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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I have appropriated “sus” and “yeet” and sometimes “gucci”…I think those don’t even come from the same gens of slang, but they feel right in a sentence. Especially yeet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeet and Gucci are early zoomer at best, mostly later millenial terms as they became popular closer to 2015 than 2020

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

They're definitely zoomer, MAYBE late millennial

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Once you consider that "yeet" is the opposite of "yoink", it really seems like it's actually a millennial word. Though interestingly, my spell check considers "yeet" correct but not "yoink"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I always did the bird Caa Caaw instead of yoink.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure my friends and I have incorrectly appropriated yeet. We'll use it in the normal way but we'll also say yeet like sweet or hell yeah. We're all upper 20s now so it feels rather hilarious.