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I guess I'm too old for this. Or is this funny?
Probably to the "oh my god new slang so cringe this youth" crowd. You know, those who always said they'll never get old and annoying non-understanding adults… and now became exactly that. 😁
i still do not see good evidence for this being actual slang people use seriously, it just looks like old video game ads where adults write scripts with what they think kids sound like, and then we look back and laugh at how stupid it is
That's because it's exaggerated, and the kids play into it rather than cringing and moving on like you might have when you were a kid and adults tried using your slang. The reason is that unlike previous generations, gen Z has incorporated it into youth culture as a result of the current state of the internet and has a name to call it by: brainrot.
We are definitely too old for this shit
If it reads as gibberish, you're too old. If it makes perfect sense, you're too young. Somewhere in between those ages is the funny zone, where you can sorta understand what it's meant to be doing.
You cannot be young enough for this to be normal English, nobody uses this unironically/outside of their online media persona.
I'm in the correct age, and terminally online enough to understand most of it. I can say 3 things:
Fs in chat for trying to mock Gen Alpha slang.
I know some of the words, but dont see the funny in it, but it's winter time so I am at a mental state like when Stan realizes he is a cynical cunt and everything is shit.
Maybe I'm old.
I was able to make no inferences about any of the statements or what they mean.