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Slang used or popularized by Generation Z (Gen Z; generally those born between the late 1990s and early 2010s in the Western world) differs from slang of earlier generations; [1] [2] ease of communication via Internet social media has facilitated its rapid proliferation, creating "an unprecedented variety of linguistic variation". [2] [3] [4]
This summer, the acronym LOL has gone out of style amongst Gen-Z-ers and has been replaced in popularity by IJBOL, which stands for “I just burst out laughing”.
When older people try to use Gen Alpha slang, “It’s kind of embarrassing,” Beryl said. They’re also fully aware of the chronically online reputation they have among older generations.
Gyatt (also commonly spelled as Gyat) is a term from African-American Vernacular English originally used in exclamation, such as "gyatt damn".In the 2020s, the word experienced a semantic shift and gained the additional meaning of "a person, usually a woman, with large and attractive buttocks and sometimes an hourglass figure".
Origin: "Brain rot" dates back to the early aughts, first appearing on Twitter, now known as X, around 2007, according to Know Your Meme, a database for memes and internet slang.
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The second more direct origin of the current usage comes from 1914 when James Joyce used the Irish slang gas to describe joking or frivolity. During the "Jazz Age," the expression was picked up by ...