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    Alternative title: use these words if you want your kid to never say them again

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        I like to use their words incorrectly to mess with them. Come up behind them playing Minecraft: “Are you playing that Roblox?” Or "For Real No Cat?’

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        it’s like these words have some kind of hidden meaning and when we (the olden folks) use them it debases their value.

        which simply encourages me to use the more. “This shit has skibidi ohio rizz all over, no cap no fleek stream”

        I have no idea what this incantation means, but it drives my children bonkers. feel free to try it.

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    I am 51, so Gen-X, but I have been a skater, surfer, gamer and chronically online most of my life (BBS old schooler!). In other words, my speak has always included current terms which I use unironically. Except rizz. Rizz is just cringe AF.

    There is no such thing as generational slang. There is just slang.

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    A lot of those are GenZ slang not Gen alpha slang.
    Gen Alpha aren’t going to have their own slang that’s not completely cringe until the ladder half gets to highschool. RN they’re barely in middle school.

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        Not to mention “barley in middle school”

        I don’t know about you, but I think that’s pretty good for a cereal crop.

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          They’re just now figuring out what “beat your meat” actually means, give them time, for now/so far everything they’ve come up with is cringe AF. Same thing happened with GenZ & millennials, first was an adoption & adaptation of older slang mixed with cringe as hell new slang that faded out of popularity, then overtime much better slang evolved.
          They’re still in that “I’m a potato” phase of slang development.

          Edit : NVM, dyslexia moment.

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            I don’t think being cringe really exists when it comes to kids. They are developing into who they are/will be.

            Adults on the other hand like myself I could say can be, because we are supposed to(according to culture) have figured out who we are, so when we do something out of place it is an attention seeking act that went poorly often times. So when I say a bad joke, I can come across as cringy, or even me trying to explain myself here can come across as cringy. But kids, we need to cut them a lot more slack. We shouldn’t be punching down on adults either, but if we start by supporting those kids finding themselves maybe it’ll grow with time and eventually maybe anyone can say something dumb and not feel like they should shove their head in the sand, but rather feel safe in their own insecurity and be supported by people around them.

            Love for those feeling insecure may be the change they needed to not lash out negatively, whether against themselves or others.

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              Slang can be cringe though, that’s the problem. In order for slang to have wide adoption it needs to be highly flexible & versatile and importantly not too cringe to say in an IRL conversation. Just look at the word “cringe” itself, it lives on from the Millennial era with some slight adaptation. It’s not that Gen Alpha is inherently cringe, just that the slang they have are too early in development.

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        Latter means “comes last” not first.
        *Former
        If you’re going to correct someone at least make sure you’re right yourself.

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      You sound like you are skibitty rizz no cap gyayted bruh face millionaire cash money money money maypoll. Why you so chedduh blonde bearing that shits not tight mofo. Tubular.

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    The onion should do a satire version of this article…

    #1) BizzBop: a can of soda

    #2) shaplopped: sitting down in your chair too hard

    #3) smooly-D: having difficulty keeping aim at the urinal.

    #4) snorkeling: to have such abundance that you are euphemistically ‘swimming’ in something.

    Last night I shaplopped, was snorkeling in bizzbop so hard that my smooly-D was straight killing it.

    What else y’all got?

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      Sunko - a derogatory term for someone who holds strong beliefs in something despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. One who is subject to the sunk cost fallacy fallacy.

      Example: These sunko boomers still think trickle-down economics are legit. Jokes on them, the only thing trickling down will be their piss down their own legs when the underfunded state nursing home caretakers ignore them for 3 days straight after we refuse to subsidise their geriatricity.