“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
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
L boomer meme
Slangs in 90: shows perfectly normal stuff
Slang in 2026: shows 2 slurs and 1 insult
We are def not biased huh
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 humanoid” is just 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.
“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
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.
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.
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.
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 practice round for 2016 Trump.
I said something about that already: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/26760359
so it went from cool words to mostly stupid words and hate speech?
plus isnt have of the slang in 2026 part mostly used on 4chan or by most 4chan usersI 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
Bodacious!
Tubular
Righteous
Cowabunga!
Phat
Boss
Far out, dude!
You’re swell
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!
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.
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
Excuse me, but where is “cool beans?”
Ikr? So lame!
I’m not sorry for slangmaxxing
I think I might officially be old now. I don’t know what the bottom left two are and I have no desire to google them.
NGL I like “-maxxing” because of how versatile it is.
“Whatever” is hardly slang, however.
It’s the way you said that is representative of the generation. It was “what-everrrrr.” Nobody says it like that nowadays.
Whatevs
You should be slangmaxxing
MaxxMAXXING
I read this as Marxmaxxing lmao
It’s what TJ does
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
