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For people like me who are out of many slang loops, can somebody explain what "You're not a vibe bro" is saying, and also why it's cool to mock somebody for using matches in the same world where disrespecting their pronouns is hateful?
Mocking someone for trying to look cool is very different to mocking someone for how they actually want to live their life
In my life I have been mocked for things I did to try to be cool... And the mockery was justified every time.
So it's good to mock somebody because you don't approve of what your psychic powers tell you is in their mind - Got it!
It's much better to go online and mock obvious jokes as if they're serious problems so everyone knows what a virtuous person you are!
You are a sidekick but you are not lovable
I think I can help with the first part: I think saying someone is "trying to be a vibe" is sort of like saying they're "trying to pull off a look/personality"
For another example, if someone buys a Harley, dresses head to toe in leather, and starts talking like a tough guy.
OOP is saying they're not pulling it off, then comes back and admits that they kinda were pulling it off.
People talk about how they hated the whole high school social world, but for some reason they bring it with them into adult life.
They're joking though
Boomer, get these kids off your lawn.
The poster is saying that match-man isn't cool. He then goes on to say that he does think match man is cool and that he's just jealous that he can't be cool.
He's not really mocking the person, although I guess it could be considered a backhanded compliment.
I get the feeling people can almost use words any way they want now and somehow it's recognizable because of general shared culture.
They always did, you're just exposed to it more now. Because Internet.
Yes, that's how language works, but in the last 15 of 20 years I've noticed a really distinct upsurge in the amount of slang being invented. A lot of terms are abbreviations made up to reduce thumb keystrokes, as opposed to traditional slang that gets adopted because it sounds catchy. That's a very new trend created by cellphone use.
I think also because POC and women are all online too now. 15+ years ago it was probably 90% white men.
No doubt more POC and women are online now, but why would slang grow faster because of this?
Definitions come from the way people use words, not the other way around. This has been the case for a long time, that's how Shakespeare got away with inventing so many words. He just used em and people were like "yeah that's alright, those collections of sounds can definitely describe this feeling/thing/whatever"
Honestly, I love it. English is such a twisted, fucked up language and it's like we're collectively acknowledging it and using it to our advantage.
English is the only language that acknowledges the fact that I'm a divine being of chaos at the infinite centre of creation, which is the main thing holding back my study of French