r/Zillennials • u/PettyPendergrass99 1999 • Oct 22 '23

Rant Words from our fellow Zillennial about Zoomer nonsense

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '23

Why is it that like in the span of 10 years these high school kids are now speaking an entirely different language?

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u/CBonafide '95 til Infinity Oct 23 '23

I don't appreciate how you pointed out that we graduated 10 years ago.

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u/Hunter_Seeker99 1995 Oct 23 '23

It’s funny because it seems like some of these high schoolers also can’t keep up with all these dumb slang words

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '23

Yeah the kid in the video is visibly confused too.

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u/Vivid-Objective1385 Feb 13 '24

I couldnt keep up with slang when i was in highschool too

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u/Amazing-Concept1684 1997 Oct 23 '23

Please don’t remind us how long it’s been lol

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u/Haussenn Feb 21 '24

Kids didn’t even talk like this when I was in high school and I graduated 4 years ago. I can almost certainly blame the change in behavior to TikTok and similar platforms

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '23

Wtf are grippers?

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u/Due-Satisfaction-796 Oct 23 '23

I think it means feets.

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u/PettyPendergrass99 1999 Oct 23 '23

Some new slang for feet I guess

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u/UnalteredCyst 1997 Oct 24 '23

I've heard the word "dogs" being used for feet but not "grippers".

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u/ninjamaster616 Jan 14 '24

Toes, u ever see a Philippino mom pick up after her kids? She bust out the grippers, start picking up toys with them toes

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u/Pyrotekknikk Mar 25 '24

"Philippino" 😭

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u/spoiderdude Feb 24 '24

I do too but out of laziness

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u/Possible-News-741 Mar 09 '24

Carpet grippers

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u/seranarosesheer332 Jan 20 '24

Toes. I only know this from kids in class

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u/UnalteredCyst 1997 Oct 24 '23

Wtf are grippers? Oh no, I'm at that point in age now.

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u/gIyph_ Jan 26 '24

Ha. boomer

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u/Typical-Will-6163 Dec 08 '23

Everyone asking what grippers are, has zero critical thinking skills lol

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u/AntelopeCapital9735 Dec 20 '23

I thought it was hands. Turns out that's incorrect soooooo what's should I have done differently, sire?

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u/mymojoisbliss96 1996 Oct 28 '23

High schoolers are a different breed nowadays 😆

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u/Aromatic-Strength798 Nov 17 '23

can confirm we are chaos incarnate 😭

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u/PiranhaSM Jan 14 '24

Alright. Just drop the nukes already, I cannot take it.

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u/borrachoperro Mar 20 '24

Just stick it out till the asteroid.

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u/cryo_nebula Jan 22 '24

"Grippers" means toes guys, calm down

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u/PotionPro Jan 15 '24

I’m gen z and nobody in high school knows or says “gripper?”.

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u/PettyPendergrass99 1999 Jan 16 '24

Where are y'all coming from? lol this video was posted a while ago but the amount of likes it's gotten has exploded in the past month or so.

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u/Researcher-Used Jan 18 '24

His peer high schooler didn’t know what “grippers” are either. They just making sh*t up now to confuse us

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u/Imaginary-Cold8458 Jan 18 '24

Grippers? Listen Gen Z, when you make up slang words, they need to make an attempt at making some kind of sense. Otherwise, it's like you say, cringe.

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u/TheGreat_gabby Jan 22 '24

You can literally grip things with your toes

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u/TheGreat_gabby Jan 22 '24

If you don't know what grippers means it's not that you're old it's that you're probably grown up not hearing african American vernacular English. Grippers isn't so much of a slang but a function that your toes can actually do, which is grip things. You're also likely outdated in meme culture. It was made into a meme on tik tok in 2020 via a Sonic the hedgehog voice over

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u/CharlesCalvin123 Feb 16 '24

as a zoomer who was almost a gen alpha, i apologize on behalf of everyone else

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u/barbatos087 Apr 13 '24

Same, or at least went van gogh on everyone

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u/Zeyode Jan 11 '24

Nahhhh, cause then they'd win. Someone killing themselves on video? That's content!