i continue to believe that the whole concept of zoomer brain rot is almost entirely perpetuated by outside media as clickbait engagement farming.
Some of it has existed for like decades now and people suddenly act as if it’s horrid new slang, like “locked in” is fucking ancient and “chat”/“clip that” are just stuff all streamers say. It’s no different than using sailing or theatre terms.“OId man yells at cloud” energy
Don’t worry kiddo, the clouds’ll start to piss you off too one day.
It doesn’t even make me mad, I’m just scared and confused
Kiddo’s middle aged – just not one to whine about language changing like it always fucking has
In my 40s and this isn’t that daunting. Since I try to keep up with what people who want me dead (right wing) are lying about yo a degree, that feels way more stressful than mostly innocent slang. Dogwhistles are what I get annoyed at having to keep up with.
Looks more like the cloud is doing the yelling here
oh my god a new generation is making different slang and memes? should we kill them???
I don’t think the issue is that it’s new or different. I think the problem is the amount. It feels like pop culture is a firehose now. It definitely feels like the democratization of culture that happened with the rise of the internet has kind of saturated our ability to process things.
This is the first generation truly raised on the internet and the speed of new slang reflects that.
I’m approaching 40 and I was online before middle school. This might be the first generation to be wholly raised on the internet (as in the vast majority of children), but it certainly isn’t the actual first.
Yeah I mean an entire generation of literal iPad babies.
maybe
Lemmy really showing its ass with memes about gen z slang. Kai Cenat is just a person, Unc has been around since the fucking 80s. Its ok for language to change. ITS GOING TO BE OK, BOOMER
Fucking some of these memes make me feel 20 years younger than everyone else here
You lost the game.
Yeah a handful are just memes/references, like Raygun, Turkish shooter, JD Vance couch, and Hawk Tuah
What’s wrong with galvanized square steel? It’s a strong, corrosive resistant material great for regular use in damp environments. Just don’t cut it, weld it, eat it, etc. Zinc isn’t all that healthy in large amounts.
Little John uses that shit for everything.
Come the fuck on people, didn’t you make the same promise to yourself that I did to be better to the generation that follows you than the previous generation was to yours?
This shit is so fucking stupid. Do better and don’t become a fucking boomer
maybe i’m missing context here but i fail to see how this is critiquing the new generation? it’s just showing a person overwhelmed by (perceived) new slang, there’s no judgment cast here
Subtext. It’s the suggestion that these terms are so incomprehensible as to be overwhelming in the first place. The subtext is that the younger generation is exhausting, specifically in their nonsense or otherness. There’s assuming good faith and then there is intentionally ignoring the forest for the trees, and I think your suggestion is more for the latter than the former, frankly.
Who’s got the definitions
Ohio is a US state.
Source?
Ohio, in this context, actually means weird. I don’t know the genesis of it entirely, but they a joke about Ohio being so boring that it’s actually secretly full of weirdness and so now Ohio means weird.
Am I out of touch?
No it’s the children who are wrong.
Can’t we all be wrong?
Lore
Prove it.
How are half of these “Gen Alpha phrases”? The edging Wikipedia article was created in 2004, for example.
yeah but it’s mainstream now
Simply means that those terms/phrases are en vogue right now. Generally spoken generations are usually heavily influenced by the generation before them, popularizing things that someone before came up with
It’s mainstream and also sometimes used outside of the strictly sexual context now
I’ve never heard most of these terms. Is that the joke?
Nah. It just means that you have a healthy relationship with the internet and those who recognize most of it should go touch grass.
Someone explain them all in a list now. Go!
no
This meme sucks and punching down on the next generation sucks even worse, so instead of focusing on all that noise here’s a fun NSFW manga about Gen Alpha slang instead.
Nah, this is largely gen z slang. Still agree with you though.
Just like borders, generational divides are fictional constructs. In reality there is enormous overlap between generations.
I don’t think anyone needs to get twisted defending zoomer slang. The whole point of this gibberish is that it
fucking sucksis shitposting.You mog into the abyss
It mogs back
Get mogged idiot
wow, way to devolve into the YouTube comments section, Lemmy. that’s so not fetch.
Hasn’t “pookie” always been a thing circa “Rent”?
“Chat” being the worst one by far imo
breaking the fourth wall IRL? i think it’s brilliant. my generation got halfway there with “meta”: “chat” is just the next step past that.
I mean, if the boss says it’s a meme, I agree with him. Whatever the boss says, that’s the rule, I tell ya. I’m a real gooner for the boss. I goon for him like, 4-5 days a week so that one day I can pay some good guys to goon for me. Crime pays, boys!
