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I had this conversation with one of my kids recently:
Her: "This thing is gas!"
Me: "Gas? Why are you talking like your grandpa in 1965?"
Her: " What are you yapping about? They don't know what 'gas' means!"
Me: "You wanna bet? Ain't you ever heard that Rolling Stones song? Jumpin' Jack Flash, it's a gas...?'
Her: "Bruh..."
Me: "Don't shoot the messenger."
It's amazing watching young adults discover that their new fad is a rehash of concepts that are decades old.
You mean bellbottoms and "cottage core" aren't new & edgy? D'oh.
In the 90s, when everyone started using the word fat/phat, I found out from an article that it's usage that way could be traced back to 1920s jazz musicians. Everything old is new again.
I always thought the word "ginormous" (a portmanteau of gigantic and enormous) was totally modern, but then I read a book published in 1943 by a Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot which had "ginormous" in its glossary section.
Me looking at this meme nearing 40..."pretty sure we used sus and fire as teenagers".
Then again I didn't grow up in USA and we had different "hip" words.
That's fire was definitely a millennial thing, possibly Gen X.
OP is just that hip.
"Fire" goes back to at least the early 90s, when I was in highschool.