“The slang I grew up with makes logical sense. Whatever those kids are saying is just random nonsense.” -Every old fogey since the development of language
So basically 2026 slang is 2012 4Chan slang and is accurately reflected.
If it’s from 4chan it’s not slang because they don’t go out
Slangs in 90: shows perfectly normal stuff
Slang in 2026: shows 2 slurs and 1 insult
We are def not biased huh
L boomer meme
Look, Gen Z has some stinkers (“that’s fire,” sucks, and that’s coming from the generation that gave you, “hella,”), but their use of Chud is spectacular. A perfect encapsulation of every grubby, right-wing freak from incels to groypers. A near perfect onomatopoeia.
chud has been around a long time
Yeah, but that doesn’t mean it was used regularly as slang, or that it carried the same connotations. “Lowkey,” has been around for ages, but it wasn’t slang until the late 90s, and it isn’t even used the same way. (“Keep it lowkey,” vs., “that was lowkey brilliant.”)
I feel like it was though. Chode was maybe more common, but chud was used too. The movie followed the name afterall, not the other way around.
Your example for lowkey is using it as an adverb as opposed to an adjective. A chud has always been a noun.
It doesn’t however, offset the sin that is “foid,” calling women “female humanoids” in casual speach is dehumanizing as fuck.
But only chuds do that. We’re not listing 90s slurs up there either.
Yeah, the casual way, “f*g,” was used, even into the early 2000s, is pretty shocking in hindsight.
chud’s always been a descriptor for racist dickbags
I’m sorry, but it really wasn’t:
The term originates from the 1984 movie C.H.U.D. In the film, the acronym refers to a group of humanoid, flesh-eating monsters that were once humans, but mutated due to radioactive waste. While the word may have started pejorative use in 2003 to describe any repulsive person, its usage shifted as it became popular in the 2020s on sites such as Twitter and Reddit, after the podcast Chapo Trap House frequently used it to describe those who are ignorant or far-right. Source
am familiar with the movie, saw it in the theaters lol. people started calling racist dickbags chuds soon after.
What, you don’t get the resemblance?
lol. cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers
“Chud” went from “terminally online right-wing freak” to “fatass”/“overeater”.
Oh, I haven’t heard it used that was. I still see it used pretty much exclusively to mean, “right-wing dumb-ass,” but sometimes more broadly as, “online dumb-ass.”
Personally I’ve only just started seeing it used that way on telegram within the last month, seems to be a recent thing.
I mean, if it’s Telegram, then it’s probably a bunch of chuds trying to shift the meaning of, “chud,” because they’re tired of being called chuds.
Honestly my vibe as well
I think I might officially be old now. I don’t know what the bottom left two are and I have no desire to google them.
Oh no, kids today speak as differently to us as we did to prior generations, how cringe!
Let’s go, there’s a Gammelfleischparty at the club tonight.
Chud is super old, the movie C.H.U.D. (Carnivorous Humanoid Underground Dwellers) came out in 1984 and has been used ever since. It’s funny that it’s most popular now, but it’s as old as the others
I’m not sorry for slangmaxxing
I think an even older generation would ut their slang in the strong soyjack section and would put yours in the stupid soyjack section.
I still say “groovy”, “hella”, and “dank”.
Wicked
Gnarly
Cool beans.
Slick
Golly!
23-skiddoo, kid
Far out, dude!
You’re swell
Bodacious!
Tubular
Righteous
Cowabunga!
Phat
Boss
The only time I still mention Groovy is when I directly afterwards mention that I like Kotlin better.
Funk and funky are still in my vocabulary.
“groovy” was already only used ironically back in the day, having much the same connotations as referring to Nirvana as a “beat combo”
As someone who grew up in the 60s and 70s, i can assure you that groovy was not used ironically back in the day. Ya dig?
I am the only person I know who uses groovy unironically other than my aunt.
no, there’s also me.
You’re a stone gas, cat.
How skibidi of you
Applesauce! This post isn’t the bee’s knees! I’m going to a blind pig to chug some giggle water to forget it!
so it went from cool words to mostly stupid words and hate speech?
plus isnt have of the slang in 2026 part mostly used on 4chan or by most 4chan usersThese days a lot of slang follows some kind of cookie cutter format. Redpill/blackpill, coomer/zoomer, X-oid, X-maxxing, etc. If it doesn’t meet some threshold of social media viability then it’s not getting adopted.
unwilling to look it up, i’m going to assume foid is a shortened form of freakazoid
Unfortunately, no. “Foid” is short for “Femoid”, which is what incels call women :/
You “:/” but I actually love it. It’s a super obvious and instantly readable red flag that someone is a completely useless waste of space who’s thoughts and opinions can be completely disregarded.
Foid is one of the best words incels have ever created.
Wasn’t femoid already an obvious red flag? I don’t think I’ve ever heard that word used in any other context
I mean, yeah, applies to either one.
If only
Excuse me, but where is “cool beans?”
Ikr? So lame!
Gnarly!
Bodatious!
Tubular!
