fr fr ong

I reject "sus" being zoomer exclusive. Among Us has been a huge hit for 5 years now, was popular across demographics, and made an appearance in Glass Onion, which is the boomeriest Millennial movie ever.

The rest of it, sure, go off fam.

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I agree, but for a different reason. I had an Aussie friend that said "sus" all the time on IRC, and that was in the 00's, so it well predates Among Us.
- Ok, maybe suss is Australian. I was surprised to see it listed with "on cap" because I've heard suss being said all my life by a wide range of people, but I did grow up in Australia.
I have appropriated “sus” and “yeet” and sometimes “gucci”…I think those don’t even come from the same gens of slang, but they feel right in a sentence. Especially yeet.
- Yeet and Gucci are early zoomer at best, mostly later millenial terms as they became popular closer to 2015 than 2020
- Once you consider that "yeet" is the opposite of "yoink", it really seems like it's actually a millennial word. Though interestingly, my spell check considers "yeet" correct but not "yoink"
- I'm pretty sure my friends and I have incorrectly appropriated yeet. We'll use it in the normal way but we'll also say yeet like sweet or hell yeah. We're all upper 20s now so it feels rather hilarious.
Deadass on fleek
Oh no, I liked Glass Onion...
Sus is literally part of the Australian vernacular and was in use when I was a kid.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/what-does-sus-mean
- Thank you! I thought I was going mad because I distinctly remember saying "sus" when I was in highschool in the early 2000s. It was definitely used both as "go sus it out" but also "don't sus us miss" was something we said all the time when a teacher tried to catch students smoking behind the portables.
  So it sort of just feels like Gen Z expanded the definition.
I get most of my slang from among us and then I learn the correct usage on tiktok and then I purposely do it wrong because aging is fun and I'm a parent.

"That's fire" has an Urban Dictionary entry from 2007.

I had this conversation with one of my kids recently:

Her: "This thing is gas!"

Me: "Gas? Why are you talking like your grandpa in 1965?"

Her: " What are you yapping about? They don't know what 'gas' means!"

Me: "You wanna bet? Ain't you ever heard that Rolling Stones song? Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a gas...?'

Her: "Bruh..."

Me: "Don't shoot the messenger."

It's amazing watching young adults discover that their new fad is a rehash of concepts that are decades old.
- You mean bellbottoms and "cottage core" aren't new & edgy? D'oh.
In the 90s, when everyone started using the word fat/phat, I found out from an article that it's usage that way could be traced back to 1920s jazz musicians. Everything old is new again.
- I always thought the word "ginormous" (a portmanteau of gigantic and enormous) was totally modern, but then I read a book published in 1943 by a Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot which had "ginormous" in its glossary section.
Me looking at this meme nearing 40..."pretty sure we used sus and fire as teenagers".
Then again I didn't grow up in USA and we had different "hip" words.
- That's fire was definitely a millennial thing, possibly Gen X.
  OP is just that hip.

fire and sus have been around for ages but gen z can have the lack of caps.

Millennials reading this post
I've heard fire my whole life but I'm calling cap on sus being as popular or common for so long
- fire has always been a weed strength measurement... fire being the most best...
- I was using sus as a kid 30 years ago. I'm quite confused by how it's apparently a gen Z thing
- Heard sus my whole life in Aus, we shorten everything.
Yeah, I'd never heard "no cap", but the other two almost feel old at this point.

My favorite part of growing older is misusing slang to pain The Youths™

Growing up, I thought adults were out of touch. Now I realize that kids just take some things way too seriously and it's hilarious to exploit.
- Right? It's one of the better parts of growing older
Yeah that's pretty yeet
- Yeah that's all rizzed up
I swear down you finna cap that bruh
skibidi morning to you fellow gyamer

My millennial (or maybe gen x) roommate spends a lot of time on tiltok, so she's always teaching me (a gen z) new 'gen z' slang.

It's fun, but on the other hand she has a pretty skewed perception of young people. She's always watching engagement-bait content online, and she seems to think most people my age are complete idiots.

I mean don't get me wrong, we are idiots, but we're not a different species or anything lol.

Do not let generational gaps fool you, most people are idiots
- Growing up is realizing your parents were idiots too.
- People who complain about younger people are the biggest idiots who forgot that other idiots said the same about them a long time ago. Same with those who complain about older people a little too much.
- Yup. I went to school and college with some monumental idiots back in the day. I had my moments too, of course. Idiocy transcends generations.
she seems to think most people my age are complete idiots.
Very boomer of her.
She sounds like an idiot fr fr.
No. Gen Z is the future. The rest of us are dinosaurs.
Love, someone who manages students at a university.
but we're not a different species or anything lol
[Citation Needed]

It's all predominantly young kids adopting/appropriating American Black vernacular and calling it their own. Millennials did it, genz does it. Go ahead and down vote me, my back hurts.

See people say this like it's Black vernacular but dont recognize that it's just urban vernacular. Urban vernacular changes frequently because there's more people around. The internet adopts it quickly, and it spreads from there, as the actual initial definition of a memetic concept.
There's a reason society as a whole doesn't co-opt rural Black vernacular, and it's because it isn't actually racially-based.
- Exactly. I just had this argument with a couple of friends who were raised rich white kids, in the rich white neighborhood. They were criticizing me for appropriating black vernacular, and wouldn't believe me that my entire neighborhood and school spoke that way. It's inter-urban (poor) slang, not specifically black. Most of my neighborhood was Mexican, yet they all used these terms. Granted, they have different inflections on the words, but the vocabulary is pretty much the same. Anyways, now I have friends accusing me of racism for speaking the way I've spoken my entire life. I just hadn't loosened up enough to speak that way around them before. Ain't identity politics grand?
- There's MLE (multicultural London English) in the UK. Must be similar all over.

I'm Australian, I've been calling things sus since the 90s.

Same, it was just a happy accident that our slang made it mainstream I guess.
- https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0_2ovZuy9s/

I'll be keeping "AF", thank you very much

- Mmm, no, rejected. AF is clean
- Wtf is the s?

I like to mix and match to annoy my younger brother. Example, "fr fr, no skibidy, on cap".

I'm pretty sure skibidi isn't even used except to annoy the youngins lol
- Reminds me of skatman john I wonder if it’s a reference Frfr

I'm using it ironically so it's OK

That's how it subtley becomes part of your vocabulary without your knowledge.

I'm approaching 40 rapidly, I can't say "based" without cringing.

I'm almost 37 and dunno what based, rule, or no cap mean. They all make me cringe though.
- I've found that if I don't say those things and just treat younger people with respect then I don't get made fun of for being old so much.
Based God, Li'l B is 34, so don't feel bad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_B?wprov=sfla1
- Wait, it's named after a guy!?!
  Yo give me my walking cane, I'm out of this game.
46 here. It irritates me for reasons I can't explain.
- I can. We're old and it's new.
Based.
Based comment? lol

I... use sus all the time at 38... but I'm a gamer, and it's kinda gaming slang.

That’s because gamer slang is made up of whatever shit kids are saying
- Gamer slang is made up of whatever gamers are saying

I'm Gen-X. My 13-year-old daughter is under instructions to never call me 'bro' or 'bruh.'

My nephew's do that to my brother-in-law. They also call him 'dude.'

Dude is weird to me, but calling me 'bro' is just wrong. I want to be called Dad or Daddy. She's mostly okay with that.

I am not partial to informal nicknames. If I stand with a group of my male coworkers I usually greet them with “gentleman” or something that. I don’t work with a lot of women but I’m not sure what to say to a group of women. Ladies seems kind of demeaning and gentlewomen sounds weird to me. I usually just go with miss or ma’am.
- "Sup fuckers"
- Howdy.
Having come up in the 90s-00s, the few times I've been called "daddy" were a little surprising at the time ("it's just something I say, don't overthink it", etc), but thankfully said moments were in the rear-view quickly enough.
In later years, my kids didn't add the "y" and one even asked why other kids say it that way. Hell, I'm ok with "dude" from my kids or their friends, in certain contexts, but "bruh"? Might as well try calling me "son" or "boy", and see how that flies, child. 🤪

I use these terms sometimes, but I'm 26, I don't feel old enough to be a millennial but not young enough to be Gen Z. I'm in college now though and I'm older than all my classmates and that makes me feel old as shit.

Zillenial gang
Hello fellow transitional generation member.

I feel like fire was ours unless it's just been a localized slang. I feel like I've been saying it for like 10 years, maybe more. Maybe I just got the ole dementia.

Yeah, that's one that I think just never totally went away but has had a resurgence

Gen X here. Whatever...

My wife and I (both Xers) have started frequently trolling our son with "stop the cap!" when he's being... economical with the truth. Somehow that level of low-grade, passive-aggressive sarcasm seems very fitting to our generation.
Nevermind

No cap, fr fr

For some reason "fr" is so frustrating. I am such a boomer :/
I'd like to upset some niblings with "fr fr, ong"... Does anyone know if "fr" is pronounced as one word like in "from", or if I'm supposed to just say "eff arr"? Same for "ong," please.
- I always thought it was like an abbreviation for "for real"

Radical

I just realized that I’m probably older than George. At least in the earlier seasons.

The actor was 29 in season 1.
- Why would you do this? 😞
- I went to high school with a guy that looked like him at 16.
  It was unfortunate unless someone needed to get alcohol for a party.
- He was also considered fat. Now that's normal.
This is always upsetting.
Same for rewatching iasip. I think they're late 20s when it started.
- I don’t like this game

That's tight, yo.

Cool beans
- I started saying cool beans ironically years ago and now can't stop!

Are millennials the new boomers now? Or is this meme about older generations making fun of millennials? I can't follow anymore.

Dontcha know? Millennials are any young kids they don't understand. Who is "they"? Idk, probably boomers, since boomers are any old out of touch people they don't understand.
I first assumed it was made by a millennial but that may be because I am one myself. If we do end up being the next mocked generation I will at least get a little amusement out of genx getting the shaft again.

These arent meant to be spoken out loud anyway.

If I’m forced to say it to fit in, it’s your fault.

Not to sound like a boommer but I really dislike "finna" like how much do you need to shorten a term like finally gonna

😲 I thought it was slang for "fixing"!
As in "Fixing to do x, y, z" which in my mind meant "I am preparing to do x, y, z"
- That's correct
- Fixing to? is that some texas thing
- Who the hell says “fixing to” over “going to” though? Seems like a small minority group trying to sound more important than they are, idk.
It's dialectic -- there's lot's of them in the US, but this one afk belongs to Black American English, and is shortened from "fixin' to." Personally, I think it's cool to see so many variations of English. The language is definitely not static; it is changing all the time!
"finna" has been around since the 90s, I just listened to a tupac song where they were saying that
Short form of “fixin to” (pronounced “fixin tuh”)
Usually implies “I’m” fixing to. Often said without much emphasis, as it’s just introducing the important part of the phrase. I think it’s actually a pretty neat way to keep the emphasis where it needs to be.
“Finna get outta here” uses 3/4 of the phrase to convey the important action of “leaving”
vs. “I’m fixing to get out of here” uses 1/2 of the phrase on useless info that “I” am the one doing the leaving and that it hasn’t happened yet but is about to.
Finally gonna is already a slang shortening of "I am finally going to...". Or even better, "I will finally...".
These terms used to bother me too, until I just full-on embraced them. Now I use them both ironically, and unironically, just never at work. They're really good for text messaging because of their brevity. They combine multiple words into a single short word.
- That's what I mean gonna is already shortened

###I mean, ngl, sus fr fr, no cap

I was particularly surprised at how quickly millennial sayings aged.

Which, um.. which ones are we not supposed to be saying anymore..? Asking for a friend...
- Calling things 'retarded' in both a good or bad way. Calling bad or annoying things 'gay'. Adding izzle to the end of words.
- My observation as a Xillenial:
  Millenials tended to have negative-meaning slang. It's like the generation expressed its angst.
  Zoomers tend to have positive-meaning slang. This generation does not try to follow the Boomer dream and focuses its energy elsewhere.

what does ong mean?

On Guard!
They're trying to bring back dueling with swords.
"On God". I think it's short for "I swear on God.", similar to "I swear on my mum's life.". It's an emphasis that you are telling the truth.
- I always thought it was just a misspelling of OMG. LOL

My day, never came, I am old and without prime

Can someone also explain 'go brrr', cause I just think of vibrating doorstop springs, but that can't be right...

No I'm pretty sure that's right
It's from a meme, "Money printer go brrrr" ~~which was I think a spin off of the "It prints money!" meme for the original Wii~~ (Edit: did some research and I think they're unrelated.) Its the sound of the machine, printing money, it go brrr.
I've seen it used for all kinds of things, but "go brrr" is basically a dismissive way of talking about how "winning" something is.
Edit: I think Picard Manuever explains it better actually, and while I don't think my usage note is untrue from how I've seen the meme used in evolutions, I'd have to agree that it originally and usually takes the form they described.
It's just the sound of some machine running, but the meme is usually something along the lines of:
"You can't do X, you have to do Y!"
"X goes brrrr"
The humor is in stubbornly doing something in a dumb way.
It's generally finding amusement in something doing what it's supposed to do in a straight forward and effective manner, in contrast with an alternative overly complex method.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/money-printer-go-brrr
Pretty sure it's supposed to be the sound of a machine running. Most popular example I can think of is "haha money printer go brrr".
It can also be a reference to the A-10 close air support fighter, whose main gun is notable for emitting a very loud brrrrrrrt sound.
The US government printed a lot of money after the 2008 financial crisis. Some people criticised this, saying it would devalue the US Dollar. But the government went ahead with the plan, resulting in a meme where critics bring up a lot of arguments and Obama (?) says 'haha money printer go brr'.
It's the sound of the A-10 Warthog's main gun. It became a meme over a couple decades of war. "If brute force isn't working, you're not using enough of it," kind of captures the gleeful power and arrogance.

Omg I am old lol

Do any self respecting millenials say those things?

I say "that's fire". But I also say "that's sex", which I don't hear from anyone else. Idk why I just feel like when something is really awesome I like to liken it to sex.
- Me and my ex husband use "teh sex" (sic) to mean something is beautiful and designed exceptionally well.

I want to make going Tuna a thing.

How is “it’s sus” a Gen Z thing when we were saying it in the 90s?

This meme is pretty sus tbh.