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The kids' new slang is fucking stupid. My son last night was excited about his skills in the game he was playing and told me he was " cracked " ... cracked?
Man, like, I know we used " bad " to mean good, but come on. Cracked? Cracked is a crazy person. Cracked is how we pirated computer games. Cracked is your engine block after you poured cold water in an overheated car.
This is even stupider than " crashing out " meaning you threw a temper tantrum instead of falling asleep after an up all night acid trip.
I fucking hate it.
I swear gen-z just doesn't know what certain things mean so they just make up a meaning on the fly.
It's like they speak AI hallucination.
Bro you're cooked.
So is crack
Actually I just remembered that, even some 20 years ago (possibly more) in France, we used to describe OP characters in videogames as "craqués", which could mean "broken" or "cracked", so I was not weirded out by this one, as the meaning is similar enough.
I wonder how "cracked" came to be and whether this is one of the only contemporary instance where some French slang may have influenced the English one somehow? Probably just a coincidence.
Yeah it's been around for a while. I think op just isn't a gamer.
Back in my day when we were leet and pwned noobs, it was gg.
Eh, slang was always dumb and obscure. That's the point, isn't it?
Yes, but really no. IDK. I'm not claiming to be right, just giving my opinions.
Edit: I was his age in the 80s.
One day as I was leaving for work, my penultimate daughter said "mom, that fit shreds" and I was like, excuse me, WHAT did you call me?
"Your clothes are great!"
My outfit, it shreds. Apparently.
I don't hate it but don't remember being very slangy as a teenager.
Shreds is what Kerry King does on the guitar.
But "shreds" literally means clothes.
The obvious solution is to coopt their language to make them hate it.
I have adopted the ones I like, but still just can't help being irked by others. Cracked meaning being good at something just sent me. Yeet, cooked, riz are fine. They make sense. I made him hate gyat with his mother's help already. It's hard to use the ones I hate though.
Lemme axe you why you rizzed bruh or you cooked i cant even thirsty
It was giving smoothbrain so I yote him out the room. Frgr ong. I think I gave myself a headache.
Yeeted
Yote
Slang is just new vocabulary, language evolves and what's good stays. It's common in video game slang to say some mechanic or a playable character is "broken" so saying cracked instead is a playful way to use a synonym. I say let him cook.
Crack is also used in weird ways, some of which could crack you or crack you up.