I reject "sus" being zoomer exclusive. Among Us has been a huge hit for 5 years now, was popular across demographics, and made an appearance in Glass Onion, which is the boomeriest Millennial movie ever.
The rest of it, sure, go off fam.
I agree, but for a different reason. I had an Aussie friend that said "sus" all the time on IRC, and that was in the 00's, so it well predates Among Us.
Ok, maybe suss is Australian. I was surprised to see it listed with "on cap" because I've heard suss being said all my life by a wide range of people, but I did grow up in Australia.
I have appropriated “sus” and “yeet” and sometimes “gucci”…I think those don’t even come from the same gens of slang, but they feel right in a sentence. Especially yeet.
"That's fire" has an Urban Dictionary entry from 2007.
Yeah, that one was ours.
Filthy little hobbitses always stealing, always thieving, trying to take away our precious
My dad is in his 50s and has being using fire as an adjective for as long as I can remember
As a millennial, describing something as fire, or mids, that was us. Y'all youngings are appropriating old people culture. That's how we described weed in the 2000s.
Edit: also when kids were saying 'ratchet', that was a direct descendent of Nurse Ratchet in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Ken Keasy used that name to be a homonym for "rat shit." Next time you hear so e drop 'ratchet,' ask them what it means. They won't even know.
It's weird how old slang crops up like that. Ratchet was like, the 60s.
Edit2: I predict "kind" will get taken in, like "KB" or "kind bud" to mean "dope". Like "you those shoes are kind, fam".
I also predict that "beasters" might make it's way in, but "beast" already meaning "dominate" might trip it up, because "beasters" were weed that was grown rushed with phosphates in the soil in indoor hydroponic labs, and that shit had lower THC content than most mids, looked better, but smelled off. Dead giveaway was hollow stems. Idk. Calling beats by dre headphones "beasters" would be a fitting insult to their products.
Fleek died the moment someone managed to get that fire started. Good riddance.
"Yo" is another one that the Zoomers love. I haven't heard so much usage of that word since the mid 90s. And "bruh" is just another form of "bro"/"brah".
Another good example is when twerking made a comeback a few years ago, despite not being a thing since 2000s hip hip.
Others dislike the word "Mid" because it's youth slang
I dislike the word "Mid" because it's often used to imply that average is bad
I had this conversation with one of my kids recently:
Her: "This thing is gas!"
Me: "Gas? Why are you talking like your grandpa in 1965?"
Her: " What are you yapping about? They don't know what 'gas' means!"
Me: "You wanna bet? Ain't you ever heard that Rolling Stones song? Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a gas...?'
Her: "Bruh..."
Me: "Don't shoot the messenger."
It's amazing watching young adults discover that their new fad is a rehash of concepts that are decades old.
In the 90s, when everyone started using the word fat/phat, I found out from an article that it's usage that way could be traced back to 1920s jazz musicians. Everything old is new again.
Me looking at this meme nearing 40..."pretty sure we used sus and fire as teenagers".
Then again I didn't grow up in USA and we had different "hip" words.
fire and sus have been around for ages but gen z can have the lack of caps.
My favorite part of growing older is misusing slang to pain The Youths™
Growing up, I thought adults were out of touch. Now I realize that kids just take some things way too seriously and it's hilarious to exploit.
Yeah that's pretty yeet
Yeah that's all rizzed up
My millennial (or maybe gen x) roommate spends a lot of time on tiltok, so she's always teaching me (a gen z) new 'gen z' slang.
It's fun, but on the other hand she has a pretty skewed perception of young people. She's always watching engagement-bait content online, and she seems to think most people my age are complete idiots.
I mean don't get me wrong, we are idiots, but we're not a different species or anything lol.
Do not let generational gaps fool you, most people are idiots
Growing up is realizing your parents were idiots too.
Highly disorienting to realize that the world is run by idiots.
And also invented the atom bomb.
In the glim flickering light, a moth invents a lightbulb which outshines the sun.
I try not to think too hard about it, for optimistic reasons.
I'm Australian, I've been calling things sus since the 90s.
Same, it was just a happy accident that our slang made it mainstream I guess.
It's all predominantly young kids adopting/appropriating American Black vernacular and calling it their own. Millennials did it, genz does it. Go ahead and down vote me, my back hurts.
I like to mix and match to annoy my younger brother. Example, "fr fr, no skibidy, on cap".
I'm using it ironically so it's OK
That's how it subtley becomes part of your vocabulary without your knowledge.
I use these terms sometimes, but I'm 26, I don't feel old enough to be a millennial but not young enough to be Gen Z. I'm in college now though and I'm older than all my classmates and that makes me feel old as shit.
I... use sus all the time at 38... but I'm a gamer, and it's kinda gaming slang.
That’s because gamer slang is made up of whatever shit kids are saying
I feel like fire was ours unless it's just been a localized slang. I feel like I've been saying it for like 10 years, maybe more. Maybe I just got the ole dementia.
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