@@Dontstopbelievingman I think the youngest zoomers are 15? 16? I dunno, I turn 19 this December and I'm definitely not in the youngest batch of gen Z.
I would absolutely take a slanguistics class 😂 I took a couple linguistics classes in college and slang actually was a minor topic of one of them, a whole class would be interesting
@@jasonhaven7170the way they’ve colonized gyatt has been incredible to watch. Almost as incredible as watching them colonize “goofy ahh” to the point of parody. So pathetic.
Nothing is purely AAVE tho, example is there's allot of crossover between southern slang and aave, but people who ain't from here just think it's aave. But some of our urban areas actually are pretty diverse and there is allot of cross over. I have only ever had white folk online try to tell me how I can or can't talk. None of my friends have complained.
@@banquetoftheleviathan1404 maybe if you think really hard you’ll be able to figure out why so much of the south uses ~parts~ of Ebonics while almost all Black ppl across America use it as their primary dialect regardless.
@@MaddisonintheSkylol no, not “almost all”. There are plenty of black people who use SAE as a primary dialect. I can attest to this not just within my own family that extends across multiple states, but also a notable number of channels here on RUclips. I’m sure some codeswitch, but “almost all” just isn’t accurate.
As a college professor, I wanted to praise you for how you used all the slang words previously explained and combined them into a discussion leading to the next new word!
"Cooked" as an adjective meaning "eff'd" is literally 1950s (or earlier) slang: "Hey Daddio, don't look now but we got the cops on our tail - burn rubber, or we're cooked!"
There are a few here that are also from older generation that I dont think D'Angelo realizes either. Cooked (adj), and "yap" I've definitely heard for decades as a term for bad, and "Ate" comes from ball and drag culture.
@@Ma5jay5dontxdoxthat but the beginning of the video it mentioned that some of the terms come from ball culture so I thought that was kind of an acknowledgement
is basic also not… a word? I know it’s used in casual contexts, so I guess that’s why it’s accredited as “slang” but I remember when people started calling “clout” slang years ago when it literally just a word people started using more. I guess I just don’t understand when something stops being a “word” and transitions to “slang”
Lingusitcally speaking, the word itself is still a non-slang word (we won't be getting into what can constitute as a word) . That will virtually never change (at the very least it can fall completely out of use but it'll just be an archaic word). What changes is that it gains slang use. And as a fun little tidbit, slang words and words that are used as slang can become 'official' through continued use (see for example egregious officially meaning exceedingly bad when it once meant exceedingly good but was used ironically).
@@fleetwoodmak777most slang is an adaptation or 1:1 reuse of real words. Mix of old and new slang: cool, chill, tight, groovy, lit, happening, psyched, slick, based, tripping, etc. It's the development of a secondary meaning that only a select cultural group will recognize or understand that pushes a word into slang territory :)
I thought everyone from the US understood this. I get if someone from another country wouldn't know but if you're from the US it's obvious...idk it's so weird to me
@@overtremendouslyblahLiterally everyone does except for a small minority of sheltered adults and very young people. The only reason people don’t think people know this is because there’s some expectation to credit slang to black people, which obviously doesn’t happen because it doesn’t happen with any group of people, so it’s assumed they just don’t know
some young coworkers asked if I knew what _"ick"_ meant and I said yes because _"ick"_ has been a thing for ages but then they were like "no, like the 2024 'ick'" and defined it and it was _LITERALLY_ THE SAME WORD (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
I think it's not the meaning that has changed, but the context in which the word is used. Gives the younger people the feeling of "new" while not really being new. The brand of "slangs" that's just people misunderstanding and misusing words taken from someone else are literal brainrot though. I blame gen alpha.
@@maimee1eh, this will keep happening. Let the kids have their fun. I still overuse the word “like” and all the other crap we started saying in highschool
Yeah I’ve had that reaction several times like “are yall just pretending you invented (insert thing here: perception, over exposure, chronic depression, subjectivity)
I was chatting with some young people and they were talking about rizz, and when they defined it I was like "oh, so it's like ritz?" and they were like "NO IT'S DIFFERENT FROM RITZ!" But it seems to be the same definition to me, lmao.
I like how whenever D’Angelo says “or maybe I’m just broadcasting myself in my room like RUclips used to be” he smiles a bit and you can tell he’s proud of his joke
If you’ve spent even 3 seconds within any BIPOC queer space, you’d have heard at least half of these several years before they became “mainstream”. Except Ohio idk what the hell happened there.
@@jamabo0omg and what absolutely sends me into orbit about gyatt is it’s not a NOUN it’s an EXPRESSION. the price went up on something “GYAAT-damn” someone got a plump rear? “GYATT-damn” like it’s just the emphasized part of “got” or “god” damn
Yeah it's been so abstracted from the original aave that I really think a lot of these skipped a generation as people became aware of that being problematic, and landed right back at gen z/alpha
Gen z’s affinity toward brainrot mirrors past generations’ attempts at absurdist media in order to cope with existential dread, i.e. in this era, the climate crisis. In this essay I will
Basically thank black people for another cultural contribution to society. As black people continue to be innovative, creative and groundbreaking despite being under appreciated, attacked and marginalized.
HAPPY BIRTHDAAYYY! - ohh, "in unison", my bad. I thought you meant the other one. ...ig 2 weeks late on someone else's bday. (Oops.) Well, happy UNbirthday!
@@Bobo_bobo713 i agree, but i was saying if they dont know its aave, it's dumb to pretend to know the origin by pinning it on a generation. This is advice for the uninformed to be aware of their own part in misinformation, and stopping the spread of it by simply knowing what you're talking about. If you don't know what something is from, don't guess, leave it vague. That's the safest bet. Of course, it's good practice to do a little research into things, so I encourage people to educate themselves, but if they don't want to put in that effort, it's easy to just not mention specifics.
@@blakewhite3131when the source and the consistent language was primarily used in the African American community it’s simple. Think of the word thot, it became a word in the dictionary 2017 or 2018 I can’t remember, but there are rap songs in 2000 with that word, and people who used it in old mtv vlogs. Almost all of these slangs originate and are popularized by aave.
The life cycle of slang right now seem to be: starts in Black communities > spreads to any racial groups in the same area (think NYC slang) > the White Gays start saying it > the youngest generation starts using it every other sentence and claims it as their own. rinse and repeat
The cycle of slang going from black communities to mixed queer communities through the ball scene to white queer communities is over a century old in the US. Queer slang has always had roots in AAVE because queer slang was developed in the context of a mixed black and white queer community, most notably in the New York City and Chicago ballroom and underground speakeasy scenes during the 1920s, when the two communities occupied many of the same spaces and were both targets of violence by the white straight majority. There’s been a lingering connection between the white and black queer communities since then, facilitating the continued exchange of specific aspects of AAVE slang to the larger queer community. It’s only recently that AAVE and queer slang have started to come into mainstream slang so quickly. It used to be a many-decades long process of slow dissemination and exposure, but through the internet the process has increased exponentially. It’s frustrating to see, and it’s definitely killing the “insular” part of insular dialects. Before, when a white queer person used queer slang that originated from AAVE, that aspect of slang remained within the wider queer community because it wasn’t being used with their non-queer counterparts. Now, with both AAVE and queer slang being used so widely by black and queer people on the internet, other groups are picking up on and using the slang. It’s not necessarily a bad thing (nor is it necessarily a good thing), it just is what’s happening. Slang is becoming less insular, it’s no longer just used by the people who created it, and no one is at fault. Language is meant to be used, and humans naturally are meant to spread language.
okay but this analysis is genuinely interesting, like haha funny brainrot but also you did a wonderful job of explaining everything or. uh. damn, you ate. this video slapped. n... no cap
Yeah but it was used in reference to the already used reference for doing something cool. Producers have been “cookin” for like 25+ years. The walter white scene was just a product of that, since memeing breaking bad is so popular, especially out of context.
As a drug related reference, rappers were talking about cooking since back in the 90's at least. So many lines about cooking and baking that were all about the process of cooking up crack rock on your stovetop. That's where "Raekwon the Chef" from WuTang Clan got his title of chef. But then long before that you had the LSD cooks of the 60's and 70's using that same lingo. Neither Gen Z or Breaking Bad created it.
Yea but it is mainly used by gamers. So, they took their own words and get to use it and everyone already knows of an npc in a game bc everyone has played a game and came across one So, that makes me not surprised about it being used outside of when someone is playing a game As it is so relevant even more so these days
the way gen alpha is even worse for thinking things from ball culture are brand new trends i see people calling dips and death drops "the pose from dress to impress"
Roblox has single handedly consumed every single gen alpha’s mind when it comes to references. They don’t even need any other games, Roblox will have a version of that game
Important to remember that you don't know what you don't know. They're being spoon-fed life experience by skibidi toilet and tiktok algorithms. We all had time to start forming personality, experience, sense of culture, etc etc etc. You did NOT say anything derogatory and I'm not trying to put words in your mouth I promise!
@@sl33pi6unni IDK if links work on youtube but I'm gonna link you to the wikipedia because I see a lot of different descriptions used: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_culture
As a one billion year old dinosaur I am truly thankful to professor wallace for creating this educational film. I now feel more connected with the Youths and am ready to speak their language.
okay any older zillenials who are also in fandom spaces: I've also seen brainrot used to describe when you're obsessed with something. like i have so much brainrot about these characters or this show. unsure if this is like a older version of it or an example of a word being used in different contexts in different communites
It's unfortunately going to continue for a VERY long time. Most people don't even want to recognize the issues occurring today, never mind taking the time to understand the history of a word they saw in a meme. It's a painfully ironic dissonance - both valuing the term for its use and meaning, but devaluing it by not bothering to learn its' history.
@@kezia8027 this, and you have no shortage of white people who will rush in to defend and downplay racism in every form, so until our society shifts towards better education about cultural appropriation, we will be dealing with stuff like this
For real I don't mind people using it if it naturally makes it into their vocabulary but making fun of it or claiming your generation came up with it is ignorant and upsetting
as an ESL: it *is* super educational because most of the time slang is v hard to define and here it's explained really clearly. maybe D'Angelo should make it a recurring column
ah i feel like most of the world knows these words by now because of the internet, it reaches everywhere. i'm from an obscure contry in south east Europe and i know all of these. basically if you're in social media a lot, you'll know
Idk if I should be proud of myself or ashamed (aka did I gain or lose aura points?) because I already knew all of these words and I'm on the cusp between gen z and millennials, plus I'm from a small country in Europe and English isn't my native language...I think I just watch RUclips way to much and it's causing "brainrot"
d'angelo saying 26 years old like it's so old, funny thing about getting older is you think about the times you felt old when you were younger and feel stupid for ever thinking that way, i remember feeling old at 21, 21!, insane
Me quietly letting my niece know she used 'slay' wrong while trying to build her social media presence and her having to explain to me that slay is more than a verb 🤡
As a millinial born right in the middle of the millinial era, "bet" has meant either an affirmative or "f that, its on" for at least as long as I can remember
There’d also the fact that “gyatt” is actually aave shorthand for “goddamn” or “gyat- DAYUM” like. It’s goddamn. It was never meant to be a noun. It is an expression. It’s a word that enrages me so much cause no black person would ever use it in that way it’s literally just non-black people misappropriating it into something it’s not 😭
As a Gen Z I feel like people need to realize that a lot of the slang that not only we but other generations use aren't anything new either we've barrowed those words from AAVE or it's words previous generations used coming back because like fashion slang/language can be cyclical
Black Xennial... me too. I grew up using many of these too... amusing that D'Angelo considers them quintessential GenZ slang. He included slaps....LOL. I'm old enough to remember the actual physical world cap as in a removable crown for a tooth and interactions like "Is that just a [false] front? Nah, it's gold, no cap." None of this cap == baseball cap. Also making fake silver teeth with chewing gum wrappers. .... So Ohio is the new Florida. Got it.
@@normalguy246you’re watching a video breaking down the history of words, someone comments on the history, why are you watching this if you don’t care?
D’Angelo, thank you so much for helping me with one of my favourite jokes - slightly misusing slang in front of my preteen students so that they get a little huffy about it. If you throw in a correct usage every once in a while they get so excited and proud that The Old got it, it’s great.
Seeing the transition in real time was awful because there was no stopping it by the time I started seeing it used incorrectly 😭 literally went: saw it used incorrectly (confusion) -> saw a video about how absurd it was that it was being used incorrectly -> endlessly seeing it used
As a Gen X English major with an (almost) masters degree in Creative Writing, I was at once fascinated, horrified and entertained by this video. Kudos to you young man; you have a Dr. Who-like ability to navigate generational slang evolution, and I am here for it. Watching you cook until you ate is giving. I hope I did that without glazing too much. Can I call myself a polyglot now?
I'm a geriatric millennial and besides the obvious parallels to AAVE, ballroom culture, and words that have been in the lexicon forever aka "yap" and "cooked", I see a lot of direct parallels to 80s-00s slang: Cook = bake Mid = meh/lame Brainrot = Rot your brain/loserville/dumb Gyatt = cakes/a** Rizz = rizz, I know you hear the song in your head "putting on the rizz" Ohio = Florida ate = killed Fanon tax = Pay the piper And I think that's all I got for now.
Maybe it's just because I don't really use the social media that other people my age do, but I'm pretty firmly in the middle of Gen Z and I think of things like "Aura" and "Fanum Tax" as Gen Alpha slang. I very rarely see people my age using it, and even less frequently see them using it in earnest. Ironically, I'd think of brainrot as more Gen Z than Gen Alpha (it's been pretty popular on Tumblr for years).
yeah theres a lot that I learned from Tumblr when I was like 12 (i was born in 2000) - like Ohio = non-existent/place where weird shit happens (i.e. the meme where the two astronauts in space with one pointing a gun to the other's head who is saying "It's all Ohio?" "Always has been," etc.)
same! i’m from 2001 and i am in those social medias (mostly tiktok) but most of theses sounded so gen alpha… but i do see “aura” being used in genz memes
you have to keep in mind wrt "gen z slang" also that the youngest people in gen z right now are literally 12. so if you're an adult and you don't hear other adults saying it, it's probably because the 12-18 year olds are saying it
i deeply enjoyed the close reading of the poetic lyricism in “Sticking out your Gyatt for the Rizzler” transported me back to my lib arts university days. thank you professor!
i already knew most of this, but the way you brought in previous words to explain new ones shows you would actually mame a great teacher! lmao i love your videos
4:01 okay so them trying to make sense of "ate down" is SO funny because its stemming from the slay mama work the boots down (etc) which is literally just word salad meant to compliment. Like the joke about it is saying incomprehensible stuff, ive mostly seen it used in gay circles. Then they tied it into "she ate" and "no crumbs" despite it being a separate concept
As a non-native English speaker not living in a country where this would be the primary language, I really appreciate this video. It has helped me stay up to date with the linguistic evolution of this foreign language. Thank you.
so glad im seeing so many comments about the aave stuff. as a black person it feels like every time i hear “gyat” or “ahh” pronounced incorrectly, i feel my soul die.
ive mostly just seen people acknowledge that trauma affecting a community often leads to a collection of certain repeated behaviours such as absurdist comedy.
I've seen "brainrot" take on an increasingly affectionate, self-depreciating tone, as well. Nine out of ten times when I see it used, it's describing something that the person is currently obsessed with, like they (metaphorically) cannot think of anything else. "I drew [favorite] for the 50th time because I have the [favorite] brainrot." But I guess that's sort of a specific offshoot tailored to fandom spaces?
ik exactly what ur talking about because that is how i've used it for years at this point lmao, idk if i'd say it's being used that way increasingly tho since it's been used that way longer than how it is now (at least from my memoy anyway, i could be wrong lol)
I was doing homework with a friend he said that he needed his aura. When I looked at him like he was crazy, he said, " wait no, I need my lore". I once again I told him that I had no idea what he was talking about and he tells me "I guess your not on that side of tik tok". CONCENTRATE. This is the word he was trying to say.
Like making jokes about that ironically is funny, that’s why people do it. But a lot of people are just replacing those words and just forgetting the actual thing they mean. Like it’s funny to say friend lore when you learn something about your friend. But using it as a substitute for mundane life words is not good.
Happy birthday D’Angelo! I’m glad we’re both in the weird “technically gen z but I grew up with VHS tapes my first memory is 9/11” camp that comes with being born in ‘98
My sister was born in 96. You have a unique experience. I am 7 years older then my sister, she is amazing and that weird few year bridge showed me how much I hate separating culturally based on when we are born. I like and get along with 'Gen z' more than I ever have then with my predecessor 'Gen x'. This is all so exhausting and I quit.
watching d'angelo break down cook vs cooked in relation to eating/ate is all i needed in life. but also... yes, gotta love the stolen aave being co-oped and claimed.
not me checking your page seeing if you've posted yet, not seeing anything, going back to my sub box, and then this is on top. the psychic connection...
@jadacampbell9331 but personally I've never really seen straight men use the word, they def know it, but actively don't use it cause they think it's too zesty or sumn
The thing about ‘Gen Z’/Gen Alpha slang is that it really isn’t different than the slang of older generations. Whenever newer slang comes out/becomes ubiquitous amongst people-and as such, causing older people to not be able to understand what the heck they’re saying-people from the previous generations always adopt this view that said slang is completely stupid and ridiculous even though they themselves experienced the same thing with their own slang. And regardless, I kind of like how brainrot-y newer slang can be sometimes: it’s funny, it adds flavor to our current vocabularies, and also, who am I to judge them for what they’re saying? It’s also kind of problematic to call all slang idiotic or stupid when most of it tends to come from AAVE… And to be clear, I haven’t fully watched the video yet, so I’m sure D’Angelo will address this with his usual measured nuance and make me look like I’m rehashing what he’s saying 😭
I also think the internet age has a lot to do with the evolution of slang leading to a rapid descent into meaninglessness as D’angelo explained w/ skibidi, fanum tax & ohio. its kind of like deep fried memes and other meta jokes that were once based on actual jokes
I feel like you'd enjoy this; my old boss (this was at an outdoor education centre) was trying to get the kids to turn "waterfall" into a new slang - as in "wow that's so waterfall", or "dude I'm waterfall" and the meaning is the you're so drip that drip is too "small" of a word, you're "waterfall" instead
@@hannahboebanna Wouldn't iceberg have a negative connotation in this instance? Since 'waterfall' would mean you have so much drip the immaculate vibes are flowing in a self-sustaining loop, then giving 'iceberg' would mean you're frozen solid, the vibes are off, and you're old basically. (Forgive my brainrotting, I just thought it'd be funny lmao)
Am I GenZ? Yes. Did I already know what all these words meant? Yes. Did I still sit here and listen D’Angelo explain it to me in a very mindful and demure way. Yes
I cackled at “bet, bussin, 🐐” I’m east coast African American Gen-X and said this in high school. The powers that be called it Ebonics to try to diminish us. 😂😂😂😂 I love y’all. Keep up the good work!
I usually put on your videos to calmly prepare myself to go to bed, but this time you got me uncontrollably laughing at 1am, I'm so cooked for my test tomorrow
I also would like to share that some of this words have been imported to Spanish, at least in México, by tik tok or reels. Even though they keep the same meaning they are ironacly used with the direct translation, something like "no cap bro" would be used exactly as "no gorra"
This is unironically the best explanation of Gen z/Gen alpha slang I've ever seen - at least as a millenial with boomer energy, you made some of these much clearer. As for brainrot... when millennial were gen alpha age we had a humour that could only be described as "lol random". Being random and making no sense was the joke... so glad to see that's the same lol
I got an ad from my government today that had cringe outdated "young slang" including PRONOUNCING THIS EMOJI OUT LOUD 💃 So that's fun. Also wikipedia doesnt need to intrude on urban dictionary's home turf
@@Fayettevillee i think it was something like "dancing girl emoji" said in full sincerity, but the shock impacted me more than the wording. It for sure said dancing and emoji
Similar thing happened w my province- I live in quebec, canada and there are big historical reasons why we try to protect the french language and part of that is using alternatives to “anglicisms”, or borrowed english terms. So a bit over a year ago, the ministry of the french language ran an ad that used a bunch of english slang that Young People use in french to like “make a statement” about how french is declining, and it was memed quite a bit at the time- (they did have a bit of a point but that’s another conversation lol) It’s 30 seconds, I recommend- you can easily find it by searching “faucon pelerin quebec” on youtube (there are english subtitles if you auto-translate the french ones)
16:11 the fact that animal crossing had no significant updates, villager depth or interactive animation with most furniture made me beyond disappointed Nintendo
7:44 Bussin is ONLY for food if you’re using that term to describe anything other than food my southern black grandmama’s ghost will haunt you forever 🧍🏽♀️ i just realized with soo many ppl not knowing the origin or true meaning of a word, the word gets misused so often that the meaning is lost African American (usually in the southern states) have used Bussin for generations, this is not “new gen-z internet slang”😭
Alr in the intro we’ve heard “If I had to summarise the vid in single word it would be embarrassing/entitlement and sm more” but we finally unlocked “brainrot”
Ancient Romans: I came, I saw, I conquered
Gen Z: I came, I cooked, I ate
real
This is magnificent
Omg thanks to D'Angelo I now get this. I genuinely laughed 🥹
Pitbull: I saw, I came, I conquered (or should I say I saw, I conquered, I came)
W opinion W Pawncicle
"Don't care + Didn't ask + you fell off + L + Ratio + Skill issu and that's on PERIOD" LMAOOO
That was perfect, I listened to it 3 times in a row!
😂
i'm not only whelmed by this but i am turbed
1:31
we should fanum tax ohio on skibidi
Kind of ate
"It's so cringe when adults use gen z slang"
AAVE: Child...
It’s Gen Z’s “lol so random XD” period, but thoroughly unoriginal and whitewashed
Gen Z Are adults now.
Not all gen z are adults and this is in reference to the past 5 years
But I love using it to ensure my 16 year old never uses it again
@@Dontstopbelievingman I think the youngest zoomers are 15? 16?
I dunno, I turn 19 this December and I'm definitely not in the youngest batch of gen Z.
We might have found D’Angelo’s actual PhD, studies in modern slanguistics.
I unironically love the term “slanguistics”
@@Feynix4it’s a W
I would absolutely take a slanguistics class 😂 I took a couple linguistics classes in college and slang actually was a minor topic of one of them, a whole class would be interesting
Alright, you ate with slanguistics.
"Sticking out your gyatt refers to posing with one's rear prominently displayed." Hearing 'genz slang' explained so professionally was hilarious.
It's not Gen Z slang, it's broken AAVE
@@jasonhaven7170the way they’ve colonized gyatt has been incredible to watch. Almost as incredible as watching them colonize “goofy ahh” to the point of parody. So pathetic.
Nothing is purely AAVE tho, example is there's allot of crossover between southern slang and aave, but people who ain't from here just think it's aave. But some of our urban areas actually are pretty diverse and there is allot of cross over. I have only ever had white folk online try to tell me how I can or can't talk. None of my friends have complained.
@@banquetoftheleviathan1404 maybe if you think really hard you’ll be able to figure out why so much of the south uses ~parts~ of Ebonics while almost all Black ppl across America use it as their primary dialect regardless.
@@MaddisonintheSkylol no, not “almost all”. There are plenty of black people who use SAE as a primary dialect. I can attest to this not just within my own family that extends across multiple states, but also a notable number of channels here on RUclips. I’m sure some codeswitch, but “almost all” just isn’t accurate.
As a college professor, I wanted to praise you for how you used all the slang words previously explained and combined them into a discussion leading to the next new word!
My thoughts exactly. It really helped build on the concepts and reinforce what we'd already learned!
It was so perfect. Not only giving usage examples, but then also using them in "regular speech" multiple times across the video. 10/10
"Cooked" as an adjective meaning "eff'd" is literally 1950s (or earlier) slang: "Hey Daddio, don't look now but we got the cops on our tail - burn rubber, or we're cooked!"
Yeah, my white-ass Dad has been saying this since forever.
There are a few here that are also from older generation that I dont think D'Angelo realizes either. Cooked (adj), and "yap" I've definitely heard for decades as a term for bad, and "Ate" comes from ball and drag culture.
so true bestie
I never put this together 💀
@@Ma5jay5dontxdoxthat but the beginning of the video it mentioned that some of the terms come from ball culture so I thought that was kind of an acknowledgement
omg, right away, "basic" was an insult when i was in high school and I'm solidly millennial
is basic also not… a word? I know it’s used in casual contexts, so I guess that’s why it’s accredited as “slang” but I remember when people started calling “clout” slang years ago when it literally just a word people started using more. I guess I just don’t understand when something stops being a “word” and transitions to “slang”
Lingusitcally speaking, the word itself is still a non-slang word (we won't be getting into what can constitute as a word) . That will virtually never change (at the very least it can fall completely out of use but it'll just be an archaic word). What changes is that it gains slang use. And as a fun little tidbit, slang words and words that are used as slang can become 'official' through continued use (see for example egregious officially meaning exceedingly bad when it once meant exceedingly good but was used ironically).
@@fleetwoodmak777most slang is an adaptation or 1:1 reuse of real words. Mix of old and new slang: cool, chill, tight, groovy, lit, happening, psyched, slick, based, tripping, etc. It's the development of a secondary meaning that only a select cultural group will recognize or understand that pushes a word into slang territory :)
i just think of “YA BASIC” from the good place
@@hannahbernhard7401 "No mom, YA basic. And that's okay!"
heading d’angelo say “because if he just cooked her in the debate, then someone let her cook, he ate, but now she’s cooked” just made my whole life
“People like me, both grandpa and baby who knows these terms came from AAVE” truly what it feels like being an older Black Gen Z 😭😭😭
Ikr!
I thought everyone from the US understood this. I get if someone from another country wouldn't know but if you're from the US it's obvious...idk it's so weird to me
so true my grandpa used to ate too ate the food
pretty much, like while you get used to it since its everywhere.. it still makes me cringe at the misuse of it 😭
@@overtremendouslyblahLiterally everyone does except for a small minority of sheltered adults and very young people. The only reason people don’t think people know this is because there’s some expectation to credit slang to black people, which obviously doesn’t happen because it doesn’t happen with any group of people, so it’s assumed they just don’t know
some young coworkers asked if I knew what _"ick"_ meant and I said yes because _"ick"_ has been a thing for ages but then they were like "no, like the 2024 'ick'" and defined it and it was _LITERALLY_ THE SAME WORD (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
I think it's not the meaning that has changed, but the context in which the word is used. Gives the younger people the feeling of "new" while not really being new. The brand of "slangs" that's just people misunderstanding and misusing words taken from someone else are literal brainrot though. I blame gen alpha.
@@maimee1eh, this will keep happening. Let the kids have their fun. I still overuse the word “like” and all the other crap we started saying in highschool
Yeah I’ve had that reaction several times like “are yall just pretending you invented (insert thing here: perception, over exposure, chronic depression, subjectivity)
I was chatting with some young people and they were talking about rizz, and when they defined it I was like "oh, so it's like ritz?" and they were like "NO IT'S DIFFERENT FROM RITZ!" But it seems to be the same definition to me, lmao.
@@noelledarling1020 Rizz and ritz both have to do with someone who is fashionable and charming. "The end."
I like how whenever D’Angelo says “or maybe I’m just broadcasting myself in my room like RUclips used to be” he smiles a bit and you can tell he’s proud of his joke
As he should be, I miss old RUclips and D’angelo is bringing the style back without all the problematic aspects
If you’ve spent even 3 seconds within any BIPOC queer space, you’d have heard at least half of these several years before they became “mainstream”. Except Ohio idk what the hell happened there.
Exactly. GYATT has BEEN said by my mom’s generations. Esp in the south. It’s nothing new.
@@jamabo0omg and what absolutely sends me into orbit about gyatt is it’s not a NOUN it’s an EXPRESSION.
the price went up on something “GYAAT-damn”
someone got a plump rear? “GYATT-damn”
like it’s just the emphasized part of “got” or “god” damn
I will never not be pissed off by what people did to gyatt tbh
Yeah it's been so abstracted from the original aave that I really think a lot of these skipped a generation as people became aware of that being problematic, and landed right back at gen z/alpha
@@mosheontoastThey aren’t problematic though, people are just dumb
Gen z’s affinity toward brainrot mirrors past generations’ attempts at absurdist media in order to cope with existential dread, i.e. in this era, the climate crisis. In this essay I will
Yes
I just watched Edvasian’s video on the bed rot trend and we’re doomed. Cause I never ever ever bed rot. Ever….promise…
Love
well now i wanna read the essay
new deepdive on this NOW i need to know what camus would think ab this
As a teacher, this was actually a pretty well constructed vocabulary lesson. You really ate with this one.
the 100% serious and professional analysis of "sticking out your gyatt for the rizzler" towards the end had me in stitches
watch it all be aave
I swear 😭
I was just finna say this
It is for sure. I've yet to hear anything from genz that isn't lol
How does it feel to be so correct
Yup
Basically thank black people for another cultural contribution to society. As black people continue to be innovative, creative and groundbreaking despite being under appreciated, attacked and marginalized.
Reading some of these example sentences and then realizing that this is an 100% serious Wikipedia article is about to send me into an early grave 💀
the fantum tax example sentence got me bad, is that really the best they found?
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY, D’ANGELO!” we all say in unison.
You’re Bezos’ lover?
@@hannahboebanna yes he’s all “IM GONNA MAKE MY EMPLOYEES PEE IN BOTTLES 🐺🐺🥀⛓️🪦” and i’m like “BABE NO! STOP! THIS ISNT YOU! 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺”
@@jeffbezoslover intense with the emojis and all caps, but funny
HAPPY BIRTHDAAYYY! - ohh, "in unison", my bad. I thought you meant the other one. ...ig 2 weeks late on someone else's bday. (Oops.) Well, happy UNbirthday!
@@jeffbezosloverAnd re your re: lol! Ate/devoured. 💅
i was not expecting a poetic analysis of the brainrot song but i was pleasantly surprised
every time someone uses the term “gen z slang” to refer to aave an angel loses its wings
true
I don't understand why people can't just say "slang". Like why attribute a source to it when you don't know?
@@blakewhite3131 why not attribute to aave ??? People will give credit to everything else so what's the issue ?
@@Bobo_bobo713 i agree, but i was saying if they dont know its aave, it's dumb to pretend to know the origin by pinning it on a generation.
This is advice for the uninformed to be aware of their own part in misinformation, and stopping the spread of it by simply knowing what you're talking about. If you don't know what something is from, don't guess, leave it vague. That's the safest bet.
Of course, it's good practice to do a little research into things, so I encourage people to educate themselves, but if they don't want to put in that effort, it's easy to just not mention specifics.
@@blakewhite3131when the source and the consistent language was primarily used in the African American community it’s simple. Think of the word thot, it became a word in the dictionary 2017 or 2018 I can’t remember, but there are rap songs in 2000 with that word, and people who used it in old mtv vlogs. Almost all of these slangs originate and are popularized by aave.
The life cycle of slang right now seem to be: starts in Black communities > spreads to any racial groups in the same area (think NYC slang) > the White Gays start saying it > the youngest generation starts using it every other sentence and claims it as their own.
rinse and repeat
Every time
yeah i was gonna say it's like black people to gay people then the majority
@@Man-ej6uv Specifically Black people to non-Black gay people to white women then everyone
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
The cycle of slang going from black communities to mixed queer communities through the ball scene to white queer communities is over a century old in the US. Queer slang has always had roots in AAVE because queer slang was developed in the context of a mixed black and white queer community, most notably in the New York City and Chicago ballroom and underground speakeasy scenes during the 1920s, when the two communities occupied many of the same spaces and were both targets of violence by the white straight majority. There’s been a lingering connection between the white and black queer communities since then, facilitating the continued exchange of specific aspects of AAVE slang to the larger queer community.
It’s only recently that AAVE and queer slang have started to come into mainstream slang so quickly. It used to be a many-decades long process of slow dissemination and exposure, but through the internet the process has increased exponentially. It’s frustrating to see, and it’s definitely killing the “insular” part of insular dialects. Before, when a white queer person used queer slang that originated from AAVE, that aspect of slang remained within the wider queer community because it wasn’t being used with their non-queer counterparts. Now, with both AAVE and queer slang being used so widely by black and queer people on the internet, other groups are picking up on and using the slang. It’s not necessarily a bad thing (nor is it necessarily a good thing), it just is what’s happening. Slang is becoming less insular, it’s no longer just used by the people who created it, and no one is at fault. Language is meant to be used, and humans naturally are meant to spread language.
okay but this analysis is genuinely interesting, like haha funny brainrot but also you did a wonderful job of explaining everything
or. uh. damn, you ate. this video slapped. n... no cap
fuck cody ko being people’s lunchtime youtuber, i nominate d’angelo!!
🥲
that man has never been funny to me so d'angelo is and has always been the superior option😌
real!!!
I haven’t eaten in months..
i’ve been watching him my whole lunch period while I’m at school so definitely!!
I would like to add the fact that “let him cook” is a subsidiary of Walter Whites iconic “someone cooked here” line
I LOVE GEN Z SLANG LINGUISTICS AND ETYMOLOGY
Yeah but it was used in reference to the already used reference for doing something cool.
Producers have been “cookin” for like 25+ years. The walter white scene was just a product of that, since memeing breaking bad is so popular, especially out of context.
As a drug related reference, rappers were talking about cooking since back in the 90's at least. So many lines about cooking and baking that were all about the process of cooking up crack rock on your stovetop. That's where "Raekwon the Chef" from WuTang Clan got his title of chef. But then long before that you had the LSD cooks of the 60's and 70's using that same lingo. Neither Gen Z or Breaking Bad created it.
As a millennial, I quickly began to use this as a pop quiz to test how young and cool I still am. I passed, no cap! 😂😭😭😭
Gamer slang too, it’s weird to hear someone say “he’s an npc” unironically outside the context of a video game.
It's just the modern version of "vapid" or philosophical zombie. It really says more about the person who can't perceive others as being sentient tho.
Nah that was due to 2016 political brain rot. Conservatives would unironically call libs NPCs
@@banquetoftheleviathan1404yeah calling someone an NPC says way more about the person saying it. It’s one of my least favorite slang phrases.
Yea but it is mainly used by gamers. So, they took their own words and get to use it and everyone already knows of an npc in a game bc everyone has played a game and came across one
So, that makes me not surprised about it being used outside of when someone is playing a game
As it is so relevant even more so these days
A guy in my class has been calling me an npc all year long and I genuinely don't understand how my behaviour is npc like
the way gen alpha is even worse for thinking things from ball culture are brand new trends
i see people calling dips and death drops "the pose from dress to impress"
Roblox has single handedly consumed every single gen alpha’s mind when it comes to references. They don’t even need any other games, Roblox will have a version of that game
Important to remember that you don't know what you don't know. They're being spoon-fed life experience by skibidi toilet and tiktok algorithms. We all had time to start forming personality, experience, sense of culture, etc etc etc.
You did NOT say anything derogatory and I'm not trying to put words in your mouth I promise!
pls say ur joking
Wuts ball culture?
@@sl33pi6unni IDK if links work on youtube but I'm gonna link you to the wikipedia because I see a lot of different descriptions used:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_culture
As a one billion year old dinosaur I am truly thankful to professor wallace for creating this educational film. I now feel more connected with the Youths and am ready to speak their language.
someone said "I would listen to d'angelo read a wikipedia page" and he delivered
okay any older zillenials who are also in fandom spaces: I've also seen brainrot used to describe when you're obsessed with something. like i have so much brainrot about these characters or this show.
unsure if this is like a older version of it or an example of a word being used in different contexts in different communites
Thats also how I understood it, I do think that use might predate the current one.
Never seen it that way. I’m middle gen z.
As a gen Z person, I've seen a lot of autistic people use it that way
Only 22 here, and that’s the only way I’ve ever used or seen brainrot used. It was news to me that it’s used in a negative way lol
Agreed, brainrot is obsession afaik
Brainrot is also used to describe an obsession, like "still in my baldurs gate 3 brainrot era"
The fact that so many folks genuinely think that this is “TikTok lingo” and “genz slang” when it’s just literally AAVE is wild
You mean non-Black folk
I love watching cultural appropriation in triple HD
It's unfortunately going to continue for a VERY long time. Most people don't even want to recognize the issues occurring today, never mind taking the time to understand the history of a word they saw in a meme. It's a painfully ironic dissonance - both valuing the term for its use and meaning, but devaluing it by not bothering to learn its' history.
@@kezia8027 this, and you have no shortage of white people who will rush in to defend and downplay racism in every form, so until our society shifts towards better education about cultural appropriation, we will be dealing with stuff like this
For real
I don't mind people using it if it naturally makes it into their vocabulary but making fun of it or claiming your generation came up with it is ignorant and upsetting
this video would unironically be so educational for ESL folks trying to figure out what in the world we’re talkin about 😂
as an ESL: it *is* super educational because most of the time slang is v hard to define and here it's explained really clearly. maybe D'Angelo should make it a recurring column
ah i feel like most of the world knows these words by now because of the internet, it reaches everywhere. i'm from an obscure contry in south east Europe and i know all of these. basically if you're in social media a lot, you'll know
Idk if I should be proud of myself or ashamed (aka did I gain or lose aura points?) because I already knew all of these words and I'm on the cusp between gen z and millennials, plus I'm from a small country in Europe and English isn't my native language...I think I just watch RUclips way to much and it's causing "brainrot"
@@MayaMickaMicak As they say, you’re cooked 💀
I have a lot of friends that would appreciate this video as ESL folks that aren't chronically online
d'angelo saying 26 years old like it's so old, funny thing about getting older is you think about the times you felt old when you were younger and feel stupid for ever thinking that way, i remember feeling old at 21, 21!, insane
For gen z generation he's technically among the oldest, yes
Im 18 and my aunt will talk to me about her middle school students and the day i heard gyatt come out of her mouth i almost sobbed
in what context she used the word ? 😭
💀
Me quietly letting my niece know she used 'slay' wrong while trying to build her social media presence and her having to explain to me that slay is more than a verb 🤡
@@sarani8524she’s a teacher 😭😭😭
@@sarani8524mrs _____ you’ve got a gyaattt…we were in the middle of a goodwill thrifting
As a millinial born right in the middle of the millinial era, "bet" has meant either an affirmative or "f that, its on" for at least as long as I can remember
Confirming as an ancient millennial. "Bet" has been used the exact same way since at least the 90s.
This and depending on the region, we added that "oh ard" before 😂😂
There’d also the fact that “gyatt” is actually aave shorthand for “goddamn” or “gyat- DAYUM” like. It’s goddamn. It was never meant to be a noun. It is an expression. It’s a word that enrages me so much cause no black person would ever use it in that way it’s literally just non-black people misappropriating it into something it’s not 😭
I personally appreciate the article "-ussy" (the English language suffix, not to be confused with the French town "Ussy")
Btw, that article unironically uses the phrase "Margaret Thatchussy".
Same. I appreciate it with my whole heartussy ❤
@@acciousername6776clicked the likeussy button❤
As a Black GenXer, i've been using some of these words since I was a teen ... and I learned it from the generation before me.
As a Gen Z I feel like people need to realize that a lot of the slang that not only we but other generations use aren't anything new either we've barrowed those words from AAVE or it's words previous generations used coming back because like fashion slang/language can be cyclical
@@awhimsyreader9015exactly, a good example is the Griddy being a descendant of the nitty gritty from the 50s
@@awhimsyreader9015Why do people need to realize this? Who cares?
Black Xennial... me too. I grew up using many of these too... amusing that D'Angelo considers them quintessential GenZ slang. He included slaps....LOL. I'm old enough to remember the actual physical world cap as in a removable crown for a tooth and interactions like "Is that just a [false] front? Nah, it's gold, no cap." None of this cap == baseball cap. Also making fake silver teeth with chewing gum wrappers. .... So Ohio is the new Florida. Got it.
@@normalguy246you’re watching a video breaking down the history of words, someone comments on the history, why are you watching this if you don’t care?
D’Angelo, thank you so much for helping me with one of my favourite jokes - slightly misusing slang in front of my preteen students so that they get a little huffy about it.
If you throw in a correct usage every once in a while they get so excited and proud that The Old got it, it’s great.
This video was so sigma. You cooked, you ate, and it gave. Happy birthday Mr Rizzler
So much AAVE
@@jasonhaven7170we get it. We know. It was mentioned in the video.
💀💀💀
Gyatt has been bastardized. It was never a tangible thing in the first place lol, wasnt it supposed to stem from "God damn!" 😂😭
Yep, it's AAVE
Seeing the transition in real time was awful because there was no stopping it by the time I started seeing it used incorrectly 😭 literally went: saw it used incorrectly (confusion) -> saw a video about how absurd it was that it was being used incorrectly -> endlessly seeing it used
watching this as a gen z’er is making me realize I don’t use any of this slang at all
As a Gen X English major with an (almost) masters degree in Creative Writing, I was at once fascinated, horrified and entertained by this video. Kudos to you young man; you have a Dr. Who-like ability to navigate generational slang evolution, and I am here for it. Watching you cook until you ate is giving. I hope I did that without glazing too much. Can I call myself a polyglot now?
Not quite, but the effort was there😭 unless the goal was brain rot then good shii bro☠️🤙
You ate 😊 👍🏽
I'm a geriatric millennial and besides the obvious parallels to AAVE, ballroom culture, and words that have been in the lexicon forever aka "yap" and "cooked", I see a lot of direct parallels to 80s-00s slang:
Cook = bake
Mid = meh/lame
Brainrot = Rot your brain/loserville/dumb
Gyatt = cakes/a**
Rizz = rizz, I know you hear the song in your head "putting on the rizz"
Ohio = Florida
ate = killed
Fanon tax = Pay the piper
And I think that's all I got for now.
Also I took almost had a Masters, but in English Literature. 🥂
not me getting this in my recommended right as its uploaded 😭😭😭
Yt working overtime
They know what we want…apparently 😅
I sure hope so
That's how they work?
That's b/c a creator that consistently uploads will have their newest vids recommended, I don't like how it works tho
Gyatt makes me feel so weird because it’s just slaughtered patois
Maybe it's just because I don't really use the social media that other people my age do, but I'm pretty firmly in the middle of Gen Z and I think of things like "Aura" and "Fanum Tax" as Gen Alpha slang. I very rarely see people my age using it, and even less frequently see them using it in earnest. Ironically, I'd think of brainrot as more Gen Z than Gen Alpha (it's been pretty popular on Tumblr for years).
yeah theres a lot that I learned from Tumblr when I was like 12 (i was born in 2000) - like Ohio = non-existent/place where weird shit happens (i.e. the meme where the two astronauts in space with one pointing a gun to the other's head who is saying "It's all Ohio?" "Always has been," etc.)
same! i’m from 2001 and i am in those social medias (mostly tiktok) but most of theses sounded so gen alpha… but i do see “aura” being used in genz memes
agreed, i never hear fanum tax, skibidi and aura being used by my peers, they're moslty used by younger kids
2004 baby and i frequently hear all these terms with my friends. ironically often for quite a few but it is frequent
you have to keep in mind wrt "gen z slang" also that the youngest people in gen z right now are literally 12. so if you're an adult and you don't hear other adults saying it, it's probably because the 12-18 year olds are saying it
i deeply enjoyed the close reading of the poetic lyricism in “Sticking out your Gyatt for the Rizzler”
transported me back to my lib arts university days. thank you professor!
i already knew most of this, but the way you brought in previous words to explain new ones shows you would actually mame a great teacher! lmao i love your videos
4:01 okay so them trying to make sense of "ate down" is SO funny because its stemming from the slay mama work the boots down (etc) which is literally just word salad meant to compliment. Like the joke about it is saying incomprehensible stuff, ive mostly seen it used in gay circles.
Then they tied it into "she ate" and "no crumbs" despite it being a separate concept
As a non-native English speaker not living in a country where this would be the primary language, I really appreciate this video. It has helped me stay up to date with the linguistic evolution of this foreign language. Thank you.
I just moved from teaching first grade to fifth and can’t tell you how unironically helpful this is
so glad im seeing so many comments about the aave stuff. as a black person it feels like every time i hear “gyat” or “ahh” pronounced incorrectly, i feel my soul die.
Hearing people say gyat with a hard t an insisting it's only about booty is enough to drive me to psychosis
They LOVE ahhhh, especially on YT
And it’s so uncomfortable like please CEASE & DESIST
Dear god the way people say “ahh” on this fkin app
@@uniquenewyork3325THANK YOUUUUUUU
ahh being used incorrectly doesn't surprise me given how often I see people using af entirely wrong 😭
Every generation acts like they invented absurdism and surrealism
This feels good to read
"Why is silent generation humor so wacky?" Video Essay
ive mostly just seen people acknowledge that trauma affecting a community often leads to a collection of certain repeated behaviours such as absurdist comedy.
It's just that what is absurd and surreal to one generation is old hat by the next one. So essentially it's a forever loop of "Seinfeld isn't funny"
Its giving dadaism, yeah
I've seen "brainrot" take on an increasingly affectionate, self-depreciating tone, as well. Nine out of ten times when I see it used, it's describing something that the person is currently obsessed with, like they (metaphorically) cannot think of anything else. "I drew [favorite] for the 50th time because I have the [favorite] brainrot." But I guess that's sort of a specific offshoot tailored to fandom spaces?
ik exactly what ur talking about because that is how i've used it for years at this point lmao, idk if i'd say it's being used that way increasingly tho since it's been used that way longer than how it is now (at least from my memoy anyway, i could be wrong lol)
Happy birthday D'Angelo
this is actually the most clear explanation on new slang i’ve ever seen
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BOTH OF US DANGELO !!! (no but fr it's so cool to have my bd be the same as one of my favourite youtubers !!!)
I was doing homework with a friend he said that he needed his aura. When I looked at him like he was crazy, he said, " wait no, I need my lore". I once again I told him that I had no idea what he was talking about and he tells me "I guess your not on that side of tik tok". CONCENTRATE. This is the word he was trying to say.
Bro had the need for speed
Like making jokes about that ironically is funny, that’s why people do it. But a lot of people are just replacing those words and just forgetting the actual thing they mean.
Like it’s funny to say friend lore when you learn something about your friend. But using it as a substitute for mundane life words is not good.
Both don't make sense, and I don't see how you could read it to mean concentrate. Aura is something you already have. And lore just means history
@BryanLu0 maybe he meant that he needed to lock in 😭😭😭
Does your friend not know the meaning of aura and lore😭
Happy birthday D’Angelo! I’m glad we’re both in the weird “technically gen z but I grew up with VHS tapes my first memory is 9/11” camp that comes with being born in ‘98
My sister was born in 96. You have a unique experience. I am 7 years older then my sister, she is amazing and that weird few year bridge showed me how much I hate separating culturally based on when we are born. I like and get along with 'Gen z' more than I ever have then with my predecessor 'Gen x'. This is all so exhausting and I quit.
Also, we are truly the children of 9/11 and I have watched it shape the world since. So wild.
I work w late gen z/gen alpha and you have no idea how this is SO HELPFUL lmfao thank you!
watching d'angelo break down cook vs cooked in relation to eating/ate is all i needed in life.
but also... yes, gotta love the stolen aave being co-oped and claimed.
Oh my god, how happy, healthy, and hydrated does one have to be to put out quality content for 13 days straight?!!?! 🤯
Virgo season energy
D'angelo starts D'angeloing at 00:01
O fr real?
He never stops D'angeloing
As the kids would say, "oh, word?"
Thanks
@@inferno2143fr fr no cap….. 🤢
Bet is from the 70's 😂. I was born in '76 and got it from my mom. She used to jazz it up and say bet-ski-wa.
What does the -ski-wa mean? Just a fun sounding addition?
Seeing young boys scream gyatt at adult women is really what makes me think something's going wrong with the younger generations. We're regressing.
not me checking your page seeing if you've posted yet, not seeing anything, going back to my sub box, and then this is on top. the psychic connection...
🎉 happy bday prof dangelo 🎉
I love how this is all so professionally and cleanly explained, that you could probably send it to grandma haha
0:42 Happy birthday 🎉🥳
I feel like we also have to mention the differences in slang between genders like most girls I know say “ate” and “slay” as opposed to “cook”
*and gay people, those words did originate from ballroom culture
Ate on a larger scale.is everywhere
@jadacampbell9331 but personally I've never really seen straight men use the word, they def know it, but actively don't use it cause they think it's too zesty or sumn
@@vincent-x1uis there like a “straight” version of demure?
@@vincent-x1u yes yes the gays too the gays and the girls. Me and a friend were talking about how they use differing slang as opposed to straight men
I'm going to share this video with people my age (Gen X) who have kids and grandkids. This is a legit public service, D'Angelo. Well done!
The thing about ‘Gen Z’/Gen Alpha slang is that it really isn’t different than the slang of older generations. Whenever newer slang comes out/becomes ubiquitous amongst people-and as such, causing older people to not be able to understand what the heck they’re saying-people from the previous generations always adopt this view that said slang is completely stupid and ridiculous even though they themselves experienced the same thing with their own slang.
And regardless, I kind of like how brainrot-y newer slang can be sometimes: it’s funny, it adds flavor to our current vocabularies, and also, who am I to judge them for what they’re saying? It’s also kind of problematic to call all slang idiotic or stupid when most of it tends to come from AAVE…
And to be clear, I haven’t fully watched the video yet, so I’m sure D’Angelo will address this with his usual measured nuance and make me look like I’m rehashing what he’s saying 😭
yeah exactly !! it's just linguistics and how the evolution of language works
@@B4RBIEBOY coming from a ling major this is just fax and no one understands this 😭
I also think the internet age has a lot to do with the evolution of slang leading to a rapid descent into meaninglessness as D’angelo explained w/ skibidi, fanum tax & ohio.
its kind of like deep fried memes and other meta jokes that were once based on actual jokes
@@clover1149 yup social media makes slang to evulotue too fast that I may become meaningless
I feel like you'd enjoy this; my old boss (this was at an outdoor education centre) was trying to get the kids to turn "waterfall" into a new slang - as in "wow that's so waterfall", or "dude I'm waterfall" and the meaning is the you're so drip that drip is too "small" of a word, you're "waterfall" instead
i need a boat bc you brought a waterfall
Is that an iceberg?
@@hannahboebanna Wouldn't iceberg have a negative connotation in this instance? Since 'waterfall' would mean you have so much drip the immaculate vibes are flowing in a self-sustaining loop, then giving 'iceberg' would mean you're frozen solid, the vibes are off, and you're old basically.
(Forgive my brainrotting, I just thought it'd be funny lmao)
I never thought I’d ever watch an in-depth analysis of the sticking out your gyat song… I need help
Am I GenZ? Yes. Did I already know what all these words meant? Yes. Did I still sit here and listen D’Angelo explain it to me in a very mindful and demure way. Yes
“Very mindful and demure”
NOOOOOOO!!!
I cackled at “bet, bussin, 🐐” I’m east coast African American Gen-X and said this in high school. The powers that be called it Ebonics to try to diminish us. 😂😂😂😂 I love y’all. Keep up the good work!
I usually put on your videos to calmly prepare myself to go to bed, but this time you got me uncontrollably laughing at 1am, I'm so cooked for my test tomorrow
I work at a furniture store and I said we were in our, “Chair-a” when we had like 300+ chairs… and was met with so much distain 😭
😂 that made me giggle... it's does feel very Dad punny but that's the stuff I like laughing at.
this is so me, like “ok we’re in our chair era…our chaira one might even say”
happy birthday d’angelo!!!! Your videos are single-handedly getting me through my first year of high school😭
your explanation of drip makes it so much better than it would have been on its own. yes i do want to serve ryuk drip actually
I also would like to share that some of this words have been imported to Spanish, at least in México, by tik tok or reels. Even though they keep the same meaning they are ironacly used with the direct translation, something like "no cap bro" would be used exactly as "no gorra"
I burst out laughing at "emotional texture" during the meme song breakdown. So much effort put into the lyric analysis, haha!
watching d’angelo break down that song at the end was the highlight of my day
26:23 This gave me flashbacks to 6th grade English class💀
The “song” is basically a gen alpha version of “ notice me senpai” at least that’s how I took it
This is unironically the best explanation of Gen z/Gen alpha slang I've ever seen - at least as a millenial with boomer energy, you made some of these much clearer.
As for brainrot... when millennial were gen alpha age we had a humour that could only be described as "lol random". Being random and making no sense was the joke... so glad to see that's the same lol
happy birthday d’angelo! been watching you for a couple of years now and i love the way your content has continuously evolved!
This video will help so many rhetorical theory academics studying memetics in the future. This is an artifact
D'Angelo, thank you for helping me understand this shit a little better, it's gonna be so much easier to annoy my 11 year old sister in law now lmao
Every day I hope and pray that this is a 24 hours kind of day and not a 24 months kind of day. Grateful that today is one of the good ones
I got an ad from my government today that had cringe outdated "young slang" including PRONOUNCING THIS EMOJI OUT LOUD 💃
So that's fun. Also wikipedia doesnt need to intrude on urban dictionary's home turf
I 2nd that. Unless they have linguists and other Black academics writing the aave page, I dont want it.
How the how do you pronounce 💃🏿 out loud??? Huh??
@@Fayettevillee i think it was something like "dancing girl emoji" said in full sincerity, but the shock impacted me more than the wording. It for sure said dancing and emoji
Similar thing happened w my province- I live in quebec, canada and there are big historical reasons why we try to protect the french language and part of that is using alternatives to “anglicisms”, or borrowed english terms.
So a bit over a year ago, the ministry of the french language ran an ad that used a bunch of english slang that Young People use in french to like “make a statement” about how french is declining, and it was memed quite a bit at the time- (they did have a bit of a point but that’s another conversation lol)
It’s 30 seconds, I recommend- you can easily find it by searching “faucon pelerin quebec” on youtube (there are english subtitles if you auto-translate the french ones)
@@FayettevilleePraise Dancing Girl in a Skimpy Dress 💃🏽
16:11 the fact that animal crossing had no significant updates, villager depth or interactive animation with most furniture made me beyond disappointed Nintendo
18:45 the mental image of d'angelo having "KINDA" and "MID" tattooed on his knuckles made me laugh so fucking hard😭
7:44
Bussin is ONLY for food
if you’re using that term to describe anything other than food my southern black grandmama’s ghost will haunt you forever 🧍🏽♀️
i just realized with soo many ppl not knowing the origin or true meaning of a word, the word gets misused so often that the meaning is lost
African American (usually in the southern states) have used Bussin for generations, this is not “new gen-z internet slang”😭
Video starts at 0:01 btw
Thanks vro ✨
This comment saved my life
Thanks, didn't want to waste any time. 🙂↕️
Thank you, always glad to skip to the best part of the video with such ease 🙏
Thanks big bro ❤
Alr in the intro we’ve heard “If I had to summarise the vid in single word it would be embarrassing/entitlement and sm more” but we finally unlocked “brainrot”
gyatt pisses me off because it’s just people misunderstanding AAVE because gyatt is how a lot of blakc people would say God damn so Gyatt damn