If not a nerd lingo, there's absolutely inside jokes and new lingo. Skibidi, 6 7, blah blah. Even people saying things like "bet" are all part of new lingo that kids think is cool because the olds don't know what they are talking about. Only the words/phrases change, but the desire of kids doing something different than olds is never going to change.

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parpfish 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

i've noticed an uptick in the last couple years of new outlets doings stories about the slang -- "kids are saying {skibidi, rizz, 67} now, here's what it means."

kids have always had slang, but i don't remember there being news reports about it in the past.

and i think the difference now is that parents get freaked out when some new slang takes over seemingly out of nowhere.

in the past, adults were aware of the media their kids were consuming. they overheard them talking on the phone with their friends. they saw kids hanging out together in real world physical spaces.

but now? kids an entire social life and media ecosystem is private and inside their phone. parents don't have visibility into "kid world" the way they used and it freaks them out.

they worry about bad things happening, but mostly they just worry that their kid has a whole private life that they don't know anything about and they're not part of it.

	▲	egypturnash 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		"Here's what the kids are saying and what it means" is a staple of slow news days. Here's a fun example from the early nineties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak Are you sure you haven't just gotten old enough that you're now in the target demographic for "here's what the kids are saying" stories? :)
	▲	dylan604 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> they worry about bad things happening, but mostly they just worry that their kid has a whole private life that they don't know anything about and they're not part of it. i had a whole other life my parents knew nothing about, and this was way before unsocial media. the fact that we're willing to call "friends" online a social life is yet another example of modern times. so again, having "secret" lives from parents isn't new to being online. it's teens looking to push the boundaries, explore, and just do things different from the parental units. nothing about "kids today" is really different. Boomers had that damn rock-n-roll and hippies as an example. It's more of the same in a different shape.

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pessimizer 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Even people saying things like "bet" are all part of new lingo

Maybe I'm just black, but there's absolutely nothing new about "bet." Unless you mean last 50 years new maybe (I can only vouch for 50 years.)

Still goes to your point, though. The kids are just imitating black people like their parents, their parents parents, and their parents parents parents, and their parents parents parents parents, and their parents parents parents parents parents. The desire of the kids to repeat things that they heard black people say is at least 150 years old at this point if the cakewalk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cakewalk) is a good spot to date it from.

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egypturnash 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Why are you being downvoted, the black-slang-to-white-suburban-kid-slang pipeline is a very very real thing.

	▲	matwood an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe people think it’s more urban to suburban instead of black to white? Either way the point stands. Just look at how much US culture is driven by hip hop now.