You know how it goes, first people start saying the silly meme phrase “ironically”, then they can’t stop themselves saying it, then it becomes awkwardly unironic, and then it gets embedded in the lexicon and Miriam-Webster adds it to the dictionary
2060 is going to be lit fam AHEM I mean it’s going to be funny
fr fr ive thought that too over the past few years
Although that said I just tried to find some examples to justify that sentiment.. and all their newly minted words seem legit to me. Maybe I’m just a silly outdated millennial now
Are the front curls really such a zoomer thing? I've been dealin' with'em for decades now because Arabic and Irish heritage means my hair is constantly in rebellion against british beauty standards
It's become a zoomer thing. Last Xmas my friend's little cousin of Polish and Polish heritage was rocking them instead of his usual arrow straight hair.
I thought the Meet Me at McDonald's was just curly on top, shaved back and sides. Dubya in this pic looks like one of those goldfish with the big sticking-out brain.
Do you by any chance know if this expression stems from twitch chat? I've heard the expression "No Kappa" pretty early there where kappa is the trollface of the platform often indicating something is meant ironically.
On the flip side "No Cap" could indicate the absence of irony and therefore something bering dead serious
popularized from the Young Thug and Future track of the same name:
My bitch can't sleep at my house
Make her sleep at a hotel now
And when you talk, man, you talking off cap
And your diamonds they looking like tap
I was always ducking from the paps
Keep an R&B bitch in my lap
Out in Beverly Hills, I adapt
But I still had to ride with that strap
Yellow diamonds like banana, that's cap
Put some dirty in Mello Yello, no cap
Rocking Maison Margiela's, that's cap
Red bitch, Cinderella, no cap
I can turn perroI can turn Pedro
Bad bitch out the ghetto
I see your rizz and raise you a skibidi. (probably b/c I like the way that word sounds in my head... sk-i-bi-di do dah day 🎵 🎶 )
Also, rizz means "the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner" so... now I have to think about GWB strutting his stuff, thanks for that:-P (that's surely what made me think of my own word... gotta flush it out somehow?)
I was watching the Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve from 1999 and immediately after the ball dropped they cut to a shot of the NYC skyline with the WTC intact.
My Zoomer kid was shocked. Every time they've seen the WTC it's been at the start of some 9/11 documentary.
I remember Gilbert Gottfried at a Friar's Club roast. Can't remember what the actual joke was, but I remember he lost the whole audience, and then won them back with a spontaneous telling of "The Aristocrats"
Kudos for Carlin, who made fun of government propaganda. Maybe not so much for Joan Rivers for making fun of FDNY widows.
(I'm not a boomer, though. Or a millennial. Or really that edgy anymore, if I ever was....)
What kinda boomer crap is this lmao. Millennials and xers like to act all high and mighty as if we didn't birth the evil that is 1337 (leetspeak). Don't forget our cringy "le so random" phase 🤢
tHe nOrWHaLe bAcONs aT miDNigHt roflcopter!!! Rofl!!!11111
Hooman, what r u doing hooman?
I can has cheezburger was peak humor for us at one point ffs. If we don't get over ourselves and stop dunking on gen z we're just as bad as the assholes that made all those braindead articles about avocado toast and how millennials are killing the diamond industry.
Besides, gen z is just us but raised with less false hope and American dream bullshit. The people you gotta worry about are gen alpha. Those are some feral mfers right there. They're being raised by the internet and it shows lol
I always thought I was pretty well put together and low-cringe, but every now and then I get a Facebook memory (I know, but I moved to another country and this is my lifeline to my friends and family) from ~2010 that really sheds some fucking light on exactly why I didn't have a girlfriend. These memories reveal to me that I was indeed very cringe, and very much a product of some of the lamest internet culture in recent memory. The frequent use of the cat face emoticon :3 when interacting with girls is enough to make me want to bury these things where they can never be seen again. Conversely, these memories serve as a reminder of not only just how far I've come as a man, but also as a husband, a father, and a member of society.
EDIT: It's worth mentioning that these mishaps are extremely prevalent in old exchanges between my wife and I as well, so at the very least her and I are able to cringe over them together.
All those people can get thrown in a lake too and I thought that at the time. Almost all your examples are stuff that was exclusively on the Internet and a subculture on the Internet at that
Least they didn't all have only one broccoli haircut.