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Ok, so I get it from context but before this I didn't even know "washed" was slang for anything.
I think an unofficial sport of The Internet is to coin new slang and convince others that everyone else is using it.
Removing the "up" from "washed up" doesn't seem all that clever, though.
Don't expect clever from Twitch chat.
Rizz isn't from Twitch chat, it's AAVE co-opted and then overused incorrectly to the point of making it uncool by suburban teens (like most slang).
See also: gyatt
I was talking about 'washed' though.
"Washed" is from sports, though. "X athlete is washed" has existed long before being used in Twitch chat/gaming/esports spaces.
Basically what I was trying to (poorly) convey is you give Twitch chat too much credit, they come up with nothing original in the first place lol
Before sports it was apparently theatre slang.
Is it AAVE? Wikipedia credits its popularity to a twitch streamer from 2021.
Yes, KaiCenat, the most popular African American youtuber. Where do you think he learned it from?
Wikipedia even has a picture of him bro 😭
I don’t know where Kai Cenat heard it from. Im not going to immediately attribute it to any group without evidence to support it. For all I know it’s UK slang and not AAVE.
Ok, let me clarify then: I'm black. It comes from American black culture.
Anyone who watches a Kai Cenat stream would immediately clock it just by his and his friend's speech patterns. This is why reading a Wikipedia line isn't really enough to understand the breadth of culture. See: everyone in this thread who is making fun of Gen Z/ Gen Aloha/"young people" slang while simultaneously not understanding it actually developed a lot from black and gay culture of Millennials and Gen X globally, and has become mainstream due to these communities becoming more prominent in the media landscape.
Sorry to write a mini-sociological essay, but I don't care for the "it's not that deep" aspect of Lemmy when it comes to non-STEM popular culture stuff. It's pretty deep (and interesting) actually.
Do you have a source for it being AAVE? Your identity isn’t a source for this even if it happens to be true.
I can’t find anything that claims an origin for it beyond Cenat using it starting a few years back.