• CoolerOpposide [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Tiktok has been such a facilitator it’s unbelievable. Within a week or two a word I’ve never heard a single white person use will be a part of the average genZer’s/genAlpha’s lexicon. Plus they will then be called “meme words” 💀

    I do not really care but something will always be uncomfortable about a 13 year old white kid saying rizz and gyatt in every other sentence.

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      7 months ago

      gyatt

      God I fucking hate this term so much it’s not even a word it’s just onomatopoeia 💀 we already have plenty of terms for ass/booty/cake

      Language evolves and changes and I’m aware things change between generations but like damn man this feels like a complete regression. I blame capitalism

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      It really is weird hearing American suburban white kids on TikTok talking like the inner city kids I went to school with when I lived in the US. It’s really irritating to hear black slang referred to as “gen Z slang”

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        Gen Z didn’t even come up with most of it, it was Black Millennials 🙄 funny how they spent the last decade attributing everything to us yet can’t seem to give credit where it’s due