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
I’ll dab to that
Despacito
Fr goated with the sauce
Swag
Chez Squilly Yo 💯💯
Frfr no cap
Man’s not cappin.
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.
Ok, maybe suss is Australian. I was surprised to see it listed with “on cap” because I’ve heard suss being said all my life by a wide range of people, but I did grow up in Australia.
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.
Yeet and Gucci are early zoomer at best, mostly later millenial terms as they became popular closer to 2015 than 2020
They’re definitely zoomer, MAYBE late millennial
I’m pretty sure my friends and I have incorrectly appropriated yeet. We’ll use it in the normal way but we’ll also say yeet like sweet or hell yeah. We’re all upper 20s now so it feels rather hilarious.
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.
Thank you! I thought I was going mad because I distinctly remember saying “sus” when I was in highschool in the early 2000s. It was definitely used both as “go sus it out” but also “don’t sus us miss” was something we said all the time when a teacher tried to catch students smoking behind the portables.
So it sort of just feels like Gen Z expanded the definition.
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.
“That’s fire” has an Urban Dictionary entry from 2007.
Yeah, that one was ours.
Filthy little hobbitses always stealing, always thieving, trying to take away our precious
My dad is in his 50s and has being using fire as an adjective for as long as I can remember
No cap?
I’m straight bussin
Straight bussin that bussy, amirite?
Ong ghawd bruh
Frfr
Completely hatless.
I don’t know what it means either. I’ve heard the other two in casual conversation, but “no cap” is completely new to me.
in this specific context it means bullshit, like “no bullshit,” but it can’t be used literally any other way because “to cap” someone means killing them
As a millennial, describing something as fire, or mids, that was us. Y’all youngings are appropriating old people culture. That’s how we described weed in the 2000s.
Edit: also when kids were saying ‘ratchet’, that was a direct descendent of Nurse Ratchet in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Ken Keasy used that name to be a homonym for “rat shit.” Next time you hear so e drop ‘ratchet,’ ask them what it means. They won’t even know.
It’s weird how old slang crops up like that. Ratchet was like, the 60s.
Edit2: I predict “kind” will get taken in, like “KB” or “kind bud” to mean “dope”. Like “you those shoes are kind, fam”.
I also predict that “beasters” might make it’s way in, but “beast” already meaning “dominate” might trip it up, because “beasters” were weed that was grown rushed with phosphates in the soil in indoor hydroponic labs, and that shit had lower THC content than most mids, looked better, but smelled off. Dead giveaway was hollow stems. Idk. Calling beats by dre headphones “beasters” would be a fitting insult to their products.
Fleek died the moment someone managed to get that fire started. Good riddance.
“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.
there was a book (Terry Pratchett?) I read as a young adult that had a character called Yoless because it was the 90s and he didn’t ever say “yo” and everyone thought that was notable, weird and hysterical
Or the Harlem Shake, like that wasn’t already a thing.
Breh was around in like 2010, bruh really isn’t that much different.
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
I take it as average rather than great, which while it does have a less than stellar implication, doesn’t seem like it is inherently bad. Moreso a “meets expectations” with a hint of “there are better options available”
But mids (weed) are the worst.
I see you haven’t had Mexican ditch weed, although I did always like quantity over quality.
Yeah, we called it brick weed cause they were packaged to save space not the product… and we generally didn’t fuck with it because it wasn’t even green by the time it was up in New england
I bought a batch of that shit once that had been dyed green - you could tell because most of the green pigment ended up concentrated at the end of the fat stems. Nastiest shit ever, I’m probably lucky to be alive.
We used to call Mexican brick weed regs, or reggie, which I guess was slang for regular. Though I’m not sure why we called it that because it was much easier to find “fire” weed…which we called krypto or crippie. I think that was a south Florida thing though.
Ah, I’m in a border state, so brick weed was super easy to get. I had a buddy that would stuff a quart zip lock full for $40.
I personally find all of the high quality weed to be too strong. I don’t smoke enough to have a high tolerance, so even one hit can be too much. I wish shops would sell lower thc stuff, although I’ve had good success with D8
I’ve had Indiana ditch weed. There’s basically no THC in it at all. But it’s useful to sell to other high school kids who aren’t aware of that and then think they’re high when they smoke it.
schwag
That’s how you insult someone’s mids.
I had never heard that slang for weed before in my life and I was meeting up with an old friend about 10 years ago who was going to get weed for me and he said, “I can get mids.” And I said, “I don’t do pills, man. I’m just interested in weed.” I thought he said “meds.”
I hear mid and I think oh shit, cheaper for more that isn’t overpriced shiny crystal smelly shit but still almost smokes the same.
Kinda like every movie, song, and game ever describes as mid lol.
I swear people can’t just enjoy popcorn shit anymore which is all anything mid is. Sometimes I don’t want to watch the best movie ever. Sometimes I just want to watch stupid lighthearted comedy that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Sometimes I just want another stock standard Meteoidvania or Harvest Moon clone.
When you quit chasing new highs constantly, even the old highs work well. And I don’t even smoke lol.
Aladeen fam
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 guess what I mean is if you asked them with regard to the etymology… Ratchet is a word. It has a meaning highly disparate from “shitty.” Like, it’s a tool. A noun. It does things.
So kids using this word against its actual meaning, ask them why and they won’t understand.
Like if I asked you why you were using the word ratchet (say yesterday), which is a tool that helps turn bolts, in place of the word “shitty” and you’d be all 🤷♂️🤷♂️
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.
Nurse Ratchet has nothing to do with African American Vernacular English, or “ebonics”.
Just gonna add that bringing AAVE and education into the conversation (which has nothing to do with ebonics or education whatsoever) makes you come off a bit like a possible race baiting dog whistler. It’s an amazingly easy thing to avoid, so I’ve tagged you with a cute lil nickname to keep track.
Alright mate, I’ll just tag you as “cunt” in that case 👍
Right back atcha, fucknut.
I’m not the person accusing people of thought crimes for being class-conscious, I swear to God I’m so fed up of the internet.
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.”
It’s amazing watching young adults discover that their new fad is a rehash of concepts that are decades old.
You mean bellbottoms and “cottage core” aren’t new & edgy? D’oh.
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.
I always thought the word “ginormous” (a portmanteau of gigantic and enormous) was totally modern, but then I read a book published in 1943 by a Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot which had “ginormous” in its glossary section.
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.
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.
back in the 1920’s, mixtapes were rolls of paper for player pianos…
they called them “fire mixtapes” because you could use them to start a fire…
That’s fire 🔥
I was using sus as a kid 30 years ago. I’m quite confused by how it’s apparently a gen Z thing
Among Us
Yeah, I’d never heard “no cap”, but the other two almost feel old at this point.
My favorite part of growing older is misusing slang to pain The Youths™
Yeah that’s pretty yeet
Yeah that’s all rizzed up
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
My millennial (or maybe gen x) roommate spends a lot of time on tiltok, so she’s always teaching me (a gen z) new ‘gen z’ slang.
It’s fun, but on the other hand she has a pretty skewed perception of young people. She’s always watching engagement-bait content online, and she seems to think most people my age are complete idiots.
I mean don’t get me wrong, we are idiots, but we’re not a different species or anything lol.
Do not let generational gaps fool you, most people are idiots
People who complain about younger people are the biggest idiots who forgot that other idiots said the same about them a long time ago. Same with those who complain about older people a little too much.
Yup. I went to school and college with some monumental idiots back in the day. I had my moments too, of course. Idiocy transcends generations.
she seems to think most people my age are complete idiots.
Very boomer of her.
No. Gen Z is the future. The rest of us are dinosaurs.
Love, someone who manages students at a university.
but we’re not a different species or anything lol
[Citation Needed]
I’m Australian, I’ve been calling things sus since the 90s.
Same, it was just a happy accident that our slang made it mainstream I guess.
I’ll be keeping “AF”, thank you very much
They’re trying to change that to ASF 🙄
Mmm, no, rejected. AF is clean
Wtf is the s?
Literally the word “as”
Wt(a)f do they want from our slang?
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.
Exactly. I just had this argument with a couple of friends who were raised rich white kids, in the rich white neighborhood. They were criticizing me for appropriating black vernacular, and wouldn’t believe me that my entire neighborhood and school spoke that way. It’s inter-urban (poor) slang, not specifically black. Most of my neighborhood was Mexican, yet they all used these terms. Granted, they have different inflections on the words, but the vocabulary is pretty much the same. Anyways, now I have friends accusing me of racism for speaking the way I’ve spoken my entire life. I just hadn’t loosened up enough to speak that way around them before. Ain’t identity politics grand?
I find it charming in a way. Urban vernacular becoming the lingo of even contemporary rich kids.
Then again, I just said I found something charming, so maybe I’m out of touch.
There’s MLE (multicultural London English) in the UK. Must be similar all over.
I like to mix and match to annoy my younger brother. Example, “fr fr, no skibidy, on cap”.
I’m pretty sure skibidi isn’t even used except to annoy the youngins lol
Reminds me of skatman john I wonder if it’s a reference Frfr
I’m approaching 40 rapidly, I can’t say “based” without cringing.
Based God, Li’l B is 34, so don’t feel bad
Wait, it’s named after a guy!?!
Yo give me my walking cane, I’m out of this game.
#Bitches
#And
#Sex
#Every
#Day
I’m not making this up.
You’re not, but someone did. After the fact, I mean. Like not as part of its origin. Like as a lie.
No, no. This was Li’l B’s blueprint from the outset. Li’l B has bitches and sex every day. That’s how he became BasedGod. It’s like One Punch Man.
TIL lol
I’m almost 37 and dunno what based, rule, or no cap mean. They all make me cringe though.
I’ve found that if I don’t say those things and just treat younger people with respect then I don’t get made fun of for being old so much.
46 here. It irritates me for reasons I can’t explain.
I can. We’re old and it’s new.
I’m old and don’t mind it. I absolutely hate “yeet,” though.
That’s a millennialism.
I could swear “based” has been around about as long.
Well these things always have their roots in the past and get re-appropriated from other uses, but I don’t recall seeing the term before 2 - 3 years ago.
Based.
Based comment? lol
I… use sus all the time at 38… but I’m a gamer, and it’s kinda gaming slang.
That’s because gamer slang is made up of whatever shit kids are saying
Gamer slang is made up of whatever gamers are saying
Gamers are made up of whatever gamers are saying.
I use these terms sometimes, but I’m 26, I don’t feel old enough to be a millennial but not young enough to be Gen Z. I’m in college now though and I’m older than all my classmates and that makes me feel old as shit.
Zillenial gang
Hello fellow transitional generation member.
I feel like fire was ours unless it’s just been a localized slang. I feel like I’ve been saying it for like 10 years, maybe more. Maybe I just got the ole dementia.
Yeah, that’s one that I think just never totally went away but has had a resurgence
