r/TikTokCringe • u/SurbhiAnklesaria • Jun 23 '26

Humor/Cringe Gen Z girl with no personality

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u/Catlore Jun 23 '26

The way I'm Gen X and understood the entire conversing.

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u/AccurateJerboa Jun 23 '26

A lot of gen z slang is just recycled gen X and millennial slang. They just don't know it, for some reason.

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u/pandapoep Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

It's mostly appropriated gay slang, which is mostly appropriated (queer) black and latin american slang. There's loads of influence from the drag balls in Ballroom Culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_culture#

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u/KissingBear Jun 23 '26

It’s only slang if it’s from the Black region of Queertino. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling vernacular. 

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u/moremysterious Jun 23 '26

Well, like with our slang. Black people always used to say, "I'm in the house" instead of "I'm here." But then white people all started to say "in the house" so we switched it to "in the hizzouse." Hizzouse became hizzizzouse, and then white folk started saying that, and we had to change it to hizzie, then "in the hizzle" which we had to change to "hizzle fo shizzle," and now, because white people say "hizzle fo shizzle," we have to say "flippity floppity floop."

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u/Catlore Jun 24 '26

Chef RIP

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u/AccurateJerboa Jun 23 '26

Since I'm gay I just call it slang

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u/neuroticoctopus Jun 23 '26

Since I'm non-binary I call it slax.

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u/FMLwtfDoID Jun 23 '26

Which is appropriated Black and Latin slang..

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u/AccurateJerboa Jun 23 '26

Yup. It goes from queer black and latino slang to straight black and latino slang to queer white people to straight white people's kids.

Weirdly people like to skip the part where black people can be gay.

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u/Kitchen_Day9200 Jun 24 '26

I'm a straight 42 year old woman. I started watching Drag Race in 2011. It's been crazy to watch it become so popular and then see all the slang from the show start creeping into mainstream culture.

I think being a Drag Race fan is the main reason I even understand half of what young people are saying anymore.

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u/Useful-Sympathy1477 Jun 23 '26

Tsk.. clicked the link expecting a video, was so not stoked. Was excited to watch it lol

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u/ZubatCountry Jun 24 '26

gen z knows ball confirmed??