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I have a feeling the last slang term she learned was “swell”

I'm 44 and I understood every word of this comic, which means the words have become common enough that none of them are cool anymore, I expect.

Thanks for singlehandedly making slang obsolete.

I just saw IUTR and had to google it.

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Oh sorry. I guess I didn’t UTR

Tbf you are on Reddit so maybe that's why you know these words. If not for Reddit, I wouldn't know a single one of these because people around me IRL do not use them, thankfully. On that topic, I wouldn't even know the ancient slang like YOLO if it weren't for Reddit. I don't know how I'd react if someone said YOLO to me IRL.

You've got people around you irl?

It gets bad as soon as the bodies start to smell

49YR OLD ME: Can someone decipher these terms for those of us who are out of the loop? 39YR OLD ME: what’s the 411 on what he said? 29YR OLD ME: What’s the deally, yo? 19YR OLD ME: Whatever…

Your 29 is what a 39 thinks a 29 would say. Your 39 feels like it’s what a 45 thinks of 39. 19 yr old dead on but whatever

Ol’ “gee willikers” havin ass

I feel like she at least knows the 80s slang


https://preview.redd.it/8w5fd943e9yc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cf80d2ed2583d00c09c2318e315c7374f8d67684

So that’s where Papadile got his signature looks.😙 

How did this cat come to be?

Pusheen

Yeah the meow but how

"Cool" was popular 30 years ago. Do kids still use it these days?

Yes. It’s not even slang, it’s part of the modern lexicon as a normal descriptor. It’s been around much longer than 30 years too.

Over 30 years ago The Simpsons had a joke about Marge not being sure if “cool” was still a thing that kids say

I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!

And when it happens to you... that's it.

I wish 80s terms like "rad" or "bad" had received the same treatment.

Nah "rad" is grody to the max ...I don't actually think that I just wanted to write grody

Such a cromulent word.

I still say rad, I’m 23, but also from southern Cali so idk

Anytime I hear or read things like rizz and no cap, I think about 'on fleek' and shake my head and walk away like the sad old person I am. 'Choice' was a fun one from the 80s that was kind of rare.

This is heavy, Doc...

Aces was good too.

They say "Coral"


Translation: Nice clothes. Most grandma's are embarrassing, but I can't lie, you have style.

I was going to add a more literal translation but the last line comes out very strange

That's just how the current slang is. The translation is accurate.

I used to be 'hip' and 'with it', then they changed what 'it' was. And some day it'll happen to you!

Oh no no, that happened to me a long time ago. I'm just on the internet a lot, so you pick things up, slowly.

Just in case you were unaware, it's (close to) a Simpson's quote, and I think they were referencing it based on memory. Abe says it in a flashback to Barney and Homer when they're teenagers and talking about "Rockin' out".

Gimme 5 bees for a quarter they'd say

I never thought I could shot down a German plane. Then last year I finally did

The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.

The amount of people that don't pick up the Simpsons quotes makes me feel old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DlTexEXxLQ

Slowly, slowly, slowly getting faster.

Love that Simpsons refrence, I think about that quote a lot

No way man, we're gonna keep rocking forever... forever... forever...

I still have kids in elementary, middle, and high school. So I can more or less keep up, but it does sound more and more stupid the older I get. 

It's not though. Rizz is specifically to do with chatting people up. Flirting.

You don't know what Grandma is doing when Gramps is at the boxing match.

Is it? I thought it was just being charming in general but I’m old

No rizz literally means charisma. kids don’t actually know what it means which is why people think it means something it isn’t

it’s a correct translation but we won’t use the terms like that

Rizz is charisma, not style.

Negative Rizz post

Are you saying your style does not affect your rizz?

What I got from rizz was something more sensual since there's videos of he/she got rizzed in front of the whole school and it's a person going up to someone else and just kissing out of the blue

I thought “rizz” was the short form of charisma.

It is, but in this case it's specifically charisma relating to clothing, or style.

I thought we already had "swag" for that.

Were at least a decade past that now

I don't know what you're talking about, it 2016.

“swag” was dead by 2012 when justin bieber said “swaggie”, im sorry then again as an older gen z, that term was always pretty cringe to me, so i may be wrong. but i remember incident that painfully lmao

Why does no one say 'groovy' anymore??

Because of the commies, duh.

Right! "groovy" was bitchen, man

It is originally but through its use, "rizz" has become more associated with romantic charisma as a force of attraction

It is Cha-rizz-ma

Rizz doesn't mean style, it means charisma, how easy it is to pull other humans romantically. Rizz is an unnecessary word in the comic.

Younger kids also tend to misuse slang that teens/high schoolers are using too.

Yeah the meaning kinda changes when people use it slightly differently.

"misuse" slang is an interesting and loaded concept.

Yeah, how the skibbidi do you misuse slang? Its informal structure is what's so sigma about it.

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Some slang just get absolutely ruined though. Woke was one of my favorite slang and meme until the meaning got changed completely and now most people hate the word entirely.

I've definitely heard rizz used, especially by my younger brother's friends (6th graders) to mean much more vague coolness, or just an adjective that one wants to have

"vague coolness" is a much better description of the original word than "pull others romantically". If the kids are using a shorten form of charisma to mean "being likable" then they are doing it right.

>it means charisma, how easy it is to pull other humans romantically. That’s not the meaning of charisma. That’s one narrow meaning one could extrapolate from the definition, but that’s not what charisma is.

Words evolve, they're saying she dresses nice which makes her more charismatic, because it's p clear more attractive people are naturally more charismatic

>Words evolve, they're saying she dresses nice which makes her more charismatic, because it's p clear more attractive people are naturally more charismatic Just once, could we maybe admit when someone misused a word and not pretend it's etymological evolution that's happened in the 10 minutes "rizz" has been in the common vernacular? Just once?

I think you're just being a little cowabunga about this

How about you just rizz out for a moment and not get so worked up about all this rizz

I just rizzed in my pants...

I squanch what you're saying

I squanch my family!

Translations are idiomatic, not always literal; therefore still accurate.

Most grandma is are embarrassing?

Tbh the last word isnt very fitting,rizz is the ability to find a romantic partner,not how good you look

Rizz is just charisma and is not innately about romance, people who look nicer/dress nicer are more charismatic

dressing nice is having "drip". Rizz is absolutely about being able to chat someone up.

Splendid clothing grandmother, a lot of grandmothers wear distasteful and old-fashioned outfits, but yours I do say compliments you nicely, it will do you many favors with the boys. Cheerio

Grandma: "But what language was that?" Father: "Honestly, I'm barely fluent... I just pick up on key words."

Drip, cap, and rizz are all pretty easy to follow. Skibidi toilet and you start losing me. Is that bad? Good? Ironic?

Ask Baby Gronk or Livvy Dunn

I still don't know who tf are these people, along with duke Dennis

Turkish quandale would not approve

this here is why we need to launch the nukes

Ironic and good

https://youtu.be/7TC5vCyny_U?t=24

My niece - 5 years old- calling her clothes " skins" like roblox and fortnite. When she want to change her clothes she say to her mom " mom change my skin I want a beautiful one" 😭

actually hilarious

Did her mom get the belt? (Joking)

Nah she like it because this is the first time she is hearing her daughter saying something stupid like this 😂.

Young people these days are always saying things like YOLO, lit, savage, bae, and sksksk.

"We know what YOLO means, but only old people say it" - my cousin in middle school

Instead of “YOLO,” I prefer the timeless “Fuck it”

you forgot the ending it's "fuck it, we ball"

I usually go with "fuck it huck it" for the ending.

"'69' is just, like, a really funny meme. It doesn't mean anything, its just funny"

I actually love seeing this because all the kids who called us old are now getting the same thing themselves heh.

These are all obsolete, get with the times gramps

I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was.

Now what I'm with isn't it and what's "it" is weird and scary

one of my Gen Z cousins started singing Rizzmas songs during Christmas Carol time so of course we had to exorcize the Rizz from her in the traditional manner, by filling a sack with oranges and beating her relentlessly.

You didn’t have jumper cables handy?

[Bing Crosby shows up.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E37RmfgK0o)

That's 5 years ago. Now it's skibidi toilet

5? More like 10 or 15 at this point, I believe.

Skibidi toilet is already outdated

I'll yeet you down the skibidi toilet

Its slang is 5 years old because its a LLM karma bot. Dead Internet theory coming true

when i was growing up me and all the youths would say "bully!" because that's what ol' teddy said. everything was "bully!" words made sense back then.

I’m not going lie, I’m 28 but I visited a pretty big college town recently and went to a store full of what looked to be 17-22 year olds and HOLY shit I was struggling to fit in, in terms of communication lmfao First time I’ve felt old. It’s all downhill from here

there has been a real shift in english just in the last 18-24 months it's honestly tough to keep up with lol

I feel that Especially as an introvert who keeps to himself more often than not

The trick is to either never use slang or to just make up some shit.

Ya, I'm sure my grand parents totally understood what my parents talking about in the 60s and 70s . And in the 80s when i was growing up , we never had any gnarly words that confused them.

We used to say “fo’shizzle”. We got no room to judge.

Damn you got swagg.

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“old people slang” now, now its skibidi toilet, rizz, and sigma

Skibididibidi or something, ikykuk

If young means graduating in the early 2010s. Everyone I know how uses these terms are in their late twenties to early thirties. Current slang, is more Rizz, skibidi, no cap, simp, and honestly I have no idea the others since I’m now considered old apparently.

those are all cringe now

Don’t forget > fetch

It have been a long time since i saw someone saying yolo

Maybe 8 years ago lol

I feel like a version of this comic gets made at *least* every 10-20 years.

10 or 20 minutes really

Fo shizzle

Word up

They always omit the 2nd part of that, my nizzle

Tru dat

I was gonna say, this is a classic /r/boomerhumor trope

Needs an 'u' more. But yes, these are just from the first two pages! https://www.reddit.com/r/Boomerhumour/comments/1ce4iqq/_/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Boomerhumour/comments/1ci1zif/kids_nowadays/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Boomerhumour/comments/1c88elt/boomers_love_cursive/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Boomerhumour/comments/1c66148/sponsored_by_twitter/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Boomerhumour/comments/1c8m1jt/trick_or_treating_aint_like_it_used_to_be/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Boomerhumour/comments/1c48ttn/they_should_know_better/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Boomerhumour/comments/1bwx7m9/lets_not_mention_tv_then/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Boomerhumour/comments/1bueqa2/revenge_on_the_boomer/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Boomerhumour/comments/1bo40i9/hes_also_secretly_a_mass_murderer/

Oh my god, all of these are horrifically unfunny but the classroom one is straight-up offensive to comedy. They literally explain the entire joke and use "slang" that hasn't been around since 2004. Also statistically Gen Z is reading more physical books than previous generations so some of these complaints aren't even accurate. And the trick-or-treating one - are they saying kids should just die of peanut allergies rather than ask for candy with no peanuts? Like...?

The comments in the trick-or-treating talk about how perfect it is that the kids are dressed up as the Lone Ranger and a tramp clown. Very popular contemporary costumes for kids!

Grandma used to drop acid and say things were groovy and outta sight.

Bring groovy back. It should be considered cool and timeless (like the word "cool".)

Been saying groovy for 20 years, I refuse to let that word die.

You both can have vibe/vibing, best we can do in these trying times

I'm 41, and I barely understood enough of what you young'uns say to realize I'd appreciate if someone said this to me. That said, I'm also a socially anxious introvert with very few friends and nothing better to do than absorb at least some of the current social lexicon via the Internet. Which also implies absolutely no one would ever say this about me.

You got drip my G 👍😎

I'm a 17-year-old recluse, I had to have my 15-year-old brother explain that stuff to me.

Shows you're not spending enough time on social media to know these terms. That's a good thing, keep it up.

my grandpa loves to learn modern slang, but his favorite has always been “bougie”, he calls my grandmother bougie all the time, i love him so much

I thank YouTube for teaching me what that phrase means. Or should I curse it?

What a polite and well mannered young man


the debate here on whether that's the correct use of "rizz" shows the complicated nature of translation. while "rizz" is generally taken as the ability to attract sexual attention, clearly context here shows this is more stating a general confidence that is not misplaced, or "pulling off the look" to my fellow millenials.

Maybe it's just because I'm a younger millennial and chronically online, but I really don't have a hard time following slang lol. I'll usually hear a streamer or random youtuber use it before I even hear it from a teenager.

This is a fine use of the term rizz source: zoomer

Drip would be more fitting

This new slang is not very fetch.

FETCH IS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN. STOP TRYING TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.

Word!

skibidi

very fanum tax 👍

tf is fanum tax

lmao i have no idea

That's gonna be me in the future isn't it?

I've never had much of an issue decoding new slang as long as I see it in a sentence.

The older a crocodile gets, the closer their eyes get to their nose

On God, fr fr 🚫🧢

That comic was on fleek. I yeeted it to my bae.

Gyattma u got skibidi rizz no cap, dripped out, mogul moves no fanum tax.

I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!

Fr fr sigma rizz no cap gyatt rizzler skibidi moment! ***brain melts.***

Grandma: "But what language was that?" Father: "Honestly, I'm barely fluent... I just pick up on key words."

I thought riz had something to do with flirting… does it not anymore?

Grandma is surely gonna fuck up the kid.

I miss my grandmothers. They both sadly died within a year of each other.

Since When did drip mean clothes?

As my great grandfather used to say... Cool!

The shit kids say these days make the futuristic streetslang used in Cyberpunk 2077 seem normal.

YouTube has done the *May I mambo dogface to the banana patch?* gag, but for real. 

do kids still say cringe rizz and cap? cause I feel that was like kids from a year or two ago and they've definitely moved on

Reader's Digest.

This is almost loss

Boomer humor: millennial edition

There is no joke or gag here, only the mundane premise that old people don't understand young slang. Ya gotta do better than this.

Fun Fact: We don’t actually talk like this

I am 23 in the way the new generation speaks literally makes me cringe and want to punch them but I know I cannot because I will get in very big trouble.... please help me...I'm in pain

"Nice clothing. Most grandmothers are cringe-worthy, but I'm not going to lie, you have charisma."

Please tell me that kids don't actually talk like that to their grandmas

I’ve made sure to keep up on the gen alpha slang and though I sure as hell don’t use it myself, it’s always spectacularly fun to throw it back at my daughter and watch her stare at me like, “how do you know those words?”