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Washed as slang seems uncool. Can we make it instantly uncool? Or do we have to go through the whole tedious process of overusing it?
Let us old farts start using it and it'll instantly be uncool. It's whack to be washed, know what I mean jelly bean? Totes! Lates.
The only truly cool answer is to not give a shit at all. Let the kids have their own understanding of "cool", they'll be forced out of it soon enough.
Also, this sort of "cool" is really just reliant on having the time and access to keep up with whatever the rules of that society are. This is the same kind of thinking used to make rules like "don't wear white after Labor Day" as a means to ostracize people who didn't have the kind of time and gossip circles to hear about the new rules. It's all gatekeeping bullshit. Fine for the people in the club, I guess, but the part where they try to make other people lesser for not being in the know is where they can just become dicks not worthy of worrying about.
Sure, but it's also amusing when old folks tactically adopt & mutilate slang to accelerate its decline.
You're not wrong.