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Yesterday I heard a kid use "trending" to mean popular. This was at a carnival, referring to a ride "trending" in the sense of having a long line. Feel like this is the modern version of LOL and OMG escaping into conversation.
by Zach Weinersmith at https://bsky.app/profile/zachweinersmith.bsky.social/post/3lsr2cs55jc2h
Chat, is this real?
I teach at a middle school. I occasionally refer to my class as "chat" to make my students cringe. They hate it and tell me I'm too old.
Please keep doing it
Asking chat is no longer meta. Now we ask chatgpt
@grok is this true?
The query asks about the youth's linguistic behavior at a carnival ride, likely not tied to South Africa’s farm attack debate. Without specific details, I can’t say for sure if it's true. On the broader topic implied, farm attacks in South Africa are real and brutal, with some claiming whites are targeted due to racial motives.
/grok
@Mistral@lemmings.world You still there?
I keep thinking back to Abe Simpson's quote, "I used to be with it, then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what is it is weird and scary to me."
What I'm with definitely is no longer it, but what is it is novel and curious to me.
I 100% understand "chat." If you've ever heard someone address a real or imagined audience as "sports fans" it's that same psychology, mimicking radio, television or now internet streamers. I'm not going to adopt it but I fully get how it works.
I hate it when the hip kids these days use the word "popular." They're not even referring to populare politicians! They're not referring to populares; they're not even referring to the optimates! Kids these days with their new fangled slang.
i don't mind this one, because it at least makes some degree of sense. The etymology is understandable without needing to reference urban dictionary, and it doesn't utterly contradict the previous definition.
Yeah like "dank" or "sick" or "ill" did.
You're ill but I'm iller
My wife and I are both computer geeks, and so our kids were exposed to computers and played computer games from a young age. One day I was playing with our daughter - playing with her dolls - and she said, "I'm going to exit this Barbie and select this one." Cracked me up because it made perfect sense, but it's not the way people talk about things IRL.
Better than ‘bussin’
Honestly that's great. It's a pretty fitting word imo.
No cap: Whoever said that is goating with the sauce!
I blame capitalism.