I feel dead at 24

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      2 hours ago

      Jesus Christ… I’m old enough to have kids that would have said yet… where’s my ibuprofen?

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    Is now a bad time to point out that all words are made up? If your generation got to do it, there’s no reason to begrudge any other.

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    Up to 24 people are sympathetic. You will find a lot of people that will (correctly) say “you’re young. Just enjoy your time you don’t need to worry about where you’re headed. It will come to you”. Wait until next year. 25 is when that changes to “what the fuck are you doing with your life”. Basically what I’m saying is you’re not old. Until next year.

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      Then there’s 26, when in the US you get kicked off your parents’ insurance & you can go fuck yourself! 🤗

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      I’m old enough to literally not care one bit what the youngins do or if I really understand them. I don’t need them to be my clone to live them. They got their thing just like I had mine. Circle of life.

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    I am a bit older than 24 and enjoy learning the new patoi tbh. It’s super interesting to me how language evolves endlessly in all these innumerable offshoots and how niche cultures generate all these different codes and concepts and wordplay and stuff.

    I like that the youth are forever both borrowing from the old and scouting new grounds of their own in these ways and in countless others as well. So the renewal and rechristening of culture is based and I-like-it-pilled akchooly 🤓

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          This is something I don’t like - calling the viewers “chat”. I mean, it’s gender neutral, but I’d just randomly call them Ladies, Gentlemen, Ladymen, Gentles, viewers, guys, gals, bros, sis’s, folks, roflcopters, grills…

          I’m no streamer btw. Maybe I‘d just get skibidi cancelled lol xD

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            They are literally referencing a live chat though—when you see it recorded on YouTube you aren’t always seeing what they see. Most times I have seen people say “chat”, it is because they are literally looking at a chat room screen, or they are saying it somewhat ironically to reference the community of chatters that they typically interact with.

            Furthermore, the way those chats work is sort of like an anonymous hive mind rather than individual users, so people say “chat” to refer to the meta-consensus of comments rather than an individual. If you imagine their community as a summer camp, it is the same energy as saying “good evening campers” when addressing the hoarde of identical kids in scout uniforms—their identity is being addressed as a group.

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            I’m cool with it for streams, but it got really confusing because I’ve also heard slightly older young’uns refer to ChatGPT as “Chat”

            So, like, “Idk I heard it from Chat” can either be a horrifying revelation that they listen to and trust random twitch users, or a horrifying revelation that they listen to and trust inchoate AI tech.

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    The earliest urban dictionary entry for yeet was made in 2008, when you are literally part of the generation that popularized the word.

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      7 hours ago

      And it was a dance move performed on bikes. Literally pumping the chest up and down with arms spread wide (like flying an airplane), while riding a bicycle, in a group.

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        These jerps don’t know their hand from their splint when it comes to laying lair, kin. Ytk tho on some true dangler shit lololol

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          I feel that the memery at TenForward have a lot of potential to add here. I don’t know enough about their inspiration material to understand why, but from what I can tell they’ve certainly got a lot of beans. More beans than these young’uns could ever hold in their tiny little kling-ons.

          Janeway would lair them up dozens, maybe even hundreds of times, and they wouldn’t even know they were dangling the whole time.

          For all I know these are fighting words to them. If so, I will try to die with my honor.

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      If you also make up a way to pronounce them, a grammar and potentially a culture to go with it, you’ve just made a conlang

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      13 of those terms are not new at all lol glad to see there’s at least some overlap between generations.

      Now if we can just psyop them into using “rad” and “sick” again 👀

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    I’m 40+ and I keep inventing words with friends, why blame the young ones ?

    (I mean except for the fact that they listen to shitty music and ours was better 👴)

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      You probably just forgot about all the bad music you used to listen to and now compares all the new stuff to the best from your time.

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        I don’t know what happened circa 2005 where radio stations banded together to only play the worst music but there is still good music around. It just doesn’t see play in avenues you’re exposed to

        (This extends to streaming)