I’m sorry, I’m on the fence. I’m all onboard calling “rizz” and “skibidi” cringe, but I’m never going to stop slaying or serving.

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5 points

Especially the phrase slay queen.

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I don’t slay queens, I serve them

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73 points

Slay and Serve are very much alive in drag communities.

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63 points

They’ve been around before and will stay around after. Pop culture was just borrowing it.

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132 points

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.

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58 points

Only because 11 year olds aren’t familiar with serving cunt yet

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6 points

*american 11 year olds

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17 points

This is more about the dissemination of these terms into popular lingo. There’s an interesting trend of queer scene words getting picked up by the general population, usually starting with the younger generation and spreading out from there.

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24 points

drag/queer community … NY ballroom scene

Might explain why I didn’t know “serve”

Thanks :)

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33 points

We can still say “fuck!” When we fucked up right?

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9 points

We’re back to “crud” and “shucks” now boomer

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2 points

Oh crud!

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9 points

I fuck up on the regular, should I be concerned about my karma scores in regards to exclaiming “ah, fuck” or classics such as “good job fuckknuckle”?

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3 points

Shit I gotta use that!..fuckknuckle!

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4 points

6th graders are not arbiters of slang. 15-24 year olds are.

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