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Parents and Gen Alpha kids are having unintelligible convos because of ‘brainrot’ language

Every generation has slang, but Gen Alpha’s has a particularly unhinged quality, some parents say. Still, experts say their bad rep isn’t totally deserved.

In the beginning, there was “skibidi.”

It appeared abruptly in the lexicons of kids under 14 — the first slang term unique to Generation Alpha. Parents’ ears perked up as they began to hear it around the dinner table. It could mean bad, cool, or nothing at all, their kids explained. Then a dozen more incomprehensible terms followed suit.

Gen Z’s “slay” and “tea” are officially vintage, giving way to “sigma,” “gyatt” and “fanum tax.”

Everyone’s getting whiplash.

hactar42 ,

This is basically repeated every 10 years. Some of them will stick around for the long-term some will die. I don’t for see skibidi or gyatt stick around long-term. At least not unironical. I’m in my 40s and I don’t have any peers who still use words like “phat” or “whateves”. But someone saying bling would not seem out of place.

P00ptart ,

Remember that year or two where everything cool was “da bomb”?

Kolanaki ,
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Fanum tax? Shit, I thought they were saying phantom tax.

Etterra ,

Slang is stupid, film at 11:00. This is just old people complaining about young people. We’ve been doing this for literally thousands of years. It’s not newsworthy, not even in in the modern age of 6 second attention spans.

PugJesus ,

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This is not even vaguely new.

shalafi ,

The difference is the rate at which new slang is born.

PugJesus ,

The primary difference is that the slang ends up born (and abandoned) on the national and international levels, whereas in times past slang would become lodged in the regional vernacular first, and some of it would never move ‘up’ to replace old slang. In a sense, then, there was more slang in days past - it just was less ‘standardized’.

shalafi ,

I kinda get that. We called anime “Japanimation” in the 80s. Nothing racist there for y’all haters, just what we called it. But you’re right, never heard that term outside my local group.

bradorsomething ,

Get hip with the new jive, daddy-o!

Wirlocke ,

As a Gen-Z, I feel this divide is the result of our gen growing up on the internet and Gen-Alpha growing up in the internet. Like culturally I feel Gen-Z still had roots to reality hidden behind layers of absurdism and abstraction. Gen-Alpha however feels like it’s generating new cultural landmarks with no connections to reality.

Like, skibidi was absurdist humor, which is now being covered by absurdist layers. It’s absurdism all the way down! It’s like some twisted form of enlightenment. To clarify I don’t say this in a necessarily negative light, I just think it’s interesting from the viewpoint of our species as a whole.

I know Gen-Z was experiencing a stage of wanting to assert real connections to the world against algorithmic forces, before covid that is, now I think we’re a little scattered again.

Zombiepirate ,
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I wouldn’t worry too much about the ranting of an out-of-touch opinion writer caught in a moral panic.

They’re just annoyed that the world is changing around them. People have made the same complaint about literally every generation before.

Jakeroxs ,

I was thinking about this last night because I saw this meme and felt like it was very “boomer humor” which got me thinking about how humor has seemingly changed throughout the years.

It does seem absurdism is much more common nowadays, however it’s not just that either, there’s layers of nuance usually that makes it “deeper” as well.

Would be interesting to see a deep dive on how humor has evolved through the years aside from my biases. You make an interesting point about it being “no connections to reality” but I’m not sure it’s entirely correct.

WeirdGoesPro ,
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I thought I was getting old, but I’m proud to say that I knew most of these terms. I still got it, baby!

Skibidi.

Annoyed_Crabby ,

It could mean bad, cool, or nothing at all, their kids explained

So it’s a Schrodingly word

1stTime4MeInMCU ,

It’s literally as literal as literally

protist ,

Fuck fucking fuck fuckers…FUCK

Enkers ,

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

^^^^wiki

Spot ,
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Fuck!! Fucking fucker’s fucked!

otter ,

Well, that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word.

lemmyng ,
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Not any different from, cool, hot, or ass.

Annoyed_Crabby ,

Well it’s different from cool, hot, or ass because skibidi and gyatt isn’t a real word. I never heard a new word that got so many meaning shoved into them so fast it become meaningless.

lemmyng ,
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skibidi and gyatt isn’t a real word

Every word that we use wasn’t a real word until it started getting used. Rejecting new words is a prescriptivist fallacy. If anything this is an exciting time, because we get to study accelerated language changes.

Annoyed_Crabby ,

Rejecting new words

That wasn’t my intention at all lol, please reread what i wrote.

finickydesert ,
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the urban word dictionary is about to get even more popular

riskable , (edited )
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I think you mean it’s about to go gyatt, skibidy sigma before the kids get older and it gets an ohio negative aura.

finickydesert ,
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It’s about to go booty elite?

BradleyUffner ,

Hyper dingo, no skort!

FlyingSquid ,
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My 14-year-old isn’t especially slangy, but occasionally she asks me if I’ve heard some term or other, and I invariably haven’t. Most recently, it was “Scene,” which is apparently some sort of fashion aesthetic.

Zahille7 ,

“Scene” was around when I was in middle and high school around 10 years ago.

They were like the preppy goth kids, who listened to Avril Lavigne and such.

Edit: there’s also a Hollywood Undead song that has the lines “wake up, shave beard, grab beer, put on some scene gear”

FlyingSquid ,
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I’m 47 years old. I have never even heard of Hollywood Undead.

seathru ,
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    FlyingSquid ,
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    Cool. I was 27 in that case. Why would you expect me to be out there discovering new bands when I was trying to get my career off the ground?

    seathru ,
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    FlyingSquid ,
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    But everyone has different life experiences.

    And yet you decided it was unreasonable for me to have not heard of this band.

    And there is no way you are my age and “Scene” was a thing when you were in high school. That’s just bullshit. This says that it started in the early 2000s:

    aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Scene

    Zahille7 ,

    Damn you went into this thread pissed off, didn’t you? You replied to the wrong person. I’m the one who said scene was a thing 10 years ago when I was in high school and middle school.

    Chill and fully read the comments (username and all) before replying.

    FlyingSquid ,
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    What exactly makes you think I’m angry? Is it my tone of voice?

    darkdemize ,
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    I mean this with complete sincerity: Lucky you.

    Chozo ,

    Scene fashion is weirdly making a comeback lately, too.

    solrize ,

    And Harry don’t mind if he don’t make the scene. He’s got a daytime job, he’s doing all right.

    Avril Lavigne? Of Lavigne and Shirley? ;)

    msage ,

    Holywood Undead has some rizz skibidy, no cap frfr

    Klanky ,
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    ‘Scene’ kids were the Hot Topic emo kids when I was a teenager 20ish years ago. As someone who was into 2nd wave emo, it always made me die a little that ‘Scene’ is what most people think of when they hear ‘emo’.

    Paddzr ,

    Does “tea” mean dinner?

    ChairmanMeow ,
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    It means “gossip about drama”. “Spilling” the “tea” is talking about said gossip.

    msage ,

    Can’t wait for some local news with traditional reporting of teen slang:

    “Is your teen child using slang like ‘no cap’? It could indicade that they are having Sex-Without-Protection. More at 11.”

    Phegan ,

    Dividing us into generations is a way to make us feel segmented and separated. The concept of generations is made up, we shouldn’t feel tribal about the era we were born in.

    Phegan ,

    Every generation has this article published about them, congratulations, you are officially old and out of touch.

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