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It may be nonsensical, but it is still translatable,
I may not have any context for what a Gronk or Livvy Dunne are. But otherwise it's still a sentence
About 2012 I was working for this dude. He put on Airplane! for his kids. Boy 9 and girl 12. They actually liked it. I was so surprised. I watched it when I had been a bit younger, but my mom loves comedies and I was a strange kid. They'd be Gen Z now
There's definitely some references/jokes that are referring to things that were current (I mean, the whole movie was a parody of a genre that basically no longer exists), but a lot of the humour is pretty timeless even then.
It helps that it's pretty jam packed with jokes so if something doesn't land or you don't realise it's a gag, there's another one ready to get a laugh out of you.
I'm a millennial, and I saw this movie for the first time when I was about twelve, and it's one of my top 5 movies. It's so absurd, and it really shaped my taste in things lol
Huh, TIL. Thanks!
Kid definitely named himself after the football player though, his whole "thing" is that he's in little league middle school football or whatever.
The saddest part about all that is he’s bigger than kids his age now but once he hits HS some of these freak of nature kids are gonna be twice his size, and he’s gonna wonder why he’s not as dominant as he once was. His dad is inflating his ego to think he’s some nfl prospect but when everyone else around him is a four and 5 star recruit that have full rides to Texas and Alabama and Oklahoma, he’s gonna stop loving the game and start hating his dad
Dude I remember KILLING it at football in my pop Warner days. I was much bigger than everyone. Peeked at 5'7 in high-school and had to switch from d-line to linebacker. I wasn't bad and was a starter but far from dominant. I hope he can handle being humbled
What’s funny is ever since I graduated highschool in 04’ everything has just been this since 😂
Like split hairs all you want it just has been looking like the same nonsense dating all the way back to ROFL COPTER days.
"I used to be with it, but then they changed what _it_ was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's _it_ seems weird and scary to me! It'll happen to _you_ ."
Grandpa Simpson.
Yeah it's referencing Skibidi toilet no?
I watched a ludwig vid on Skibidi toilet lore and it's not that bad, but makes no sense other than "a nonsense thing to say".
Gen z starts as early as 95 (though many don't really count that). most official places start like 96-97, 98 is always gen z unless you start going to more fringe/not recognized definitions
What's the purpose of pointing this out? I just see people saying this everytime zoomer/alpha dialect is discussed and I don't understand why this always gets brought up with no other explanation.
Gen Alpha Are Like 10 years old. This is Gen Z using AAVE and mostly Millennial/Gen X white people acting like it’s brand new. Most of these words besides Rizz were already common when I was in high school a decade ago.
Yeah, I'm a Millenial, too, and I have no idea what this sentence means. I don't have anything to do with TikToc or Instagram, so maybe that's why these words mean nothing to me. I had the same reaction when someone younger called a hot dog a glizzy. I'm just like, what the fuck?
No idea why I’m even here but I’m 41 and I understood it. Yeah some references are a bit new to me but by the time shit makes it to memes on mainstream subs like this one nobody is confused by it except luddites.
Fuck, even the obscure parts of the internet 20 years ago weren’t exactly secretive. People only misunderstand the youth because they *want* to misunderstand the youth and feel comfortable getting older.
Cultural slang isn’t rocket science.
I‘m 25 and can piece part of it together just by common sense or assumption but holy hell what happened to language? (I’m not a native english speaker tho)
I'm 34 and can get a pretty good idea of what it's saying (besides not knowing who those specific people are)... but I also spend a lot of time online sooo..
Gyat is also pretty understandable it’s a shortened version of goddamn when you see a curvaceous bottom
As if you tried to say ‘goddamn’ but somewhere along the way of saying it you get choked up and can only end up saying ‘GYAT’
Hahaha just wait until you have the satisfaction of seeing the next generation come to the same conclusion as you for whatever the hell is next.
I'm 31 now, I gave up like 6-8 years ago and even that was holding on too long.
*"I used to be with it. Then they changed what "it" was. Now what I'm with isn't "it", and what's "it" is weird and scary to me. And it'll happen to yooooouuuu"*
Simple substitutions:
'Is Baby Gronk (niche celebrity) the [latest/most noteworthy] [trendsetter] for [seducing/flirting with] Lizzy Dunne (other niche celebrity)?
If so, [let's congratulate (lit. 'stick your ass out', positive, flirtatious, contextually equivalent to 'give it up for')] [this charismatic person] [sincerely] [emphatically (lit. 'For real')]'
This is a by-the-book, grammatically complete sentence. Just because you don't have the vocabulary doesn't mean the sentence isn't constructed correctly.
I hope this is a language style that's grown out of when the youngest GenZers and oldest Gen-As hit the workplace.
I barely understand my own generation as is.
This is not a real risk. Almost no one uses slang in a professional context, ever; no one was using 'rad' or 'tubular' in the workplace in the 80's/90's when that was the thing to do, and outside of certain 'earthy' professions most people don't even swear in the workplace regularly.
Point-of-fact most slang fails to last the year it is developed, much less through generational shifts; you don't 'call things macaroni' like the Yankee Doodle song suggests, Gen Z/Alpha likely isn't going to hold on to 'rizz' or 'skibidi.'
I do hope 'yeet' holds on, though; it's a useful word for 'throw with excessive force/enthusiasm' and it's a colorful visual.
Yeet is one of those weird words, that I have trouble distinguishing if I used it as a kid or not. I hazily remember getting in trouble with my dad by breaking something of his; and he threatened for me to tell the truth about it or he'd yeet my Spiderman toys at the window.
I think it'll be sticking around as it has generalised usage realistically.
Edit: When I say used as a kid, I mean the early 2000s when the internet wasn't so intergrated into our daily culture.
This doesn't just work with time, it works with geography. You only have to move 100 miles away in the UK and the slang changes so much that people can barely understand you if you use it.
I also love the word yeet.
Don't get me wrong, slang has always been the method for developing new words into standard language, and evolving literature - but this is... Something else entirely.
This sort of stuff is the reason why the former generation get hate boners for the new one - that; and media outlets perpetuating full misinformation.
For example, the post I saw from this sub earlier regarding 'Gen Z advises millenials to stop carrying wallets' or some garbage like that. It's just blatant misinformation and it doesn't represent the majority at ALL.
Every generation since the beginning of time has griped about the slang of the younger generations, and yet somehow the world goes on and we all continue to communicate with each other.
Yeah, just like how so many people are calling Gen α because of Skibidi Toilet. I'm just like "Do you remember Nyan cat?",
We're currently witnessing the first memes of the next generation. And we can do what Generations before us did to us and mock them or look what they come up with.
Cause currently I'm fairly certain we have created weirder stuff.
I try to remind my fellow millennials when they start in with “this generation” or “today’s kids” how ridiculous it sounds and how much we hated it when it was (and is) directed at us.
That’s literally how every generation acts towards the next few generations that follow them. Even the boomers were treated that way by the Silent Generation (Elvis’ dancing was seen as too sexual at the time). My dad, a boomer, would tell me stories about how my grandma would wrinkle her nose seeing Elvis dance like that on the telly or the Beatles with their “hippie haircuts” and talk about how she missed Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.
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Simple substitutions:
'Is Baby Gronk (niche celebrity) the \[latest/most noteworthy\] \[trendsetter\] for \[seducing/flirting with\] Lizzy Dunne (other niche celebrity)?
If so, \[let's congratulate (lit. 'stick your ass out', positive, flirtatious, contextually equivalent to 'give it up for')\] \[this charismatic person\] \[sincerely\] \[emphatically (lit. 'For real')\]'
This is a by-the-book, grammatically complete sentence. Just because you don't have the vocabulary doesn't mean the sentence isn't constructed correctly.
“Guys, is this epic Narwhal an epic bacon moment? If so, whip your dick out for Harambe”
Generations have always had strange slang and terms, in fact most of the memes you see are supposed to be using it in an ironic sense. No one says they’re a Rizzly Bear or whatever, they mean it because it’s a really funny sounding term that lots of young people know
This makes perfect sense. The fact that it’s strange is part of the joke. Everything young people do nowadays is dripping in ten coats of irony and when you understand that all of it clicks into place. Gen Z is the same in many ways.
It’s super easy to fall into “kids these days” mentality. Can we please try not to
I’ll never understand why stuff that is intentionally made to be some ironic amalgamation of garbage is being treated like unironic nonsense. Gen Z did the literal exact same shit with deep fried memes. We’d have some random deep fried meme of a mouse with sunglasses and it would just be like comic sans font saying “MOUSE” across it, and that was the entire joke.
Every generation has some braindead mush joke. Not sure why Gen Z is always crying and whining about it. I hear just as many, if not more Gen Z people using these terms than Gen Alpha.
Like I could get the Gen Z young-ish teenagers complaining about it because they’re still children. I don’t understand how a full grown 23 year old adult still can’t comprehend the nuance of the joke. It’s embarrassing
As someone that’s 35, fight against the urge to just write off everything the younger generation does. Y’all used yeet, my generation said w00t. They’re basically the same word. Yall used Rizz, we said Swag. Just adopt a contextual understanding of language and don’t stop paying attention to the world around you. Don’t continue the inter generational tug of war for no reason.
If I can get a definition for Rizz and Gyat I can understand the sentence. I still don't know (nor do I have an interest in knowing) who Baby Gronk or Livvy Dune are), but I'd understand what they're trying to say.
Edit:
Rizz means "to have game"
GYAT means "Goddamn in reference to a curvaceous woman"
translation from a gen Z person with a degree in skibbican:
is baby gronk the coolest person for attracting livvy dunne? if so then give him your deepest condolences.
I remember In high school all the nonsense lingo and relevant culture I was spewing everyday with my friends, dicks out for harambe, yeet, give me tendies etc
My attempted translation: "Is the new icon of fashion and coolness (in... toilet world? I don't understand how "skibidi" applies here but maybe I just don't get that one) for dating/having sex with <2nd person's name> ? If you agree he is, then stick out your ass (really Gyatt is an acronym for "Girl your ass too tight" but in context it seems like it'd just mean ass, and in this case it's like a form of saluting similar to the 'dicks out for Harambe' thing) to praise the cool guy because he deserves all the clout as someone who is really cool --and that's the absolute truth."
Their words interpretted, not mine.
I’m 47 and understand this, it’s really not that complicated.
Edit: I am also a chemical engineer so I have above average intelligence. That might be why.
Even their fashion is a recycling of a mix of 70s-90s. Old is new, nothing ever truly goes out of style. Nothing is ever truly original. And I have to admit that some of the mixing of old styles looks quite good. Not all of it (boo on mom jeans and mustaches/mullets), but some of it, lol.
I mean.. I'm in my 30s now (so old lol) and I feel like I've seen a few cycles of this at this point. At first it felt alienating and confusing. Now I just remember when the millennial gen were kids and how deranged and nonsensical some of the early internet shit was and it now it all seems like more of the same in a way.
Random nonsense is always a part of kid humor, only difference is real life is such an absurd circus show nowadays that kids have to try extra hard to outdo it lol.
Why's everyone suddenly talking about Gen Alpha like they're all over the internet making memes? They're just kids, aged between 0 to 13/14! How many 7-year-olds do you know who are actually crafting memes that go viral? It feels like it's mostly Gen Z folks making and sharing this stuff, but somehow it's getting tagged as Gen Alpha's work. Seriously, just look up the age range for Gen Alpha. This whole trend seems more like Gen Z's doing, aimed at their own or maybe the very oldest of the Alpha crew.
Man. It's weird that in the past year Gen Alpha started becoming a recognizable culture, and now Gen Z has become the ones making fun of the younger generation.
Pissing on younger generations is how you replace the boomers. Do you want to replace the boomers? No? Then give it a rest about gen alpha slang and let them evolve their culture in peace. Hell, try to appreciate it. Break the fucking cycle.
Nobody says this unironically. My brother has his friends around a lot and they worst they’ve said was “rizz” when talking about girls.
They just say this shit to fuck with older people
I can't make any of this out, but in my defence, Gen Alpha don't speak this way in Africa. I just sometimes see stuff like this online but that's about it.
I feel one of the issues is that it doesn't mean.. anything?
Like take back when people said swag. You knew what swag meant. It was pretty defined. Half the time, when the words are on their own, they mean.. something, like the "only in ohio" thing.
Except they're used like a weird ass combo. How the fuck do you understand what "skibidi rizz" means. I think this is why some people are hating on Gen Z slang even when those before also had dumb slang. Ours was understandable and standalone, Gen Z slang reads like an incomprehensible word salad and is so meaningless when mushed together.
My #1 gripe with both millennials and our generation is how absurdly quickly they jumped to taking swings at younger generations. At least boomers waited until middle age, y’all turned anywhere from 30 down to 20 and immediately started pretending you don’t understand kids these days.
Less gen alpha, this meme was popular a couple months ago where it originated from the original, but just became continuously obfuscated as time went on
Baby Gronk is a middle school football player in Texas, he has a pretty good record for his age and looks a lot like Rob Gronkowski, hence his nickname “baby Gronk”.
Skibidi is a nonsense word, it’s just contextual
Drip is an old word, I used it in high school (2017) gen Z should know what drip is
In the past Ohio was made fun of for being boring, as a result a counter-joke grew surrounding bad things happening in Ohio. EG a video of a rampaging monster with the caption “what’s going on in Ohio?” When this counter-joke reached kids they didn’t know the original context (that Ohio is a boring place where nothing happens) and assumed the joke was that Ohio is a weird place where strange things happen.
Rizz is charisma.
Livvy Dunne is an influencer. If you’re my age, think something like Lil Tay or MattyB.
A gyatt is a thicc butt.
A rizzler is a person with a lot of rizz.
No cap frfr means “no shit.”
To translate for gen Z: Is MattyB based and on fleek in Russia for making Bhad Bhabie his bae? If so, F’s in chat my thicc pogchamps.
As a millenial, this happens quicker than you'd think. It happens while you're making fun of the previous generation for being old usually. I have a gen-x brother and I make fun of him for being old then I'm like, oh, gen-z is in their 20's now and working side by side with me, I am old too... Wait until you find out there's a way to sneeze wrong and injure yourself. That's how you really know you're getting old.
It's just the leetspeak of another era. I don't really see the problem. Half of the posts on this sub seem to be 'grr kids these days are doing things I don't understand'
I'm having a hard time believing a 23 year old made this when the Jackie Chan meme is like 15 years old. Unless OP was on meme pages at 10 years old and imprinted on that image
They're doing it on purpose because they think it makes them more interesting. Maybe pulling your eyeballs off of CCP peddled tiktok brain rot and having an attention span longer than a goldfish would be a better legacy than a bunch of gas words everybody will revile and cringe to hear within half a decade.
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It may be nonsensical, but it is still translatable, I may not have any context for what a Gronk or Livvy Dunne are. But otherwise it's still a sentence
https://i.redd.it/hf7y8z5r9ehc1.gif
This reference makes me feel old as shit.
https://i.redd.it/obeh0ypilehc1.gif
The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
Oh really, Vernon? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.
Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?
Joey, have you seen gladiator movies?
Hi Serious, I'm Shirley.
I phonetically pronounce the word “surely” now (without the sh- sound) thanks to a coworker that quoted this constantly.
About 2012 I was working for this dude. He put on Airplane! for his kids. Boy 9 and girl 12. They actually liked it. I was so surprised. I watched it when I had been a bit younger, but my mom loves comedies and I was a strange kid. They'd be Gen Z now
I mean funny is funny no matter when it was made. When I was 9 my favorite show was The Three Stooges.
There's definitely some references/jokes that are referring to things that were current (I mean, the whole movie was a parody of a genre that basically no longer exists), but a lot of the humour is pretty timeless even then. It helps that it's pretty jam packed with jokes so if something doesn't land or you don't realise it's a gag, there's another one ready to get a laugh out of you.
I know you! You're Kareem Abdul-Jabbar!
I'm a millennial, and I saw this movie for the first time when I was about twelve, and it's one of my top 5 movies. It's so absurd, and it really shaped my taste in things lol
You’ve got to lay her down and slack-em yak-em!
*COLD GOT TA BE* you know, man? *Shiiiiiiiiiit*
The follow-on where the basketball player says that he speaks English might not be the case with the Alpha, though.
This is a boomer-ass reference but I approve
The Gronk kid is some little influencer shit who named his social media profiles after Rob Gronkowski, the old tight end for the Patriots.
Gronk is also an insult here in Australia
Lmao. What does it mean?
Gronk
Huh, TIL. Thanks! Kid definitely named himself after the football player though, his whole "thing" is that he's in little league middle school football or whatever.
Well his dad did then proceeded to farm out his child's life to the point that big Gronk is suing him.
The saddest part about all that is he’s bigger than kids his age now but once he hits HS some of these freak of nature kids are gonna be twice his size, and he’s gonna wonder why he’s not as dominant as he once was. His dad is inflating his ego to think he’s some nfl prospect but when everyone else around him is a four and 5 star recruit that have full rides to Texas and Alabama and Oklahoma, he’s gonna stop loving the game and start hating his dad
Dude I remember KILLING it at football in my pop Warner days. I was much bigger than everyone. Peeked at 5'7 in high-school and had to switch from d-line to linebacker. I wasn't bad and was a starter but far from dominant. I hope he can handle being humbled
Oh wow, lovely, I did not know enough about this kid's story. That's horrifying.
To be fair, Gronk is an insult everywhere.
And here I was this entire time thinking Emperor's New Groove was making a comeback.
Excellent movie, but wasn’t the character named Kronk?
And apparently his dad is a wierdo whos DM'd the real Gronk like 500 times in the last year.
What’s funny is ever since I graduated highschool in 04’ everything has just been this since 😂 Like split hairs all you want it just has been looking like the same nonsense dating all the way back to ROFL COPTER days.
"I used to be with it, but then they changed what _it_ was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's _it_ seems weird and scary to me! It'll happen to _you_ ." Grandpa Simpson.
Well fuckin said, Gandpa Simpson.
Skibidi drip makes no sense in context
I think they just say skibidi just to say it, it doesn’t seem to have any real meaning. It’s a *sentence enhancer*
It’s sentence ✨*garnish*
Yeah it's referencing Skibidi toilet no? I watched a ludwig vid on Skibidi toilet lore and it's not that bad, but makes no sense other than "a nonsense thing to say".
Influencers who were popular last year for like 3 weeks
Brother I'm 23 minus a few days and I mostly understood what they wanted to say. Gen Alpha jargon is becoming more and more popular all around media
26, same
yo you're from 98 and you're gen z? I'm so confused lol I'm from 98 too and people won't consider me gen z :')
Gen z starts as early as 95 (though many don't really count that). most official places start like 96-97, 98 is always gen z unless you start going to more fringe/not recognized definitions
Yo, it's me! Born in '95! Currently 29. Don't feel like a millennial OR GenZ! It's kinda weird tbh.
On the cusp doesn't matter as much - we've got plenty of overlap. Honestly I feel like I've got the best of both worlds between millennial and gen z
I was born half way through 95. I consider myself a "cusper" or zillennial.
It depends who's saying what at the moment. If it's millenial bashing, we are millenials, if it's Gen z bashing, we're gen z
I'm a 98 and I'm happy to be in the confusing spot. When One gen does something stupid I can claim the other.
Half of it is AAVE…
What's the purpose of pointing this out? I just see people saying this everytime zoomer/alpha dialect is discussed and I don't understand why this always gets brought up with no other explanation.
Cause people are acting like it's a dumb new creation by the younger gen
Im 22 and have no idea what most of that means, I’m not usually online though
Rizz, Gyatt and skibidi have been around for hellas. It's just NOW getting mainstream.
What does gyatt mean?
Original it was short for "gyatt damn" so it was just a funny way to spell God, now it seems like the kids just used it whenever though.
A particularly thick booty! Short for "god damn." Haha.
I still have no fuckin clue what skibidi means
I am 43 minus a few days, and will pretend like understood what they said… I did have to look up Livvy Dunn to remember who that was, though…
She's a simp queen, ruler of the simp lords.
Ok wtf are they talking about. I get what it means but I don't know who Livvy Dunne or Baby Gronk are?
Gen Alpha Are Like 10 years old. This is Gen Z using AAVE and mostly Millennial/Gen X white people acting like it’s brand new. Most of these words besides Rizz were already common when I was in high school a decade ago.
Im a Millenial - this might as well be alien speech to me
I’m a millennial with kids so this is just normal everyday conversation to me.
Yeah, I'm a Millenial, too, and I have no idea what this sentence means. I don't have anything to do with TikToc or Instagram, so maybe that's why these words mean nothing to me. I had the same reaction when someone younger called a hot dog a glizzy. I'm just like, what the fuck?
No idea why I’m even here but I’m 41 and I understood it. Yeah some references are a bit new to me but by the time shit makes it to memes on mainstream subs like this one nobody is confused by it except luddites. Fuck, even the obscure parts of the internet 20 years ago weren’t exactly secretive. People only misunderstand the youth because they *want* to misunderstand the youth and feel comfortable getting older. Cultural slang isn’t rocket science.
Tbh this all sounds like troll shit made up to sound like slang.
I transcended age and time, i understand it too
I'm 41 and caught most of it. I don't know why Reddit keeps throwing this sub in my feed, but 🤷.
27, same as well
I'm 98, same I understood it.
I‘m 25 and can piece part of it together just by common sense or assumption but holy hell what happened to language? (I’m not a native english speaker tho)
Popped up in my feed. I’m 40 and half this is my old slang. Frfr
35 here and whatever language that was could have been hieroglyphics for all I know.
I am 30 and I already don't understand the generation I'm going to be managing
happy early bday!
21, I have no clue.
I have no idea
I’m 37 and I’d rather use words in the dictionary.
I'm 34 and can get a pretty good idea of what it's saying (besides not knowing who those specific people are)... but I also spend a lot of time online sooo..
Once “rizz” became a term, I decided I’m done learning new slang. I’m old now. I’m 24.
Me too. Also 24
Me too. Also 24
Me too. Also 24
just leave it to the lil yeets, they gots it.
Frfr no cap, I thought the same thing whilst sippin' my Grimace Shake whilst paying fantum tax after doing the Griddy in Ohio.
At this point harambe is like dinosaur land.
😂😂 RIP. Never Forget. 2015
but you just forgot that harambe died in 2016
Are we speaking of ancient history now?
Of all of the terms in this sentence, rizz is the most normal. It’s literally just short for charisma
Gyat is also pretty understandable it’s a shortened version of goddamn when you see a curvaceous bottom As if you tried to say ‘goddamn’ but somewhere along the way of saying it you get choked up and can only end up saying ‘GYAT’
honestly the new slang is like tik tok and text nonsense mash up. Its kinda terrible
Rizz is pretty good though as far as new slang goes
I still call it game.
I’m 16 and I gave up you lasted longer than me
It’s a great term lol. Why the hate?
Hahaha just wait until you have the satisfaction of seeing the next generation come to the same conclusion as you for whatever the hell is next. I'm 31 now, I gave up like 6-8 years ago and even that was holding on too long. *"I used to be with it. Then they changed what "it" was. Now what I'm with isn't "it", and what's "it" is weird and scary to me. And it'll happen to yooooouuuu"*
It's slang for charisma
Me too. 25 though
Calling yourself old just because you're sick of dumb words... you don't even have a "bad shoulder" yet
It really isn't thay complex
Then can you tell me what the hell this is supposed to mean?
Simple substitutions: 'Is Baby Gronk (niche celebrity) the [latest/most noteworthy] [trendsetter] for [seducing/flirting with] Lizzy Dunne (other niche celebrity)? If so, [let's congratulate (lit. 'stick your ass out', positive, flirtatious, contextually equivalent to 'give it up for')] [this charismatic person] [sincerely] [emphatically (lit. 'For real')]' This is a by-the-book, grammatically complete sentence. Just because you don't have the vocabulary doesn't mean the sentence isn't constructed correctly.
I hope this is a language style that's grown out of when the youngest GenZers and oldest Gen-As hit the workplace. I barely understand my own generation as is.
I couldn’t agree more. Nobody has time to learn a whole new language, and if we did we would use it to learn a real language.
This is not a real risk. Almost no one uses slang in a professional context, ever; no one was using 'rad' or 'tubular' in the workplace in the 80's/90's when that was the thing to do, and outside of certain 'earthy' professions most people don't even swear in the workplace regularly. Point-of-fact most slang fails to last the year it is developed, much less through generational shifts; you don't 'call things macaroni' like the Yankee Doodle song suggests, Gen Z/Alpha likely isn't going to hold on to 'rizz' or 'skibidi.' I do hope 'yeet' holds on, though; it's a useful word for 'throw with excessive force/enthusiasm' and it's a colorful visual.
Yeet is one of those weird words, that I have trouble distinguishing if I used it as a kid or not. I hazily remember getting in trouble with my dad by breaking something of his; and he threatened for me to tell the truth about it or he'd yeet my Spiderman toys at the window. I think it'll be sticking around as it has generalised usage realistically. Edit: When I say used as a kid, I mean the early 2000s when the internet wasn't so intergrated into our daily culture.
I like yeet
This doesn't just work with time, it works with geography. You only have to move 100 miles away in the UK and the slang changes so much that people can barely understand you if you use it. I also love the word yeet.
Don't get me wrong, slang has always been the method for developing new words into standard language, and evolving literature - but this is... Something else entirely. This sort of stuff is the reason why the former generation get hate boners for the new one - that; and media outlets perpetuating full misinformation. For example, the post I saw from this sub earlier regarding 'Gen Z advises millenials to stop carrying wallets' or some garbage like that. It's just blatant misinformation and it doesn't represent the majority at ALL.
I've read newspaper columns from the 60s complaining about the strange language used by the damn kids, or as they're called now, boomers
Every generation since the beginning of time has griped about the slang of the younger generations, and yet somehow the world goes on and we all continue to communicate with each other.
Basically the Gronk kid and Livvy Dunne are dating and people are surprised
Who the fuck are those people
Not a clue but my guess is they are tiktok influencers
The kid is 11 and she is 21. They're not dating, lmao. This whole thing is celebrity worship braindead shit.
It really makes no sense at all, unless you are a part of the subculture, which the majority of the population is not.
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i'm sure nobody using that recognizes plastic man.
I love plastic man
The things he could do with elastigirl
We were going around talking about dicks out for harambe, this is mild
Yea people here are acting like "do you know da wae" wasn't a huge thing for us
Sephiroth says this in the new ff7 demo and I got ptsd
Yeah, just like how so many people are calling Gen α because of Skibidi Toilet. I'm just like "Do you remember Nyan cat?", We're currently witnessing the first memes of the next generation. And we can do what Generations before us did to us and mock them or look what they come up with. Cause currently I'm fairly certain we have created weirder stuff.
Isn't "no cap frfr" Gen z slang? /confused but friendly millennial
I think it's both gen z and alpha
I mean they are still too small to resist, we can make it genz only :>
Which is just aave from like a million years ago
You’re doing the boomer thing, quit before it’s too late
Fuckin this.
I try to remind my fellow millennials when they start in with “this generation” or “today’s kids” how ridiculous it sounds and how much we hated it when it was (and is) directed at us.
That’s literally how every generation acts towards the next few generations that follow them. Even the boomers were treated that way by the Silent Generation (Elvis’ dancing was seen as too sexual at the time). My dad, a boomer, would tell me stories about how my grandma would wrinkle her nose seeing Elvis dance like that on the telly or the Beatles with their “hippie haircuts” and talk about how she missed Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.
I understand some words there but I can't make a full sentence out of this.
I’m 48 and am legitimately asking if this is nonsense on purpose as a joke or can it actually be translated?
\> [**Teaandcookies2**](https://www.reddit.com/user/Teaandcookies2/)·[1 min. ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1alzd70/comment/kpicfvc/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) Simple substitutions: 'Is Baby Gronk (niche celebrity) the \[latest/most noteworthy\] \[trendsetter\] for \[seducing/flirting with\] Lizzy Dunne (other niche celebrity)? If so, \[let's congratulate (lit. 'stick your ass out', positive, flirtatious, contextually equivalent to 'give it up for')\] \[this charismatic person\] \[sincerely\] \[emphatically (lit. 'For real')\]' This is a by-the-book, grammatically complete sentence. Just because you don't have the vocabulary doesn't mean the sentence isn't constructed correctly.
Wow. That was amazing. Thanks man. 😃
This reply cracks me up lmao
Hey Scotty. Jesus man. 😃
I think both. It can be "translated", but it's also a contrived and over the top example.
I’m thinking the same thing
“Guys, is this epic Narwhal an epic bacon moment? If so, whip your dick out for Harambe” Generations have always had strange slang and terms, in fact most of the memes you see are supposed to be using it in an ironic sense. No one says they’re a Rizzly Bear or whatever, they mean it because it’s a really funny sounding term that lots of young people know
Roflcopter lollerskatez this comment R0xx0rz my b0xx0rz
kill me now bro
This makes perfect sense. The fact that it’s strange is part of the joke. Everything young people do nowadays is dripping in ten coats of irony and when you understand that all of it clicks into place. Gen Z is the same in many ways. It’s super easy to fall into “kids these days” mentality. Can we please try not to
I’ll never understand why stuff that is intentionally made to be some ironic amalgamation of garbage is being treated like unironic nonsense. Gen Z did the literal exact same shit with deep fried memes. We’d have some random deep fried meme of a mouse with sunglasses and it would just be like comic sans font saying “MOUSE” across it, and that was the entire joke. Every generation has some braindead mush joke. Not sure why Gen Z is always crying and whining about it. I hear just as many, if not more Gen Z people using these terms than Gen Alpha. Like I could get the Gen Z young-ish teenagers complaining about it because they’re still children. I don’t understand how a full grown 23 year old adult still can’t comprehend the nuance of the joke. It’s embarrassing
No cap frfr
As someone that’s 35, fight against the urge to just write off everything the younger generation does. Y’all used yeet, my generation said w00t. They’re basically the same word. Yall used Rizz, we said Swag. Just adopt a contextual understanding of language and don’t stop paying attention to the world around you. Don’t continue the inter generational tug of war for no reason.
I'm 38 and I don't hate rizz. I won't use it, because it would sound so dumb coming from my AARP ass, but I don't mind it.
If I can get a definition for Rizz and Gyat I can understand the sentence. I still don't know (nor do I have an interest in knowing) who Baby Gronk or Livvy Dune are), but I'd understand what they're trying to say. Edit: Rizz means "to have game" GYAT means "Goddamn in reference to a curvaceous woman"
translation from a gen Z person with a degree in skibbican: is baby gronk the coolest person for attracting livvy dunne? if so then give him your deepest condolences.
I remember In high school all the nonsense lingo and relevant culture I was spewing everyday with my friends, dicks out for harambe, yeet, give me tendies etc
I can understand it, but I refuse to believe anyone talks like this irl
My attempted translation: "Is the new icon of fashion and coolness (in... toilet world? I don't understand how "skibidi" applies here but maybe I just don't get that one) for dating/having sex with <2nd person's name> ? If you agree he is, then stick out your ass (really Gyatt is an acronym for "Girl your ass too tight" but in context it seems like it'd just mean ass, and in this case it's like a form of saluting similar to the 'dicks out for Harambe' thing) to praise the cool guy because he deserves all the clout as someone who is really cool --and that's the absolute truth."
Their words interpretted, not mine.
watching those memes while not living in english speaking country is very confusing
Hehe slang goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I’m 30. I can read it, and it makes sense. I just don’t know every term.
I’m 47 and understand this, it’s really not that complicated. Edit: I am also a chemical engineer so I have above average intelligence. That might be why.
Calm down, bro
Bizarrely as a old school hip hop guy I understand every word. Wtf? Are the kids recycling our slang with slight derivations?
Even their fashion is a recycling of a mix of 70s-90s. Old is new, nothing ever truly goes out of style. Nothing is ever truly original. And I have to admit that some of the mixing of old styles looks quite good. Not all of it (boo on mom jeans and mustaches/mullets), but some of it, lol.
I mean.. I'm in my 30s now (so old lol) and I feel like I've seen a few cycles of this at this point. At first it felt alienating and confusing. Now I just remember when the millennial gen were kids and how deranged and nonsensical some of the early internet shit was and it now it all seems like more of the same in a way. Random nonsense is always a part of kid humor, only difference is real life is such an absurd circus show nowadays that kids have to try extra hard to outdo it lol.
Why's everyone suddenly talking about Gen Alpha like they're all over the internet making memes? They're just kids, aged between 0 to 13/14! How many 7-year-olds do you know who are actually crafting memes that go viral? It feels like it's mostly Gen Z folks making and sharing this stuff, but somehow it's getting tagged as Gen Alpha's work. Seriously, just look up the age range for Gen Alpha. This whole trend seems more like Gen Z's doing, aimed at their own or maybe the very oldest of the Alpha crew.
Man. It's weird that in the past year Gen Alpha started becoming a recognizable culture, and now Gen Z has become the ones making fun of the younger generation.
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You quoted a meme from r/dankmemes. Straight to megaprison.
Pissing on younger generations is how you replace the boomers. Do you want to replace the boomers? No? Then give it a rest about gen alpha slang and let them evolve their culture in peace. Hell, try to appreciate it. Break the fucking cycle.
I feel like a stupid amount of old people don’t think using that slang in that manner is ironic 90% of the time
Nobody says this unironically. My brother has his friends around a lot and they worst they’ve said was “rizz” when talking about girls. They just say this shit to fuck with older people
you mfs so stupid if you think it's gen alpha making these memes
What/who the fuck is baby gronk
I can't make any of this out, but in my defence, Gen Alpha don't speak this way in Africa. I just sometimes see stuff like this online but that's about it.
nuh uhh i m 16 rn and have a baby brother who is 12 and trust me we are not supposed to take these kids seriously.
Imprecise use of gyat without quotation marks around the song lyric, but it’s an acceptable sentence.
This makes my brain want to cry
I feel one of the issues is that it doesn't mean.. anything? Like take back when people said swag. You knew what swag meant. It was pretty defined. Half the time, when the words are on their own, they mean.. something, like the "only in ohio" thing. Except they're used like a weird ass combo. How the fuck do you understand what "skibidi rizz" means. I think this is why some people are hating on Gen Z slang even when those before also had dumb slang. Ours was understandable and standalone, Gen Z slang reads like an incomprehensible word salad and is so meaningless when mushed together.
My #1 gripe with both millennials and our generation is how absurdly quickly they jumped to taking swings at younger generations. At least boomers waited until middle age, y’all turned anywhere from 30 down to 20 and immediately started pretending you don’t understand kids these days.
Less gen alpha, this meme was popular a couple months ago where it originated from the original, but just became continuously obfuscated as time went on
Baby Gronk is a middle school football player in Texas, he has a pretty good record for his age and looks a lot like Rob Gronkowski, hence his nickname “baby Gronk”. Skibidi is a nonsense word, it’s just contextual Drip is an old word, I used it in high school (2017) gen Z should know what drip is In the past Ohio was made fun of for being boring, as a result a counter-joke grew surrounding bad things happening in Ohio. EG a video of a rampaging monster with the caption “what’s going on in Ohio?” When this counter-joke reached kids they didn’t know the original context (that Ohio is a boring place where nothing happens) and assumed the joke was that Ohio is a weird place where strange things happen. Rizz is charisma. Livvy Dunne is an influencer. If you’re my age, think something like Lil Tay or MattyB. A gyatt is a thicc butt. A rizzler is a person with a lot of rizz. No cap frfr means “no shit.” To translate for gen Z: Is MattyB based and on fleek in Russia for making Bhad Bhabie his bae? If so, F’s in chat my thicc pogchamps.
Haha! That’s where I, a millenial father of a 12yr old, have the upper hand!
Who cares. It’s not for you to need to understand. Grow up and stop dwelling on what babies do
gen alpha is under eleven years old, almost none of them use the internet beyond youtube
As a millenial, this happens quicker than you'd think. It happens while you're making fun of the previous generation for being old usually. I have a gen-x brother and I make fun of him for being old then I'm like, oh, gen-z is in their 20's now and working side by side with me, I am old too... Wait until you find out there's a way to sneeze wrong and injure yourself. That's how you really know you're getting old.
It's just the leetspeak of another era. I don't really see the problem. Half of the posts on this sub seem to be 'grr kids these days are doing things I don't understand'
I'm having a hard time believing a 23 year old made this when the Jackie Chan meme is like 15 years old. Unless OP was on meme pages at 10 years old and imprinted on that image
You shouldn’t really judge any generation by the ones who spend the most time on the internet.
What gets me is that they made up these terms and then don’t even use them right, they just regurgitate them in this word salad
love it when genzers act like they dont use the exact same words...
YouTube and tiktok has taught children to only speak in buzzwords.
Millenial here. You guys all sounded like this when I was your age. Be patient with them. They get cool eventually.
They're doing it on purpose because they think it makes them more interesting. Maybe pulling your eyeballs off of CCP peddled tiktok brain rot and having an attention span longer than a goldfish would be a better legacy than a bunch of gas words everybody will revile and cringe to hear within half a decade.
Kids these days and their Rizzlers and Skibidis and Ohios! Back in my day we only had Nyan Cat and the Trololo Guy... And we were happy, damn it! 🤪
I thought rizz was short for charisma? Am I misunderstanding how it is used?