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I agree, but for a different reason. I had an Aussie friend that said "sus" all the time on IRC, and that was in the 00's, so it well predates Among Us.

I have appropriated “sus” and “yeet” and sometimes “gucci”…I think those don’t even come from the same gens of slang, but they feel right in a sentence. Especially yeet.

Deadass on fleek

Oh no, I liked Glass Onion...

Sus is literally part of the Australian vernacular and was in use when I was a kid.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/...

I get most of my slang from among us and then I learn the correct usage on tiktok and then I purposely do it wrong because aging is fun and I'm a parent.

Yeah, that one was ours.

My dad is in his 50s and has being using fire as an adjective for as long as I can remember

"Yo" is another one that the Zoomers love. I haven't heard so much usage of that word since the mid 90s. And "bruh" is just another form of "bro"/"brah".

Another good example is when twerking made a comeback a few years ago, despite not being a thing since 2000s hip hip.

Others dislike the word "Mid" because it's youth slang

I dislike the word "Mid" because it's often used to imply that average is bad

Her name is Ratched, not Ratchet.

I like the cut of your jib, sir.

ask them what it means. They won't even know.

I'd argue they'd know what it means but wouldn't know the origin. Words evolve. I just learned this etymology now but I've always known what it meant implicitly when said. Tbh I assumed it was more local/rural slang when I was younger because I mainly heard it from other kids, not in media, etc.

I thought it was an AAVE corruption of "wretched". Nurse Ratched was certainly that, but it didn't derive from the character's name. Urban Louisiana slang, more like.

Is teaching AAVE a thing anymore or did they decide it was racist? I can't keep up. I know for a while there was an argument that teaching AAVE at schools was designed to entrench a kind of linguistic class ghetto, but then you also had the liberal "hecking valid" argument, and I'm not sure what the current party line is.

It's amazing watching young adults discover that their new fad is a rehash of concepts that are decades old.

In the 90s, when everyone started using the word fat/phat, I found out from an article that it's usage that way could be traced back to 1920s jazz musicians. Everything old is new again.

Me looking at this meme nearing 40..."pretty sure we used sus and fire as teenagers".

Then again I didn't grow up in USA and we had different "hip" words.

Millennials reading this post

I've heard fire my whole life but I'm calling cap on sus being as popular or common for so long

Yeah, I'd never heard "no cap", but the other two almost feel old at this point.

Yeah that's pretty yeet

Growing up, I thought adults were out of touch. Now I realize that kids just take some things way too seriously and it's hilarious to exploit.

I swear down you finna cap that bruh

skibidi morning to you fellow gyamer

Do not let generational gaps fool you, most people are idiots

She sounds like an idiot fr fr.

she seems to think most people my age are complete idiots.

Very boomer of her.

but we're not a different species or anything lol

[Citation Needed]

No. Gen Z is the future. The rest of us are dinosaurs.

Love, someone who manages students at a university.

Same, it was just a happy accident that our slang made it mainstream I guess.

See people say this like it's Black vernacular but dont recognize that it's just urban vernacular. Urban vernacular changes frequently because there's more people around. The internet adopts it quickly, and it spreads from there, as the actual initial definition of a memetic concept.

There's a reason society as a whole doesn't co-opt rural Black vernacular, and it's because it isn't actually racially-based.

They're trying to change that to ASF 🙄

I'm pretty sure skibidi isn't even used except to annoy the youngins lol

That's how it subtley becomes part of your vocabulary without your knowledge.

I'm almost 37 and dunno what based, rule, or no cap mean. They all make me cringe though.

Based God, Li'l B is 34, so don't feel bad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_B?wprov=sfla1

46 here. It irritates me for reasons I can't explain.

Based.

Based comment? lol

Zillenial gang

Hello fellow transitional generation member.

That’s because gamer slang is made up of whatever shit kids are saying

My wife and I (both Xers) have started frequently trolling our son with "stop the cap!" when he's being... economical with the truth. Somehow that level of low-grade, passive-aggressive sarcasm seems very fitting to our generation.

Nevermind

Yeah, that's one that I think just never totally went away but has had a resurgence

For some reason "fr" is so frustrating. I am such a boomer :/

I'd like to upset some niblings with "fr fr, ong"... Does anyone know if "fr" is pronounced as one word like in "from", or if I'm supposed to just say "eff arr"? Same for "ong," please.

I am not partial to informal nicknames. If I stand with a group of my male coworkers I usually greet them with “gentleman” or something that. I don’t work with a lot of women but I’m not sure what to say to a group of women. Ladies seems kind of demeaning and gentlewomen sounds weird to me. I usually just go with miss or ma’am.

Having come up in the 90s-00s, the few times I've been called "daddy" were a little surprising at the time ("it's just something I say, don't overthink it", etc), but thankfully said moments were in the rear-view quickly enough.

In later years, my kids didn't add the "y" and one even asked why other kids say it that way. Hell, I'm ok with "dude" from my kids or their friends, in certain contexts, but "bruh"? Might as well try calling me "son" or "boy", and see how that flies, child. 🤪

without cap

I'm going to offer my own theory here, which doesn't seem to be in line with the most popular theories which seem to me to be creative guesses at the origin.

I think it's possibly from twitch.tv culture. "Kappa" was a popular emote with a smug face often used to denote sarcasm. Plenty of streamers have used the phrase "No kappa" to indicate they're not joking, and some shortened it to "no kap". Since it was passed on orally, it became mistranscribed to "no cap." People were looking for an explanation for a phrase that didn't exist, and inadvertently invented one, which became the predominant theory that you'll find if you search for "no cap origin."

think: "no joke", "s'truth", "for real", "no lie"

It's the true-true.

Replace "cap" with "shit" and it means the same thing.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/no-cap/

Has history in Atlanta black slang from the 1940s. However, "cap" isn't short for anything I can find. (I was hoping "capitulate").

Gnarly

Bossa Nova!

...

Chevy Nova?

Bawitdaba, da bang, da dang diggy diggy Diggy, said the boogie, said up jump the boogie

The actor was 29 in season 1.

This is always upsetting.

Same for rewatching iasip. I think they're late 20s when it started.

Cool beans

Which, um.. which ones are we not supposed to be saying anymore..? Asking for a friend...

No I'm pretty sure that's right

It's from a meme, "Money printer go brrrr" which was I think a spin off of the "It prints money!" meme for the original Wii (Edit: did some research and I think they're unrelated.) Its the sound of the machine, printing money, it go brrr.

I've seen it used for all kinds of things, but "go brrr" is basically a dismissive way of talking about how "winning" something is.

Edit: I think Picard Manuever explains it better actually, and while I don't think my usage note is untrue from how I've seen the meme used in evolutions, I'd have to agree that it originally and usually takes the form they described.

It's just the sound of some machine running, but the meme is usually something along the lines of:

"You can't do X, you have to do Y!"

"X goes brrrr"

The humor is in stubbornly doing something in a dumb way.

It's generally finding amusement in something doing what it's supposed to do in a straight forward and effective manner, in contrast with an alternative overly complex method.

https://knowyourmeme.com/...

Pretty sure it's supposed to be the sound of a machine running. Most popular example I can think of is "haha money printer go brrr".

It can also be a reference to the A-10 close air support fighter, whose main gun is notable for emitting a very loud brrrrrrrt sound.

It's the sound of the A-10 Warthog's main gun. It became a meme over a couple decades of war. "If brute force isn't working, you're not using enough of it," kind of captures the gleeful power and arrogance.

The US government printed a lot of money after the 2008 financial crisis. Some people criticised this, saying it would devalue the US Dollar. But the government went ahead with the plan, resulting in a meme where critics bring up a lot of arguments and Obama (?) says 'haha money printer go brr'.

On Guard!

They're trying to bring back dueling with swords.

"On God". I think it's short for "I swear on God.", similar to "I swear on my mum's life.". It's an emphasis that you are telling the truth.

Dontcha know? Millennials are any young kids they don't understand. Who is "they"? Idk, probably boomers, since boomers are any old out of touch people they don't understand.

I first assumed it was made by a millennial but that may be because I am one myself. If we do end up being the next mocked generation I will at least get a little amusement out of genx getting the shaft again.

I say "that's fire". But I also say "that's sex", which I don't hear from anyone else. Idk why I just feel like when something is really awesome I like to liken it to sex.

😲 I thought it was slang for "fixing"!

As in "Fixing to do x, y, z" which in my mind meant "I am preparing to do x, y, z"

It's dialectic -- there's lot's of them in the US, but this one afk belongs to Black American English, and is shortened from "fixin' to." Personally, I think it's cool to see so many variations of English. The language is definitely not static; it is changing all the time!

"finna" has been around since the 90s, I just listened to a tupac song where they were saying that

Short form of “fixin to” (pronounced “fixin tuh”)

Usually implies “I’m” fixing to. Often said without much emphasis, as it’s just introducing the important part of the phrase. I think it’s actually a pretty neat way to keep the emphasis where it needs to be.

“Finna get outta here” uses 3/4 of the phrase to convey the important action of “leaving”

vs. “I’m fixing to get out of here” uses 1/2 of the phrase on useless info that “I” am the one doing the leaving and that it hasn’t happened yet but is about to.

Finally gonna is already a slang shortening of "I am finally going to...". Or even better, "I will finally...".

These terms used to bother me too, until I just full-on embraced them. Now I use them both ironically, and unironically, just never at work. They're really good for text messaging because of their brevity. They combine multiple words into a single short word.