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Probably because you grew up with it an understand it. Here's some 1950s brainrot slang:

I'm a circled guy to an ex paper shaker when this bird dog tried to bash her ears at this fat city place, not supermurgitroid!

I think due to the internet being less of a thing, slang was a lot more localised.

We definitely got a bit of influence from London slang (I grew up outside London) that never made it up to my cousins in Lancashire, however they had a load of different slang I hadn't heard of.

Literally any discussion about Pokeyman (or Yugioh, etc.) our parents overheard was complete nonsense noises to them. I've had this brought to my attention by my mother, but only as an adult.

Also, anything we picked up from our era of flash videos - e.g., someone saying "so, this is the ....What a sweet you might say" and someone else reflexively responding "round", or a loop of "badger" and "mushroom" between friends: also nonsense.

In any case, it's an important skill to learn the new slang: as an old, it gives you the power to make it "cringe" by using it. Very fun, on god

I saw a post about slang being linked to platforms shadow blocking and de-monetizing posts with key words i.e. dead, suicide etc. Which lead to "not alive" slang, or something similar.

I'm too old for this.

Yeah I'm on the same page as you - I remember we had some little differences here and there but it was nothing like it is today.

They're super proud of it too - the zoomers around me like to talk about it and explain their slang and I have to bit my tongue because I feel like if I was honest and told them 99% of their slang is dumb as shit I would just sound like the old 'get off my lawn' type.

Though that would still be preferable to a dad in my orbit who has gone all in on the slang of his alpha kids and just sounds like the 'hello fellow youth' type.

Most non-mainstream millenial slang was related to drugs, I think

Nah, you're not wrong. Sure, there was some more obscure stuff, but I'd say most could be figured out by context or from a traceable evolution from previous generations' slang. The difference now is video-based social media has slang spreading and evolving at lightspeed. It's impossible to keep up unless you're immersed in that bubble either directly or by proxy of peers.

Gaming slang, for sure. Also, all of the early internet initialisms like LOL

Same. I remember trying to do crossword puzzles, and half of them were like, "Name of the actress who played X in the 90s series title." Me: Hell if I know... name of a purple crystal used for jewelry and home decorations? oh yeah, I know this one!"

I've never cared about celebrity news for the sake of celebrity news, but I've found I very much care about the actual creation of the art that I like.

That means sometimes I know about the relationship history of the songwriters whose albums I listen to, knowing that a post-divorce album might explore those themes. Same with when a standup comedian I like becomes a parent, knowing that the observational humor may shift as a result.

For television and film, I know who's signing deals with who, which actors and directors like working with each other, what some prior screenwriter was doing before the current project, which studios have reputations for interfering with the artistic vision, which directors and producers have reputations for mismanaging resources, which characters had to be written off of shows for off-set reasons, etc., because it all affects the end product.

For sports, some of the off-field drama can affect the on-field product (suspensions or personnel movement for non-sports reasons, weird health conspiracy theories affecting one's return from injured status).

So I don't really mess with celebrity gossip in itself, but I do follow industry news in television, film, music, the sports I like, and any other entertainment I enjoy.

I suspect you're making half of this stuff up but I can't prove a thing

Livvy is Livvy Dunne the gymnast. And apparently Gronk is trying to hype up his very young son as a future athlete.

This is the product in question. Had no idea it was a thing. If it's not sticky, it might be a cool office fidget toy.

you seriously dont care if Baby Gronk is the new drip king or not? whaaaaat?

A few more years, and I'll finally become cool. Hehe, yes, just a few more years...

I'm a school bus driver and my kids act like their slang is some kind of secret language that I can't possibly understand. They apparently aren't aware that google is a thing.

Just say the words they do. Nothing will make something uncool faster than a parent adopting it.