What are some gen-alpha slang phrases that I (as an extremely uncool 40 year old man) can use around my friend’s teenage kids to watch them die of cringe?

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Bonus points if you can give me tips on how to use it both properly, or even better if it’s used incorrectly.

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  2. ahbari98 Avatar

    6 7

    It literally doesn’t mean anything

  3. Ok_Net_5771 Avatar

    Skibidi (i have no idea how to use it correctly just call things skibidi)

    Brainrot (call literally anything dumb brainrot)

  4. crimsonavenger77 Avatar

    I can make my son wince by asking him and his wee pals if they’ve been watching videos on Tic Tac and also randomly saying “slay.” Slip in a few terrible dad jokes / puns, and you’ve cracked it.

  5. kakeup88 Avatar

    When they say something you agree with say “bet”. Works everytime.

  6. andmewithoutmytowel Avatar

    Mix in some 90s slang with it. Rizz=game like flirting, and Rizzler = player, like someone who’s good at flirting, so something like “Whatup peeps, my man here be da rizzler fo real, yo!” Will give them an aneurysm.

  7. dickingaround6969 Avatar

    Ask them if they’ve been “aura farming”

  8. Effective-Length-755 Avatar

    Tell ’em you started rizzing your whole glizzy off on the reg.

    No cap.

  9. ninetiesbaby007 Avatar

    Not a dude, sorry!

    But one that makes me want to scream every time is “finna”. I think you basically use it to say “I’m gonna do something”, but they say “I’m finna do something”
    Why? I DONT KNOW 😫
    I think it’s more of a hood rat phrase, but it drives me crazy.

  10. Correct_Advantage_20 Avatar

    I got you , my guy. 👍

  11. warrior_of_light998 Avatar

    Proclaim yourself as giga-chad and flex your muscles

  12. saviorself19 Avatar

    Its best to use the dead memes that aren’t being used as much or at all any more. The following is a forbidden technique not to be deployed lightly:

    If you find yourself in a situation where you are eating something around them take your first bite and hit them with, “SSSSSHHHHHEEEEEESSSSHHH this shit is BUSSIN’. RESPECTFULLY.” Then throw your hand out to one of them like the whitest guy you know trying to get a fist bump or five from a cool black guy. Bonus points if they try to do the fist bump and you do the five instead or do the fist if they go for the five.

    These memes are about three years past their use by date so this method is scientifically proven to induce dangerous levels of cringe in teens.

  13. bad_card Avatar

    “YO DAD CHILL THE FUCK OUT! My son is a sophomore at Indiana University and he rips me on that one all the time in front of his friends!

  14. zggystardust71 Avatar

    If they’re young teenagers throw in a skibidi or two.

  15. juggling-monkey Avatar

    If something is cool it’s “streets ahead”. If it’s not then it’s “streets behind”

    Example: man I wish I had your car, it’s streets ahead, I have to drive my parents old PT cruiser, shit is streets behind.

  16. marponsa Avatar

    take all the suggestions, look up online how to pronounce them and make up your own wrong way of saying them
    example, saying skibidi as “skibaidi”

  17. JJQuantum Avatar

    “No cap” means that you aren’t kidding and are serious about what you are saying.

    I use to work with a great guy who was honestly pretty cool. A new, young guy started working with us who just worshiped this other guy and would use his catch phrases, etc. I convinced the “cool” guy to start saying “mama got a banana butt” all the time just so new guy would copy it, which he did while not knowing what it meant. That wasn’t hard since it literally meant nothing. The best part was watching him try to figure out what the appropriate time was to use the phrase. Hilarious.

  18. Hy-phen Avatar

    I like to say I’m feeling kind of skibidi.

  19. green_meklar Avatar

    Use ‘skibidi’ as a positive adjective. “Wow, that’s so skibidi!” etc. I gather that ‘skibidi’ carries a connotation of being original or rebellious, so it’s even more cringe if you use it for something that’s actually traditional and mundane.

  20. Alt-Addiction Avatar

    Just say bruh anytime they tell a story, an anecdote, an opinion.
    Hell, just say bruh anytime they finish talking.

  21. Narkus Avatar

    Just say low-key fax to anything that is said or mentioned by you or them.

  22. AskDerpyCat Avatar

    The word “gyat” does it for me

    Might just be the “old dude making a raunchy comment” type of cringe though

  23. ElSuperBeasto4e Avatar

    Reply to them “Type shit” When they share an opinion. It means you agree

  24. mrhil Avatar

    My kids hate when I use cap/no cap. They hate it soooooo much. It makes me so happy.

    Cap = lying/not true/bullshit

    No cap = true/for real

    Sus also gets reactions. And if you can throw in a rizz… man, that will fuck them up.

    Rizz = charisma/game

    I have yet to decipher the exact meaning of skibbity, but you can usually just throw it out there in combination with other slang and it seems to land ok.

    Have fun man!

  25. timb1223 Avatar

    Jesus I hated when my boomer parents did this to me, please don’t do it guys.

  26. DaddyPL Avatar

    Have your wife or significant other call you, daddy while they’re in the room! Watch the dry heaving commence 😂🤣😂🤣

    Also if they’re inside a lot, tell them to go touch grass 👍

    Works on my boys like a charm!

  27. Jasumasu Avatar

    “Skibidi Ohio, fellow gigachads. Mogging hard, or hardly rizzing fr fr “

  28. Cerebr05murF Avatar

    Have Mom call Dad, “daddy” and watch them all unalive themselves. Extra bonus points if done in public.

  29. drdildamesh Avatar

    Call them “chat” and ask if they been “mewing”

  30. marijuanam0nk Avatar

    If they decide to show you anything, simply reply with “based” or “that jawn crazy”

  31. cownan Avatar

    Call them “unc” on the reg. If they interrupt you while you are doing something say “Hole up, let me cook.” If they take a big drink of something, say “Whoa, gettin sendy with it.”

  32. That-Dutch-Mechanic Avatar

    Just watch xiamanyc his gen a speech. It comes with subtitles.

    Slay dude, get that W

    https://m.youtube.com/shorts/oj4wYbiP6V8

  33. Darrell77 Avatar

    Just show them this post.

  34. Euphoric_Meet3788 Avatar

    If this is real don’t try they like and respect you for your age. You can’t fit in, if your burning with the youngins like when I was a youngin just be you that’s the coolest. Also keep them safe at all costs!

  35. bradd_pit Avatar

    Whenever they ask a question that has a number as the answer say “6 or 7” – they think this is hilarious for some reason. My daughter is all about it

  36. muffin80r Avatar

    “that’s so 6 7”.

    Use it to describe anything, good or bad 👌

  37. Deepcoma_53 Avatar

    Skibbity, Ohio, Mid, Low-key, deadass, the Ops, aura.

  38. types-like-thunder Avatar

    You gotta have rizz but dont go all cap cause that can be sus. Slay if you feel zesty boots down werk.

  39. Symbiotic_wasp Avatar

    when someone does something impressive/really well, say “you ate that _____”

  40. Carma_626 Avatar

    Just point to [anywhere on your kids skin] and say “Is that hyper-pigmentation?”

    Quickly followed by “Where the huzz at?”

    Watch your kids die inside. 😝😝

  41. ZagreusIncarnated Avatar

    Following for a friend

  42. MobileTough Avatar

    Anytime they say a verb say “Kid named verb?”

    Comes from the kid named paint meme,
    “Ok class today we’re going to finger paint! 🎨”

    Reaction image :O

    “Kid named paint” ?!?

  43. TheBear8878 Avatar

    Ask them to see their bussy

  44. Remote_War_313 Avatar

    Ask if they been rizzin up any ladies

  45. Financial_Coach4760 Avatar

    “ Are you ok? “Translates to “you Gucci bruh?”

    We will have fun = it’s gon be lit

    Not lying to you = no cap

    This food is delicious = this is bussin’

  46. DR320 Avatar

    Put the fries in the bag

  47. missemb Avatar

    six seven 🤷🏼‍♀️(hand wiggle like I don’t know)

  48. edmazing Avatar

    Video Game machine = Game Boy.
    Anime = Animoo
    Pokemon = Pikachu
    Nice = Yas Queen Slay!
    Charm = Rizz
    Butt = Gyatt
    Hotdog = Glizzy

    I dunno slip in some old lingo Booyah or the bees knees.

  49. theRealStichery Avatar

    Refer to good food as “bussin”

  50. MiamiPower Avatar

    Yo Home skillet 🍳 what’s the 411 on Homework today HomeSlice?

  51. Alluem Avatar

    My 15 and 11 year old are giggling as I read these responses to them.

  52. Talkwitchytome Avatar

    Say 6-7. With no context. Also saying cringe is now very cringe, especially if us old people do it.

  53. Randomthroatpuncher Avatar

    And say something is skibidy if you like it.

  54. Talkwitchytome Avatar

    When something is good or cool say Purr 🤣🤣

  55. Kaiyn Avatar

    “Skibidi toilet to you, my fellow Rizz gods, keeping it 100 sigma no cap?”

  56. Capta1nfalc0n Avatar

    Ok so, this might not be relevant, but it had me in fucking stitches. I’m a middle aged gamer, and some of my coworkers invited me to start playing FortNite with them. We always have a good time and it’s just our little group. Recently we tried a new game mode and it paired us with two kids, and one of them kept saying “bust ‘em wide open”.

    So I ask “what does bust ‘em wide open mean?”

    And the kid goes “idk? Their crotch?”

    I was deceased.

  57. Yogashoga Avatar

    If they ask you to do something – bet I was finna do that after I ate lunch and shi

  58. memy77 Avatar

    I enjoy combining different generations slang on my teens/preteens. Whenever I do something they think is particularly cringe I’ll look them in the eyes and say “Don’t be crimping my rizz, yo”. Followed by a “no cap”

  59. waffle_cone69 Avatar

    It’s so funny to say people saying “bet”. I’m 35 and bet was around since I was in college maybe earlier

  60. SilentGriffin76 Avatar

    Six Seven, Skibidy, Brah’, Yo’, What the Moo? (My daughter made that one up), Noice, Yaas, Omg, Slay, Real, Cringe.

  61. Worldly_Refuse2419 Avatar

    Tell them they are sigma

  62. PepperoniVaperoni Avatar

    Any time they are being annoying tell them you are gonna crack them. This means like “whip yo ass” kinda but it’s not usually super harsh so it’s like stop messing around. Very good

  63. Neat_Motor7 Avatar

    After someone explains a “cool story bro type conversation” go with 🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏 (five times). It’s the hand gesture that looks like you’re imitating a bird talking — you might have to check it out on YouTube. A lot of young people use it, and I’d say it’s kind of like the sign-language version of saying “yaaasss” or “tea.” 😂

  64. Neat_Motor7 Avatar

    Clock it! “Agreeing or a response like “got it/bet”. 😂

  65. Neat_Motor7 Avatar

    “What the helly”… aka wtf

  66. what_user_name Avatar

    They best way to do it is to intentionally say them slightly wrong.

    This example is a bit outdated, but….

    “Those whatever are something as AF”.

  67. Neo808 Avatar

    Six. Seven……

  68. TheRealJackReynolds Avatar

    I like to mispronounce shit on purpose.

    “This shit is bustlin’!” Got a huge eye roll from my daughter once.

  69. RelevanceReverence Avatar

    Here’s a teacher who recently did this at a high school: 

    https://youtu.be/Zf_125ApDvw?t=2m10s

    (Starts at 02:10)

  70. Marus1 Avatar

    >to watch them die of cringe?

    Good start

  71. Phoenyx634 Avatar

    “pog” or “poggers” for “cool” – bonus is it’s already considered dead slang/mainly used ironically so extra cringe

  72. jrunner02 Avatar

    Instead of saying “what?” As a response, say “bruh.”

    Example:

    “Bruh,.that’s what I was thinking. “

  73. OkFeedback9127 Avatar

    My kids tell me their teachers are teaching them the slang, no cap

  74. FFJosty Avatar

    Call yourself “the rizzard of oz”