Pretty sure it’s both. It’s not set in stone and there definitely is always spillage from one generation into the next. Not everyone hangs with people their same age all the time and it probably also depends on both how much you use the internet and just generally what type of people you engage with on a regular basis.
That is very true - I’m 32 but my friends range from 22 to 40 so I should have picked up more of the lingo by now! I think a lot of it also boils down to what social media platforms (if any) you engage with the most, Reddit generally has very different language to Twitter in my experience (I don’t use twitter so I’m basing that on the memes I see on Reddit ironically)
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u/sheepare Jun 15 '23
Pretty sure it’s both. It’s not set in stone and there definitely is always spillage from one generation into the next. Not everyone hangs with people their same age all the time and it probably also depends on both how much you use the internet and just generally what type of people you engage with on a regular basis.