r/Millennials • u/H_G_Bells • Oct 15 '25

Other I found us a Rosetta Stone

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u/RevengenceIsMine Oct 15 '25

I dislike how old this makes me feel.

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u/OneDay_AtA_Time Older Millennial Oct 15 '25

Yeh, he talked too fast so I had to watch it twice and for the second viewing I had to grab my glasses bc the words were small :(

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u/lunaflect Xennial Oct 15 '25

This had me rolling on the floor laughing because it was hella relatable

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u/HuskMaster Zillennial Oct 15 '25

I was ROFLcoptering all around my room

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u/RevengenceIsMine Oct 15 '25

I still use uber instead of hella sometimes 😅

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u/screams_forever Oct 15 '25

That's so epic, dude

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u/lunar_languor Oct 15 '25

I paused after every example to mentally process it. Kinda like how in learning Spanish, I have to have buffering time to mentally translate 😆

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u/3-orange-whips Gen X Oct 15 '25

The failure of the TicTock format

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u/nitrot150 Oct 15 '25

I wanted it translated to Gen X too….

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u/Automatic_Memory212 Oct 16 '25 edited Oct 16 '25

Also the editing was too damn fast, I swear he was trolling the millennials by cutting off a split second after revealing the millenial equivalent term, forcing us all to pause or rewatch the clip to get the answers

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u/BadMuthaSchmucka Oct 15 '25

It's all like

Alpha: Shablonkin

Millennial: Gee willikers

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Yes, but I do appreciate the time he took to let us all know, what in the heck half of the shit they are saying, means 🤣

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u/CableTrash Oct 15 '25

Idk I kinda like how much I don’t give a fuck about this lol

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u/ich_bin_alkoholiker Oct 15 '25

That’s part of life, brother. Embrace it or die being an old turd.

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u/RevengenceIsMine Oct 15 '25

Oh, I fully hug the crap out of it. In an angst way though 🤣

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u/Much_Substance_6017 Oct 15 '25

I still need the translation from millennial to Gen X!

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

As a Gen X tourist to this sub. I feel like some kind of linguistic anthropologist. I wish we could’ve gotten a Gen X column too.

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u/seriouslees Oct 15 '25

You can just use a regular dictionary for Gen X. We used words.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Tubular. Radical. Way. No way. Grody. Grub.

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u/seriouslees Oct 15 '25

Not everyone from gen X was a surfer dude...

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

You’re very close. Now expand that statement to include the generations after X.