‘Oh you don’t know these? Hmm, it’s like all over TikTok’: Sarcastic teacher gaslights his students with made up Gen Z sounding slang

You know that feeling when you first hear a slang word and think, ‘Wow, this is so stupid, who would say this?’ And as you say the slang in a joking way (no doubt, making fun of the stupidity of it), you find the word working its way into your daily vocabulary… unironically. Oops! For …
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Explain Like I’m 35: What is Yapping? (February 4, 2024)

The entirety of social media relies on the fact that some people are physically incapable of shutting up. It’s an ecosystem sustained by diarrhea of the keyboard and/or phone camera. While many have criticized this state of affairs, it’s not until recently that we have had the meme-ready vocabulary to describe it: the online third …
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Explain Like I’m 35: What is IJBOL?

We could argue for days about what are the most important markers for defining shifts in internet culture. Many would point to the rise in new platforms, or would appeal to a certain style of meme. While both of these vital, 2023 has reminded us of a less obvious, but still essential factor in measuring …
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Explain Like I’m 35: What is Onika Burger? (March 12, 2023)

The struggle for the most powerful group on social media is a hard-fought one. There’s nothing that people with irrevocable screen-based brain damage screens want more than that sweet, sweet clout, one of the few things that unites all generations online.  While fame might be one of the greatest drivers, it’s often strength in numbers …
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Italian Has Plethora Of Slang For Genitalia, According To This Amusing Tumblr Thread

If you want to learn Italian and you desire to be able to converse with the young people, you better start practicing up on your slang words for vagina, because let us tell you – there are a LOT of them. Like, more than we can even count, and they’re all dependent on the region …
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Italian Has Plethora Of Slang For Genitalia, According To This Amusing Tumblr Thread

If you want to learn Italian and you desire to be able to converse with the young people, you better start practicing up on your slang words for vagina, because let us tell you – there are a LOT of them. Like, more than we can even count, and they’re all dependent on the region …
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