I don't understand modern internet slangs

[Sylveon]

I know I'm gonna sound really boomer-esque here, lol, but bear with me; I really can't seem to wrap my head around most of these mordern slangs at all, like, what is "this blud fr ong " even supposed to mean? And why does every third sentence begin with the word bro, and why do most of them end with one of the three emojis: ?

Coming onto the words themselves, what is even "cap?" I know what it implies, but how is it related to caps in any way? Same for based; based on exactly what? And slay as well; just who are we "slaying" here? And what does the word mid have to do with the quality of the stuff in hand? Isn't mid simply a shortened form of middle? Why do some people always begin their sentences with NGL? Do they lie often? Because it feels like some sort of admission of guilt lmao.

There are so many of these slangs that I don't get: sussy, rizz, and what not, the lastest being "pookie?" There are just so many, lol.

Anyway, I'll stop here before I embarrass myself any further.

 

[LaVieEnRose]

A lot of it is originally AAVE (African-American Vernacular English) and not original to the Internet and sometimes people just make shit up that just happens to catch on because of its phonetic properties (i.e. it sounds catchy).

 

[HarryCobean]

It's all jive to me.

 

[damienlerone03]

shi, i use almost all of these words
Another internet slang word thats very popular: cooked

wait no joke i didn't even realize i used the skull emoji in my message, its just muscle memory and im fighting the urge to not end this sentence with a skull emoji too

 

[Pluto]

Spoiler: I did the iggy

 

[eatantz]

Its mostly people online using AAVE wrong, its always been trendy online. I like the skull emoji though, its funny and i like using it to be dramatic

 

[rozeske]

You and me both. I end up goggling most of it, though I've got a few of it down now :)

 

[Angst Filled Fuck Up]

Man, I thought you Gen Z'ers were bad until I learned of Gen Alpha. They're like you guys on steroids. With even more cringe and broccoli hair. It's going to be painful. One more reason to ctb.

 

[ConfusedClouds]

Oh wow. I knew I was 'out of date' but I'm clearly just in my own offline bubble - haven't even seen or heard of some of those sayings/phrases/slang!

 

[Throwawayacc3]

Man, I thought you Gen Z'ers were bad until I learned of Gen Alpha. They're like you guys on steroids. With even more cringe and broccoli hair. It's going to be painful. One more reason to ctb.

They are going to get a diploma in skibidi toilet

 

[One day too late]

https://www.urbandictionary.com/

 

[Placo]

There is a thread on acronyms that may be useful to you, even if I don't have the link at the moment, perhaps search for it using the appropriate function.

 

[4everHeartBroken]

Oh wow. I knew I was 'out of date' but I'm clearly just in my own offline bubble - haven't even seen or heard of some of those sayings/phrases/slang!

Yeah, makes me feel like a dinosaur!

 

[damienlerone03]

Man, I thought you Gen Z'ers were bad until I learned of Gen Alpha. They're like you guys on steroids. With even more cringe and broccoli hair. It's going to be painful. One more reason to ctb.

mwahahaha we gen Z people will take over the world!! we just have to deal with gen alpha first