• Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      And best way to make them stop being used, is using them completely wrong and with the “i am hip with the teens” attitude

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        This works so very well. Turn them from fun to cringe with one irritating parent move.

        I threatened to get a Sigma Dad tshirt and wear it to my son’s school. He’s since stopped with all the sigma stuff.

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          This reminds me of how John Oliver kept finding a way to work “on fleek” into his segments until it was declared no longer cool.

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          I do this as well. Killed “bruh” in a weekend. The t-shirt idea is next level, though. Kudos.

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        If you’re 30+ it’s your duty to destroy their words, just like the older generation did to our words, we will in turn kill these words untill only the true cool words remain, that is the way the universe purges itself of cringe.

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        It’s a slippery slope between saying something ironically and having it become part of your lexicon.