“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
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So basically 2026 slang is 2012 4Chan slang and is accurately reflected.
If it’s from 4chan it’s not slang because they don’t go out
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.
chud has been around a long time
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.”)
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.
It doesn’t however, offset the sin that is “foid,” calling women “female humanoids” in casual speach is dehumanizing as fuck.
But only chuds do that. We’re not listing 90s slurs up there either.
Yeah, the casual way, “f*g,” was used, even into the early 2000s, is pretty shocking in hindsight.
chud’s always been a descriptor for racist dickbags
I’m sorry, but it really wasn’t:
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
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
“Chud” went from “terminally online right-wing freak” to “fatass”/“overeater”.
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.”
Personally I’ve only just started seeing it used that way on telegram within the last month, seems to be a recent thing.
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.
Honestly my vibe as well
Slangs in 90: shows perfectly normal stuff
Slang in 2026: shows 2 slurs and 1 insult
We are def not biased huh
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.
If you think dehumanizing women is just “kids speaking differently today” then I don’t know what to tell you…
The fuck you talking about?
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.
It’s not CyberEggs fault that op chose slang from 4chan and called it genα slang
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.
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.
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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
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.
I said something about that already: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/26760359
I think an even older generation would ut their slang in the strong soyjack section and would put yours in the stupid soyjack section.
I still say “groovy”, “hella”, and “dank”.
Wicked
Gnarly
Cool beans.
Slick
Golly!
23-skiddoo, kid
Far out, dude!
You’re swell
Bodacious!
Tubular
Righteous
Cowabunga!
Phat
Boss
The only time I still mention Groovy is when I directly afterwards mention that I like Kotlin better.
Funk and funky are still in my vocabulary.
“groovy” was already only used ironically back in the day, having much the same connotations as referring to Nirvana as a “beat combo”
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?
I am the only person I know who uses groovy unironically other than my aunt.
no, there’s also me.
You’re a stone gas, cat.
How skibidi of you
Applesauce! This post isn’t the bee’s knees! I’m going to a blind pig to chug some giggle water to forget it!
Excuse me, but where is “cool beans?”
Ikr? So lame!
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.
-maxxing is only used by non-fascist weirdos in ironic contexts.
The spelling failure tells you it’s ironic.
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
i wish we left six seven in 2025
67 is outdated old man. the new thing is 25
two fiiive!! two fiiiive!!!
6 7 6 7
I’m not sorry for slangmaxxing
unwilling to look it up, i’m going to assume foid is a shortened form of freakazoid
Unfortunately, no. “Foid” is short for “Femoid”, which is what incels call women :/
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.
Wasn’t femoid already an obvious red flag? I don’t think I’ve ever heard that word used in any other context
I mean, yeah, applies to either one.
If only
Gnarly!
Bodatious!
Tubular!
Isn’t Goyim Yiddish?
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
So incels that think they’re clever got ya
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
So the Yiddish word means someone who isn’t Jewish. How is it used in those spaces?
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.
I confess I only know that one from Weird Al’s pop-punk hit “Pretty Fly for a Rabbi”
I would see that as a badge of honour.
