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minus-squarebandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·13 days agoAll the new slang is just abbreviation, e.g. based, riz.
minus-squareBoozilla@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·13 days agoEverything has to be shorter, because gnat-like attention spans.
minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-29 days agoWe used to use spent when we were too lazy to say washed up. Or fucked. But you can’t use 4 letter words or your social media will get de-emphasized and your referral traffic will be washed fucked.
minus-squareByteJunk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·13 days agoAh yes I got this. Bro over here in the kitchen checks notes cooking! Wait no, he’s cooked? Cooked what? And who’s going to do the dishes? People have no respect these days, back when I was a kid you wouldn…
minus-squarebandwidthcrisis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·13 days agoBased in reality, I think. And if anyone is wondering, riz is charisma.
minus-squarechaogomu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·13 days agoBased actually comes from freebased. Which is what you do to cocaine to make it crack. Based used to mean something cringe worthy until the rapper Lil B started using it in a positive context. Now it’s sort of the opposite of cringe.
minus-squaremeliaesc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·13 days ago older generations 30 Ex freaking scuse me? 😢
minus-squareChekhovs_Gun@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·13 days agoAhh okay …opposite of cringe. That makes it easy to remember.
All the new slang is just abbreviation, e.g. based, riz.
Everything has to be shorter, because gnat-like attention spans.
tl;dr
We used to use spent when we were too lazy to say washed up. Or fucked.
But you can’t use 4 letter words or your social media will get de-emphasized and your referral traffic will be
washedfucked.What’s based? Sorry I’m washed.
Ah yes I got this. Bro over here in the kitchen checks notes cooking! Wait no, he’s cooked? Cooked what? And who’s going to do the dishes? People have no respect these days, back when I was a kid you wouldn…
Based in reality, I think.
And if anyone is wondering, riz is charisma.
Based actually comes from freebased. Which is what you do to cocaine to make it crack.
Based used to mean something cringe worthy until the rapper Lil B started using it in a positive context.
Now it’s sort of the opposite of cringe.
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Ex freaking scuse me? 😢
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Ahh okay …opposite of cringe. That makes it easy to remember.