"Current year" terms that piss you off

[Hemlock Latte]

Lmao guys I was looking at memes and saw this. Behold a new tiktok-speak word...
CRINE

 

[Meth Dick]

Fandom is a convenient short-hand to identify familiarity with a particular fan base communities.

I get that but every time I hear/read it it makes me just assume the user is a fat blue haired tumblr reject left over from 2015.
I've never heard a normal person use the term unironically.

 

[Ratboy Genius]

What's truly annoying is that this is "TikTok slang" or "Gen Z slang" to the uninitiated but it's all borrowed from AAVE (African American Vernacular English) and to a lesser extent SAE (Southern American English). I have a twentysomething white, Midwestern friend who can't stand the way TikTokers have taken to pronouncing "ahh" phonetically in the last year or so, with the / a / as in "father." Her Black friends have said it her entire life, and it's typically pronounced like "ass" with the / s / dropped. Of course language changes, that's where a lot of AAVE came from in the first place, but it's annoying to see it change because of clueless unfamiliarity.

I understand the irritation. If only more people realized that this phenomenon is inevitable. Linguistics has always fascinated me--paying attention to the evolution of words and whatnot. Did you guys know that English is made of about 80% loanwords anyway? Morphology and semantics are so fascinating. Eventually I figured it's useless to get resentful over it. Some people get way too MATI and offended if somebody uses a word that's off limits, even if they had no idea.

Theoretically, vernacular spreads from smaller groups to bigger ones, of course causing the original context to be lost. And yes, you may get ridiculed for not using/knowing the trendy terms. Y'all probably don't remember, but a few years ago tons of people were commenting "👁👁" on every post. (What the hell does that mean, you ask? Basically it implies a reaction of bruh/wtf, as if you're speechless.) Then boom, a year or two later, I see people mocking folks who still used it. Why?? Completely arbitrary fixation and abandonment? Very odd. But at least these occurrences make you realize that today's linguistic patterns will change or fade as well. For one reason or another.

Side note... A lot of us zoomy zooms are finding ourselves unaware of viral terms and memes. Why..? Because the oldest gen alphas are like 15 and they're taking over social media. Be afraid, be very afraid.

Spoiler: oof

yiiiiiiiiikes I rambled again...nobody should talk to me because I will spend 2 hours writing a post that's never worth it.

post yap shame.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Why do people keep making up new buzzwords and slang anyway?

 

[AnOminous]

Why do people keep making up new buzzwords and slang anyway?

Everyone wants to make fetch happen.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Because the oldest gen alphas are like 15 and they're taking over social media.

It was bad enough when the freaks among the "Millennials" with freakshow piercings and "dangerhair" started gaining way too much influence with "social justice" BS, but then there were "Zoomers" with the broccoli haircut and "TikTok" crap. And now there's gonna be "Generation Alpha" with even more Clown World crap? So does Current Year ever end?

Everyone wants to make fetch happen.

What's "fetch"? Some "social media" thing?

 

[Meth Dick]

It was bad enough when the freaks among the "Millennials" with freakshow piercings and "dangerhair" started gaining way too much influence with "social justice" BS, but then there were "Zoomers" with the broccoli haircut and "TikTok" crap. And now there's gonna be "Generation Alpha" with even more Clown World crap? So does Current Year ever end?


What's "fetch"? Some "social media" thing?

>doesn't know what fetch is

 

[ToroidalBoat]

used as an adjective

wat

how does that work

 

[Hemlock Latte]

I understand the irritation. If only more people realized that this phenomenon is inevitable. Linguistics has always fascinated me--paying attention to the evolution of words and whatnot. Did you guys know that English is made of about 80% loanwords anyway? Morphology and semantics are so fascinating. Eventually I figured it's useless to get resentful over it. Some people get way too MATI and offended if somebody uses a word that's off limits, even if they had no idea.

I like your outlook. Yes, most English vocabulary comes from Middle French for example, "1066 and a' that." To me a lot of these Gen Z/TikTok terms deriving from AAVE, yeah, some of them are perceived as cringe, but for me it's mostly just fascinating to see language evolve in real time.

It's also fascinating to watch people use it or reject it as a badge of identity. Used the word "sus" in front of an IRL friend a few years back, probably 2023. He responded, in a derisive tone, "'Sus'? What's that? Is that how the kids are talking these days?" I'm thinking... well, that came into common parlance years ago during the lockdown when people were playing Among Us. And it was common in AAVE years before that. How do you not, uh, sus out the meaning of "sus," with "suspect" and "suspicious" right there? To me it reflected incuriosity. To him, I suspect that that performance of not being down with "the kids" was a badge of old-fashioned manliness. He's a contractor, he drives a Ford F-whatever. I think you get it.

wat

how does that work

I assume they mean in phrases like "woman moment."

 

[James Brown]

"Crashing out" pisses me off. I've only seen it used by xtreme normies irl and dramatubers like Idubbbz and h3. People began saying this all of a sudden and acting like it's been a very common term we all know and casually use. Like I've heard it at work and with extended family under 40 but older than 24. Learning its nigger-babble only made my hatred worse.

 

[⚞⛇⚟]

Why do people keep making up new buzzwords and slang anyway?

Making new words is cool though because they sound cooler than the old words, can be used to display more emotion, and usually have an interesting story/culture behind them. I hate it when some words are astroturfed though, because they always sound lame, express lame emotions, and have no story/culture.

 

[AndSothisIsChristmas]

In the child-reading space, “big feelings,” which seems to be a euphemistic replacement for “acting like a whiny little bitch.”

 

[Flaming Insignias]

"Crashing out" pisses me off. I've only seen it used by xtreme normies irl and dramatubers like Idubbbz and h3. People began saying this all of a sudden and acting like it's been a very common term we all know and casually use. Like I've heard it at work and with extended family under 40 but older than 24. Learning its nigger-babble only made my hatred worse.

My main problem is that it is the exact opposite meaning of how it is traditionally used in reference to people. If I say somebody crashes, it usually means they dropped like a rock falling asleep, not throwing a tantrum. Can't figure how such a radically different definition seemed to emerge practically overnight.

 

[Ratboy Genius]

It was bad enough when the freaks among the "Millennials" with freakshow piercings and "dangerhair" started gaining way too much influence with "social justice" BS, but then there were "Zoomers" with the broccoli haircut and "TikTok" crap. And now there's gonna be "Generation Alpha" with even more Clown World crap? So does Current Year ever end?

You've reached enlightenment. The Truth. Which is that no year is current year, every year is current year and it will never end

Btw guys watch this comedy sketch!! It's more funny than it was 12 years ago considering everything in this thread haha

fyi, the channel Studio C is (or at least was?) nonwoke, all ages friendly, very funny

 

[Meth Dick]

My main problem is that it is the exact opposite meaning of how it is traditionally used in reference to people. If I say somebody crashes, it usually means they dropped like a rock falling asleep, not throwing a tantrum. Can't figure how such a radically different definition seemed to emerge practically overnight.

Zoomers and alphatards can't crash as in falling asleep anymore because they're all fucked up on ADHD and retard pills so they don't sleep.
Makes a lot of sense when you thunk about it

 

[ZsaZsaBinks]

Significant other

Besides being gender neutral to be inclusive to all the genderspecials, I always see it used in articles where the person always uses it to describe their partner and “relationship goals”. Particularly when it comes to “farting in front of them”.

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Red flag. This is a red flag. That's a red flag. It's on par with "yikes", "sketch", "sus".

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Which is that no year is current year, every year is current year and it will never end

Seriously though, there is a difference between the time of "smartphones" and "social media", and all of history before. The time before was overall better, though not 100%.

 

[Meth Dick]

Seriously though, there is a difference between the time of "smartphones" and "social media", and all of history before. The time before was overall better, though not 100%.

Social media was fine before smart phones.
Yeah shit like MySpace, VampireFreaks, and I remember the pedophile cesspit that was MyYearbook all had their problems, but at least those were all things that people checked AFTER they got home. There was something endearing about creating your page on MySpace and making it literally YOUR space. It encouraged individuality. I'd say it'd even be cool to have HTML enabled create-a-page shit stuff à la MySpace for Kiwi Farms profiles but I feel that might derail conversations into "your page looks gay lol". Still would be a kinda neat thoughbeit.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Social media was fine before smart phones.

If either "smartphones" or "social media" were removed from history, leaving the other still around, I think this world would be more sane now. Just "social media", and like you said people would have to sit down at a computer to access it. Just "smartphones" and the internets would still be "Web 1.0"-like -- no "influencers" or "TikTok" then...