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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by General_Effort@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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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

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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 76 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Chat, is this real?

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Asking chat is no longer meta. Now we ask chatgpt

[–] rImITywR@lemmy.world 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

@grok is this true?

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

@Mistral@lemmings.world You still there?

[–] Vitaly_Chernobyl@sopuli.xyz 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 11 points 7 months ago

Please keep doing it

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 43 points 7 months ago

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimates_and_populares

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah like "dank" or "sick" or "ill" did.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 21 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] billbasher@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Better than ‘bussin’

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 13 points 7 months ago

Honestly that's great. It's a pretty fitting word imo.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 7 points 7 months ago

No cap: Whoever said that is goating with the sauce!

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I blame capitalism.