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[–] 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

As a millennial I must admit, Gen Z created a lot of useful words to describe the human experience. we just created "selfie" and fuck else.

Bedrotting, Situatinships, Ghosting...

I'm sure a lot of the meme words will vanish, but Gen Z had a significant influence on the language.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    https://www.wikihow.com/Millennial-Slang

    Hey don't count us out completely.

    But also, yeah, a lot of them are extremely cringe.

    ... Also, why isn't 'cringe' on this list?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Half of them aren't really millennial, we stole those from the Black community millennials.

    I think Cringe/based are also Gen z.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    ... Huh.

    I mean yeah to the first part, but I was using cringe in like, the early 2010s.

    Not based though, I think that came about later?

    IIRC, 'cringe' started as 'cringeworthy', I think it might have originally gotten more widely used in tumblr/deviantart/fanfic/shipping type circles, and then it broke containment in the early 2010s?

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