Wake me up when dope and rad re-enter the lexicon.
I feel like every time I hear “neat” it’s meant semi-sarcastically. Like, okay, I guess that’s kind of interesting, but it’s not really relevant or I don’t know how to continue the conversation.
“So, not that it relates to anything we’re talking about, but I’m a world champion in this one very niche thing that you’ve never heard of.”
“…neat.”
It’s a plant in the genus Mentha, typically aromatic. But that’s not important right now.
When I was in 6th grade I was fucking cringe, little fucks these days acting like they ain’t.
When I was in 6th grade all the cool kids had band names in White-Out on their backpacks. I’d only ever listened to my parents’ music so I was clueless. One day I went home and put all the bands on my backpack I could remember. First thing the next day, I’m pressed to name a single Korn song and I failed.
6th grade was hell.
At leas toys had some idea of what was going on. There’s kids today who think Nirvana is a clothing brand
Slay and serve are part of the drag/queer community lexicon that were made popular (iirc) in the NY ballroom scene. No one cares when 6th graders use them or if they stop.
If you watch queer media or hang out with The Gays, you’ll hear them all the time. They’re a bit campy, but not cringe.
But the most important part of the best meme ever is ROFL
No gif?
Edit: was easier to find than I had anticipated.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Roflcopter.gif
Turn that link into an embed with  (the exclamation mark makes it an embed, rather than a hyperlink. The description isn’t technically necessary for the embed to work visually but may aid screen readers.).
I may be wrong but I believe the description is what is read by screen readers to help those with visual impairments.
My roflcopter goes soisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoisoi
Someday cringe will be cringe, and sick will be sick again.
I was playing pokemon with my 7 year old nephew and he kept saying “{x pokemon} has sick moves bro”, so maybe that time has already come. Although to be fair he also said “These noodles are on god” and then leaned over and whispered “that means really good.” So maybe he’s not exactly the best arbiter of gen alpha vernacular lol
At that age, kids are absorbing stuff from their parents still because they haven’t yet realized that their parents aren’t cool.
I wonder if that’s what keeps the whole thing at least somewhat coherent. While a generation of teenagers figures out how they will talk, the younger generation absorbs words and phrases from both their immediate seniors as well as their parents’ generation, resulting in a base that’s still close to where their parents are. Maybe without that, we’d have entire new languages every few generations.
Hmm that might even be the mechanism that causes fashion trends to repeat on a 20-30 year cycle.
