i have never heard the term “washed” to mean “old”
Will I be fed and cared for on this ranch or is it more like a concentration camp thing?
Yep!
Washed?
What does washed mean?
We got another one !!!
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“Washed” means to be played out, over the hill, past it. Uncool, no longer trendy, not part of the younger generation who are “with” it.
Not understanding the term “washed” therefore serves as proof that you are, in fact, washed.
“I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!”
Classic.
The irony of the Twitter handle at the bottom.
dont even try to escape.
The doors open. You can leave any time you like. Nobody’s ever tried. Constantly being on the lookout incase youre exposed as “not with it” and paying attention to up to the minute trends is fucking tiring. The moment youre out of the game you wonder why you ever bothered playing it
Would you rather be washed or stinky?
(obviously stinky)
Dude we live out of time nowadays. The mono culture is dead. You can listen to any music at any time. You can listen to modern music, then 19th century marches, then older modern stuff like JayZ, and just yesterday discovered “year of the cat” from like 50 years ago and it slaps. We are all closer for it, humanity ho!
I love 19th and 20th century political music :3
The monoculture never existed. At least it wasn’t universal across the world. It differed in every society.
You’re right but you’re ignoring everything the other person said. Go back 25+ years and there was a mono-pop-culture. You’d go to work after the latest episode of Twin Peaks and just discussed it. Those conversations weren’t preface with “Spoiler warning.” Either you saw it or yo didn’t. It was a cultural touch stone that most people would at the very least know of, but probably was as engaged with as you were.
Sure, Japanese people weren’t watching the same thing as Americans, or South Afrikans and The Brits weren’t consuming the same things. It was still a lot more homogeneous culture back then. Not saying now is better than then or anything, just that it was very different.
It was still a lot more homogeneous culture back then.
I agree with a lot of what you say, but this particular statement is questionable. Definitely you can say there’s a big-budget mainstream entertainment industry, but even in the early 1900s there were movies, records, and sporting events aimed at various non-white populations - a lot of them weren’t preserved, unfortunately. Then there have always been people who ignored “worldly” entertainment for religious reasons, or who stayed more in tune with the culture of “the old country.” There’s always been an underground (often risque) and alternative/experimental. And there’s also been people who follow “high art” vs “popular art.”
I don’t mean to sound nitpicky, I’m just trying to emphasize that there’s always been a lot of stuff of all kinds out there.
25 years ago I was not yet born 😅
Seems like you’re more qualified to speak about the NONoculture from those days
Damn right, if Souza marches don’t get your juices flowing…
Captain Holt, is that you?
So they literally just removed “up” from “washed up”? Come on, get creative.
Compared to “6, 7” it’s creative enough
That always makes me think of Day-O (Banana Boat Song) and the scene in Beetlejuice, I’m definitely washed.
Six foot! Seven foot! Eight foot bunch! Daylight come and me wan go home.
Ok, so I get it from context but before this I didn’t even know “washed” was slang for anything.
I think an unofficial sport of The Internet is to coin new slang and convince others that everyone else is using it.
Removing the “up” from “washed up” doesn’t seem all that clever, though.
Apparently it’s a thing. Like saying “it’s giving (cha)rizz(matic) (vibes)” aka “it’s transmiting a lot of charisma” or " it’s charismatic", you gotta infer from the context what the full sentence means.
I don’t think “washed” by itself is being used a lot, but economising sentences by removing parts and them being inferred via context IS something that is done a lot by young people. We used to just use initials, they are cutting words instead, lmfao.
Wait… rizz is short for charisma?? 🤯
Yeah, new slang is apparently mostly shorthands of actual words. Aura also is like charisma too, charisma so strong that you can see it around the person, so, aura.
They make sense.
Slang has always been shorthand for longer words or phrases, but I didn’t realize rizz fit that category.
Even things like “speak of the devil” were once longer phrases. It’s a natural pattern in language that common sayings are shortened over time. Really fascinating just how common it is.
Well, “aura” is ~165 years old, so not sure if that counts as new slang.
In the way it is used, it is.
Saying stuff like “aura farming” or “that man has aura”
That meaning is 166 years old. The word itself is around 500 years old.
Well yeah, and has been extensively used in games to express persistent area effects centered in an individual, but I’m talking about the recent use in describing someone charismatic. I’d be surprised if you found a text from 160 years ago with a semblance of “to have aura”, classically it’s a “strong aura”, “imposing aura”, “calming aura”, you need to know what the aura is about to understand. In current slang “charismatic aura” = aura.
I guess that it’s similar to the trend of saying that something is aesthetic or aesthetical when they mean that something is aesthetically pleasing.
I haven’t personally found it, but that number comes from here: https://www.etymonline.com/word/aura
Curious what you mean by recent use? It’s been in my vocabulary with that meaning for at least my entire adult life (~20 years). Maybe it’s just become a popular word with younger generations in the last few years?
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I was extremely disappointed that it wasn’t a Rizzo the Rat reference.
“Who’s that?”
-kids
Kinda like British Rhyme slang, where you have to understand what the words are rhyming with to understand what they’re talking about.
I mean look at antiquated English and how cumbersome it is. I feel like it’s the nature of language to become more compact and efficient.
Ehh a lot of it is just natural progression and evolution of the English language, others is regional dialects or small tow ways of saying things reaching mainstream through music.
It makes the meaning more unclear. “Washed up” refers to washing up on the shore, i.e., being removed from the ocean. “Washed” means…you’re clean?
EDIT: I’m wrong, see below
Etymonline says that ‘washed-up’ is from theatre slang.
I stand corrected! Just saying “washed” is much closer to the original origin than I thought, then.
Yeah, slang typically originates from expressions that are in everyday use among significant subcultural population. ‘Washed up’ could’ve been related to the sea if it were coined in the mid-nineteenth century at the latest, when seaside occupations were still dominant in the economy, especially in the UK. But it’s too far-fetched for the twentieth century, when urban life became more important.
Obviously you’re not dregged to the flit-flow.
hey, fr tho, I wonder if making up micro-slang is a useful technique for countering the AIs somehow?
Don’t expect clever from Twitch chat.
Rizz isn’t from Twitch chat, it’s AAVE co-opted and then overused incorrectly to the point of making it uncool by suburban teens (like most slang).
See also: gyatt
I was talking about ‘washed’ though.
“Washed” is from sports, though. “X athlete is washed” has existed long before being used in Twitch chat/gaming/esports spaces.
Basically what I was trying to (poorly) convey is you give Twitch chat too much credit, they come up with nothing original in the first place lol
Before sports it was apparently theatre slang.
Is it AAVE? Wikipedia credits its popularity to a twitch streamer from 2021.
Yes, KaiCenat, the most popular African American youtuber. Where do you think he learned it from?
Wikipedia even has a picture of him bro 😭
I don’t know where Kai Cenat heard it from. Im not going to immediately attribute it to any group without evidence to support it. For all I know it’s UK slang and not AAVE.
Ok, let me clarify then: I’m black. It comes from American black culture.
Anyone who watches a Kai Cenat stream would immediately clock it just by his and his friend’s speech patterns. This is why reading a Wikipedia line isn’t really enough to understand the breadth of culture. See: everyone in this thread who is making fun of Gen Z/ Gen Aloha/“young people” slang while simultaneously not understanding it actually developed a lot from black and gay culture of Millennials and Gen X globally, and has become mainstream due to these communities becoming more prominent in the media landscape.
Sorry to write a mini-sociological essay, but I don’t care for the “it’s not that deep” aspect of Lemmy when it comes to non-STEM popular culture stuff. It’s pretty deep (and interesting) actually.
I was out of town, doing a bit of visiting. I heard my friend KkOma had finally taken the time to settle down in the countryside. Rightfully so, after what he’d been through, with all the pent-up stress and frustration built up over the years of coaching the most successful KR team in League.
“How have things been buddy?” I asked, as I saw my man step out of the house upon hearing my car come in the drive-through. “All good, life’s been a lot more chill, now that I’ve retired,” he answered. “Hey, wanna check out my animals out back? I’ve taken up farming as a hobby with my free time,” as he motioned over to the back gate.
We headed out and he started introducing me to some of the livestock, mentioning how he had named them after his players, as the unhinged animals they were. Just then, I was hit by an unbearable stench. With my eyes watering uncontrollably, I questioned through gritted teeth, “What in the hell is that smell?”
He looked over knowingly and said: "Ah. Faker? The goat is never washed.”
you’re going to need to come with us
Actually at this point I think washed is washed
The modern slang term for it is simply a series of hums and noises not fully audible to people over the age of 15.
Yep, can confirm. And in about six hours it will become an ableist slur against the hard of hearing.
Then in 9 hours it’ll be completely outdated and in 20 years it’ll come back as washaed and be bip again (god forbid you use trendy or hip)
Me trying to do the hums and noises thing around my teenage niece thinking it’s still relevant but she just ignores it and keeps scrolling on her phone
Stop trying to make “streets ahead” a thing, Pierce!
It has been for ages, like, “my shirt is washed, I should hang it to dry”.
It’s so edgy.
If your
swordshirt is edgy, you might have used too much starch.If your sword isn’t edgy, you can’t do stabbies. ☹️
Okay, no idea if that was a brainfart or autocorrect but I‘m glad it gave you that opportunity.
You can if it’s pointy. If it’s not edgy you can’t do slashy-slashies though, and that’s definitely a shame.
its just “washed up” shortened
Having not heard “washed” before automatically makes me washed. Not that I haven’t already been there for a long time.
Haven’t heard it either but I’m not a nstive speaker.
I spent 7 hours in a car with a 22 year old and didn’t hear this once, so I am not sure it’s a thing.
People have been using it since at least 2020.
Does it just mean like old/out of touch?
Yes, its a shortening of washed up.
Can’t be washed if I was never… whatever the opposite of washed is (don’t say unwashed, that’s just wrong)
Threads like this really highlight how old lemmy is.
Genuinely loving being old and making fun of myself for being old.
I’m still reading down the comments waiting for somebody to agree how awesome Billy Joel is. Whats up with people feeling “old” for appreciating Billy joel. He is a musical genius and his music bangs.
Are people embarrassed to appreciate music from Bach or Mozart or quotes from aristotle?
Billy Joel was my dad’s era but he had some good songs. Not quite my genre but I like some of it. I’ll listen to music from any time period.
It’s nice.
Tbh I’d pay a premium to join a service that provides game servers and matchmaking with verified adults just to avoid gaming with children.
I don’t want it forced by the government because that’s just state surveillance but I’d absolutely pay for a washed only gaming service.
You might dig this community: https://forums.oldtimersguild.com/ they have groups that play most current and old games, and it really IS a joy.
Meh, there are a lot of adults who behave just like children.
Yeah but I don’t feel bad calling them fuckhead or rumple dickskin the way I’d feel bad about calling a child those things.
No need to get all caught up in society’s stipulations
You’re a member of the freak generation
They’re gonna burn, but you’ll have durationWhen the pendulum swings, it cuts
When the big door swings open, it shuts
Yeah, we’ll be middle-aged children, but so what?
Why does anybody like this or think it’s funny. This is crap.
It’s because I am a human capable of feeling emotions and joy.
Washed police? This one right here.
BJ fucking slaps, throw me in the dryer
Bruce Springsteen is better.
I went to a music festival over 15 years ago. We were sitting in a tent, eating mangos and mixing quite the variety of hallucinogens. Bruce Springsteen hit the stage in the distance, and started playing Christmas songs… in July
One of the most surreal moments of my life; hearing the crooning of Springsteen far off while trying to gather myelf in a tent. Sometimes hard to believe that was real. Pretty sure he trolled the whole festival by doing that
“Here Comes Santa Clause” always hits a little different since then
Porque no los dos
