Out with the old — in with the new.
Gen Zer Liv Kaplan, who goes by @livkaplan on TikTok, educated her followers with a lesson about slang terms that are in versus out — with help from her “Gen Alpha little sister.”
On Jan. 3, the New Yorker posted a 3-minute clip, which has logged more than 34 million views, featuring Liv with her three siblings as they reveal the once-popular terms that are no more.
Their younger Gen Alpha sister Brooklyn explained to them that they should opt out of certain slang words if they don’t want to show their age.
Slang including “queen,” “slay,” “trendy” and “yas” are extremely outdated, according to the Gen Alpha teen.
“That was literally five months ago,” she stated in denouncing “slay,” then added: “It’s, like, cringey.”
Kaplan and her siblings continued to tick off phrases to Brooklyn, hoping their lingo was still considered, well, trendy. Unfortunately, Brooklyn’s responses deemed that Gen Z was out of touch regarding current lingo.
“What does that even mean?” Brooklyn asked her siblings.
They defined the slang term as having a similar meaning to cringe, which the Gen Alpha expert deemed was in.
The term “fam” often refers to close friends or “homies,” but Brooklyn only knew of the term to mean family.
She stated that people use “bro” instead of “fam.”
Many people once referred to “BFF” as “best friends forever,” but Gen Alpha no longer uses that abbreviation. Instead, they prefer “BSF,” which means “best friend.”
“BFF is not and BSF is in,” Kaplan declared.
Brooklyn clarified that her generation would confuse “BF” for boyfriend or best friend, so they added the “S” to differentiate between the two abbreviations.
A comment often seen under friends’ social media posts, “Pop off gir”l [and] ” or “go off” is considered a cringey observation, according to Gen Alpha.
Instead, Brooklyn suggests hyping your friends up with the phrase “You ate that.”
Bae, which means “before anyone else,” was a popular pet name many Gen Zers and Millenials used for their significant others.
However, Gen Alpha says that endearing term is a no-go.
“Bae is not in,” the lingo expert declared. “We just don’t do that.”
“A dime … Do guys call girls, like, ‘Oh my God, she’s a dime?'”
“No,” Brooklyn said.
The teen appeared very confused by the word, claiming she never heard of the slang term before.
Her shocked siblings explained its meaning, saying, “She’s a 10 out of 10 because a dime is 10 cents.”
“You actually never heard of that?” Kaplan’s other sister said. “That’s crazy.”
Another term Brooklyn was unfamiliar with was “phatty,” which she initially called “Patty.”
Kaplan described the term as “She got a phatty, like her a–,” alluding to someone with a larger butt.
The Gen Alpha teen declared that “Gyat” — which to some rhymes with “Fiat” and reportedly comes from “goddamn” or “GOT-damn” — is the new version of “phatty.”
In the end, none of the 12 phrases the Kaplan siblings asked about was considered relevant today, though, in a follow-up video posted on TikTok, Brooklyn had good news for her “fam.”
She disclosed that two terms used by Gen Z are still OK: “It’s giving,” which refers to a resemblance or comparison, and “cap,” which is about someone lying.