Originally published at: American Zoomers are faking British accents as a coping mechanism | Boing Boing
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I wonder what a “zoomer” is?
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A disappointment to their parents.
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I might be a Zoomer then.
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All zoomers are disappointments, but not all disappointments are zoomers. I’m sure you were disappointing long before they were born.
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Damn I caught this from physical proximity for a while. Makes sense… I tend to have mockingbird tendencies.
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Meanwhile, Zoomers elsewhere are faking American accents.
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Watching too many Britcoms has it’s price.
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Zoomers huh?
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My brain is notoriously fond of English accents and will slip into one at the drop of a hat. Naturally, watching British TV only makes it stronger (and my favourite TV show is, yes, British).
Still, there’s something amusing about the whole thing.
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Hello hello. What’s all this then?
Mind how you go.
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As a proud millennial I hate to inform zoomers that we were doing this super cringey thing before the internet. This is just a thing young americans do because british accents are neat and different… and probably more so now since y’know, way less racist than a lot of other options out there. I knew quite a few white dudes adopting jamaican / rasta accents that wouldn’t really fly today.
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I’ll say. When I’m sad i just launch into this monologue and I feel much better:
“Shut up! I was speaking rhetorically.”
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Let’s not forget The Supreme Being’s very proper tones, courtesy the very British Sir Ralph Richardson.
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Let me guess, it’s either a godawful ‘Cockney’ accent or an over the top posh accent every time? I won’t be impressed until I hear authentic Geordie or Glaswegian!
FWIW, my daughter regularly uses a fake American accent in a joking way, like, oh my gawd, totally.
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People use funny voice with their friends. News at 11
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And in Britain someone who wanted
might put on an American or Australian accent.
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Mine’s a Berkeley-Gloucestershire / West Country accent, and that’s something you rarely hear on media even in the UK.
I somehow doubt that USAian Zoomers are adopting my accent 
The one that always springs to mind for me is Hot Fuzz, where everyone sounds a bit like me. And then there’s the guy with the seamine in his barn, and I know people who speak like that.
I wish there was audio of my mate RIcky online, who has a broad Berkeley accent and talks really fast with it too.
I suspect you don’t hear many broad West Country accents in general media because they make people sound a little… thick.
I know that I’ve leaned in to this previously to catch people off-guard, and that it can come in useful when providing technical support, as it can put people at ease.
As opposed to the London “Estuary” accent, which makes everyone sound like a criminal.
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