Do people actually speak this way now…it sounds dumb…lol
I just cant believe it…
Okay, okay… Read this if you want, or don’t, lol.
The whole “brainrot” thing is birthed from a few factors, at least in my mind.
To start, Gen Z humor is very senseless. The more ridiculous it is, the funnier, generally. Some content creators made stuff that would usually just be laughed at for about a month and then die off, but due to the sheer scale and rising popularity of this “brainrot” content, platforms like YouTube and TikTok’s algorithm pushed it more and more.
Because the young audiences tend to just love whatever’s put in front of them, the popularity EXPLODED… But only briefly. Because of this brief popularity boom in the younger (Gen Alpha) audiences, YouTube’s algorithm pushed it more into different audiences, who somewhat rejected it or found it really dumb. Which it is. Other creators merged it with the popular “Sigma male” and “God Tier Rizz” memes/what-ever-the-fuck-you-name-it to try and get more popularity, especially from the younger kids, and it worked? I guess so… This prompted other creators to mock this content or the Gen Alpha Kids who actually viewed it, which actually just ended up pushing it more and more because there was so much content related to it, and nowadays it’s just a massive… Thing… Everybody’s heard it at least once, and it’s hard to forget because of how STUPID it is.
Anyway, I’m probably wrong on a lot of points.
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Oh so its being used sarcastically…
Hmm…
Very meatspin.
And i mean that in an existential sarcastic sense of irony
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kinda like what mecha_twitchy said, but i’ve been hearing people spanning teenagers to 20 year olds using brainrot slang like "aura’, “ohio” and other tiktok brainrot words i don’t understand at all since i never go on social media.
I kinda think that it looped from serious, to ironic, to serious again.
I personally say that type of stuff to see others reactions and laugh. But that’s pretty much it.
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Please, you can just call me Mecha 
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MC Skibadee has left us way too early, RIP…
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These might help:
don’t tell me he really just linked know your meme links for brainrot
this thread is a lost cause
Honestly I think that’s accurate. If you’re a gen Z’er yourself, you’ve got a good sense for the weirdness that social media has become lately.
I remember about 10-15 years ago, people were referring to that style of humor as ‘anti-jokes’ because they typically had no punchline and hardly ever made any sense. Kind of like a bait and switch where the audience is left not laughing, or just puzzled by the non-joke. In small doses it was kind of funny and absurdist, but sometimes when nihilism and absurdity becomes front-row and center, you have to ask what the hell we’re doing as a society. Is that what we prefer?
Honestly, most of it looks like a mixture of baby-talk, AI-generated nothingness and some kind of weird nihilist manifesto. There’s nothing to decipher when the message is just gibberish underneath, and I’m beginning to think that’s exactly what it is.
I don’t mean to sound like a christian or a hippie, but I kind of worry about a world that doesn’t understand the difference between an AI hallucination and reality, and I think we’re on the verge of it.
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Yeah, I feel like a lot of Gen-Z humor is the equivalent of drunken babbling. There’s no real meaning, it’s kinda just stupidity and that’s what makes it fun.
I like gen-z humor (seems obvious considering I’m a zoomer myself) but it’s not because of how stupid or brainrot it is, it’s just because you can be a goofball and other people relate.
I don’t (think that I) seem like an immature idiot when posting and writing replies to threads etc. but if you get to know me first-person, I am a bit silly sometimes… Actually, I’m very hard to decipher, I guess.
I don’t like gen-alpha humor (which is what this post is about) because it’s so repetitive and senseless, like looping filtered noise (to put it into music terms 
)
Gen-Z is true noise humor, at least. Still no punchlines, but hey, everything is changing.
Still going on, the difference between Millennials, Zoomers, and Gen Alpha:
Millennials: Nothing in life matters… 
Zoomers: NOTHING IN LIFE MATTERS LMFAO 
Gen Alpha: Life is so Skibidi on god MASSIVE rizz bro..!
Y’see, Zoomers are 99% retard and 1% pure undying neutron star. Gen Alpha..? They still have to grow up first.
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Yo that sigma nocap bruv
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ong ong she skibidi on my toilet till I rizz
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Fo shizzle bruv rizzed up till it was fire…the skibidi all over the toilet nocap…pure sigma.
That rizz is complete fire…
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Jk…
I feel like there is little hope for the generations after gen x…because gen x will be the last generation to know what life was like before social media and the internet.
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I think a lot of gen-z onward, (and this will be my last post in this thread before moving it to TOTT) treat the internet as a secondary way to socialize rather than a tool. And I know that’s a bit of a “pot calling the kettle black” situation considering I’m literally using social media typing this, but they just lack the social skills previous generations have.
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Carly simon predicted social media broken behavior…with her song your so vain you think that this song is about you…
In other words i agree plus i added some sales tax if thats ok.
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That puts it exactly. I say stupid brainrot around my friends to mess with them and its as mindless as consuming it. Really feels like i’m wasting oxygen but if i get a good reaction its fine.
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