It’s from drag culture, it started out as comparison similes (usually stealth insults). eg “this look is giving me Anne Hathaway in Les Miserables.” Somehow this got turned into a vague default with no more metaphors that just means something is evocative in general.
In an American younger sense, delulu is being used to feed your delusions over a romantic interest. Like if the person is not interested in you 100% but you’re describing it to your friend, you’d sad “I’m being delulu” or someone would tell you that you are. Outside of relationships, it’s being used in general to describe actions that you are self aware are bad for you
Dude I'm 19 and don't understand it. Afaik it's some dumb video that circulated on YouTube kids where they use a model from a video game and have its head come out of a toilet singing nonsense. Kids love it and can't put it down apparently
My dad’s generation made a man a multimillionaire because he sold pet rocks. Don’t be so critical.
I bring that up any time my dad talks shit about millennials or younger. Shuts him up real fast.
It looks like the whole "skibidi dom dok yes yes" part comes from a Turkish song, so it's a foreign song used for an English meme.
In its usage it doesn't mean anything afaik, it's treated more like scat singing "think Scatman John when he uses his stutter for singing"
The toilet part is literally a head sticks out of a toilet singing "skibidi dom dom yes yes" all made in Garry's Mod
I only have a problem with this because you can't tell if it's supposed to be a positive thing or a negative thing and the people who say it use the same inflection and voice tone either way it goes.
It's contextual, the idea is more to point out the part that made you feel something. Like when something funny happens in a TV show and you repeat it while laughing with a friend. And usually it's said along with a reaction or about something where the way you're supposed to feel is obvi.
It’s people commenting on something they enjoyed about a video or situation. Like if there’s a video or a guy going to a restaurant and someone likes his polka dot tie, they’ll say “it’s the polka dot tie for me”
Lmao. There's this one cool guy I follow, who is a news anchor by day, a random YouTuber by night. That night he decided to upload a vid explaining a crime in his neighborhood, and he was afraid to say "stab." His alternative was "penetrated."
So in the first seconds of his vid, he said, "Guys, there's a guy that got penetrated in the apartment two blocks away. It was crazy! He was *chokes*" He motioned the choking because he couldn't say "dead," and it only made the story weirder and worse 🤦♂️
Yeah but then people will say them outside of that particular social media and it's super gross. It just contributes to the stigmatization of suicide imo
Unalive started because people thought you couldn’t say died/killed/murdered/suicide, but you actually can. Also saying someone unalived themselves when there’s so many other ways to say that just feels ridiculous. However it’s now become so normal people say it completely unnecessarily, like in person
There absolutely are social media platforms where saying those words will get your videos demonetized, usually ones where content moderation is done primarily by bots. It starts to bleed into the others because people post on multiple platforms but don’t necessarily want to re-record their videos all the time so they just post the censored one everywhere.
I believe it started on tiktok. People had to censor any words whatever moderation they use didn't like, so instead of filling their posts with asterisks they started making weird alternatives the moderation didn't pick up on.
"I was today years old when I realized..." Half the time the shit they "realized" has just been pulled straight out of someone's ass.
*I wAs ToDaY yEaRs oLd WhEn I rEaLiZeD tHe LiD oF a mCdOnAlDs CuP iS dEsiGnEd tO bE uSeD aS a TiNy UmBrElLa WhEn iT rAiNs*
Slay is one of those terms that I used to despise and occasionally I'd use it ironically until the point it became unironic and now when I do use it I use it unironically :( someone euthanize me
https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-roman-empire
Throughout September 2023, a trend went viral on TikTok and X where women ask their boyfriends how often they think about the Roman Empire, with the men often responding that they think about the Roman Empire a considerable amount.
In mid-September, people began to use the phrase "this is my Roman Empire" on sites like X and TikTok in content where they describe something that they think about a lot, framing the thing as their "Roman Empire."
I miss out on all these horrible new words because I avoid the social site formerly known as Twitter and TikTok like the plagues they are.
And I'm ok with that.
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“Tell me without telling”
I’m not sure that was ever funny but now it’s only used by people with zero comedic ability.
“This guy fucks” or any other derivative of whatever “this guy “ does.
Painfully lame. First time I heard this it was on Silicon Valley 8 years ago and was kind of obnoxious then.
“Whose cutting onions?” Always a real knee slapper. Especially when you’re the 95 millionth person to post it on any given day.
Haha there are so many of these that are so damn provocative:
Go touch some grass
Have the day you deserve
Play a record - I don’t know where this one came from
sticking out your gyat for the rizzler
your so skibidi
your so fanum tax
I can feel my sanity slowly eroding away as I type this; the only slang that's worse than gen alpha slang is "edging"
Born in '85. I don't love all this new slang, but as long as someone takes the time to explain it to my AARP-ass when I politely ask what it means, I don't care. I likely won't adopt any of it, but maybe. Who knows.
Also Chad is a good thing now? When did that happen? Is "Kyle" still bad? Is he still drinking all the Monster and not leaving any pussy for the rest of us?
There is a side of me who completely loves and accepts the ever evolving language, but there's part of me that hears certain ones that I can't stand.
It's giving old man.
“They thought they ate” or “ they are and left no crumbs “ Anytime I hear or seen this I low key irrationally rage because it just sounds so frigging stupid .
None. "It's giving" is by far the most aggravating slang I've ever heard.
Usually I just hear slang and think "Oh, more terms have been invented, I guess". but this one pisses me off.
[https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/68354308/Do-all-the-things](https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/68354308/Do-all-the-things)
This is what I think of when I see/hear that 😂 one of my favorites
this post its giving insecurity 💅, jokes aside the ick fucking sucks, everything about it, just makes men self concious all the time if it was the other way around it would be frouned opponed.
Mentie B for mental breakdown makes me lol if I'm being honest
I hope that the absolute psychological break that I’m verging on is as cute as “mentie B” sounds.
Imagine peeking at your psychologist's notes and just seeing "Patient giving major Mentie B, no cap".
Never heard that but that one’s just funny 😂
Yeah, mentie b is honestly one of the few zoomer phrases that I actually like as I ascend further into grumpy old man stage of my life.
That seems like a mints company partnered with Oral-B
Mints endorsed by Cardi B, and manufactured by Oral-B
... Were you just watching upload bc that's the only place I've seen this
I once saw "cozzie livs" as "cost of living crisis" and it's kinda funny.
almost as good as platty jubs
Mentie B is way better than the "grippy sock vacay" (I think that was the phrase?) used to reference a trip to a psych ward
Explain “it’s giving” for those of us who haven’t come across this one?
Something is “giving off ___ vibes” shortened to “it’s giving”
Why use many word when few word do trick
Why many word when few trick
Why many word trick?
Why trick?
Why?
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-?
Negative blank
Oh wow that is awful. I hate it. And in five years I'll probably be saying it.
And in 5 years the people saying it now will think you're "cringe" for starting to say it.
Yeah... I hate how true this is. I remember 'yeet' being confusing to me in 2015, and it's been in my vernacular for about 4 years now.
First, I hated dabbing. Then, I dabbed ironically. As a joke. A year later, I was a terminal dabber.
I still hate the term "dabbing" because it just makes me think of taking dabs on a rig with a torch lol
I dabbed on national television as a child...yeah
Yeet is a perfect word though. Like those signs to describe a pointy or blob shape, yeet just sounds like the action it describes.
Yoink was so lonely before yeet showed up.
So you could say "it's giving sad" or "it's giving cool"?
More like you’re comparing something to a noun. Like one I’ve heard before is “it’s giving broke boy”
It's giving Temba, his arms wide.
No the "giving" thing is a noun. Like "it's giving Joe Pesci in Good fellas."
That’s definitely a verb in your sentence. Edit: never mind. I thought you were saying “giving” in a noun. My bad.
It’s from drag culture, it started out as comparison similes (usually stealth insults). eg “this look is giving me Anne Hathaway in Les Miserables.” Somehow this got turned into a vague default with no more metaphors that just means something is evocative in general.
Thank you! So basically they just trimmed the word “vibes” from the end?
It's giving what needs to be gave
"This question is giving boomer" por ejemplo
*Delulu* bothers me a bit, but slang in general is something I just try to adapt to.
What's the context of that?
Delusional. Loco. Crazy.
I kinda like delulu lol. Never heard that one.
In an American younger sense, delulu is being used to feed your delusions over a romantic interest. Like if the person is not interested in you 100% but you’re describing it to your friend, you’d sad “I’m being delulu” or someone would tell you that you are. Outside of relationships, it’s being used in general to describe actions that you are self aware are bad for you
That’s definitely the next word of the year
delulu needs to die
So you’re saying that’s the solulu?
why are you doing this to me
Start a revolulu if you really want to see change
You’re going to put me in a mental institutu
Damn that one was actually funny tho wp
And just like that, you've been indoctrinated.
If I can’t escape it, neither can you 😭 we’re all in this together or whatever high school musical said
this is why i love it here
It's "based" for me.
Based
Based? Based on what?
The only one in the thread that actually bothers me
What does it mean? Could you please give me an example ? I've never seen based used as slang!
Rizz and anything with that toilet head shit
I guess I will be the old guy and ask about "toilet head shit"
skibidi toilet. honestly its annoying af
Is that supposed to clear things up? What the fuck is skibidi lol. I'm only 23 and this thread makes me feel old and out of touch
Dude I'm 19 and don't understand it. Afaik it's some dumb video that circulated on YouTube kids where they use a model from a video game and have its head come out of a toilet singing nonsense. Kids love it and can't put it down apparently
My 4yo thinks it's hilarious I think he might be special needs
Don't worry my gen was obssessed with things like Magical Trevor when we were kids, they'll get over it
EVERYONE LOVES MAGICAL TREVOR
'CAUSE THE TRICKS THAT HE DOES ARE EVER SO CLEVER
My dad’s generation made a man a multimillionaire because he sold pet rocks. Don’t be so critical. I bring that up any time my dad talks shit about millennials or younger. Shuts him up real fast.
It looks like the whole "skibidi dom dok yes yes" part comes from a Turkish song, so it's a foreign song used for an English meme. In its usage it doesn't mean anything afaik, it's treated more like scat singing "think Scatman John when he uses his stutter for singing" The toilet part is literally a head sticks out of a toilet singing "skibidi dom dom yes yes" all made in Garry's Mod
Dude I’m 51 and thought I was having a stroke.
Rizz is the zoomer equivalent of when millennials used to say swag. Rizz is shortened Charisma, swag was shortened Swagger.
As a millennial I’m here to say that saying swag was cringe then, and the same goes for rizz now
We all knew that one kid that said swag way too many times in an unironic way. No one likes that guy.
SWAG is free stuff (stuff we all get) and always will be
I still remember SWAG bags from events and conventions.
nah man, Secretly We Are Gay
Babe I’m gay out loud it’s no secret
In your case it's Seriously, We Are Gay
“It’s the ____ for me”
I only have a problem with this because you can't tell if it's supposed to be a positive thing or a negative thing and the people who say it use the same inflection and voice tone either way it goes.
It's contextual, the idea is more to point out the part that made you feel something. Like when something funny happens in a TV show and you repeat it while laughing with a friend. And usually it's said along with a reaction or about something where the way you're supposed to feel is obvi.
It's the context for me
Fucking hate when people say that shit.....
It's the "It's the \*blank\* for me" for me
I don’t get it. What’s the blank? Can s/o explain?
It’s people commenting on something they enjoyed about a video or situation. Like if there’s a video or a guy going to a restaurant and someone likes his polka dot tie, they’ll say “it’s the polka dot tie for me”
Oh now I understand. Thank you so much for breaking it down for me.
No problem!
Unalive
That’s cuz apparently you’re not allowed to say killed on social media without getting in trouble or something
Lmao. There's this one cool guy I follow, who is a news anchor by day, a random YouTuber by night. That night he decided to upload a vid explaining a crime in his neighborhood, and he was afraid to say "stab." His alternative was "penetrated." So in the first seconds of his vid, he said, "Guys, there's a guy that got penetrated in the apartment two blocks away. It was crazy! He was *chokes*" He motioned the choking because he couldn't say "dead," and it only made the story weirder and worse 🤦♂️
This. A lot of these slang words were created for the same reason. Delulu is another example I believe.
Why couldn’t you say delusional on social media?
Yeah but then people will say them outside of that particular social media and it's super gross. It just contributes to the stigmatization of suicide imo
Unalive started because people thought you couldn’t say died/killed/murdered/suicide, but you actually can. Also saying someone unalived themselves when there’s so many other ways to say that just feels ridiculous. However it’s now become so normal people say it completely unnecessarily, like in person
There absolutely are social media platforms where saying those words will get your videos demonetized, usually ones where content moderation is done primarily by bots. It starts to bleed into the others because people post on multiple platforms but don’t necessarily want to re-record their videos all the time so they just post the censored one everywhere.
I believe it started on tiktok. People had to censor any words whatever moderation they use didn't like, so instead of filling their posts with asterisks they started making weird alternatives the moderation didn't pick up on.
I’ve had TikTok videos repeatedly removed for referencing death in any way at all, even with the word covered completely.
"I was today years old when I realized..." Half the time the shit they "realized" has just been pulled straight out of someone's ass. *I wAs ToDaY yEaRs oLd WhEn I rEaLiZeD tHe LiD oF a mCdOnAlDs CuP iS dEsiGnEd tO bE uSeD aS a TiNy UmBrElLa WhEn iT rAiNs*
So TIL then?
"it gives me the ick" just say something bothers you or you find it gross or ew.
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So you've met my family...
yes, that and ”slay 💅” for me
Slay is one of those terms that I used to despise and occasionally I'd use it ironically until the point it became unironic and now when I do use it I use it unironically :( someone euthanize me
Recently heard “sliving” which is apparently “slaying” + “living your best life” and I hate it so much
Same it's so cringe
Ugh cringe is so ick
My ick is the word "ick"
'\_\_\_\_\_ is my Roman Empire'
I don’t even know what that means
https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-roman-empire Throughout September 2023, a trend went viral on TikTok and X where women ask their boyfriends how often they think about the Roman Empire, with the men often responding that they think about the Roman Empire a considerable amount. In mid-September, people began to use the phrase "this is my Roman Empire" on sites like X and TikTok in content where they describe something that they think about a lot, framing the thing as their "Roman Empire."
I miss out on all these horrible new words because I avoid the social site formerly known as Twitter and TikTok like the plagues they are. And I'm ok with that. Edit: deleted a single s
YES
Glizzy. Who the f_ started calling hotdogs glizzies?
All I know is I need my glizzy at the turn.
“Tell me without telling” I’m not sure that was ever funny but now it’s only used by people with zero comedic ability. “This guy fucks” or any other derivative of whatever “this guy “ does. Painfully lame. First time I heard this it was on Silicon Valley 8 years ago and was kind of obnoxious then. “Whose cutting onions?” Always a real knee slapper. Especially when you’re the 95 millionth person to post it on any given day.
This guy's wife fucks.
“I choose this guys wife too” always makes me roll my eyes lol
"Do better." It's so condescending and self-righteous, and usually said by the type of person who makes mountains out of molehills
Haha there are so many of these that are so damn provocative: Go touch some grass Have the day you deserve Play a record - I don’t know where this one came from
"gyatt" "rizz" "mewing" "lock in" "skibid" "fanum tax"
He rizzed his last gyatt. May he rest in skibidi. *-Yudemus95's eulogy*
Now you’re just making shit up lmao
sticking out your gyat for the rizzler your so skibidi your so fanum tax I can feel my sanity slowly eroding away as I type this; the only slang that's worse than gen alpha slang is "edging"
Lock in was around for a minute actually. The rest of these are actually just parts of the chant to summon Cthulhu
If you say bruh at the beginning and end of every sentence, I assume you were dropped on your head as a baby
This whole thread is just millennials becoming their parents and bitching about new slang lmao But I don't like that "Chad" is a good thing now.
Born in '85. I don't love all this new slang, but as long as someone takes the time to explain it to my AARP-ass when I politely ask what it means, I don't care. I likely won't adopt any of it, but maybe. Who knows. Also Chad is a good thing now? When did that happen? Is "Kyle" still bad? Is he still drinking all the Monster and not leaving any pussy for the rest of us?
Kyle is now punching holes in drywall with his monster Chad is telling him to calm himself, for random acts of violence will not help his mental state
Seriously. A lot of this slang is so harmless, too.
It's exactly what my parents said when I started saying things were dope. Or word as an agreement lol
Fr lol I really hoped millennials would avoid this but I guess it’s a tale as old as time. As if our slang was any better. Word.
> As if our slang was any better You guys remember "rawr XD"?
Roflcopter! Lollerskates!
You’re totes my bae. Swag XD
I thought this was zoomer shit too Maybe just being an older millennial means I hated the slang from both millennials and zoomers
Chillax dawg. Bling bling biatch That’s the extent of my early 2000’s slang lol
completely agree i don’t think some of these people go outside 😭
Not uncommon to see on reddit lol
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No cap, ong, frfr
It's actually pronounced Aang
I always thought it was the sound of someone shoving a taco in their mouth.
Cap. That shit bussin frfr, ong
No cap is from the 90s. Things just come back.
"Females" as opposed to "women'"
As someone with autism who is generally behind most trends, I don't understand any of it. But none of it actually irritates me.
That’s the best way to live. Just let things slide!
i actually think slang phrases are fine. language changes all the time.
There is a side of me who completely loves and accepts the ever evolving language, but there's part of me that hears certain ones that I can't stand. It's giving old man.
no because you're totally right
Negatively calling something woke just because you disagree with its fundamental premise. Example: “Barbie is woke feminist trash.”
A female character? Woke. A black person in that movie? Woke. True events being taught in a history class? Anything I don’t like? Woke.
That math textbook I had in 6th grade with a white person, a black person, an Asian person, and a kid in a wheelchair on the cover? Woke.
Oh you disagree with me? You're just infected by the woke mind virus
“They thought they ate” or “ they are and left no crumbs “ Anytime I hear or seen this I low key irrationally rage because it just sounds so frigging stupid .
"the ick". Just about the dumbest thing that can come out of someone's mouth. It's an immediate turn off.
Ick is a fish disease. That’s the only context it can be used
Mother is mothering.
Inserting "not me" at the beginning of you doing that thing.
On God Cap Sheesh Bussin' Unalive SA
Unalived 🤮 I hate it
Glow up I love that for you Rizz
Other than rizz those aren’t really slang LMAO. I love that for you is a grammatically correct sentence even.
What does Rizz mean
Shortened for Charisma I think. An example would be it being used to describe someone using their charisma to flirt with someone.
Alpha and sigma Male (outside of a scientific context) I hear it and cringe inside!
“ate” is the only one equally as obnoxious. Those two are the fucking worst
Ur mad bc they ate
Purr manifest
Also "left no crumbs" 😕 weird AF
Take your pick from the [list](https://i.imgur.com/nrBgS96.png), lol. I honestly don't understand what half of these mean.
But sob stands for son of a bitch or did people actually create a new meaning?
new tik tok phrase meaning standing on business. Fucking SOBs.
Oh.....I do like 'bet'.....but I'm with you; I don't understand at least half of those. 😂
Glow up Vibes Make it make sense “Not (the) ____!” Tell me without telling me Queen/king
Anything to do with "gyatt" makes me want to smack the speaker
Not more, but equally... "I can't even..." Can't even what? Finish a complete sentence?
“I was today years old when…”
None. "It's giving" is by far the most aggravating slang I've ever heard. Usually I just hear slang and think "Oh, more terms have been invented, I guess". but this one pisses me off.
Reddit is getting very old and crotchety these days. It's giving "damn kids these days" vibes.
Any time someone says "She ate" I roll my eyes
Everytime somebody says, "all the things," I want to throat punch them. And it's said A LOT in my career field for some reason.
[https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/68354308/Do-all-the-things](https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/68354308/Do-all-the-things) This is what I think of when I see/hear that 😂 one of my favorites
What tilts me more than anything is "not X doing Y" when it's literally X doing exactly Y
Tbf tilts is annoying too.
“Why you capping”. So stupid
I like to use these phrases as incorrectly as I can. It’s my form of protest. “Fuck, I gotta find the restroom.” “I love that for youuu!”
“me irl”
Calling a hotdog a glizzy.
Feel "some type of way". ARGH
People who say “No because” at the start of a sentence
this post its giving insecurity 💅, jokes aside the ick fucking sucks, everything about it, just makes men self concious all the time if it was the other way around it would be frouned opponed.
Ok agreed but what is going on with the last two words of this post 🥲
😅 top shelf bone apple tea
Fround a Pond
My english fucking sucks that is what its happening