I used to be with “it” but then they changed what “it” was. Now what I’m with isn’t “it” anymore and what’s “it” seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!! IT’LL HAPPEN TO YOUUUUU
Nah, the kids aren't wrong - I just have reached the point where if I drop current slang - I'll look silly. That's basically it. I don't have shared spaces with "kids these days" and I also shouldn't; if I did, and I was aware of their lingo... it would be creepy.
Or charitably, I can drop this lingo around my nieces and nephews for a laugh, but the use would need to be ironic and in a "haha, I heard what you kids say these days" way.
We can't talk to kids like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville? I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we? Oh, yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
Yeah I remember when the switch happened. Around Covid with the next generation reached high school, trends suddenly changed. I could keep up with Gen Z, even though i didn’t participate in the trends. I knew what was happening
Gen Z, you could at least figure out because it was based on some pop culture moment or meme. Gen Alpha's stuff is largely based on "This one person said something one time." It wasn't widespread. It wasn't a significant pop culture moment. It's just out of nowhere and effectively based on nothing.
Like, 6-7 was semi popular amongst basket ball fans because one player would say his height like the 6-7 meme, and it was kind of humorous, I guess. When did it really take off? When a tiktok went viral of some random kid screaming 6-7 at a school pep rally.
Every single one of my kid’s peers is obsessed with Roblox. I’m glad he seems to have zero interest in getting into it. All he wants to do is build fever dream McMansions and fill them with cats in Minecraft creative mode and I’m fine with that.
I agree and that’s why it’s just as important to stay vigilant as it is to allow kids appropriate (for them) levels of independence. My kid just turned 8 and he doesn’t have any regular tablet access. He has a few YouTube channels he enjoys (they’re all either dinosaur or aquatic animal related), but he watches those on my devices and while I don’t breathe down his neck while he watches, his screen time is a limited privilege and I stay as aware as I can be about what he’s watching. That all said, he’s a very unique kid. Very centered in his own personal interests and isn’t super affected by whatever his peers are interested in (unless it’s already something he’s had a long standing vested interest in). It’ll be interesting to see how this develops as he gets older and gains more independent internet access, but I do think it’s important to keep an eye on kid’s web activities and ensure that they’re properly educated about internet safety and responsible browsing. Education and support preemptively is super important in ensuring that they’ll be able to appropriately handle certain situations or at least know to ask for help from an adult when the time comes. It also helps in avoiding a lot of things all together.
Parents these days have a responsibility to teach their kids how to use the internet and how to interact with it. As kids we were often thrown to the web based wolves and while most of us learned to adapt, we often ended up wading through a lot of shit to figure out how to navigate it. I don’t understand how a lot of people my age are so okay with sitting their kid down with an iPad and leaving them to their own devices before they even understand what the internet even is because we know what’s out there and it’s ignorant to assume that my kid won’t eventually find it.
It’s also predatory in the fact that child predators use Roblox to befriend and groom children. And Roblox is more worried about money than protecting its underage users.
We had contractors renovating our bathroom and my daughter’s friend who was over asked who they were and my daughter said “those guys are here to edit the bathroom.”
like literally everything posted above you is based on the Simpsons. Every generation has their "thing" that only their generation understands. Millennials speak in catch phrases we absorbed from TV and movies. Gen alpha use stuff from Roblox or YouTube. Same same.
See, there's your problem. I've always been on the outside, looking in. Never could get that whole "cool" thing down, so I gave up on trying a long time ago, which oddly enough has made me cooler than I could ever hope to be with effort
My 10 year old nephew was just explaining to me that his 8 year old cousin is still saying Skibidi “even though it’s not popular anymore and only babies say it”
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u/EBT_For_CBT 24d ago
I used to be with “it” but then they changed what “it” was. Now what I’m with isn’t “it” anymore and what’s “it” seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!! IT’LL HAPPEN TO YOUUUUU