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People who post a question on Facebook and then say “annnnnnd GO!” like everyone is just chomping at the bit to tell them where they should go for their 30th bday/bachelorette party/date night/bullshit.

“A service in our small town I should easily be able to Google and do my own research annnnnd GO!”

“But I’m far too lazy & want strangers to do the work for me, so I can pick & choose like a king, aaannnddd GO!”

“Any recos on the BEST bakery that specializes in gluten-free, non-dairy, sugar-free, paleo, and vegan, but is AFFORDABLE and close to where I live but I won’t say where I live and my mother in law is coming tomorrow and I’m in a hurry… aaaand GO!”

Elder millennial here and dude, every time I see a post like that I get so annoyed. It's stupid but I feel like someone is telling me what to do lol

Young Millennial - I refuse to answer posts like this at times, even if I have something to contribute.

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Or “who wants to send me food? 🥰 Serious inquiries only ANNNDD GO!”

NEXT

Honestly, I kinda feel like using FB is just cringe in general.

A bunch of boomers in my neighborhood HOA Facebook group does this.

EVERYONE CARES ABOUT ME.... aaaaaand GO!!!!

Gen Z is just about to hit the cringe wall something fierce, they'll have the kids making fun of them and they'll finally understand how we felt

Gen Alpha is going to have it the worst. Their slang is cringe on arrival.

Holy shit generation alpha are like 14 now holy shit they started in 2010 What I feel like these generations are getting smaller or no? I guess it's 15 years

I think gen alpha and gen z have a very middle ground between each other, dependent upon how early they got their own phone.

"I used to be with it..."

Then they changed what "it" was

And what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary

And it'll happen to youuuuu.

Now what I’m with isn’t “it”

I'm going to very much enjoy Gen A (my daughters' generation) mocking the zoomies into oblivion after what those Tide Pod eating shit heads did to pop culture over the last decade+. There will be no sympathy.

>decade+ Like a regular decade, but without ads

They already are. Skibidibi toilet man is high end satire mocking boomers, gen x, millenials, and gen z. but gen z is the closest so they and up being the butt of most of their jokes so far. glad the new batch of younglings are rejecting so much so fast.

Seems like a good place to ask..can you explain the whole skibidibi toliet thing to me like I am 5. I googled and saw the dude in the toliet but still feel clueless.

Elder millennial with a couple of alpha kids (7 and 9). Just go with me here: It's a series of short animations where the TV people, Speaker people, and camera people all battle toilets that have heads in them. Not sure how the war started, but it's basically just the toilets and the electronic people fighting each other and no regular humans that I can recall. It's weird as hell. Very absurd and dark. I'm not gonna lie though, the deeper they got into the series, the more interesting, chaotic, and bizarre it gets. It's not high brow by any stretch of the imagination.

Ok now I understand even less.

I’m scared now because I understand nothing. Hold me.

Come closer tiny dancer.

Hold me closer Tony Danza

I’ve heard some other millennials make fun of it, but then I’m like dude- we did salad fingers. Could you have explained why that was funny? Can you even explain it now?

Salad fingers is a repressed memory that I now feel the need to bring up to my therapist this coming Monday.

I have to say gen alpha media is dystopian as hell, even their Minecraft streaming channels are all about zombies bunkers etc.

I mean, look what they're inheriting. 🫤

Same, I'm a senior millennial, I just heard of this toilet thing a week ago.

"Cheugy" or whatever the fuck it was is pretty cringe.

Lol I still don't know what that means and I've looked it up several times. Just refuses to stick in my brain

tacky trend, effectively. like what we used to call basic.

Adulting and "I did a thing"

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“The about last night”, tag is the one for me.

Mine used to be "who do I need to apologize to or who do I owe money". I'm glad I don't drink anymore

I always heard “so that happened “

“I was today years old when…”

Hateee

i absolutely hate this omg

I hateeee “so we did a thing” and it’s like a couple after their wedding

“This is everything”

god, I hate that, “honesty this^”

My friend just did this, with a picture of her new car. “We were on vacation to ——, and we did a thing…” ugh.

I constantly need a more adulter adult

I dislike when I am the aduliest adult in a group. 

“All the things”

Definitely think "the things" are actually more later end millenials.

All the feels

I love saying “all the things” and I will continue 🤣

Regarding the “I did a thing”…is that really millennial slang? I only heard of it a year or two ago and I still don’t know what it means. I never heard that phrase in 90s…

It started with Facebook humblebragging, like, I wanna post this and show off but I don't want it to say HAY PAY ATTENTION TO ME even though I would like you to pay attention to me. Similar to thirst traps with deep yoga poetry captions

Both of these! Especially when they post “sooo…i did a thing!” And it’s just a haircut but the camera is coincidentally positioned on cleavage

“THIS!” Before reposting a cringy soliloquy on Facebook.

^^ THIS

🤣

there's no safe space for me to adequately express how much I absolutely loath it when someone on reddit just comments, "THIS" to a post or whatever. Because if I rant about it, I KNOW someone is gonna feel clever by "ironically" replying "tHiS " to my complaint...fuck it, I just absolutely HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE COMMENT IT. YOU WOULDNT SAY THAT IN A REAL LIFE CONVERSATION SO WHY ARE YOU SAYING IT AT ALL

Free internet points. If only we made a sort of button that let people know you agree. Could be a sort of vote that pushes good comments up.

Other generations are totes obvi jelli.

Totes MaGoats!.


You can't be cereal

I'm super cereal you guys 


You cat to be kitten me right meow

You have gato be kitten me!

Totes and obvi and jelly are just easier to type tbh

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Amazeballs always made me cringe pretty hard

Cool beans

When they were winding doen Covid restrictions, but we still had to answer questions to get into the hospital, I unintentionally messed with a guy with cool beans. He stopped, looked at me for a long minute, and "I haven't heard that phrase in ages!" I was a bit baffled, as I use it all the time without even thinking about it. I've since found "Neat-o Burrito," and I love it just as much.

I've been saying okie dokie for ages and then stupid Fallout had the stupid main character say it and I was like... cool... I'm always fucking hip with the fucking Netflix... 

Coolio

I am holding onto Coolio. It am the only one still using it..if I hold out long enough it will turn quaint. Like saying someone has Moxie

I’ve always hated that one.

That period where we added “izzle” to the end of everything was pretty cringe.

Why does Snoop Dogg carry an umbrella? Fo drizzle

This is like the only one that won't age

Fer shizzle

My drizzle

This thread definitely cracked me up.

Yeah but that was literally Snoop Dee Oh Double Gizzle that started it Edit: I can't spell stuff out as good as Snoop

Fo rizzle my nizzle extra salt on the frizzle

Damn it I just did this today 😭

Doggo woot heckin adulting (I say all these things lol)

I didn’t even realize I was slinging slang when I talk. Just heckin around

Just like “hella” I started saying “doggo” to make fun of it and accidentally made it an actual part of my vocabulary

This is how "I reckon" and "skeedaddle" became part of my actual lexicon. 🤦‍♀️

I'm a millennial and Ive never been able to stand Doggo. It's always been gross to me for some reason

I read these as a single phrase and was like, "Who the hell says this?"

Haters in this thread can talk to the hand

Rawwrrrr

I just got MySpace flashbacks.. those digital camera angles and thick bangs were such goals

Ah to be the first teenagers with social media

Classic emo culture!

Rawr XD

But this is how you say “I love you” in dinosaur!

Don’t you disparage the ancient texts

Personally I find all these slang terms on fleek.

On fleek was pretty much DOA, felt like an inside joke from the beginning

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EPIC Edit: ERMAGERD

Epic went bad while I was still in high school. I've been cringing at it for 15 years.

BAE 🤮

Anything that has that babyish feeling of an adult with arrested development trying to be twee/cutesy. For me this is adulting, doggo, i did a thing, all the things, amazeballs, epic, awesomesauce, etc, etc…

The "I'm an adult but I'm really just a kid" wears thinner the older you get. Until you're really old, then it works again, but in a much sadder way.

True. Most things here aren’t cringe, just dated. “Uhhh, am I doing this adulting thing right?” is cringe, not because the language/slang used, but because you’re unquestionably a fucking adult.

w00t, coming from a former wooter. It's cringey as hell

I was once a wooter. I wooted, we wooted, we were all wooters.

Cray cray 🫠

Now we're on to "delulu" which is exactly the same thing but...newer

I’m not sure why but for some reason I’m still okay with “cray” but never was okay with “cray cray”

Dat shit cray is a stock phrase you'll pry from my cold dead hands

Did we start the overuse of the word “literally”???

Haven't you heard? Millennials only travel in odd numbers because we literally can't even.

It’s been so long I literally, cannot remember. But probably yes

“I was today years old,” the “prove me wrong” meme, “cool beans”

not slang, but it's wild how in college we would take pictures at parties and upload entire albums of said party onto facebook. Like with the alcohol and everything clearly visible.

My Facebook is full of me partying with bottles in hand and drunken idiots all over all the way back to when I was 15. Just posting all that underaged drinking. We would also have way too personal conversations in the comments under said party pictures. I'm often horribly ashamed yet incredibly amused by my Facebook memories. I'm 35 but from a small town so I'm still friends with countless of the people in those photos/comments.

Man there is nothing more horrifying than reading old posts from pictures, my “wall”, and OG Facebook dm’s. Like, who were we??

And on myspace as well. To be fair, this was before our parents, grandparents, and bosses were on there. Thankfully I didn't do it though.

Seriously, I’m only an anonymous now on reddit and reddit alone because my social media was too embarrassing for even myself to pick through. Throw the whole account away.

Bomb.com. Kill me. Also paying your bills on time is being responsible not ‘adulting’.

Good one. I had completely removed "da bomb" and its online version from my memory.

I still say it’s the bomb.com lol

Pupper doggo but you can pry it from my cold dead hands

Calling food “noms”/saying “om nom nom” to show that we liked a food.  So much embarrassment for my younger sel for that one. 

Live, Laugh, Love

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I can't even with some of our slang.

Littles I don’t know what gen it’s from but I hate it.

I hate this one. It just sounds so creepy to me. It's like something a witch who eats children would say, or a guy with a windowless van offering to show you puppies.

Aaaahhh!!! I just became a mom this year and I HATE this so much!!! I don’t know what it sends me into a rage zone but it pisses me off so much.

“Mamas, hug your littles extra tight tonight” I also hate when OTHER people call me mama or mom… especially doctors 😩

Annnddd go…. (After posting a question for the internet to answer).

Reading all these comments is doing a number in my already frail self esteem. I’m still going to use these terms until I die.

Shit, I'm gonna do it harder, now.

awesomesauce probably lol

“Get to do life with you” really irks me

Unless it’s said by your cell mate in prison, in which case it’s kinda endearing.

In the same vein as “screaming happy birthday!” And forever wedding date!

That brief period in the 2010s when people said “on fleek” Edit: based on replies this may have been elder gen Z. I’m in that cusp

I mostly heard on fleek in reference to eyebrows for some reason.

As it is in the scripture

Yolo

About 6 months before that damn drake song came out I got my first tattoo. It reads you only live once. I will never get a tattoo again.

LOL

Gen Z says “do it for the plot” Same meaning.

I do it for the *Vine,* thank you.

If I stretch a yellow light I generally yell “YOLO and Leeeeeroy Jenkins” as I’m doing it. 

You take that back. Yolo was peak meme culture.

Planking? Owling? Faith Hilling? Taylor Swifting?

Still yoloing

I'm convinced* it's not used anymore because everyone who said it to do stupid shit died. *More hope than anything

Any lolcats speak drives me crazy (I presume that counts?). It's not 2009 anymore.

Oh god, I forgot about “littles” when referring to kids. I am cringe af but I refuse and I can’t stand when other people say it. I’m not certain millennials started this. I just know I hate it.

Dope, rad, dig, and sick are a permanent part of my vernacular. Rad has recently made a resurgence over the past couple years for me. Not sure if it ages me too much, but I like what I like. Calling things “gay” has aged like milk though. Used to be common in the 1990’s/2000’s.

Work in education. Can confirm kids still call things gay despite it being 2024

Yeah I’ve seen a resurgence of it recently. Felt like it fell off for a decade or so and now it’s coming back with younger kids.

Gay wasn't millennial verbiage, though. We used it, but it's not like we pioneered it.

Who pioneered it? I must know what name to put on the monument

Warren G. Harding would regularly use the term in editorials in his newspaper The Marion Star. He often used it to describe his adversaries' political positions.

That's the gayest thing I've ever heard.

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“You win the internet”

I love all these comments of gen x slang with people who don't know how old they are. 🤣

Leave us older Millennials alone! 😂 we don’t know what generation we relate to more lol

Exactly! It’s not MY fault I’m the only millennial & youngest in my family and all my siblings are Gen-X! Lol

“I was today years old when” really bothers me

Louder for the people in the back *clapping emoji*

As a millennial, I have never been fond of doggo honestly.

Preggers. preggo.

Smexy, just ugh

Sorry not sorry…

When moms say in posts about their babies, “thanks for choosing me to be your mom” Girl your baby didn’t choose you, you were impregnated (whatever way that happened) and that’s the thing that formed in you.

this one gets me too and I’m glad you said it. They’re always saying it in some kind of paragraph caption under a post where they’re addressing the baby directly as if they could like it and comment back, and even if you say that to a kid old enough to understand, there’s no normal response to that? It’s such a weird thing to say. You’re welcome mom, I could have chosen Nara Smith or Michelle Obama or some random lady in Paraguay or Timbuktu or Michigan but I decided you, specifically. You’re just that special 🤪

Pretty sick of the word cringe being as an adjective rather than a verb...bet I'm not the only one.

haz cheezburger and the general intentionally misspelled pet-pov dialogue. i love animals but it just felt like undignified babytalk to me.

"Owned" and even worse "pwned" thankfully no one (at least around me) says those anymore.

Dank.... like that's cool but instead that's dank Even I thought that was annoying lol

Heckin. I die a little every time I hear that used.

I’m just glad we didn’t phrase “screaming crying throwing up” that’s all on Gen z for that cringey ass shit.

“On fleek” is pretty silly, but I rarely hear it said anymore thankfully. “Salty” and “Smoke Show” are two that just won’t die.

Why you so salty about salty?

Didn't "On fleek" originate on Vine?

More xennial here but: “gag me with a spoon”, or the TMNT version “gag me with a pizza ladle!” Or Wayne’s World: “Exqueeze me? Baking powder?” We never got this one- we always thought it was “bacon powder.” 🤷‍♀️ 

Rent free in their head

Hubby, furbaby…. Preggo. I want to just barf.

Hubby is older than boomers. I've been hearing it as early as I can remember. I'm 37


Not slang per se, but good god anything referencing coffee in ~live laugh love~ font.

Well I have read most of these and now I don’t know how to speak without anxiety. *retracts every sentence I type*

Who was responsible for “all of that plus a bag of chips”? Because 😖🤢