That is how I perceive the people who speak in the babytalk slang of today, anyway. And there also seems to be this strange need to keep up and fit in with not just your peers in your neighborhood, but with every random person in the world who might read your comment and have something about it to criticize. There is not really much separation of place and culture (including language) anymore, now that people socialize on the internet so much. (This isn’t something I read about and that anyone should bother trying to demand I “provide sources on” it is what many people around my age grew up witnessing.) In the early and mid-‘90s, though, things like the Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, and any type of advertising geared toward kids seemed to make a huge push to be cool, and there was this obnoxious, in-your-face vibe where everything was modeled after a less-rude version of Bart Simpson. In general, it would mean something to only the group of people who grew up with it or lived around the same circumstances, until it became mainstream through some movie. Slang used to be nuanced and region-specific (and within that, it was even specific to social scenes, etc.). But I still mostly agree with your frustrations over gen z slang. ***edited my comment bc I read through some of your comments, and realized I don't agree with you as "wholeheartedly" as I initially thought. I'm not trying to do the whole "pick me!!" thing, but the slang and the tik tok stuff really get to me □ So, I feel you. We're still great friends, and I don't see that going away anytime soon, it's just our interactions have been a bit more challenging lately - but I'm trying to adapt!! Still frustrating though lol. For instance, I feel kinda bad when she shows me some tik tok videos that just do not make any sense to me yet she is CRACKING UP at them lol. But within the last couple of years, that's changed a good bit. We've been friends for 9 years, yet I've had to pull up urban dictionary many times during our conversations just to understand what she's saying □ As for tik tok - we became friends in high school solely bc of our similar humors. ![]() But the slang, in particular, is really irritating. As in, she uses tik tok like it's Facebook, uses words that look like words but aren't OR are out of context (what the fuck is shipping?), and possibly other things I can't think of at the moment. Most of my friends/family are Millenials and up, but my closest friend from high school is more "in with the times" I suppose you could say.
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