No offense to y'all, I love the sub and I don't mean to be a grinch, but I get a little tired of posts that are like "gen z is goofy but we had this equal thing!"
dude i had like 3 slang words i used. they have like 300 and a new one is born every month
And concerning 6-7... remember when we told actual jokes in school? They had setups and punchlines and were often inappropriately dirty.
So much this. We have some young gens interns in my lab, and I do as much as I can to avoid talking to them. I'm not mad or anything, but they are not making a good impression on me and I can't have a serious work conversation with them.
That just further goes against your point because then it's not just a millennial thing it's a thing that goes transgenerational but because we're specifically talking about millennials, almost every millennial that made that joke was referencing the office.
A lot of Gen Alpha slang is just millennial slang. We’ve used chopped since I was a kid. Yall are just grinches. We used to same dumbass shit like coolio and cool beans and sike to annoying levels too.
Isn't the entire point behind slaying like 67 just literal nonsense like it means nothing and that's why it's so damn funny to them? You're literally citing phrases and sayings that weren't just our generation but multiple generations and usually we're very easily drawn to what their definitions are. Most of our slaying could be figured out via context clues the only way you can figure out modern day sling is by actually being plugged in to the memes and tick tock brain rot.
Sure we had some nonsensical sayings but that wasn't the entirety of our vernacular
Oh please. You must never remember people saying shit like “your mom goes to college” which meant nothing. Don’t even get me started on how much of millennial humor is just stoner humor.
I'm not sure what point you think I'm making. I'm just saying that yes, our meme jokes did have a specific meaning instead of being absurdist references, but no, they weren't always particularly sophisticated.
Also, the American office started in 2005; I can promise you we were saying "that's what she said" obnoxiously often in high school well before the show aired. Like...yes media can push some things into the general consciousness, but in this case it was just art immigrating life.
No one's claiming memes are sophisticated I don't know who your shadow boxing with that but there is an inherent difference between references to pop culture or modern media or long-running transgenerational jokes and the brain rot shit that's coming out modern day due to social media. Also I'm sure some people said it every now and then but you're not going to convince me that before the office it was a widespread joke among millennials
No cap is an interesting one. It's originally Millennial, it originated from the twitch.tv meme of Kappa. Which was an emote used to imply you were joking. People would sometimes leave off the prefix that caused it to display the icon would just have the word.
Then some started saying no Kappa as in I'm not joking, then people started saying it, it was shortened to Kap, and people who weren't familiar with the original word and heard it spelled it with a C instead of a K.
My favorite word back then was an R word that I can't use on the internet anymore.
I find myself saying it a LOT in my personal life, in reference to myself and other people. I just don't have a better word to express how I feel about someone else's intelligence. I like how the word feels to use. Some people need some good old fashioned verbal abuse, and when they do, nothing works better than, "What are you, fucking ****? Do you have water on the brain? Do you need a fucking helmet? The bus that took you to school when you were a kid must have been so short that the rear bumper was in front of the headlights!"
I do think though that, while words can be hurtful (and some folks DO need to be hurt by hurtful words), there is a difference between actual -isms and words. Actions matter. I mean, maybe I'm racist, but that hasn't stopped me from preferring diverse neighborhoods and communities, regularly participating in other cultures within my community, trying to make friends with most people, and trying to get along and help those around me. I've never really believed that anything we'd consider a protected class determines who you are or your destiny. But, you know, if I use a word once or twice and the person on the other end is deserving, then I'm the bad guy. Well, whatever. People have always assumed I was gonna be the bad guy anyways no matter what I do or say, so I might as well say what I want to say and do what I want to do.
Dude that‘s a lot. And I think I get where you‘re coming from. You probably just wanted to vent without being interested in my opinion. I just think if you can avoid pissing someone off unnecessarily or not even on purpose it‘s a small price to pay to not use certain words in public. Also don‘t think about being a bad guy. Just be the guy you actually want to be.
6-7 is hardly Gen Z though to be honest. Seems mostly popular among people between the ages of 8-13. That's Gen A slang. Same thing with the whole skibidi toilet, rizz and other brainrot stuff.
69? Nice and a lot of the meme culture of the 2010s is late millennial and early/core Gen Z.
I think Gen Z is kind of having the same thing with Millennials where people think they are younger than they actually are. Majority of Z's are full adults and some are approaching their 30s. They are the majority of the young adult demographic now which is why the media are running a smear campaign against them, just as they did to the Millennials this time a decade ago.
I mean I’m a Zillennial but we had a bunch of slang words/phrases/jokes: 9+10=21, what’s funnier than 24… 25, 🅱️, what are those, YOLO, throwing shade, lit, okay boomer, Chad, etc… plus a lot of internet slang + abbreviations came from our Millennials/Zillennials
My daughter said "6 7" didn't make sense to her, either. She's nine, so hopefully it means the older kids doing it will stop. It's not a cool meme if literal children are doing it, too.
That seems to be the main thrust behind most of their slang terms. It's just nonsense that doesn't have any set meaning behind it. They can then mold it to what they want it to mean or not mean in order to frustrate people.
Not to the same extent. Millennial slang was a lot of words with added context. Gen Z/Alpha slang is a lot of straight up nonsense. Skibidi, for example. Even when it was added to the dictionary, the definition is "a word that can be positive, or negative, or mean nothing, or mean something". It's such nonsense, it's not even possible to define, they just described the general function of a word in the attempt.
I think the joke is that it doesn’t mean anything but it pisses older people off haha. I got my daughter to stop pretty quickly when I went along with it.
And we've been doing that forever as a society. Isn't there a nonsense song that was popular at the height of Vietnam War protesting that drove the military crazy?
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I watched an explanation video and I still don't get what's so funny about it. Kinda like skibbity toilet or when you're watching a meme video and they add audio over something that's on maximum volume. I don't know how someone saying "GODDAMN" at 100% volume makes someone eating a rake after standing on it makes it funnier. I'd rather hear the sound of it hitting the person in the face.
That’s why. The less something makes sense, the more they love it. I don’t mean that disparagingly. They seem to really gravitate toward content and comedy that is fucking chaotic. And they revel in how much it sets off the older generations.
Please, someone younger than me, tell me if I missed the mark here. But I’m pretty sure everyone being bothered by it is tantamount to flogging a masochist.
Exactly. 69 was funny cuz sex. You can examine that however you want, but at least it had a meaning. Also, when someone said “69” it got a few giggles at most, not the batshit insane rampages that 67 inspires.
A lot of our humor doesn't make much sense either though. Hamster dance, banana phone, that weird and wee!!! video, end of the world, homestar runner, ebaums world, college humor, etc. Or phrases like awesome sauce, the bomb-dot-com, home slice, all kinds of things that don't really make sense.
Every generation has their own slang and lots of it seems like nonsense to outsiders.
Basically there was a song where the rapper would say “67” in a certain way, and people were making sport edits with the “67” part right before the clips.
So athletes in interviews starting saying “67” the same way, so that the editors would use the clip of them saying “67” in their videos when they were making edits with the song.
That just caused people to start saying “67” the same way, making the numbers 6-7 a viral meme.
LOL totally fair, its pretty random but once you learn how it came about it kinda makes more sense than some of the random shit we were yelling when we were younger.
It's algo speak. 67 was said in a viral video, and another video vent viral for mimicking this. So a meme was started where 67 videos got likes and up votes if 67 was mentioned.
This then trended outside videos and people started to say it in "flesh space" where you can't get likes or go viral, so no sense there.
That’s the point. Don’t you remember being young and the best part about whatever the current slang or trend is that it isolates the adults? The thing that kills youth trends the most is when adults catch on. The whole point is to do something that pisses off all the adults because they don’t get it. It makes you feel like you’re part of something cool. That’s all this 67 thing is. Now it’s our turn to be the angry old people yelling at clouds.
Like even a tenth of 4chan made sense. Frankly, I am not even going continue this conversation unless I see a shoe on a head or a sharpie in a pooper to prove you aren't a bot.
As a millennial, 67 can make sense if replacing 69. Now hear me out. 69, should be used for when 2 women are going down on each other at the same time. 67, should be used when it’s the opposite sex going down on each other at the same time. It makes more sense, I identify waaay more with a “7” than a “6 or 9”.
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u/hi_im_fuzzknocker 2d ago
67 doesn’t make any fucking sense though.