Ask college students how they’re doing, and many can’t answer naturally without the aid of memecoded, trending vocabulary.
“I’m cooked,” said Alexander Mandel, a sophomore studying special and standard education.
“It’s just my chungus life,” said Sam Connelly, a junior studying mathematics.
“We goated,” said Elliot Mason, a sophomore studying psychology and philosophy.
Their words echo the ever-developing vernacular of modern slang, shaping how people connect with one another and communicate through shared trends. Online, the language of video games, meme culture and real world communities fosters universal absurdist humor often used for emotional buffering.
“Most of us are online to some degree, so it makes it very easy to connect,” Connelly said. “Without a lot of the current slang and memes, it’s harder to connect with people over humor. It’s a very direct way to connect since we’re all experiencing the current trends.”
Every generation has its own slang and trends. This unique way of communicating brings people of all archetypes together in a universal way that is accessible online for anyone wishing to engage.
“A lot of it is just like, sort of in-group, out-group thing,” Mason said. “It’s another one of those things where, as kind of as vast and as interconnected as the internet is, we find the ways to communicate to everybody and to find your own groups.”
The trends of slang are constantly changing and moving in order to reflect the ever growing online community. Trends that are popular today, like 6-7 and performative males, will likely fade from the spotlight in just months, becoming a distant memory like skibidi toilet and hawk tuah.
“I feel like we’re even seeing the performative male [stuff] going out of style, or it feels like those jokes are becoming kind of tired, and people are kind of starting to move on,” Mandel said.
And yet, the fading of slang doesn’t entirely erase it. Mandel and Mason list trends from ages ago that young people occasionally use as nostalgic jokes, including Vine trends like “what are those,” “yeet” and “I was crazy once.”
“I feel like it doesn’t really go away, not really, because everything now is just ironic. It’s so many layers of absurdism, like the Italian brain rot isn’t funny anymore because it’s Italian brain rot. It’s funny because it’s so absurd,” Mason said.
Embracing absurdity in humor has become the way members of Gen Z and Gen Alpha describe and make sense of the world around themselves.
“It’s one more way for me to express that I’m miserable and don’t want to be, like a funny way of saying ‘I’m fine.’ Or it’s like, ‘Chat, I think I might be cooked.’ I’m doing really poorly. I’m really worried about these assignments, but this is a way to veil misery while still communicating that fact,” Mandel said.
Connelly said that a lot of conversational slang is negative, and the positive ones are mostly based in absurdity, like saying “Roll Tide” after failing a test. Engaging in a universal language of humor and expression can help younger generations express their feelings without getting deeper into them.
“I can laugh about things that I don’t want to deal with, or I connect them into a joke. It’s a way to stop a conversation. Let’s keep the conversation more light hearted,” Mason said.
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