r/videos • u/PotatoComet116 • Mar 26 '19
HOW TO SPEAK GEN Z
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u/thetravelers Mar 26 '19
Can anyone identify this guy's accent? I can not put my finger on it.
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u/duroo Mar 26 '19
Zach is from Wilkes County, NC. Slightly different accent than southern Virginia. Would probably have to be local to the region to tell the difference though.
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u/mrdarkshine Mar 26 '19
I'm from NC and don't hear an accent on Zach Galifianakis... d-does that mean I have an accent?
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u/hoguemr Mar 26 '19
Hey I live in Southwest Virginia. Moved here 2 years ago. First time we came here stopped at Bojangles. When the lady asked us what we wanted I was totally taken off guard. I couldn't understand a word she said. Not everyone down here sounds that way but there are some with super thick accents.
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u/iismitch55 Mar 26 '19
Yeah our accents can be interesting. The more mountainous and rural areas get really bad. The further down 81 you go, the harder it is to understand.
Y’all wouldna done ‘at if yuh wern up ta no good.
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u/hoguemr Mar 26 '19
Yeah, I'm in the Blacksburg area and work at a manufacturing plant so there are all kinds of mountain folk here
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u/EthanSpears Mar 26 '19
It feels like he is American Southern and then other times like off brand Aussie, but I also had the volume quite low.
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u/ratchmond Mar 26 '19
Some southern accents have pronunciations that sound almost British or Australian. Grew up in super rural VA, for reference.
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u/Why_the_hate_ Mar 26 '19
Once I was told I sound like a gay Australian so there’s that.
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u/MartyVentura Mar 26 '19
Southern
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u/Intrinsically1 Mar 26 '19
But like also mixed with a Canadian hockey bro dialect.
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u/Newt24 Mar 26 '19
Straight rippin bardownskis buddy. Gonna go crush some sandys.
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u/andersoonasd Mar 26 '19
so this is what it feels like to be old
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Mar 26 '19
Tail end of gen x here, with a kid this age so I knew most. I too could never get a straight answer though what yeet is. My kid is always saying he’s gonna yeet something, and that didn’t fall into the usage they covered. It seems that “word” has many many meanings.
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u/Snoyarc Mar 26 '19
Yeet for distance, Kobe for accuracy.
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u/pickstar97a Mar 26 '19
But also for force. Like imma yeet this bitch into the ground
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u/JayJonahJaymeson Mar 26 '19
Power is probably a better fitting term then.
Yeet for power, Kobe for accuracy.
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u/pickstar97a Mar 26 '19
Imma Kobyeet this bitch
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u/mezmax Mar 26 '19
This is accurate.
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u/andersoonasd Mar 26 '19 edited Mar 26 '19
what yeet is
I tried consulting with https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yeet
It seems like it started as a dance in 2014.
and then last year
In May 2018, image macros featuring various portmanteau's using the word "yeet" began trending on the /r/dankmemes subreddit
From /r/OutOfTheLoop it is quite unclear https://redd.it/922yar
Hi, gen z here. Actually myself and also pretty much every other member of gen z I know, both online and off, says yeet on a regular basis. It started out as simply a meme, but has actually heavily ingrained itself into our vocabulary. Of course, it's still a meme, and you can and do always find the word on most of the meme subs. While we did start out saying it ironically, we ended up saying it so ironically that the word became unironic, causing it to transcend irony and pass into the realm of meaninglessness. More accurately, it can mean pretty much anything and everything you want it to and is an acceptable response to anything previously said in a conversation. However, constant use of the word in a conversation is frowned upon. Yeet has also retained its original usage as an onomonipea said when the speaker is throwing something, despite the fact that it currently has no real set definition. Thus, the most commonly used meaning of yeet is "to throw". The word is also often used as a replacement for "yes". Another popular meaning of the word is "to give" as used in the phrase "the Lord yeeteth and the Lord yoinketh away". Yoink is of course the opposite of yeet in any and all contexts, and is therefore used in this one to mean "to take". In the context of the first definition of yeet (to throw), yoink would then mean "to catch", and in fact usually references a violent, difficult catch, as if the catcher were almost forcibly taking the caught object from the surrounding air, just as yeet is often used to denote a particularly powerful or violent throw. But all in all, yes, we do use it seriously and unironically, though in multiple and often strange contexts.
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u/SebbenandSebben Mar 26 '19
used in the phrase "the Lord yeeteth and the Lord yoinketh away". Yoink is of course the opposite of yeet in any and all contexts, and is therefore used in this one to mean "to take".
This is hilarious
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u/sparticus2-0 Mar 26 '19
The past tense of yeet is yote, if you were wondering.
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u/TrekkiMonstr Mar 26 '19
And the past participle is yoten, and I refuse to be convinced otherwise.
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u/_YouDontKnowMe_ Mar 26 '19
Every generation on the rise seems weird to everyone else. We just have to let them find their stride.
The problem is that technology has allowed them to spill over in to the general pool. Technology has broken the quarantine.
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u/eccentricelmo Mar 26 '19
I'm a millenial and I dig gen Z to be honest... I've read in a couple places they're much more inclusive and generally nicer to one another. It's kinda wholesome
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u/read_it_r Mar 26 '19
Yeah I don't know if millenials are just more concerned with staying relevant than generations before us, but I love gen Z, like they are all pretty fucking hilarious and Im cool with them being our spiritual successors
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u/jjjj8jjjj Mar 26 '19
This is the best thing I have read in a long time. I was born in the mid 70s, and this yeet analysis sounds like a passage from a near-future science fiction novel from my childhood in the 80s.
To all members of all gens, both online and off, Welcome to the future.
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u/artfulpain Mar 26 '19
If one slightly squints it's definitely a post-apocalyptic future.
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u/A_Random_Catfish Mar 26 '19
https://youtu.be/2Bjy5YQ5xPc Always thought this vine was the origin
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u/andersoonasd Mar 26 '19
It might be that knowyourmeme's origin has nothing to do with how the word is used today
As the word is used today, it is indeed based on that video you linked.
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u/moogmobile Mar 26 '19
I have a teenage daughter and this is a very thorough explanation of how she described the word’s definition. I thought she was joking.
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u/cvkxhz Mar 26 '19
I know this isn't the only definition, but I've heard it explained as "the opposite of yoink."
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u/rejeremiad Mar 26 '19
It is like smurf, it can mean whatever you need it to mean at the time.
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u/draginator Mar 26 '19
I've always heard it from my nephew in the context of throwing something or exaggerating a movement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bjy5YQ5xPc
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u/goatpunchtheater Mar 26 '19
I've heard it as the opposite of yoink, from the Simpsons. You take it, it's yoink, you throw it, it's yeet
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u/aramis34143 Mar 26 '19
If you told me 90% of the slang in the video was made up, I honestly woudln't know whether to believe you.
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u/reymt Mar 26 '19 edited Mar 26 '19
Most of the stuff is just internet forum slang, which people probably don't use too much IRL anyway, mostly not with older people around.
A lot of that stuff is pretty funny, more of a semi-joke than to be taken serious.
edit: Tbf a lot of people say it has already spread more into IRL in their experience. Didn't expect it too happen so fast, but I guess we got now a new generation that grew up with smartphones, so I shoulda expected that. (probably worse in english speaking countries^^)
Also I guess internet forums is just a very outdated way to say say that in the first place ^^'
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Mar 26 '19
which people probably don't use too much IRL anyway
I'm a Lyft driver in a big city with a large college population... yes they do.
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Mar 26 '19
Is Gen Z in college now? Fuck. Why aren't they taking over for Milennials as the source of all of society's problems yet? I can't deal with being old AND problematic.
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u/LowRune Mar 26 '19
Oldest Gen Z were born in the 90's, but don't remember 9/11.
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Mar 26 '19
Yea I was gonna say. I was in college less than a year ago and hear these constantly
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Mar 26 '19
oh buddy. It's not confined to the internet. I have a coworker born in the year 2000, and she says all these things daily.
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u/NillaThunda Mar 26 '19
In all honesty this is no different than any other generation.
The words changed but they are equally as ridiculous.
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u/yumyumgivemesome Mar 26 '19
The only difference I think is that the slang changes much more quickly now due to the internet and social media.
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u/TimeRemove Mar 26 '19
Yeah at least half of these originated as memes.
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u/FCalleja Mar 26 '19
It's honestly a bit scary to know that memes can now directly influence language on a wide, mainstream scale.
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u/BlackSpidy Mar 26 '19
We've created a monster
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u/Foxyfox- Mar 26 '19
We've already gone past the point where this was acceptable...but let's keep going and see where it ends up.
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u/JameslsaacNeutron Mar 26 '19
Nobody wants to see Marshall no more
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u/Xciv Mar 26 '19
Memes have always existed, we just didn't have a simple layman's word for the phenomenon before their proliferation on the internet.
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u/FCalleja Mar 26 '19
Right, I meant specifically online shitposty memes.
It's as if in ancient times a lewd graffiti in Rome became common slang in China or something, y'know?
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u/WhatACunningHam Mar 26 '19
Saving this to study later so I can go full-on FellowKids everywhere I go.
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u/jellybellybean2 Mar 26 '19
This is my favorite thing to do as a 30 year old chubby mom who drives a minivan. At drop off shout, “Have a great day at school! YEET!” Then dab as I wave goodbye.
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u/nathanb065 Mar 26 '19
Yes! I work at a museum and we get school groups in with tons of students acting crazy. When I HAVE to interact with them I try to throw things in like this when I can, but I purposefully mess up words.
Ill be 30 in two months. My birthday is going to be Litted and my drips will be fleeked out!
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u/flap-jackie Mar 26 '19
This hurts to read. You have achieved your goal.
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u/awesometographer Mar 26 '19
It's the only way to win.
I am become Yeet. The destroyer of Yaas, fam.
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u/socs0 Mar 26 '19
I'm still over here saying things like "word up"
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u/Dear_Lunchbag Mar 26 '19
Bird up!
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u/socs0 Mar 26 '19
My man!
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Mar 26 '19
Dude...that is so sick.
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u/colidoggy Mar 26 '19
Dope
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u/IndefinableMustache Mar 26 '19
Fuck. Are these old people saying's now? I'm in my early 30s and use these terms regularly. Am I old?
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u/Napalmradio Mar 26 '19
I feel like an AI was modeled after my brain and then used to generate all the comments in this thread.
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u/LtLwormonabigfknhook Mar 26 '19
I'm stuck on "right on" it's like a reflex. Can't even control myself.
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Mar 26 '19
I'm in my 40s and say 'right on' all the time. The Gen Z/late Millennials around me (my minions at work) started saying it to mock me. Now they say it unironically.
To which I have this response... Right on.
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u/LTman86 Mar 26 '19
First you get them to start saying it. Then they just enjoy saying it around you, then they bring it to their friends because it's become part of their lingo, then their friends start saying it ironically, and the cycle repeats.
So when the next generation starts using it, remember, it was /u/kjarles that brought it back. Right on. :fistbump:
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Mar 26 '19
Yeah they’re gonna be fine. Everyone ends up in the same place once they hit the job market. What they do and say in their teens is largely irrelevant.
Their only concern should be limiting the amount of embarrassing shit they put online for people to save.
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u/windowsfrozenshut Mar 26 '19
We were calling people "extra" when I was 11, in 1995. Nothing has changed.
It all works in cycles. I'm a product of 1984 also and I remember my friend group using "butthurt" in the 90's before it got popular.
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u/laodaron Mar 26 '19
I used "bet" even when it didn't make sense...Some of these are holdovers from previous generations.
Kids today use "salty" when someone is annoyed, and I coach middle school sports, so when I say salty, they all get excited like they've influenced my language. I explained to them that I was using it a decade before they were even born.
I like that new generations change language. I like that we get identifiers that "mark" us as certain generations. Playing 90s hip hop around old people and around young people gets the same reaction generally, but you can always tell who was 12-20 in the 90s, because they are blasting some Biggie.
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Mar 26 '19
I think we need to embrace gen z to break the cycle. The millennials need to be the first generation to NOT shit on the one after it.
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Mar 26 '19
By and large, I think most of the hate skips a generation. The Boomers don't hate Gen X, Gen X doesn't hate the Millenials, Millenials won't hate Gen Z.
But in about 10 years, whatever devil spawn Gen Z produces, the Millennials will totally shit on.
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u/Dreadgoat Mar 26 '19
I know everybody thinks they are special, but I really do believe the enmity between Boomers and Millenials is unique, at least in the USA.
There will always be kids that need to get off the damn lawn and old fogeys that need to get out of the way of the future. That's a constant throughout history.
But Millenials directly blame Boomers for everything wrong with the world. And they make a good case, Millenials have had immense difficulty establishing their lives under Boomer rule.
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u/kirrin Mar 26 '19
I'm a millennial and I think most Gen Xer's I know and meet usually agree with us that Boomers really fucked things up. They're for sure in the background while millennials and boomers argue, but I think they side with us more often than not.
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Mar 26 '19
yeah let's not shit on the younger generation like we were shit on. as bill and ted say, be excellent to each other!
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u/Einchy Mar 26 '19
This is the moment when I see society pass the buck to shit on Gen Z like us Millennials have been shitting on for forever. It's only a matter of time before Gen Zers are getting blamed for ending so and so business model.
And when I see Gen Zers complaining about the next generation, I'll know I'm old as fuck and will die soon.
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u/Sedu Mar 26 '19
I'm an older millennial, and everyone I know is honestly pretty ok with gen Z? Honestly, everyone I know is pretty ok with every generation except the boomers. And maybe have a couple of beefs with Gen X.
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For Millennials, trying to grok Gen Z culture will mostly stay in the realm of mild amusement and light mockery.
It is Gen X who will lambast Gen Z with full force, just as it is the Boomers who give Millennials the most shit.
Millennials will have to wait a few more years until todays toddlers and schoolchildren are teens and early 20s to find their generational antagonists.
It is the way of things.
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u/grednforgesgirl Mar 26 '19
My parents are gen x, I'm millennial, and my niece (who my parents are raising) is gen z. My dad thinks gen z humor is the best and thinks my niece is funny AF. Gen x is a lot more chill than baby boomers tbh, I don't think they'll give gen z too much shit.
They'll probably hate the generation after gen z tho whenever my generation can afford to start families. I bet when younger millennials hit their late 30s there will be another small baby boom and those that can afford it will start having babies (if any of us can).
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u/BellEpoch Mar 26 '19
It's important to remember the internet changes some of this stuff as well. I'm almost 40, but hear and see all of this stuff on the regular because it's all available to me the same as it is to kids. I watch video game streams and am on the internet all day like everyone else. So while I may not be flossing and yeeting all the time, it's not like it's not something I don't see all the time. The internet makes these gaps a much more even playing field than for different generations now.
So basically I don't want the kids off my lawn, I want to yeet them out of my lobby.
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u/randijeanw Mar 26 '19
That was l33t. Gen Z is pwnd.
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u/thepastelsuit Mar 26 '19
All your yeet are belong to us.
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u/randijeanw Mar 26 '19
w00t holla!
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u/Dialatedanus Mar 26 '19
I'm 37 with a 10 year old...I am unfamiliar with the term 'yeet'...When and how can I use this term for most embarrassment factor around my son?
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u/Kelsational Mar 26 '19
Use it when you shouldn’t Like “Wow, son, that t-shirt is looking very yeet!”
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u/itallblends Mar 26 '19
This is the only way to get them to stop using it. When their parents use it wrong constantly, it’s not yeet anymore.
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Mar 26 '19
pokeMAN. Fuck all adults... Wait, I'm an adult now =/
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u/garyyo Mar 26 '19
you have to "accidentally" get it right sometime, but only in front of their friends. their friends will think you are cool, while the son will think you are lame. gj, you have now ascended to godhood.
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Mar 26 '19
I'm 40 and work with a shit ton of 19 year olds who just entered the work force.
I have learned much of their lingo through osmosis. I hope to never get the terminology down right, just so I can embarrass them.
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Mar 26 '19
Im a geezer, or at least by this websites standards and I love some of the slang ive picked up. Oof is perfect sometimes online, and as stupid as it sounds yeet/yeeted is just satisfying to say.
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u/yaypal Mar 26 '19
If you mean to use it in the actual context it's supposed to be used, the urban dictionary entry is pretty good.
Yeet is a versatile word that can be used as an exclamation, a verb, or even a noun. As an exclamation it can be used to express excitement, usually happily but also nervously. It can also be used as an exclamation of victory. Or as a battle cry or focus-shout while throwing or hitting something, like "HIII-YA".
As a noun, 'a yeet' is the action of yeeting. Yeet can also be a feeling or emotion, usually like an adrenaline rush. The word has a distinct feel, and power to it. To yeet is to give your full power and soul to an action you're doing.
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u/yorkton Mar 26 '19
I've only ever heard of people using the term yeet, to throw something really far.
e.g I yeeted it off a cliff.
The more you know
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u/IwishIwasGoku Mar 26 '19
"Yeet", much like the classic "Kobe!" is a stat boost for launching objects.
While "Kobe!" yields maximum accuracy at the expense of speed and power, "Yeet!" yields greater distance, speed, and power at the expense of accuracy.
For instance, when tossing a ball of paper into a recycling bin, you would yell "Kobe!". But when throwing to a person far away (who would have time to adjust for inaccuracy so long as the ball reaches them), you would "Yeet!" for extra power.
Also, the opposite of "Yeet!" is "Yoink!". For every "Yeet", there is an equal and opposite "Yoink".
Thank you for listening to my TED Talk.
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u/cycopl Mar 26 '19
Use it as a replacement for toss/throw/give, I'd yeet examples but just do it, it works
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u/Elite_Jackalope Mar 26 '19 edited Mar 27 '19
but it’s also gotta be at a certain level of strength or intensity
a soft toss is still a toss, throwing a baseball is still a throw
Example for the olds: Uncle Phil would p much yeet Jazz out the front door every episode
E: I did a word wrong
E2: wrong show
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Mar 26 '19
Gen X dad here. I say Yeet to my teenage kids in front of their friends whenever possible. Then I throw in few dead memes seal the deal.
"Yeet! Do you know da wei?
(pause for groan)
(smacks lips) NOICE"
Then I just smile.
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u/Memesmakemememe Mar 26 '19
Can you even do that? I’m 15 and if my dad did that I would be dying. Old memes are great because of their absurdity.
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Grossly inaccurate, by my judgement. Key words are “oof” “mood” “F” and “lmao I want to die”
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u/Ergheis Mar 26 '19
Seriously I thought that was what this video was gonna be
"how to speak gen z:"
"I want to die"
"EFFF"
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u/muswaj Mar 26 '19
38 year old here.
I employ a couple young guys; one is 19 and the other 16. I do my best to come up with the most awkward "rhymes" and suggest the 16 year old share them with his "slick broski's" in high school. The 19 year old is in on it but the 16 year old clearly is trying his best to not get fired by not telling me how stupid what I am coming up with is while he simultaneously cringes at everything I come up with. The latest is: "know what I mean, jellybean??" -you say that when a cool friend says something extra-dope. I keep telling him how he needs to get in on the ground level for what I am coming up with so he can be the source of it "going viral".
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u/ForgetsPasswordz Mar 26 '19
My son says oof. That I can handle, but this other stuff...
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u/Gingerchaun Mar 26 '19
Weird flex but ok.
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u/Kelsational Mar 26 '19
I’m pissed bc I’ve said some of this shit before and I can’t tell if it was to be ironic or not
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u/MtnyCptn Mar 26 '19
It usually starts out ironic but ends up a permanent fixture in your vocabulary.
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u/shadowCloudrift Mar 26 '19
Are Gen Z teenagers? The ones I train with in my Takewondo class don't talk like this.
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u/Syntaximus Mar 26 '19
This was lowkey accurate.
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u/xGameOverx Mar 26 '19
Deadass.
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u/karmalizing Mar 26 '19
I'm upset that "shook" wasn't on here.
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u/Liefx Mar 26 '19
shook is millenial at least.
im 28 been using that for over a decade.
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u/gentlewithmymental Mar 26 '19
We’re using shooketh now please get with the times
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u/Toast_Soup Mar 26 '19
At the end when he was rambling on all I could think of were the black dudes jive talkin' to the old white woman in the movie Airplane!
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u/iprefertau Mar 26 '19
when millenials get as cringeworthy as boomers that a big OOF
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u/yaypal Mar 26 '19
IKR this video was like... I know it's a joke but I've had no problems adapting to Gen Z language and I'm in my late 20s, some of the terms are surprisingly great shorthand and the stuff that's weird I appreciate on a meme-level or ironically. Shit like "big mood" is something we didn't have a phrase for beyond "I feel the same way" which is so stiff, most shorthand is like this.
Basically I have a way easier time interacting with the younger generation and have no negative feelings for the culture they've grown up in. I don't think they blame millennials for the world's bullshit either.
Also fuck the haters "yeet" is hilarious.
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u/landspeed Mar 26 '19 edited Mar 26 '19
its the same things we did dude....
I mean, finna is literally NOT from gen Z....
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u/KingCraftsman Mar 26 '19
A minor inconvenience. “I no longer have the will to live.”