Just to make some of you feel old: I'm gen Z and I'm 25.
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Thanks, I hate it!
Have you had your first wave of Gen Alpha trends and slang confuse you yet?
Not the person you're replying to, but in the same boat, and I for one dipped out at "yeet" and "yoink"
Wait, yoink? Like to snatch something up? That's at least 30 years old from the Simpsons.
Yoink is older than scoobie doo
Zoinks
Yeet is from the Vine era. Gen Alpha has more recent stuff. You know, the whole "skibidi ohio fanum tax amogus rizzler fortnite gyat" thing.
yeah i have no idea what most of those words mean. i only know that "rizz" is a short for charisma, and that gyat means a nice ass, probably
The most confusing part of that is that alpha are millennials' children. Meaning people from my generation spawned those things. What.
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Not a gen Z but I'm actually a fan of both of those words. It's like a forceful put or get.
It's like a forceful put or get.
Now I kind-of want HTTP verbs for those.
YEET /api/v1/submit HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
User-Agent: curl/8.6.0
Accept: */*
Content-Type: application/json
...
YOINK /api/v1/list HTTP/1.1
Host: example.com
User-Agent: curl/8.6.0
Accept: application/json
Not the same verbs, and specific to Emacs, but I’m kind of sad cutting and pasting won over killing and yanking
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I'm pretty sure you wouldn't been in playschool when yeet became a thing.
*wouldn’t’ve
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I am still in school and it confuses me already.
Im 27, very first birth year for gen z. And I'm a teacher and this is a multiple times a day occurrence. Also, them laughing at my slang terms that I don't even realise are slang as I'm using them. And the scary bit is, some of them are 18-20, so still firmly gen z too.
Just to make some of you feel older, I’m gen z and I’m 26
Imagine being born last century
I guess I’m in a very narrow window of people who are gen z but born last century
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Frontal lobes are cool but all that white matter you grow in your 30s is where the good shit happens
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Can someone explain?
Your brain finishes developing around 25 years old. The older Gen Zs are turning 25 now. OP is joking about unironic emoji usage being an old person thing.
Gen X here. Almost never use emoji. When did emoji use become a “old(er) person” thing?
I’ve certainly noticed emoji spamming that couldn't even be called “ironic” among my kids and their friends, so I’m not sure they know what ironic even means.
boomers use emojis constantly in a way that's almost frightening. like they have to idea what the faces are supposed to represent and just add as many as they can.
The scariest part is how many I've caught using 😏 as some kind of disappointed/annoyed face, and get really confused when I say "What's the sexy face for?"
I'm sure there's some joke that can be had here about boomers misunderstanding facial expressions for lacking empathy experience or something but it's just a weird common one I've encountered lol.
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Yeah I always thought that emojis were used most heavily by Gen Z. Millennials seem more likely to use abbreviations like "lol" and "lmao," and Gen X seems more likely to just type "haha." I don't know what boomers do, send audio clips of them laughing?
They start a Skype call so they can show you live how much it made them laugh
😏🍑
I guess we are too old for this shit to even matter. I mean we lived to see the OG emoji invented, there was no ironic or non ironic way to use it. And there was only one.
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Some older people have somewhat similar smartphone behavior as teenagers. Those of us born in the ~80s/90s kinda grew up along with technology. A lot of older people adopted it when they were already adults, so they didn't slowly grow used to it the way we did. And younger people started using tech when it was already this super intransparent easy to use thing that it is now. So those groups behave somewhat similarly around it: mobile games, a lot of social media use, and, for some reason, also heavy emoji use. I guess it might be because it's new and cool to them and they never used :-) etc?
Mind you, this is far from universal. Just a bit of a pattern I'm noticing. Also, I don't really view you, a gen x person, as older, so idk.
Got it, thank you. 😂 😂 😂 I'm glad to see that real comedy isn't dead!
"the brain finishes developing around 25 years old" is a myth but yeah that's the joke
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Using 😂 feels very millennial/gen x.
:-P
Let's get you back to the home, buddy. We're watching WKRP tonight, won't that be fun?
Did I ever tell you about the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville? I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they call Shelbyville in those days, so I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. So, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. Give me five bees for a quarter you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah! The important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could was those big yellow ones.
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I wanna watch Laverne & Shirley
Brought to you by M.A.S.H re-runs and bengay
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I just use that shit cause it's the first thing that pops up, if I have to choose, this is the one I use for everything. 😑
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I just checked my emoji set. 13 emojis that you can use to express some kind of joy/cheerful mood that isn't associated with food or feelings towards other beings. Including those (like 🥰) there are many more. I'm probably old man yelling at clouds here, but I'm sick of everyone using the 'I AM CRYING WITH LAUGHTER' emoji to simply say anything between 'huh, yeah' and 'haha, that's good'. Of course I don't expect the emoji police to show up and arrest them for not producing tears, but this basically inflates (deflates?) the value of everything else. To me it feels like writing your whole text with all caps. If everything is highlighted, then nothing is highlighted.
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