My workaround to the minimum limit is to accompany the post with a gif or image
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A fig upon the nonces of yon prating jackanapes!
@Pensketch “Interbellum”; between the wars. Apparently wars were like something back then.
@FGD135, Hail to the King, baby.
@KathyPartdeux “Oblong”
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i ONLY learn the dances to humiliate my 12 yr old at school pickup!!!
“DAD!!! get back in the car … NOW!”
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Our Generation is named after a post-punk band… 
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Bowie is ALWAYS applicable!
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The Charleston,
The Twist,
The Macarena,
The Dab,
The Floss,
The Spasm,
The Chortle,
The Gizzard,
The Fred
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No, no, Fortnite is the bestest game. Chat in all my other games is so much better with The Kids Thesedays off playing Fortnite.
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Cardi B stole it from drag queens on Rupaul’s Drag Race, circa 2014.
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As a mid range millenial (1989) I was deeply upset that I had to have a gen z friend explain a lot of phrases to me a few months ago.
It makes me feel like the guy who chose poorly in indiana jones.
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I showed this to my almost 15 year old, and she said, “is sad, but I understood someday everything he said.”
She’s a good kid - gets top grades, swim team all year ‘round, has my sense of snark/sarcasm/quick wit. Loves the Beatles & Green Day as well as today’ s alternative and even some hip-hop. I’m not gonna complain about the way the kids today talk.
I’m just gonna chillax.
Edit: while she says she understands most of it she also pointed out that a lot of kids don’t actually say a some of these things, unless it is done “ironically”
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I like the cut of your jib!
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You’ve got moxie kid
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While not a member of Gen Z, I feel obligated as someone who uses and/or is familiar with a certain amount of this lingo to interject here. Things like “feels” and “mood” are highly contextual expressions that often rely on other participants in the conversation, and can sometimes just serve as a means of expressing oneself in shorthand by pointing to something someone else has said or posted, or citing a source with similar tone, and saying “this is my current emotional state” or “I know what this feels like”. They’re shortcuts. People are not just walking down the street shouting “MOOD!” into the void.
“Feels” is perhaps the most broadly generic of these terms, but “feels” (for me, at least) always has an association with a powerful and perhaps unexpected empathetic response. Phrases like “all aboard the feels train” and GIFs like this one:
get pulled out when a conversation takes a suddenly deep turn, or when a movie veers unexpectedly into the maudlin. They can also serve as sort of tiny little icebreakers, injecting a small amount of levity back into a heavy conversation.
Mostly we laugh because the alternative is to never stop crying.
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All the cool websites are using it…
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TO THE EXTREME! [guitar riff]
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Fun. But quite a few fad words have come and gone over time. My belief about kids adopting their own ‘insider’ words is that it’s normal and healthy.
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I think that’s key – a lot of these “gen-z expressions” are things mostly just used as shorthand in texts, tweets, memes, or GIFs. When a kid responds to something by actually saying “mood” or “all the feels”, they’re mostly being ironic since they’re quoting a meme. It’d be like saying “LOL” out loud.
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I use quite a bit of the lingo myself, with exception of some more outlandish ones. But for those the point is that they are outlandish, its meant to be used ironically and/or as a quick way to gauge when someone that’s not in on the joke or scene. It’s the kind of thing that’s not just used for Gen Z, it’s done in all kinds of groups
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Generation X (shout-out to my homiez!) was named after a 1991 novel by Douglas Coupland. The novel was named after Billy Idol’s original punk band. And the band was named after a book on youth culture published in 1965.
This strongly suggests—and you may be hearing it here first—that the label Generation X was actually dreamed up as a possible name for what later became the baby boomers.
Why is the New Generation Called “Gen Z?” And Why Did We Start With “Gen X?”
Apparently the term “baby boomer” was coined in 1963
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