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[–] [email protected] 113 points 10 months ago (7 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Chez Squilly Yo 💯💯

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Man’s not cappin.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeet and Gucci are early zoomer at best, mostly later millenial terms as they became popular closer to 2015 than 2020

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

They're definitely zoomer, MAYBE late millennial

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I always did the bird Caa Caaw instead of yoink.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Deadass on fleek

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Oh no, I liked Glass Onion...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

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.