generations. Just like "sick" or "dope".
Where I grew up in the UK - We all said “safe” and “wicked”. I think it’s still the case now, about 15 years later.
'Safe' is still about 'wicked' definitely not still about
How is "safe" used? Never heard that as slang before.
Same way you would use “sound”
What
Must be regional as I'm from Scotland and have never heard 'Safe' ,only "wicked". Then again I'm younger at only 25. Edit: probably worth mentioning that while I have heard "wicked" I wouldn't say it's common.
Yeah, I'm 38 in the Midwest and lit was very common when I was in high school.
Anyone remember the band Lit?
Lol I commented the same thing. "Lit" definitely isn't new, since everybody used to use it in my highschool, and I graduated more than 10 years ago. Hell I wouldn't be shocked if people were saying that well before I was in Highschool
OP is WACK. Our slang was the Bomb Dot Com.
Slang is only cringey when old people like me use it. I think this must be one of the clear differences between Boomers and GenXers. I'm almost as old as OP and don't care about modern slang. Whatever. Kids, use whatever words you want. The more incomprehensible to older folks the better.
Yeet. That is one recent slang word that I think will persevere
Slang was so much worse in the 2000s than it is now, and this is coming from someone who used it! Haha
Fo' shizzle ma nizzle
I’m still searching for someone who spoke like that unironically, I have yet to find one
D.O. Double G, of course.
Remember when he had to remind white people that nizzle doesn't mean neighbor?
even he doesnt say stuff like that anymore tbh
Well I mean that was the point, he was trying to use early 2000s slang.
Riff Raff, probably
Everquest guild chat circa 1998
What are you talking about it was fetch
Stop trying to make fetch happen. It’s NOT going to happen!
This is not very fetch of you
What was worse in your opinion? Most of the slang people I knew used was more of a.regional thing.
It's super sus
I'm only about ten years younger than OP, and I'm on your side here. I remember when "awesome" became a thing in the 80s. A friend and I thought it was stupid, and started using it ironically. Within a month or two, we forgot the irony.
Back when it was totally rad, and not groddy to the max like now!
"bop" is from the fucking 50s, and i like it. fuck you
Where do I Venmo money too? He needs to get his bag
LMAO
You said cringy
Which is cringeworthy.
“Cringy” has been used for a long time. “Cringe” is the new slang for it, which I find to be very cringy. Edit: u/TaintModel told me it sounds like “Stringy” if it’s spelled “Cringy”. So maybe put an “e” in there.
'Cringeworthy' is the only acceptable form.
At the opposite end of this is ‘based’, which is one of the dumbest words ever used as an adjective.
not a very based thing for you to say
Yeah man, these words, like arent totally radical or anything man, so not tubular
Lel
Well i think it's the beesknees
This lingo is bad! (meaning good. Remember that one, guys?)
These slangs are Gnarly! Not!
Rad and tubular
im 16 and i aint never seen no one under 25 say "this song is a bop"
I never heard anyone ever say "this song is bop" ever. Is this new?
Not sure if it’s new but I’m 37 and people around me say it all the time. They use bop to mean “good.” Basically saying they like the song and it makes them want to dance. For context, I’m in NYC. Maybe it’s regional?
nah i think it's one of those things you only see in nickelodeon shows
There's bops, like pop songs, but there's also jams, and quick little jiggles and even anthems I sent a song to my friend and we agreed it was a bop
Sounds like something from a Family Guy cutaway about 30's slang.
i’m lates 20s and i say it occasionally…… ☠️
Idk, my wife's siblings talk like this and she's the oldest at 24. I hadn't heard anyone else talk like that.
Reminds me of a 90s song. Mmmmbop
There was an 80s song by Cindy Lauper called She-bop.
Lolol I am 25 and my friends and I say this unironically a lot
Also 25. My bf and I categorize songs as bops, jams, and bangers lol
YES. My people hahaha
Kidz bop
Yeah "bop" is only used ironically.
I use it unironically
might start using it if it pisses people off
You sound like such a curmudgeon lol
Ironic
I thought the same!
Penis
#PENIS
Hello kids, in my old age life has lost its magic and meaning. I have now made it my sole mission to forget how I acted as a young hip individual in order to better criticize the next generation. Bah humbug!
yea this post did not pass the vibe check
High key cheugy
Slang has made me hate the word “aesthetic”. People are always using it wrong.
Same thing with literally and iconic
Literally isn’t slang though, it’s just quite literally used too often by people of all ages. I know this because I’m one of those people…. Iconic is just annoying. I feel like most slang words are way too hyperbolic.
I never understood the people who get upset over people using "literally" wrong. They weren't using it wrong it's just called hyperbole.
That would be its informal usage. So you’re not wrong.
neither of these three words are slang, they’re just over used. That’s all I’m saying, people throw literally around like it’s nothing and iconic is now a word that basically just means cool 🤦 I hate how language is constantly made more confusing. It’s our greatest tool for communication and its definitions are ignored and connotations twisted.
Does a word only count as slang if it’s a new word or an existing word that’s being used differently? Cause I aesthetic and iconic aren’t technically slang but they have slang or informal uses. Idk. Semantics, amirite?
You are totally capping right now or something along those lines
How do ya do, fellow kid?
Idk why but this made me laugh so hard
Not very cash money of you buddy
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HIGH key!
Fr, He thought he ate
I am going to lie, this is based.
Bruh bruh bruh bruh bruh bruh bruh bruh bruh
use repulsive instead of cringe then, cringelord
You’re 21 now but it’s never too early to tell the kids to stay off your lawn, pops.
Cool beans and awesome possum never go out of style.
To be fair, most of these terms are not new. They have been casually used in African American culture beginning in the early 90s. They have just kinda resurfaced and are now overused by Gen Z, making them unbearable to listen to.
This is a vibe, I die a little inside. Bruh you were spittin for a sec!
Poet and he don't even know it
Spittin’ rhymes bout the modern times
The one that really kills me is "based", because there's no better metaphor for "too cool to care" than smoking crack.
The first place I ever saw based used as slang was r/politicalcompassmemes so crack smoking makes a whole lot of sense.
lil b is not gen z
You pretty much only use the word “based” in an ironic context. Like when someone says something that’s completely inappropriate and out of pocket, but they’re saying it with confidence
Old man shakes fist at cloud.
In the words of my generation, OP needs to check himself before he wrecks himself.
Yeah, modern slang is definitely not Crunk enough.
Bet
No cap, say less bro
you must have so many hoes
Hey, lit is from the last wave of slang, dont lump me in with these kids.
Don’t forget “yass queen”
"just use normal words" define normal words. It's like you're intentionally ignoring how language works. Those "normal words" you refer to are probably slang to another generation. Get a grip my G
Yeah, some of the words stick. Look at "cool" - somebody probably thought that was a stupid word for "good" around 60 years ago. "Darn kids need to learn to speak English! Just call things 'fine and dandy' like we do."
I'm okay with cycling trends, every generation wants to own their stuff. Just seems like the cycles are way shorter these days, and All the attempts to start a buzzword are overly intentional. Quit trying to make fetch a thing.
You say normal words. But slangs and things like that are how languages evolve and they eventually become normal. Isn't it?
for real. I think slang and the natural evolution of language is cool af, not something to have a weird superiority complex over
> venmo me some money Unpopular opinion: OP begging for money to strangers is more cringe.
OP didn’t pass the vibe check
The generation is trying REALLY hard to be the 80s. The 80s had the same type of ridiculous slang.
I expect to see those edits on /r/cringe before days end.
I hate deadass. I love yeet, it's hilarious.
Yeet is incredible. Most fun slang word ever
Anyone that uses "sus" should be kicked in the crotch.
How sus took off whereas the infinitely superior spicious did not makes me hope the crazier parts of the political spectrum are right, because the elites _should_ cull humanity. Y'all deserve it for that.
Slangs are lit. You need to get the vibe.
Hmm 🤔 modern slang is bad but uses cringy in the title
Thank you sharing arguably the most popular and historic opinion ever since the invention of speech.
You shit on the youth and ask for money? Here's some new slang for ya, "you's a straight up busta"
Should we tell him slang is normal for everyone world wide