I got this as a fax, and it said I had to mail it to at least seven other people to be blessed.
Mine arrived in a mail box
I’m a very late millennial, borderline Gen Z, and even I feel like all my slang knowledge is outdated.
Not rather Gen Alpha already? I too am kinda getting lost here, as a Gen Z.
I swear to god half of the slang from memes like this is just aspirational. Pretty fetch imo.
Oh my god Gretchen
Stop trying to make fetch happen
Usually yeah, but for once those are actually real slang genuinely used the Z/alpha crowd and through them tiktok in general
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Ah, now it makes more sense.
Well I’m sure they’ll grow out of it like millennials did with “fleek” that everyone swore was real slang with mad drip and rizz, no cap or ick, son.
Fleek is Ohio AF frfr no cap
I think ‘mid’ means middle or mid-grade weed, which means a similar thing as ‘mediocre’ like the chart says.
This is exactly what I thought too. Once again, I’m old.
No cap fr fr
But isn’t OPP other people’s… property or has that changed since Naughty by Nature taught us all what it meant?
Is it just “OP”? Like how online forums starting Reddit say “original poster” and this just snuck its way into all conversation?
The last p, well… that’s not that simple. It’s sorta like another way to call a cat kitten. As for the ladies, OPP means something gifted: the first two letters are the same but the last is something different; it’s another five letter word rhymin’ with cleanest and meanest.
My high school Algebra teacher was once telling the class about ZPP, the zero product property. He told us when he was teaching in the 90s, there was a new song out called OPP and he would say “you down with ZPP?” and the class would say “yeah you know me!” lol
Penist!
No, it just shouldn’t be capitalized. It’s short for “operative” and usually refers to somebody you think is (or jokingly think is) working for/with the cops or feds.
It’s “Opp,” not OPP
It’s “opp” with two p’s but it’s short for “operative”, a word with one p? I’m starting to think that you don’t really know either.
It’s not operative. It’s opposition.
Yeah and “rizz” comes from charisma but isn’t spelled “ris.”
And “OP” has multiple existing potential meanings still in common use today, so it makes sense to me to spell it with flair for the sake of clarity.
Slang is complex and morphs as it travels though; so do some folks use opp as “opponent”? Sure, that’s believable. But I feel fairly confident (never fully confident; I am fallible after all) that it’s original use comes from AAVE and more specifically hip-hop, where I again feel pretty damn confident it refers to an operative and not an opponent.
If I am wrong though, I would love to be corrected (with some verification of some kind) so I can be sure to reconcile the new info and not spread misinformation again. I’ll happily await your evidence to that end.
so do some folks use opp as “opponent”? Sure, that’s believable. But I feel fairly confident…
Bro, it doesn’t even have the right number of P’s for your reasoning to make any sense.
It comes from “opponent,” that’s why there are two P’s. It comes from video games/chess/card games/etc where you refer to the person or persons you’re playing against as the “opponent”. It’s been happening for many years but has made it’s way into gen z slang.
Perhaps there’s a case of parallel development here, but I really don’t think that’s what happened.
Gamer slang has long borrowed, sometimes sincerely sometimes ironically, from AAVE and hip-hop slang, where I truly believe this originates, and clearly has the cop/fed connotation. Yeah, I know people shorthand “opp” as opponent in games in the same way they shorthand everything, but jesus christ that’s more approaching 1337 5p35k customs than gen z/alpha slang, so even if we do assume parallel development and concede opp=opponent in modern gamer slang it almost certainly is pretty unrelated to said archaic use and was likely homespun in zoomer/alpha games like Roblox or Amung Us or whatever they’re playing now instead.
But hey, while I remain unconvinced I am proud to accept my fallibility and ask everyone to remember that I am just some stranger online when weighing the weight of my opinion and to draw your own conclusion on the matter. I do not claim to speak gospel.
Oh a narc. That’s funny cuz up here the cops are actually called the OPP
Yeah you know me!
Sorry, 42 years old, force of habit.
Yeah you know me!
You down with O.P.P.?
Sounds like Narc would be the translation then…
Narc is more specific, opp is more general, so the youngin’s have opted for opp.
Every narc is an opp, not every opp is a narc.
But yeah, I think narc is closer than “enemy”, probably
Oh I thought it was short for “opponent” lol
That’s because it is. People who don’t understand just make shit up. That’s why the number of P’s doesn’t even line up.
I always thought opposition
I think it’s short for “opposition”, as in a rival gang
This makes vastly more sense in both gamer and hip-hop context than “opponent” does, so I’m willing to concede that this might actually be the right reading, as retroactively this fits in place of “operative” in the hip-hop settings I’ve experienced it in whereas opponent doesn’t.
Kudos.
This. It’s definitely not operative lol
That’s where my mind went, too. I’m 40.
Lol for some reason “delulu” hits just as bad as calling someone retarded. The only difference is one isn’t a medical term. It’s a well chosen word.
Delulu seems like a cute way of telling someone they’re insanely stupid. I like it.
Ick is just short for icky and vibe has been around for decades.
Gnarly list.
The whole trend is nothing new. Millennials and some GenXers were stealing all their slang from American rappers when they were young, too.
Uh Gen X predates rap.
True, but people using cool sayings from black culture has been a thing for a long time
Rap got popular in the 80’s, like NWA and Run DMC, right as GenXers were entering their formative years. Really not hard to figure out before posting pointless replies.
“Giving” is ballroom slang from like, the 80s. Extra is also LGBT slang that has been around at least since I was a teenager > a decade ago.
Yeah but giving is seeing a surge, particularly as attitudes about LGBTQA shift
I think they’re saying “the ick” or something but that’s also pretty understandable by everyone.
Radically tubular
Very heather.
I shall share a stolen… I meant a borrowed meme
Does ‘else if’ become ‘cap nocap’?
Only in that context, it loses the meaning they’re trying for if you’re not using it exactly like that.
new Copeis nutsSheesh yaas
I thought bussin just meant “good” and could pertain go anything, not just food.
This is what happens when friends don’t give friends shit for acting like a wigger and you end up with a bunch of Pretty Fly for a White Guys making everyone cringe.
Bruh I don’t think that’s ok,hopefully just ignorance and not malice. even if you change out the first letter you’re still kinda implying other people can be n-words.
That one has me a bit torn because the n-word is used for any black person and obviously meant to hurt them. On the other hand, “the w-word” just means a white guy who dresses and acts like a gangsta rapper from the 90s-00s
Is that offensive? The root of it is, I just don’t know if the actual meaning lessens how offensive it is
I mean, they’re technically calling black people the N word by proxy (it’s meant to essentially be white + N word to refer to a white guy pretending to be/acting black). So it seems like a case of “if you’re not black you probably shouldn’t say it”.
so does digger get a pass because it has context? Or how does this work?
What would the D even stand for? 🤔
who knows, follows the same construction as the other two though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigger
About 130 years ago it was a racial slurs but died out and resurged in the 70s as a dergatory term for white people that try to (poorly and offensiviely) emulate black culture. Aka white trash wannabe.
It could still be used offensively, but it rarely is. I learned the term from a bunch of black American Navy visiting and ended up hanging out with them all weekend. They were shocked to know we have them too and pulled up “beatboxing” videos, realising just how offensive a wigger can be, especially when they start using the n-word in their raps like it applies to them.
You what?
Do all Gen Z speak like this? Or just the really over the top ones?
No.
did everyone in the 80s say bodacious?
did everyone in the 90s sat eat my shorts?
Like, totally.
Cowabunga dude.
Radical.
Like, you know, whatever
Just the extra ones
My son, 16, talks like this with his friends. I have to ask for clarification in our texts a lot. I’m not one to down as we had our own slang growing up but I refuse to be okay with Bussin’ it just sounds so dumb to me.
this is definitely not bussin
The fuck is “cheugy”? How the hell do you pronounce that?
I’ve heard my BIL pronounce it “chew-gee”
today is a terrible day to be literate in english
Still on the fence here is the g pronounced like in GIF?
Yes. But only if you don’t pronounce GIF like a heathen.
I pronounce it gif so I’m good either way
chew-ghee, like the clarified butter.
I literally had never encountered the term “cheugy” until I first played Pokemon Scarlet/Violet, in which the old principal asks you what kids these days meant by “cheugy”. I had to look it up. Sadge
That’s a dope-ass list, shit’s ill af. Just don’t be bitin someone else’s stilo, cuz that shit’s wack, yo. If ya do, just tell ‘em “my bad, b!”, or expect peeps gonna be poppin caps in your ass, ya heard?
Word to ya motha.
Okay gramgram, let’s get you to beddy-bye
Wicka wicka Slim Shady. Uh… leave Britney alone!
Yes, Cuban B!
sup. /the ‘p’ is silent and the vowel becomes elongated with a drop; off. “SUh h”
Bruh
At least cheugy is a new word. All these fucking morons literally redefining “giving” and it’s absolutely terrible. It doesn’t sound good. It just makes you sound idiotic and like you don’t know English.
They didn’t redefine giving, it’s literally being used for its original definition. Just add “energy” or “vibes” at the end of the sentence and it clarifies exactly how it’s used. If someone sees your outfit and says “It’s giving Beyoncé” -> “it’s giving Beyoncé energy”, your outfit is reminding them of Beyoncé. As in it is providing/offering said Beyoncé-like energy, aka one of the original definitions of giving something.
they literally redefined it. It no longer means to ’ : presented as a gift : bestowed without compensation ’ or ‘particular, specified’ or ’ : immediately present in experience ’ they’re using it as “it gives me the energy of” which already HAD A DEFINITION. THAT’S WHAT VIBE MEANS.
That’s not the original definition of ‘giving’ something, i have no clue where you got that from.
Bunch of morons downvoting too, bet y’all saying giving a hundred times a day. fucking idiots.
Those were not the only original definitions of giving by a long shot. Another original definition was to provide, offer, impart, communicate, or pass on something, (hence the phrase “giving off” which has been around for a long time, example: it’s giving off radiation), etc. It’s not gen Z’s fault you don’t know all the definitions of giving.
Yeah if used in that manner you have to put a word after it. Not doing so is redefining it
I believe giving actually comes from 90s gay/drag culture, and like most of these isn’t really as obtuse as it seems. It’s just word omission. It’s just shorthand for “it’s giving me thoughts of” or “it’s giving me memories of”, basically (okay, admittedly I’m extracted a little bit here).
Here’s an example that I hope helps: imagine your friend or romantic partner comes to you wearing a new tweed jacket they’ve excited about, but all you can see when you look at it is memories of your tweed-clad college professor. You might respond with “i dunno, it’s giving college prof,” which is just shorthand for “I dunno, it’s giving me flashbacks to memories of my college professor.”
Personally that seems a fairly functional evolution of language in the way it always evolves, not the degradation you seem to be finding, but of course I can only offer my own singular opinion on the topic, so do with that what you want
You down with O.P.P.? Yeah you know me!
There. Now you can feel even older.
Object Poriented Programming?
