Terms like Foid and Maxxing come directly from incel communities.
It's shitty but also interesting how these places outreach themselves in terms of spreading language, there was a Behind The Bastards episode on it recently I think
Never heard of "Foid" (nor do I know what it means) but "-maxxing" has become pretty widespread now and afaik even the original term ("looksmaxxing") wasn't a term dehumanizing women, just a dumb idea (from a community that dehumanizes women). Usually, the term "-maxxing" is used highly ironically, too, from what I could gather and quite disconnected from incel communities (maybe even claimed away, it's not "their slang" anymore).
Also I am in my thirties and not really connected to youth slang (much less even to american youth slang since I'm from Germany). To tell me that one does not know what to tell me when making a statement as above is the least helpful thing to do.
All of the examples given are specifically terms that have to do with more conservative adjacent ideologies. If the words were things like "bet" and "cap" I'd have a different opinion. I believe you have missed the subtext of this meme entirely.
But that's entirely the point the meme is trying to make. It's pointing out that gen alpha has an alarming amount of it. It's like saying "This is actually a dark comedy, there is a layer of irony over the humor" then you jump in and say "hey, it's not their fault the director decided to mix sadness in!" I'm not even attacking them lol.
Foid bedeutet soviel wie 'female humanoid", ist also eine direkte dehumanisierung von Frauen.
Dieser slang wird auch von deutschen Jugendlichen genutzt, nur halt auf sozialen Medien die du vielleicht nicht verwendest (Instagram und tiktok sind voll davon). Falls du es mal gesehen hast, dieses Cortisol Meme ist ursprünglich eine Nazi dogwhistle.
Wie gesagt, "-maxxing" hab ich mitbekommen, aber der Weg, den das (soweit ich das mitbekommen habe) in den Mainstream genommen hat, entschärft den Begriff bzw. nimmt den Incels die Möglichkeit, sich noch großartig darauf zu berufen, was ich wiederum eigentlich ganz cool finde.
Most of the english language youth slang stems directly from fascists and incels on 4chan. They aren't just funny words but an indicator on the radicalization of especially young men towards extremely hateful positions
As a father of two boys under 10, this is, and has been, terrifying me. I know they are going to be exposed to it. I know they are great, caring, open-minded, loving kids, and I hope I've thus far raised them right....but I've also had a few friends fall into the incel path along the way.
Like, I already know that Trump's 2016 popularity was almost entirely driven by through 4chan, getting him popular enough to hold through the primaries while everyone else dropped out was almost completely meme-driven and aimed at impressionable young men. And by then I had already known 4chan as being a decades-long toxic dump of the internet. Shit...remember 2016 r/the_donald? Was practically 4chan-lite.
And don't get me started on 2008, Ron Paul, and early reddit. Holy shit, man, having fallen into his fandom then and now looking at it from the outside...2008 Ron Paul feels like it was a goddamn psyop aimed at young men. Like a proof-of-concept for leveraging social-media for 2016 Trump.
A lot of modern slang started on right wing sections of 4Chan and is full of Jewish words intentionally used as code to make fun of them. EtymologyNerd on YouTube has talked about the right leaning origin of slang some
Fun fact. /pol/ was created the day after Epstein met moot and gave him a ride home. Q anon appeared there a couple years later with pizza gate.
Epstein was one of those elitist jews that called non jews goyim like muggles or some shit. Amazing how much worse 4chan is than every other chan. I never thought I would miss 8chan
I don't know exactly. The things I saw from EtymologyNerd tracked more of their movement, he might have other videos diving into their use you could go look for
Goy and goyim are also just actually words that are fairly commonly used by many English speaking Jews.
Fair amount of other Yiddish and Hebrew words other than goy/goyim are used this way as well.
Its like... an additional vernacular.
Chutzpah, means basically ... shameless audacity, or ... arrogant presumption of privilege, something like that.
Oi Vey! ... basically 'Woe is me!', but also kind of more like 'Oh shit/fuck/no'... sort of.
... I'm not saying you can't use these words and phrases as like, part of a cariacature, but they are also just words and phrases you'd have probably picked up, growing up in a Jewish family, or around them.
Similar to how you'd have an additional vernacular set if you were from some other cultural/ethic/religious background...
... not exactly the same, but Evangelical Christians for example have a weird tendency to pluralize 'evidence' into 'evidences', use 'discernment' in common speech waaay more often than others do, etc.
Wait, wait, I'm still confused. Is diggity a good thing or not? Should I be aiming for an overwelming surplus of it, and if I should, is it really surplus, or should I be trying to expunge it from my life entirely?
You only want in the correct amount. Not enough diggity is almost as bad as too much diggity. So by diggity extension, an overwhelming amount of diggity is indeed too much diggity and thus not diggity at all.
I am clearly no diggity-ologist as I had not even considered the temperature of the diggity. I shall continue my studies in the hope that I too can become wise in the ways of Diggity.
Look, Gen Z has some stinkers ("that's fire," sucks, and that's coming from the generation that gave you, "hella,"), but their use of Chud is spectacular. A perfect encapsulation of every grubby, right-wing freak from incels to groypers. A near perfect onomatopoeia.
Yeah, but that doesn't mean it was used regularly as slang, or that it carried the same connotations. "Lowkey," has been around for ages, but it wasn't slang until the late 90s, and it isn't even used the same way. ("Keep it lowkey," vs., "that was lowkey brilliant.")
The term originates from the 1984 movie C.H.U.D. In the film, the acronym refers to a group of humanoid, flesh-eating monsters that were once humans, but mutated due to radioactive waste. While the word may have started pejorative use in 2003 to describe any repulsive person, its usage shifted as it became popular in the 2020s on sites such as Twitter and Reddit, after the podcast Chapo Trap House frequently used it to describe those who are ignorant or far-right. Source
Oh, I haven't heard it used that was. I still see it used pretty much exclusively to mean, "right-wing dumb-ass," but sometimes more broadly as, "online dumb-ass."
Yep. Alt-righties / racists are still on the "secret cabal of Jews is why your life has problems" schtick, so if you see "goyim" being thrown around or "You know, ((THEM))" it's usually a dog whistle.
It'll get used like "sheep" like "eat slop, goy". As if people who aren't anti-Semitic are somehow "sheeple" letting themselves be manipulated.
That kinda thing started getting used heavily around meme communities like iFunny where you could never be sure if it was being "ironic" or not. (Although I heard the FBI caught various violent racist groups trying to recruit through there).
Dashiell Hammett was a WW1 veteran who fought the Army for the right to join up to fight Hitler. After the war he was sent to jail for refusing to name names when the government wanted to know who was in the Communist Party.
After working as a real life detective, Hammett turned to writing crime fiction. In one of his stories he used authentic crook slang. 'The rag lay' was stealing laundry off of clothes lines. It was the kind of thing only the lowest miscreants would do. His editor censored 'the rag lay' because it sounded dirty to him. Hammett didn't raise a fuss, but in his next story he had his hero call a cheap crook a 'gunsel' and a 'punk.'
'Gunsel' and 'punk' were both slang for men who offered sex for protection in prison.
You ":/" but I actually love it. It's a super obvious and instantly readable red flag that someone is a completely useless waste of space who's thoughts and opinions can be completely disregarded.
Foid is one of the best words incels have ever created.
"The slang I grew up with makes logical sense. Whatever those kids are saying is just random nonsense." -Every old fogey since the development of language
Chud is super old, the movie C.H.U.D. (Carnivorous Humanoid Underground Dwellers) came out in 1984 and has been used ever since. It's funny that it's most popular now, but it's as old as the others
Okay, but where is schway? I know it is technically older than 90s, but Batman Beyond has cemented that word in my vocab. Even though I barely ever get a chance to use it.
I personally am not a fan of a lot of modern 2020s slang but chud is one I do get behind.
From my understanding, higher ups weren't pleased with the first season because they wanted something more like 2000s The Batman, but with a teen/younger Batman. Something less BTAS and more marketable and enjoyable to a wide net of younger viewers, and having Batman take on corporate corruption isn't what they envisioned.
But yeah, season 1 with all the beef with Powers and corporate shenanigans going on was a welcome change of pace for a Batman character.
These days a lot of slang follows some kind of cookie cutter format. Redpill/blackpill, coomer/zoomer, X-oid, X-maxxing, etc. If it doesn't meet some threshold of social media viability then it's not getting adopted.
I don't think these words mean the same thing at all. Like 'foid' doesn't mean the same thing as 'whatever' (I could be wrong), so what is actually being compared here?
Are they supposed to? I didn't infer any link between them. I just thought they were random slang words from that era, contrasting the different feel they have.
so it went from cool words to mostly stupid words and hate speech?
plus isnt have of the slang in 2026 part mostly used on 4chan or by most 4chan users
Isn't that just Yiddish for "boy" or something? I haven't seen or heard that one anywhere other than from Jewish people who sprinkle Yiddish into their English.
Goy means a non-jewish nation or person. Goyim is plural.
"She is a Goy" (she's not Jewish)
"They're Goyim" (they're all non Jewish)
It doesn't necessarily have a negative meaning to it but it can in certain contexts just like your example of "boy". You can refer to a boy that way, or it can be used to be racist and denigrate a black man.
So is it being used as slang outside the context of describing people as non-Jewish? I grew up in Skokie, IL, so I was familiar with the yiddish term, but I haven't heard this new usage. Are non-jewish kids online using "goyim" to refer to outsiders of some other in-group?
It's the same vein as Gen X / Millennials using "retard", or Gen Z using "Autistic" as insulting language. It's taking something that is a scientific diagnosis and using it as an insult to someone being stupid or dumb-witted.
Basically weaponized ignorance due to lack of education or proper upbringing. When you're not smart enough as a person to come up with a clever insult, use something that is inherently insulting to an entire population.
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A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl · 118 pts · 30d
I think an even older generation would ut their slang in the strong soyjack section and would put yours in the stupid soyjack section.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 71 pts · 30d
I still say "groovy", "hella", and "dank".
otacon239@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 30d
Wicked
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 30d
Gnarly
mig@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 29d
Cool beans.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 29d
Slick
jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 30d
Golly!
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 30d
23-skiddoo, kid
GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 30d
Far out, dude!
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 30d
You're swell
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 30d
Bodacious!
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 30d
Tubular
saltesc@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 30d
Righteous
dzsimbo@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 30d
Cowabunga!
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 30d
Phat
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts · 1 pts · 29d
Boss
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 5 pts · 29d
The only time I still mention Groovy is when I directly afterwards mention that I like Kotlin better.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 29d
Funk and funky are still in my vocabulary.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · -3 pts · 30d
“groovy” was already only used ironically back in the day, having much the same connotations as referring to Nirvana as a “beat combo”
GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 30d
As someone who grew up in the 60s and 70s, i can assure you that groovy was not used ironically back in the day. Ya dig?
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 30d
I am the only person I know who uses groovy unironically other than my aunt.
bryndos@fedia.io · 4 pts · 29d
no, there's also me.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 29d
You're a stone gas, cat.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 29d
How skibidi of you
Godric@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d
Applesauce! This post isn't the bee's knees! I'm going to a blind pig to chug some giggle water to forget it!
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml · 73 pts · 30d
Foid and Goyim aren't normal slang, they're slurs used by fascist weirdos. -maxxing is only used by non-fascist weirdos in ironic contexts.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 30d
The spelling failure tells you it's ironic.
Beth@piefed.social · 60 pts · 30d
Excuse me, but where is “cool beans?”
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 30d
Ikr? So lame!
CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de · 49 pts · 29d
Oh no, kids today speak as differently to us as we did to prior generations, how cringe!
Let's go, there's a Gammelfleischparty at the club tonight.
alleycat@feddit.org · 12 pts · 29d
If you think dehumanizing women is just "kids speaking differently today" then I don't know what to tell you...
CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 29d
The fuck you talking about?
Kobibi@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 29d
Terms like Foid and Maxxing come directly from incel communities.
It's shitty but also interesting how these places outreach themselves in terms of spreading language, there was a Behind The Bastards episode on it recently I think
CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 29d
Never heard of "Foid" (nor do I know what it means) but "-maxxing" has become pretty widespread now and afaik even the original term ("looksmaxxing") wasn't a term dehumanizing women, just a dumb idea (from a community that dehumanizes women). Usually, the term "-maxxing" is used highly ironically, too, from what I could gather and quite disconnected from incel communities (maybe even claimed away, it's not "their slang" anymore).
Also I am in my thirties and not really connected to youth slang (much less even to american youth slang since I'm from Germany). To tell me that one does not know what to tell me when making a statement as above is the least helpful thing to do.
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 7 pts · 29d
All of the examples given are specifically terms that have to do with more conservative adjacent ideologies. If the words were things like "bet" and "cap" I'd have a different opinion. I believe you have missed the subtext of this meme entirely.
wieson@feddit.org · 1 pts · 28d
It's not CyberEggs fault that op chose slang from 4chan and called it genα slang
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 1 pts · 28d
But that's entirely the point the meme is trying to make. It's pointing out that gen alpha has an alarming amount of it. It's like saying "This is actually a dark comedy, there is a layer of irony over the humor" then you jump in and say "hey, it's not their fault the director decided to mix sadness in!" I'm not even attacking them lol.
Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 29d
Foid bedeutet soviel wie 'female humanoid", ist also eine direkte dehumanisierung von Frauen.
Dieser slang wird auch von deutschen Jugendlichen genutzt, nur halt auf sozialen Medien die du vielleicht nicht verwendest (Instagram und tiktok sind voll davon). Falls du es mal gesehen hast, dieses Cortisol Meme ist ursprünglich eine Nazi dogwhistle.
CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 29d
Okay, "foid" ist dann wirklich kritisch.
Wie gesagt, "-maxxing" hab ich mitbekommen, aber der Weg, den das (soweit ich das mitbekommen habe) in den Mainstream genommen hat, entschärft den Begriff bzw. nimmt den Incels die Möglichkeit, sich noch großartig darauf zu berufen, was ich wiederum eigentlich ganz cool finde.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 29d
Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 29d
Most of the english language youth slang stems directly from fascists and incels on 4chan. They aren't just funny words but an indicator on the radicalization of especially young men towards extremely hateful positions
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 29d
As a father of two boys under 10, this is, and has been, terrifying me. I know they are going to be exposed to it. I know they are great, caring, open-minded, loving kids, and I hope I've thus far raised them right....but I've also had a few friends fall into the incel path along the way.
Like, I already know that Trump's 2016 popularity was almost entirely driven
bythrough 4chan, getting him popular enough to hold through the primaries while everyone else dropped out was almost completely meme-driven and aimed at impressionable young men. And by then I had already known 4chan as being a decades-long toxic dump of the internet. Shit...remember 2016 r/the_donald? Was practically 4chan-lite.And don't get me started on 2008, Ron Paul, and early reddit. Holy shit, man, having fallen into his fandom then and now looking at it from the outside...2008 Ron Paul feels like it was a goddamn psyop aimed at young men. Like a proof-of-concept for leveraging social-media for 2016 Trump.
CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 29d
I said something about that already: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/26760359
Kraiden@piefed.social · 41 pts · 30d
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 29d
i wish we left six seven in 2025
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 2 pts · 29d
6 7 6 7
tixnou@feddit.cl · 2 pts · 29d
67 is outdated old man. the new thing is 25
two fiiive!! two fiiiive!!!!
CobblerScholar@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 30d
Isn't Goyim Yiddish?
mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 51 pts · 30d
A lot of modern slang started on right wing sections of 4Chan and is full of Jewish words intentionally used as code to make fun of them. EtymologyNerd on YouTube has talked about the right leaning origin of slang some
CobblerScholar@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 30d
So incels that think they're clever got ya
redsand@infosec.pub · 9 pts · 29d
Fun fact. /pol/ was created the day after Epstein met moot and gave him a ride home. Q anon appeared there a couple years later with pizza gate.
Epstein was one of those elitist jews that called non jews goyim like muggles or some shit. Amazing how much worse 4chan is than every other chan. I never thought I would miss 8chan
jaaake@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 30d
So the Yiddish word means someone who isn't Jewish. How is it used in those spaces?
mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 29d
I don't know exactly. The things I saw from EtymologyNerd tracked more of their movement, he might have other videos diving into their use you could go look for
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 29d
Goy and goyim are also just actually words that are fairly commonly used by many English speaking Jews.
Fair amount of other Yiddish and Hebrew words other than goy/goyim are used this way as well.
Its like... an additional vernacular.
Chutzpah, means basically ... shameless audacity, or ... arrogant presumption of privilege, something like that.
Oi Vey! ... basically 'Woe is me!', but also kind of more like 'Oh shit/fuck/no'... sort of.
... I'm not saying you can't use these words and phrases as like, part of a cariacature, but they are also just words and phrases you'd have probably picked up, growing up in a Jewish family, or around them.
Similar to how you'd have an additional vernacular set if you were from some other cultural/ethic/religious background...
... not exactly the same, but Evangelical Christians for example have a weird tendency to pluralize 'evidence' into 'evidences', use 'discernment' in common speech waaay more often than others do, etc.
0ops@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 30d
I confess I only know that one from Weird Al's pop-punk hit "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi"
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 30d
I would see that as a badge of honour.
UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 30d
NGL I like "-maxxing" because of how versatile it is.
"Whatever" is hardly slang, however.
dzsimbo@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 30d
Whatevs
UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 30d
You should be slangmaxxing
TORFdot0@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 30d
MaxxMAXXING
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 29d
It's what TJ does
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 1 pts · 28d
I read this as Marxmaxxing lmao
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 29d
It's the way you said that is representative of the generation. It was "what-everrrrr." Nobody says it like that nowadays.
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 28 pts · 30d
Whassupmaxxing is for radical chuds
Venator@lemmy.nz · 7 pts · 30d
Whatever foid.
huppakee@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 30d
Da bomb
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 30d
This post has a remarkably low amount of diggity.
notabot@piefed.social · 11 pts · 30d
Wait, wait, I'm still confused. Is diggity a good thing or not? Should I be aiming for an overwelming surplus of it, and if I should, is it really surplus, or should I be trying to expunge it from my life entirely?
Aedis@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 30d
You only want in the correct amount. Not enough diggity is almost as bad as too much diggity. So by diggity extension, an overwhelming amount of diggity is indeed too much diggity and thus not diggity at all.
Diggity diggity.
rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 30d
Don't forget the diggity serving temperature. Diggity must be hot.
notabot@piefed.social · 4 pts · 29d
I am clearly no diggity-ologist as I had not even considered the temperature of the diggity. I shall continue my studies in the hope that I too can become wise in the ways of Diggity.
notabot@piefed.social · 2 pts · 29d
Thank you for your wise words regarding the correct amount of diggity. I shall endeavour to always have the correct amount of diggity in future.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d
Hard disagree. Case-in-point: I like the way you work it, some diggity...?
It just doesn't work. You really don't want any diggity.
Aedis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d
Idk. In that case some diggity isn't enough. Hot diggity on the other hand 🤌
0ops@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 29d
Diggity is in short supply these days
pjwestin@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 29d
Look, Gen Z has some stinkers ("that's fire," sucks, and that's coming from the generation that gave you, "hella,"), but their use of Chud is spectacular. A perfect encapsulation of every grubby, right-wing freak from incels to groypers. A near perfect onomatopoeia.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 29d
It doesn't however, offset the sin that is "foid," calling women "female humanoids" in casual speach is dehumanizing as fuck.
qarbone@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 29d
But only chuds do that. We're not listing 90s slurs up there either.
pjwestin@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 29d
Yeah, the casual way, "f*g," was used, even into the early 2000s, is pretty shocking in hindsight.
GorGor@startrek.website · 7 pts · 29d
chud has been around a long time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.H.U.D
pjwestin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 29d
Yeah, but that doesn't mean it was used regularly as slang, or that it carried the same connotations. "Lowkey," has been around for ages, but it wasn't slang until the late 90s, and it isn't even used the same way. ("Keep it lowkey," vs., "that was lowkey brilliant.")
GorGor@startrek.website · 3 pts · 29d
I feel like it was though. Chode was maybe more common, but chud was used too. The movie followed the name afterall, not the other way around.
Your example for lowkey is using it as an adverb as opposed to an adjective. A chud has always been a noun.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d
chud's always been a descriptor for racist dickbags
pjwestin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d
I'm sorry, but it really wasn't:
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 28d
am familiar with the movie, saw it in the theaters lol. people started calling racist dickbags chuds soon after.
What, you don't get the resemblance?
lol. cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 29d
"Chud" went from "terminally online right-wing freak" to "fatass"/"overeater".
pjwestin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 29d
Oh, I haven't heard it used that was. I still see it used pretty much exclusively to mean, "right-wing dumb-ass," but sometimes more broadly as, "online dumb-ass."
marzhall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 29d
Personally I've only just started seeing it used that way on telegram within the last month, seems to be a recent thing.
pjwestin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 29d
I mean, if it's Telegram, then it's probably a bunch of chuds trying to shift the meaning of, "chud," because they're tired of being called chuds.
marzhall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d
Honestly my vibe as well
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus · 21 pts · 30d
tfw when you're getting old and crabby
mechoman444@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 30d
Goyim? Like... Not a Jewish person?
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 29d
Yep. Alt-righties / racists are still on the "secret cabal of Jews is why your life has problems" schtick, so if you see "goyim" being thrown around or "You know, ((THEM))" it's usually a dog whistle.
It'll get used like "sheep" like "eat slop, goy". As if people who aren't anti-Semitic are somehow "sheeple" letting themselves be manipulated.
That kinda thing started getting used heavily around meme communities like iFunny where you could never be sure if it was being "ironic" or not. (Although I heard the FBI caught various violent racist groups trying to recruit through there).
It started to break out, unfortunately.
mechoman444@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 29d
Christ on a stick. I had no idea that was a thing.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · -3 pts · 29d
Most leftists are the same, they're just more politically correct about it.
socsa@piefed.social · 16 pts · 30d
Goyim is like WW1 slang. Smh genz can't do anything right smh
daggermoon@piefed.world · 15 pts · 29d
I like slang in 2077 the best.
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 pts · 29d
Damn, that's nova.
cmder@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 29d
Choom
Godric@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d
Corpo, Gonk, and Klep have all wormed their way into my vocabulary!
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 29d
L boomer meme
Slovene85@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 30d
Chud is much older.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 29d
There was even an 80s documentary about it!
Manjushri@piefed.social · 2 pts · 29d
Yeah, chud has been around since the movie in 1984.
mspencer712@programming.dev · 14 pts · 30d
I’m not really fond of signaling disrespect like this. I like to encourage respect.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 29d
boomer moment
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 13 pts · 30d
Education time.
Dashiell Hammett was a WW1 veteran who fought the Army for the right to join up to fight Hitler. After the war he was sent to jail for refusing to name names when the government wanted to know who was in the Communist Party.
After working as a real life detective, Hammett turned to writing crime fiction. In one of his stories he used authentic crook slang. 'The rag lay' was stealing laundry off of clothes lines. It was the kind of thing only the lowest miscreants would do. His editor censored 'the rag lay' because it sounded dirty to him. Hammett didn't raise a fuss, but in his next story he had his hero call a cheap crook a 'gunsel' and a 'punk.'
'Gunsel' and 'punk' were both slang for men who offered sex for protection in prison.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 6 pts · 30d
“Gunzel” is also Australian/New Zealand slang for trainspotter/railway enthusiast. Not sure if it’s related.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 2 pts · 30d
https://youtu.be/os7feUFOBPM
The Maltese Falcon. From a novel by Hammett.
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 30d
goonin and boolin, jizzmaxxing in 2026
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 29d
jizzmaxxing is back?! you heard it here chat, time to sling mad ropes. LFG fam
Randelung@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 29d
Gnarly!
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 29d
Bodatious!
LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 29d
Aneb@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 29d
I'm not sorry for slangmaxxing
enkille@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 29d
unwilling to look it up, i'm going to assume foid is a shortened form of freakazoid
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 29d
Unfortunately, no. "Foid" is short for "Femoid", which is what incels call women :/
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 29d
You ":/" but I actually love it. It's a super obvious and instantly readable red flag that someone is a completely useless waste of space who's thoughts and opinions can be completely disregarded.
Foid is one of the best words incels have ever created.
ReluctantZen@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 29d
Wasn't femoid already an obvious red flag? I don't think I've ever heard that word used in any other context
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 29d
I mean, yeah, applies to either one.
Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 29d
If only
Glytch@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 28d
"The slang I grew up with makes logical sense. Whatever those kids are saying is just random nonsense." -Every old fogey since the development of language
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 29d
treesquid@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 29d
Chud is super old, the movie C.H.U.D. (Carnivorous Humanoid Underground Dwellers) came out in 1984 and has been used ever since. It's funny that it's most popular now, but it's as old as the others
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 29d
Okay, but where is schway? I know it is technically older than 90s, but Batman Beyond has cemented that word in my vocab. Even though I barely ever get a chance to use it.
I personally am not a fan of a lot of modern 2020s slang but chud is one I do get behind.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 29d
Cyberpunk / Deus Ex imagined Batman was SO GOOD and for some reason they just stopped bothering with it.
I'll never understand letting that genius storyline slip through the cracks. That show was awesome.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 29d
From my understanding, higher ups weren't pleased with the first season because they wanted something more like 2000s The Batman, but with a teen/younger Batman. Something less BTAS and more marketable and enjoyable to a wide net of younger viewers, and having Batman take on corporate corruption isn't what they envisioned.
But yeah, season 1 with all the beef with Powers and corporate shenanigans going on was a welcome change of pace for a Batman character.
istdaslol@feddit.org · 7 pts · 30d
All Slang is equally cringe. I have friends still running around with „YOLO“ tattoos
tdawg@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 30d
I unironically used "epic" today
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 29d
I hope it was used to describe a very long work of prose and not an unmanageably large sandwich.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 30d
Word!
EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 30d
Understand goyim from the replies (no surprise), had to look up foid.
Dumb fucking basement dwelling incel-bait.
Our fucking society, lol.
huppakee@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 30d
The youth is just slangmaxxing, no worries
Brewchin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 30d
Every young generation invents and uses their own in-group words. You may think it's stupid, but you used to do it. And possibly still do. 🤷♂️
nullspace@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 29d
These days a lot of slang follows some kind of cookie cutter format. Redpill/blackpill, coomer/zoomer, X-oid, X-maxxing, etc. If it doesn't meet some threshold of social media viability then it's not getting adopted.
Arachnidbrilliant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 29d
My cat is cooler than yours
aim4harmony@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 29d
Damn right, my cat's better than yours
He can teach you, but I have to charge
My kitty brings all the puss to the yard
And they're like, "He's better than yours"
Damn right, my cat's better than yours
lala lalaLA 🤭
semperverus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 28d
So basically 2026 slang is 2012 4Chan slang and is accurately reflected.
bless@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 28d
If it's from 4chan it's not slang because they don't go out
Etterra@discuss.online · 5 pts · 30d
I thought goyim was a Hebrew word.
naught101@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 30d
What does it mean?
Furbag@pawb.social · 4 pts · 30d
It is used to refer to a non-Jew.
forzanature@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 29d
Same as Gringo or Gaijin
burgermeister@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 29d
Whack
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 29d
This post isn't crescent fresh. It's only partially cres, at best.
bloogoose@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 30d
Give them a break. They're not well educated and are doing the best they can.
forzanature@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 29d
The slang is the result of a scary portion of our youth having severely underdeveloped reading skills
Jesthemes@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 29d
Okay Boomer
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 29d
We found ourselves an intellectual Zoomer using big words like "Boomer".
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d
— 👴👆
Airfried@piefed.social · 4 pts · 30d
I thought the bottom row was already old a year ago.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 4 pts · 28d
Slangs in 90: shows perfectly normal stuff
Slang in 2026: shows 2 slurs and 1 insult
We are def not biased huh
Eh_I@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 29d
I don't think these words mean the same thing at all. Like 'foid' doesn't mean the same thing as 'whatever' (I could be wrong), so what is actually being compared here?
treesquid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 29d
They aren't supposed to, they're just examples of slang
dustyData@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 29d
“old time good! new time bad!”
Classical old people afraid of death and irrelevance.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 29d
Are they supposed to? I didn't infer any link between them. I just thought they were random slang words from that era, contrasting the different feel they have.
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 29d
so it went from cool words to mostly stupid words and hate speech?
plus isnt have of the slang in 2026 part mostly used on 4chan or by most 4chan users
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 29d
Isn't that just Yiddish for "boy" or something? I haven't seen or heard that one anywhere other than from Jewish people who sprinkle Yiddish into their English.
iocase@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 29d
Goy means a non-jewish nation or person. Goyim is plural.
"She is a Goy" (she's not Jewish)
"They're Goyim" (they're all non Jewish)
It doesn't necessarily have a negative meaning to it but it can in certain contexts just like your example of "boy". You can refer to a boy that way, or it can be used to be racist and denigrate a black man.
monotremata@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 29d
So is it being used as slang outside the context of describing people as non-Jewish? I grew up in Skokie, IL, so I was familiar with the yiddish term, but I haven't heard this new usage. Are non-jewish kids online using "goyim" to refer to outsiders of some other in-group?
iocase@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 29d
It's mostly used by Jews and Yiddish speakers afaik
monotremata@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 29d
thanks!
iocase@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 28d
You're welcome!
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 29d
It's the same vein as Gen X / Millennials using "retard", or Gen Z using "Autistic" as insulting language. It's taking something that is a scientific diagnosis and using it as an insult to someone being stupid or dumb-witted.
Basically weaponized ignorance due to lack of education or proper upbringing. When you're not smart enough as a person to come up with a clever insult, use something that is inherently insulting to an entire population.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 2 pts · 30d
Harsh realm
Ertain@mast.linuxgamecast.com · 2 pts · 29d
@laurenceOfSuburbia Makes me think of the band Devo. I believe the name is short for "devolution". Though I think they meant something else.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 30d
Turbo!
pedrobear@altgag.net · 1 pts · 30d
My daughter has been using "XD" in her day to day everytime she finds something funny. Yes, she says "XD".
I kinda want to kick her ass for it...
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 29d
Eh, millennials have said el-oh-el or lol post-ironically for a decade now.
kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 29d
XD
percent@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 28d
I think I might officially be old now. I don't know what the bottom left two are and I have no desire to google them.
TheHound@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 29d
catboy_slim@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 29d
Step down, old guard
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 29d
To where? The uneducated?
At least we aren't graduating high school with a 5th grade reading level at best.
catboy_slim@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 29d
The toilet
Because at least I'm not graduating high school with a.butt full of poop.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 29d
Siiiick...
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 29d
We need to counter them with good, non-cringe slangs!