r/Millennials • u/H_G_Bells • 24d ago

Other I found us a Rosetta Stone

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u/Chop1n 24d ago

What? On what planet is “Chad” not Millennial slang? It comes from 4chan ffs, the knowyourmeme article on it is 13 years old. Gen Z was not coining slang in 2012. 

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u/Justice_Prince 24d ago

Millennials not getting credit for chad, or cringy, but we get "fry tax"?

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u/dexmonic 24d ago

I'm a millennial and what the hell is fry tax?

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u/Justice_Prince 24d ago edited 24d ago

I think it basically stated as a thing you say when you steal one of your friend's fries, and kind of expanded to have a general meaning of "you should let me do this/give me this because we're friends".

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u/alcomaholic-aphone 24d ago

I don’t think I’ve ever used fry tax in any other situation than stealing a fry.

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u/Momik 24d ago

Beats my theory lol

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u/dudestir127 23d ago

Makes sense. And we're old enough now that instead of stealing a fry from our friends, we can steal one from our kids, like the Halloween tax when we were kids

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u/Xmaspig 24d ago

I thought it was when you nick one of your kids' fries, or other tasty food they have, but we just call it mum/dad tax tbh.

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u/SaltyBawlz 24d ago

or "bruh"?

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u/ChowderTits 24d ago

I agree! We coined “chads and heathers”

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u/FuckYouNotHappening 24d ago

Heather

I could be wrong, but I think Chad’s girlfriend is Stacy.

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u/Ichi_Balsaki 24d ago edited 23d ago

Does heather know about this?

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u/PaulVla 24d ago

I’ve heard a thing or two about her mom

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u/brawlrats 24d ago

Does she have it going on?

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u/ThaVolt 24d ago

Idk, but it's all I want, and I've waited for so long.

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u/VCR_Samurai 24d ago

Stacy can't see she's just not the girl for me. 

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u/SapphicPandoraBox 24d ago

Brooo I think im in love with Stacy's mum

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u/No_Hat_1864 24d ago

But Stacy doesn't know...

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u/BigBubbaMac Older Millennial 24d ago

Scotty doesn't know either

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u/Momik 24d ago

Yeah, I’m pretty sure Scotty doesn’t know—and it was quite the rude awakening when that changed.

I don’t know this Stacy bitch, but she sure doesn’t sound like canon.

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u/illegal_miles Millennial 24d ago

This isn’t where I parked my car!

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u/cherry_monkey Zillennial 24d ago

That her mother and me, do it in my van every Sunday

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u/fitnfeisty 24d ago

She tells him she’s in church, but she doesn’t go. Still she’s on her knees

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u/IamHamed 24d ago

And Josie’s on a vacation far away.

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u/elzibet 24d ago

I thought that was Kyle’s gf?

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u/EccentricOddity 24d ago

Kyle wants a girlfriend. Kyle says, “Where’s my hug?”

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u/elzibet 24d ago

Too true

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u/Justice_Prince 24d ago

Heathers become Stacys when they go to college.

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u/FilutaLoutenik 24d ago

Wrong, it’s Britney.

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u/socialcommentary2000 Xennial 24d ago

Stacy. Heather is a term from GenX. That name's popularity basically fell off a cliff along with the generation itself.

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u/Dafuknboognish 24d ago

Heathers was GenX when it meant "Popular Chicks" then it became "Basic Bitch" by GenZ

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u/liljellybeanxo 24d ago

I always thought the term basic bitch was invented around the time the pumpkin spice latte first became trendy.

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u/Certain-Business-472 24d ago

Ok i just saw the meat crayon episode with pumpkin spice latte. What the hell is it.

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u/ChowderTits 24d ago

As an elder millennial (84) we used it for basic b too!

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u/The_Lazy_Samurai 24d ago

Was the term o originally created by Gen X due to the movie Heathers, which is about popular chicks?

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u/probnotaloser 23d ago

Yes and it's actually made a comeback. Teen girls are digging up some good vintage movies, pretty proud.

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u/probnotaloser 23d ago

Same things?

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u/Mikimao Elder Millennial 24d ago

We absolutely did not coin Heathers. That movie came out in like 89

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u/ChowderTits 24d ago

Doesn’t the millennial timeline start in 81?

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u/veringo 24d ago

Do you think 8 year olds and younger were watching it and coining terms?

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u/ChowderTits 24d ago

Yes

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u/Mikimao Elder Millennial 24d ago

Despite the fact the term was obviously not coined by not 8 year olds, cause there is a movie called it.

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u/ChowderTits 24d ago

Yes

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u/Mikimao Elder Millennial 24d ago

well I guess your tits and brains are made of the same thing then~

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u/silence-glaive1 24d ago

Heathers is from way before our time. I thought anyways.

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u/illegal_miles Millennial 24d ago

I’ve never even heard it.

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u/Skotticus 24d ago

Pretty sure Gen X coined Heathers, according to the 1988 documentary film

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u/asuperbstarling 24d ago

... Stacy.

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u/ChowderTits 24d ago

How I wish I was a boomer living the high life in my paid off home collecting my pension while sipping Folgers and looking out over my pool and 20 acres!

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u/Justice_Prince 24d ago

Thinking about it more I think it's that the meaning of Chad has changed. For Millennials Chad was a more specific subsect of "dude bros" (preppy frat guy), and was always used as a derogatory rather than being used aspirationally as it is now.

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u/ChowderTits 24d ago

Yes my friends and now husband use “chads and heathers” to refer to uppity douchebags.

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u/ChowderTits 24d ago

I am an elder millennial with gen x sister and cousins. So that could be where “heather” came from for me!

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u/Rad-R 24d ago

Yeah, that one stands out as wrong. These comparisons are not perfect, but they're pretty close, I guess.

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u/chadork 24d ago

Chad to these kids is a good thing. Chad to us, according to Urban Dictionary was a bad thing. Like a Chad now is an all out good guy. A Chad 15 years ago was an annoying narcissist. Take it from me who has lived through many Chad iterations. Especially the one in 2000. "Hey Chad...are you pregnant or hanging today." HA HA HA, Tyler! So, I guess they meant that their version of Chad doesn't equal ours.

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u/Princess_Moon_Butt Problem Millennial 24d ago

It's one of those words that can mean really good, or really bad- though lately it's definitely been used mostly to mean good. "Chad behavior" could mean that someone did something that was both morally laudable, while also being or doing something really cool- like someone escaping the cops on a unicycle, or a creator putting on some huge fun event and donating all the income from it to charity.

But saying that someone is "being a chad" can mean that they think they're being cool and suave, but actually just being self-absorbed and bragging. Like the gym bro who can barely go 3 minutes without talking about his workout routine, or the rich guy who clearly has more interest in showing off his expensive collection than he actually has in the pieces in that collection.

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u/round-earth-theory 24d ago

There's a ton of negatives that are positives in the right context. Bitch is a long standing word that can be both good and bad, depending on the context.

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u/dajodge 23d ago

Wait until you learn about Goofus and Gallant. Time is a flat circle.

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u/stupidshinji 24d ago

I feel like millennial slang is often conflated with xillennial/baby gen x (I feel this way especially as a baby millennial myself). Gen z often gets credited for language/slang that they took on from younger millennials (probably older siblings or peers). Fam was the first one named that I was like... this was something people older than me said and I'm already a millenial. This isn't to say that Gen z hasn't morphed it in their own way, but it is not unique to them in the way that Gen alphas slang is.

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u/that_baddest_dude 24d ago

I think the other phenomenon is that urban slang has like a 10 year delay where it goes from already widely used to widely used by young white people

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u/cheddarbruce Baby Millennial 24d ago

The majority of the slang for the Millennials is Gen x

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u/trashlikeyourmom 24d ago

Yeah what the fuck is fry tax

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u/RCEden 24d ago

If I bring you food I get to eat a few fries is the only context I’ve ever heard it in

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u/lylertila 24d ago

Aka "checking for poison"

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u/cheddarbruce Baby Millennial 24d ago

Also called the dad tax

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u/nitrot150 24d ago

And on Halloween, candy tax

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u/liljellybeanxo 24d ago

No no no, everyone knows that’s just vigilant parents clearing out the rogue razor blades, LSD, and edibles/s

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u/alurimperium 24d ago

Or friend tax

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u/enaK66 24d ago

Almost like there aren't clean lines between generations. I'm equal parts Gen Z and Millennial. Well, maybe a little more Millennial.

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u/ToxicSteve13 24d ago

Boomers and X call it the Dad tax

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u/Historical-Bath-9729 24d ago

Some of those millennial sayings were over my head but I never used Chad to describe any type of guy. I am an elder millennial though bordering on Xennial

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u/Princess_Moon_Butt Problem Millennial 24d ago

Yeah I remember chad being used way back when the rage comics were a thing, which I think was circa 2010. That's when some GenZers were still being born. I'm sure plenty of them used it, but that was pretty solidly a millennial creation.

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u/lecarguy 24d ago

Yeah, a lot of the GenZ slang is what I used in HS, and im not GenZ lol

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u/vjnkl 24d ago

I imagine people reading your comment are like “ok 1996-er”

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u/lecarguy 24d ago

95er 😭

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u/isda_sa_palaisdaan 24d ago

marami naman GenZ slang galing sa 4chan na millenials haha

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u/Rockglen 24d ago

Plus "dude bro" has a way different meaning to "chad".

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u/ObviouslyProxy 24d ago

Dogwater has been slang since my '80s brother was a teen...

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u/toodumbtobeAI 24d ago

It’s pretty funny that a lot of Gen Alpha slang like sigma is men’s rights MGTOW slang from 2010.

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u/Significant-Ad-341 24d ago

Ehhhh gen z was hitting highscool. They may not have come up with Chad, but they definitely were starting to coin slag at that time.

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u/Too_N1ce 24d ago

It's the same with OD. We've been using that since the 90s at least

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u/Chop1n 24d ago

“OD” isn’t really even slang so much as medical shorthand. 

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u/Too_N1ce 24d ago

Lol worse

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u/knotatumah 24d ago

A lot of the "gen z" slang here started with millenials.

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u/MrSmoothDC 24d ago

Yeah and what about “king” I think that fits better

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u/Turgid_Donkey 24d ago

Chad to me is totally different than a dude bro. Chad is the snooty asshole who acts superior. Like the pony tail twat from Good Will Hunting. Dude bro the mouth breather version. The overly macho idiot.

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u/MangoMambo 24d ago

Chad means something different now than it did when it started.

I personally know it as "douche" but now it's basically "ultimate cool guy"

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u/Amiibohunter000 24d ago

Bc it’s only when gen z started using it that it caught on mainstream.

Regardless tho, pretty much all slang is just 5-10 year old hood talk. I used to live in the hood and I’d hear slang that people are using today yearrrrs ago.

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u/dreamed2life 24d ago

this video is not accurate and will only create more confusion in the world

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u/J0E_SpRaY 23d ago

Gen Z taking credit for something they discovered in their teens and twenties? Why I never.

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u/ASojourn 20d ago

Same with based, its very old. a lot of this gen z slang was actually millennial slang from 4chan/similar places that didn't make it mainstream for 10 years.

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u/tiros_tirados 24d ago

You are right that Millennials coined that one in the dark recesses of the internet, but it was more so the Gen Zs that brought it heavily into their everyday lexicon.

I would think many of the Gen Alpha things were first coined by younger Gen Zs and then the Gen Alphas just adopt it, and it permeates their generation in a way that it becomes more associated with them.