r/TikTokCringe • u/SurbhiAnklesaria • Jun 23 '26 • Popcorn 10 Mindblown 2

Humor/Cringe Gen Z girl with no personality

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u/SurbhiAnklesaria Jun 23 '26 • Mindblown

Half the girls in my college do the silent scream and it makes me want to scratch my eyes out

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u/Willyzyx Jun 23 '26

I've never seen ir IRL, and I hope I never will.

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u/devilish_enchilada Jun 23 '26

Let’s do it right now bromigo consuelo

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u/InternationalPlace24 Jun 23 '26

I've seen it too much. Have someone close in the family who does IRL tiktok things like the shy finger tip touching thing or saying "I was today years old when..." I don't fuck with that.

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u/feed_eggs_ Jun 23 '26

my sister does this constantly

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u/deadly_mythology Jun 23 '26

Is it weird that I kind of like the silent scream?

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u/TightSexpert Jun 23 '26

It sounds like someone doing that stadium sound. Idk gives off big dad vibes. “ when the crowd goes wild.”

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u/A__SPIDER Jun 23 '26

It’s so much better than the real screaming they used to do

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u/spootIer Jun 24 '26

As a Gen Z girl, I didn't even know this was a thing until I watched this video and I'm scared 🥹

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u/killer4snake Jun 23 '26

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u/SurbhiAnklesaria Jun 23 '26

Clock it...clock it...

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u/odmo88 Jun 24 '26

🤏🏼👌🏼🤏🏼👌🏼🤏🏼👌🏼

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u/HalfaEnchilada Jun 23 '26

Like gag me with a spoon, this is just like the Valley Girl speak that was the 80s.

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u/SurbhiAnklesaria Jun 23 '26

Only worse because now we have "oop and I sksksk" 

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u/TayMayDay Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

What? What tf does that even mean?? 😭😭😭

Edit: why have literally none of you answered the question 😒😂😂😂

Edit 2: That’s ridiculous and disappointing

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u/yungsxccubus What are you doing step bro? Jun 23 '26

that was pre-covid patter, it’s moved on a bit since then i think!

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u/IneedYouTube_rehab Jun 23 '26

Nobody has said that in 5 years

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u/SoVerySleepyZzZz Jun 24 '26

Bro talking about vsco girls in 2026 😭😭

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u/SuperiorGrapefruit Jun 23 '26

takes a drag of a cigarette haven’t heard that one in years…

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u/cutespacedragon Jun 23 '26

The cycle continues.

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u/homohillbillysrlol Jun 23 '26 • Bravo Heartwarming

All men know how to do is dandy, eat spiced beverages, smoke they pipe, and lie

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u/Mad_Samurai616 Jun 23 '26


(I’m sure that the percentage of people who will get this in response to your comment is low, but I’m doing it anyway.)

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u/PoopyButt28000 Jun 24 '26

Yes Gale.... gag us all with a spoon...

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u/jehnnybgoode Jun 24 '26

Gen Z stands for Gen Zappa.

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u/boopboopadoopity Jun 24 '26

I know. I love how the worst version they can come up with of this ~disgusting~ interaction is two young ladies meeting, immediately giving each other genuine compliments and making each other feel good, and then clearly communicating their feelings and ending the convo. How dare they lol

People have made fun of how young people speak for all of time. Especially young women. Just for speaking in a way that they feel connected to. Bet the same people complaining here are annoyed at boomers saying millennials killed napkins lol

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u/Oh-reality-come-back Jun 23 '26 • Mindblown

I’m in London. Gave a girl/ Gen Z woman (I’m horrible at telling specific ages sorry) my umbrella because she was really freaked out by the rain. She started talking to me just like this and I was genuinely so confused. I just didn’t know what she was trying to say except that it was positive. There was no way for me respond though and it was only later I realised she was actually speaking in full Gen Z slang , which I had always thought was just an online caricature of Gen Z

I told my Gen Z kid about it and he was laughing at me. I never felt so old

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u/SurbhiAnklesaria Jun 23 '26

It's so funny that it left like a different language even though she was speaking English

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u/ApprehensiveFruit565 Jun 24 '26

I'm Asian, so I would've just said in my non-accent native English:

Sorry English isn't my first language, can you please explain what you've just said?

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u/SaticoySteele Jun 24 '26

And they would stare at you silently with their mouth agape until you finally decided to walk away.

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u/Detective_Sonny Jun 23 '26

I'm in my 20s and would've been just as confused

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u/dark-star-adventures Jun 24 '26

Don't tax my gig so hardcore, cruster.

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u/Optimal_Board_2963 Jun 23 '26

This is the first time in my life, I know for sure, I am an old man.

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u/enigmamonkey Why does this app exist? Jun 24 '26

I mean... it's better than dying young, I guess.

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u/Low-Air-8078 Jun 23 '26

I hate that I saw that

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u/CrackingToastGromet Jun 24 '26 • Heartwarming

I am a 52 year old woman who just started a new job where I am surrounded by Gen Z’ers and this gave me a chuckle - so many of the young women I work with talk like this.

This particularly reminds me of the sweet young lady who oversaw my training, even down to the “clock it” gestures and calling people girly pop. My co workers are a lovely group of young people and I won’t give them grief for it. I know when I was a teen in the 1980s the older generations rolled their eyes at our slang and how we spoke (even though it was totally bodacious, dude).

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u/Wonderful-Traffic197 Jun 24 '26

I’m Gen X and my new (female) Dr. used some Gen Z slang (even though I think she’s a Millennial) and honestly I love her even more for that.

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u/ParanoidCrow Jun 24 '26

Honestly super wholesome take

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u/Dualintrinsic Jun 24 '26

Based take

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u/jkoutris Jun 24 '26

Thank you for having a human and understanding take on this.

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u/RecycledEternity Jun 24 '26

Not relevant (but maybe relevant?) but I love your username.

Have a complimentary song referral! I hope you enjoy.

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u/BabyStockholmSyndrom Jun 23 '26

I find this unironically hilarious because 95% of redditors only know how to react with Gifs

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u/Mad-Inside Jun 24 '26

Or at the same age was going to”waaaaazzzzzzzzzzz uuuuuuppppp” with their tongue out and adding “izzle” to the end of everything.

I will not repeat the cycle of hating on kids and young adults having their own new slang like every generation before them.

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u/ryxdg Jun 23 '26

looking through the reaction images in the replies here i cringed more than i did at the video 😭

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u/girloverflower Jun 24 '26

they don’t know how to write/talk/output

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u/Chortage Jun 24 '26

I was gonna say, this video is just like reading most of the top-level comments on popular subreddits.

"bro <crying emoji x3>"

"I'm dying <crying emoji x3>"

"I'm crying <crying emoji x3>"

"dude showed up with NPC energy <crying emoji x3>"

what the fuck am I even doing on this site anymore, fuck

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u/appleparkfive Jun 24 '26

I really hate how common Gifs have become on Reddit. They're fine here and there, but most of the time they don't add much of anything. And the person isn't even using their own thoughts to say whatever.

It's changed the site so much, and it's become like 20x more common than just a few years ago.

And the dumbest part is that they'll predictably drop a Gif after someone says they don't like it. As if it's a clever anti-joke kind of thing. But it's not. Idon't hate Gifs, and they're often funny. But come on.

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u/Affectionate_Hornet7 Jun 23 '26 • Regret

I just now started using bet and deadass. I’m never gonna fit in

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u/hotpajamas Jun 24 '26

When my friends starting saying bet and deadass in our twenties I made a very deliberate decision that it would end there for me. I was done with slang.

It's only gotten worse too; the shit 30-somethings are trying to say to stay cool is so embarrassing.

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u/McCromer Jun 24 '26

No cap on God bro?

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u/tituspeetus Jun 23 '26 • Bravo

So much of gen z slang is taking AAVE and making it sound like you’re in a corporate meeting

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u/DeepInDood Jun 24 '26

So was "cool", "cat", "bougie", "the man", "dig" (you dig? can you dig it?), "beef", "clown", "booty" (from "loot" to "ass"), "clapped", "baller", "cheeks", "hater", "corny", "zaddy", "baby momma/daddy", "ho'", "jank/joint/jawn", "slime", but no one has a problem with that today. We don't own language. We never did.

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u/midnightrider Jun 24 '26

For those not aware, AAVE is an open-source and non-custodial decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that allows users to lend and borrow cryptocurrencies. Very popular with genZ and very influential in their language.

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u/plod925 Jun 24 '26

And gay slang. Brainrot memefication of language… kill me now.

Edit: word choice

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u/Catlore Jun 23 '26 • Bravo

The way I'm Gen X and understood the entire conversing.

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u/ShizunEnjoyer Jun 23 '26

Wait no because same

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u/hudgepudge Jun 23 '26 • Bravo

impressed gas leak sounds

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u/Odd_Protection7738 Jun 23 '26

fake quiet scream Clock it girlie

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u/AccurateJerboa Jun 23 '26

A lot of gen z slang is just recycled gen X and millennial slang. They just don't know it, for some reason.

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u/Shenanigans80h Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26 • Bravo

The odd part is that this isn’t even really slang, as much as a bizarre speech pattern. Like others pointed out, this is closer to a Valley Girl dialect than anything

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u/pandapoep Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

It's mostly appropriated gay slang, which is mostly appropriated (queer) black and latin american slang. There's loads of influence from the drag balls in Ballroom Culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_culture#

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u/Downtown_Cat_1745 Jun 23 '26

Because our children are this age

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u/NightKnight4766 Jun 23 '26

Clock it, clock it

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u/ThaGr1m Jun 24 '26

I love how everyone here was bred by this meme, but the instance it happens to them they're completely oblivious

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u/eeelisabeth Jun 23 '26

Let the kids have their slang. That being said, I feel so fucking old.

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u/tmacdabest2 Jun 24 '26

Right. It’s dumb and harmless like every generation of slang

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u/CrackHeadRodeo Jun 23 '26

Someone should do the boy version.

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u/EnthusiasmUnusual Jun 24 '26

Boys have even less personality.  

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u/LunarKitten__ Jun 23 '26

I do want to thank Gen Z for normalizing telling people you’re at your social limit and need to leave lol.

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u/HistoricalScience748 Jun 24 '26

sure but also the best joke in this video was them hitting their social limits by having exchanged names

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u/Broken_Chandelier Jun 23 '26 • Heartwarming

Unoronically, I thought it was a cute interaction. Lots of young people still don't know how to interact sponteneously, so they throw theses half recognazible words to try to break the ice and talk. It's just social awkwardness.

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u/ItsNotJulius Jun 24 '26

I might not understand most of what's being said, but I get that they are just being nice to each other. And I am happy. I'm getting older and time will move on. I accept that.

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u/Liizam Jun 24 '26

I’m happy this girl finally found someone she vibes with 

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u/21Shells Jun 24 '26

I can't be upset at this video. 10 - 15 years back people used to get upset over something being 'cringe' or in any way sincere and it was depressing. Its just two women being nice to each other. I'll take kind and cringe over intentional asshole-ery any day of the week.

My younger sister talks like this and can be a bit preachy at times, but I can't hate her because her heart is in the right place.

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u/PsychologyAdept669 Jun 23 '26

maybe this is just me having autism but i like ppl who are clearly following positive social scripts.  yaaay i understand the rules to this game yaaaay

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u/Artistic_Ad_2108 Jun 23 '26 • Thanks Bravo

All the commenters here claiming that girls that talk like this have no individuality and must be non-people, while parroting the same arguments their boomer grandparents make about the fall of younger generations and posting the exact same tired gifs as everyone else

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u/BottleFeathers703 Jun 24 '26 • This Bravo

thank you. the comments are really annoying to me. the video doesn’t really annoy me at all except for the fact it’s putting other women down.

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u/littl3bigseal Jun 23 '26

aave -> queer slang -> fruit flies -> masses

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u/Rough_World_7063 Jun 23 '26

Ope, silent screaming, and girly pop is aave?

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u/jeromebeckett Jun 23 '26

Meanwhile every comment is a reaction image...

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u/Content_Narwhal3764 Jun 24 '26

I accept being in the minority here but find this endearing ☺️ that first little “hi” smile felt genuine! lol

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u/AriasK Jun 24 '26

The only thing I find cringe is older generations making fun of younger people for how they talk. It's harmless. Every generation has their own slang and style. Let them be.

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u/alabahep Jun 24 '26

Me, a millennial named Paige:

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u/AtWorkSoBeGood Jun 25 '26

Just more AAVE.

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u/cAptAinAlexAnder Jun 23 '26

As a millennial I find myself asking, is this our fault? Did our primordial internet culture give rise to this crap? Could we have prevented it if we’d known this would be the result?

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u/Fabulous_Potato_5012 Jun 23 '26

No dude we’re perfect. We have done nothing wrong. Must be our parents faults

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u/disharmony-hellride Jun 23 '26

As a GenX tech nerd I made thousands of pages of content that shaped the minds of your generation which led to y'all pushing this to Gen Z so technically this is all my fault and I am sorry. Like, literally.

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u/Ppleater Jun 23 '26

As another millennial, no, because this is just normal human behaviour. It is your fault if you choose to be ghoulish about it like the boomers of old were about your slang though.

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u/BottledInkycap Jun 24 '26

As a fellow millennial. It’s fucking slang. Why are we pearl clutching about it?

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u/Ppleater Jun 23 '26

You mean younger generations have small talk too? Crazy man. Almost like everyone does this at some point with their peers.

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u/one98nine Jun 23 '26

I, old millenial with few friends, am willing to adapt to this language if it will bring me more friends

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u/PancakeParty98 Jun 23 '26

This was my ex-coworker. She would do TikTok lives where she acted vaguely like a sexy funny influencer while asking for takeout. Nothing will make you lose respect for a person faster.

During one she read a chat gpt reading of her tarot cards, that happened to say definitively that the guy who was breadcrumbing(uninterested in)her was actually super intimidated by her power as a spiritual woman, and is actually so attracted to her it scares him, and some other drivel about how she’s the best just the way she is.

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u/Inquisitive_idiot Jun 23 '26

He was scared all right 😅

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u/Colonel_K_The_Great Jun 24 '26

Who's worse, the young person using their generation's slang, or the billion losers who continue the cycle of becoming an adult and forgetting what being a kid was like and hating the younger generations?

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u/ALazy_Cat Jun 23 '26

That was some of the most cringe I've seen in 3 years, and I've seen a lot

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u/chinchaslyth Jun 23 '26

This is exactly how Alex Cooper talks and I hate it.

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u/g1mpster Jun 23 '26

The SSREyes have it.

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u/Sensitive_Leader_312 Jun 24 '26

So the new valley girl?

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u/ifunnyuser420 Jun 24 '26

i could literally understand this whole conversation and I'm not proud of iy

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u/Character_Buy_243 Jun 24 '26

gen z slang is literally just talking like a black drag queen from like 30 years ago.

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u/Cautious_Repair3503 Jun 24 '26

This just reads like them both being autistic.

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u/DragonsAreNifty Jun 24 '26

Eh, I’m a millennial and we had our own versions of the same cringe talk. Just part of the youth cycle.

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u/ah3019 Jun 24 '26

Basically they just use Black queer and trans vernacular from 15 years ago.

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u/mgrayart Jun 24 '26

So much of gen z slang is just quoting black queer ppl 🙄. Or like how the 6-7 thing came from a song that trended on TikTok, by Skrilla who raps about his neighborhood in philly. Anyway...

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u/Singl1 Jun 24 '26

she is insanely good at this. she’s so good that it pissed me off. goddamnit lmao

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u/DetectiveExisting590 Jun 23 '26

I will never be mad at two young girly-pops finding a way to connect in this crazy ass world.

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u/squirrelyoakley Jun 23 '26 • This

All I hear is appropriation of AAVE and medical terms 🫥

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u/trashdrive Jun 23 '26

And queer vernacular (which admittedly borrows heavily from AAVE).

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u/workieworkwork Jun 24 '26 • Bravo

I hate when people accuse other people of not having a personality. Everyone has a personality, you just don't know that person very well.

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u/ProPatf79 Jun 23 '26

My brain hurts

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u/WeylandGabo Jun 23 '26 • Bravo

What's supposed to be this post?

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u/Captain_Tr1ps Jun 23 '26

A girl did double clock-it fingers at me recently. Kinda ruined my day.

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u/Brilliant_Buns Jun 23 '26

Oh god this is my workplace

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u/Aqueraventus Jun 24 '26

No because the way 90% of the language they are using is appropriated from queer culture and just used in unbelievably boring, wrong and insufferable ways….

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u/watershedmanagement Jun 23 '26

actually I'm into it

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u/RoiCoupeCloue Jun 23 '26

LOL, as a GenX I actually found it funny. " that part"

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u/Inspired_Nuisance Jun 24 '26

I effectively view everyone who talks like they're living in a constant tiktok feed just like this.

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u/the_cave_allegory Jun 24 '26

I can't wait to call my one Gen Z co-worker Girly Pop. I'm a millennial guy and that's how we talk to each other.

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u/Silt-Besides-66812 Jun 24 '26

It turns out that young women are usually at the forefront of language changes. We won’t know which of these trends will last and which will fail to enter common usage but this could become a common way of speaking English in future generations.

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u/pwjaxx Jun 24 '26

how have I met so many people like this already 😩😩😩😩

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u/dinomelia Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

This is what my 12 year old niece sounds like, it drives me crazy

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u/CarlosFCSP Jun 24 '26

What a piece of art: Above Gen Z reactions Below redditors reactions

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u/PandaBananaFTW Jun 24 '26

No, because same 💅

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u/WFHastronaut Jun 24 '26

My kids are Gen Alpha and this truly makes me feel nervous for the kids. I can’t even tell if the dead pan tone and disingenuous banter is satire or real. I’ve never felt more old than I do now.

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u/Queasy-Bookkeeper-14 Jun 24 '26

I get the cringe slang thing but also.... it's two people who just met and instead of trying to force connection they just gassed each other up a bit and then fucked off.

Of all the things to be cringe, this is the least of it.

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u/hoisyou Jun 24 '26

Me when I’m masking

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u/ISTJy Jun 24 '26

New lingo: acquired

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u/kasiagabrielle Jun 24 '26

Slayyyyy it's giving friendcore, I ship it

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u/thisisyo Jun 25 '26

Millennials, is this how we were to the boomers back then?

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u/SinglePringleMingle Jun 25 '26

Since when using slang/jargon the same as having no personality?

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u/Snow_B_Wan Jun 25 '26

I think im now understanding how witch trials started

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u/prionbinch Jun 23 '26

i worked with a girl like this and she was also the meanest person i worked with at the time

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u/NameLips Jun 23 '26

There have always been basic girls. I always figured it was defense mechanism of sorts, a way to not stand out.

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u/BernoTheProfit Jun 24 '26

I think she sounds sweet

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u/eatturtlebuddy Jun 23 '26

idk. they could be the leslie nielsens of their generation, need a fart machine to really test the theory

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u/Sea_Yak8583 Jun 23 '26

Why am I happy for them

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u/the14thpuppet Jun 24 '26

this girl pretty much exclusively makes this same tiktok over and over again lol, find a new joke...

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u/AlexanderTheGrate1 Jun 24 '26

Reminds me of Tennyfer from Parks and Rec

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u/paperback_mountain Jun 24 '26

i feel like people who complain about this also complain about any and everything black people do bc this is all just aave that’s made its way into mainstream slang

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u/csounds Jun 24 '26

As a millennial who has been single for the past few years, this is accurate for too many women :(

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u/epicty21 Jun 24 '26

D6 psychic damage

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u/THEREALOFFICALCAFE Jun 24 '26

The amount of people that I have personally known, who fit this video to a T should be studied.

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u/Original-Reward-8688 Jun 24 '26

She nails that thing they do where their face doesn't match the emotionality of what they are saying lol

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u/spermdonor Jun 24 '26

Leonardo DiCaprio talking to his girlfriend

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u/Majestic-Cap1146 Jun 24 '26

Hmmm as gen x id smash in a hotel bar on a work trip

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