What brain rot language hurts yr 11 and 12?

Anonymous

Dear god what have I done,

Last issue we (UBIQUE) reviewed the brain rot words of gen Z, including but not limited to such awful terms like ‘skibidi’, the elusive meaning of ‘rizz’ (i have none, apparently) and foul utterances like ‘gyatt’. Throughout this journey we found that reactions from control groups vary depending on age. Year 7s to 9s are repulsed, year 10s are indifferent and year 11s and 12s are confused.

So how can we, verbally, hurt the older generations? This will obviously change person-to-person, as some people consume more new media than others, but there has got to be similar slang to things such as ‘skibidi’ for older audiences. We searched long and hard across old 2016 youtube, old minecraft lucky block challenges and cringe undertale song remixes to find words that are almost-sort-of-not-really-confirmed to hurt year 11, 12 and older.

First on our list is ‘derp’. Reading this word is known to kill a portion of the older of the senior high school generations. This word was synonymous with early internet slang like terms like ‘MLG’ - major league gaming for some obscure reason, ‘360’ another gaming term for spinning a character all the way around before scoring and the illuminati triangle, a hellspawn of earlier internet conspiracy and everyone thinking it was cool and edgy. Somehow. Most attached to ‘derp’ was a strange emoji-like face, mocking you through the screen with a vile smugness only paralleled with how cringe it seems now.

Furthermore we found for a different group of older generations -specifically those who consumed the media from the subgenre of ‘let’s play’ youtube. A genre designed around long form media and watching an influencer react to or play a videogame. The genre was popular due to its chill nature, but in retrospective it really was just a cheap way to experience a game without buying it yourself and had minimal editing involved to keep the videos cheap to produce. Though that’s just a theory. A Ubique theory. The word itself? You could say it’s pretty great. Maybe even the greatest of all time. To be “goated” is to be the best, yet due to its overuse this word is now seen as low quality and only kept to use in satire or irony.

Finally we have the strongest word out of all of these for verbal murder: and brace yourself, it hurts.

“dab”

By even uttering this word for some we remind those of the awful dances they did in the age of Vine, the other more minor cringe words they used like ‘yeet’ - to throw - and ‘finna’ have been summoned from memory. The word itself refers to a certain dance move that some of us did. An image is below to illustrate but be warned - it may hurt some to view.

So now we conclude our quest. We have reached the ultimate cringe (and probably killed a fifth of our readers along the way with it). Why did we do this? No idea. But we hope you had as much pain reading this article as we did writing it.

Adios.