I’ll be keeping “AF”, thank you very much
I had this conversation with one of my kids recently:
Her: “This thing is gas!”
Me: “Gas? Why are you talking like your grandpa in 1965?”
Her: " What are you yapping about? They don’t know what ‘gas’ means!"
Me: "You wanna bet? Ain’t you ever heard that Rolling Stones song? Jumpin’ Jack Flash, it’s a gas…?’
Her: “Bruh…”
Me: “Don’t shoot the messenger.”
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.
That’s fire was definitely a millennial thing, possibly Gen X.
OP is just that hip.
“That’s fire” has an Urban Dictionary entry from 2007.
My favorite part of growing older is misusing slang to pain The Youths™
skibidi morning to you fellow gyamer
Yeah that’s pretty yeet
Yeah that’s all rizzed up
I swear down you finna cap that bruh
Omg I am old lol
fire and sus have been around for ages but gen z can have the lack of caps.
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
fire has always been a weed strength measurement… fire being the most best…
See also: mixtapes
so white gen z is just claiming all the black stuff from the 90’s?
i guess it’s par for the course…I think every generation has claimed fire mixtapes.
I’m using it ironically so it’s OK
That’s how it subtley becomes part of your vocabulary without your knowledge.
I… use sus all the time at 38… but I’m a gamer, and it’s kinda gaming slang.
Radical
Gnarly
I reject “sus” being zoomer exclusive. Among Us has been a huge hit for 5 years now, was popular across demographics, and made an appearance in Glass Onion, which is the boomeriest Millennial movie ever.
The rest of it, sure, go off fam.
This comment is lit
what does ong mean?
On Guard!
They’re trying to bring back dueling with swords.
It’s all predominantly young kids adopting/appropriating American Black vernacular and calling it their own. Millennials did it, genz does it. Go ahead and down vote me, my back hurts.
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.
There’s MLE (multicultural London English) in the UK. Must be similar all over.
Not to sound like a boommer but I really dislike “finna” like how much do you need to shorten a term like finally gonna
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!
😲 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”
Who the hell says “fixing to” over “going to” though? Seems like a small minority group trying to sound more important than they are, idk.
I have no idea! I’m neither young or American 🤣
It shows up in US Southeastern slang quite a bit. Usually it’s a bit stronger than ‘going to,’ ex. “I’m fixing to give him a piece of my mind.” ‘Fixings’ is also slang for side dishes here.
As a Southern gal myself, I got whiplash from the implication that people sayin “fixin” are trying to sound important.
I promise, among those of us who say that kinda thing, it’s seen as a mark of ignorance and bein low class in general. The idea that a hillbilly accent can seem “important” is banana sandwiches to me.
I wouldn’t say it’s trying to sound important as much as it is trying to sound serious / no bullshit tone: “I’m fixin’ to whop yo ass”, or as a response to your boss bitching at you to do something: “yeah yeah I’m fixin’ to”
