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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

All the new slang is just abbreviation, e.g. based, riz.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What's based? Sorry I'm washed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Ah yes I got this. Bro over here in the kitchen checks notes cooking! Wait no, he's cooked? Cooked what? And who's going to do the dishes? People have no respect these days, back when I was a kid you wouldn...................

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Based in reality, I think.

And if anyone is wondering, riz is charisma.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Based actually comes from freebased. Which is what you do to cocaine to make it crack.

Based used to mean something cringe worthy until the rapper Lil B started using it in a positive context.

Now it's sort of the opposite of cringe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Ahh okay ...opposite of cringe. That makes it easy to remember.

[–] Boozilla 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Everything has to be shorter, because gnat-like attention spans.

[–] anomnom 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We used to use spent when we were too lazy to say washed up. Or fucked.

But you can’t use 4 letter words or your social media will get de-emphasized and your referral traffic will be ~~washed~~ fucked.