>be me
>scrolling TikTok to study the enemy
>kid says “skibidi gyatt sigma rizz maxxing”
>another replies “ong bro is fanum coded”
>realize I understood none of it
>felt like reading demonic runes
>zoomers literally speak in glyphs now
>try to respond with logic
>”nah unc got no riz and he projecting”
>dig deeper
>realize this isn’t slang
>it’s a full-blown linguistic insurgency
>syntax is eroding, grammar is melting
>words mean five things depending on facial expression and camera angle
>this is how civilizations collapse
>Boomers think it’s just TikTok
but this is fourth-gen memetic warfare
>language itself is being dismantled and rebuilt in real-time
>by 14-year-olds in Minecraft servers
>”rizzler skibidi’d too hard, had to hit the fanum tax or it’s GGs ong fr”
>if you see the blue grinch, you know what’s tomorrow? knee surgery… for some reason
We’re not just watching the birth of a dialect — we’re watching English die from the inside out
Is this what Latin felt when the peasants started mumbling French?
In 20 years, “normal” English speakers will be treated like Latin priests — respected, but utterly irrelevant
Honestly, kinda based
but also terrifying. Like watching a cute puppy slowly become a Lovecraftian horror.
I’m not saying it’s a language yet…but
This might actually stick.
Right now it’s a full blown sociolect. God help us if thing achieves grammar.
What happens when the kids who speak brainrot start running companies?
Is HR gonna send memos that say “CEO caught lacking. Fanum tax incoming”?
Boomers are seriously freaking out. They think they’re being disrespected. They don’t realize kids now have a tribal language, with its own syntax, lexicon, cultural references, evolving in real time. In a way it strips them of a lot of power.
We are witnessing a linguistic transmutation and nobody can stop it. So Gen X, Millenials — where do we stand?
