Northernlion updates his youthful vernacular

Assuming, unprompted and unproven, that your niece is a middle school mean girl is very slightly deranged

its still a horse eat horse world out there huh

"Still ruthless out there" is a feeling

Dumping on bionicle kids? Mr. Electric, remove this man's balls!

they're adopting adventure time lingo

What the hell is cheeks

I regularly say "Pogchamp!" in front of my nephew and his very soul takes chip dmg from the cringe. I love being an unc

WHO says cheeks??

Wrong. ChatGPT told me this:

Yes, Skibidi Toilet is still considered "cool" in 2025, especially among younger audiences like Generation Alpha. What began as a quirky meme featuring singing toilet-headed characters has evolved into a massive internet phenomenon with a dedicated fanbase.

He immediately loses all self-confidence as soon as he tries to say anything authoritative about youth culture. I've never seen a man crumble so quickly under so little pressure

he's slandering the bionicle and yugioh kids this is too much man

Sybau

NAHHH ICANT

Bro is still mad about that one guy hitting him with Bionicle in that movie trivia game

I've been out of the meta too long

the highschoolers are saying “buns” which is just preemptive “cheeks”

So this is how I found out I was a minecraft kid

Cheeks - UK slang finally taking over the world once again

the two separate people writing casablanca back to back in the chat when nl was talking about what his niece's fav movie could be is sending me

"What if my niece isn't cool at school and how does this affect me as a 36 year old man?" Is like a vice article title. Holy it's sending me

she could watch this

As a German, the "Kino" thing still confuses me. It's literally just the German word for "cinema". But with actually a larger emphasis on the building and less the concept. I'm not saying you can't use the word for the concept or that nobody does it. But it's not as culturally prevalent in Germany to use "Kino" in the same context as "cinema" is in the "absolute cinema" meme.

NL knows his audience is 90% Minecraft kids so he needs to constantly be one step ahead their brainrot

boi ts so tuff

What's the game in the end?

It's cool that he has insider information.
I never know how I should talk around the younglings so I speak so formally that I even lose my dialect and then they call me "old man sounding," which then tends to really hit my psychic defenses hard. I can tank it, but just barely.

I’m 30 this year and I just started saying “zamn”

NL so late to breaded it might be coming back around

bionicle is cool though :(

"My Wife's Sister's Family" Bro is allergic to saying "In Laws"

man I loved being adjacent to the school social totem pole
still on the same level as the very bottom, but at least not crushed under the weight of those above me

I got a sister the same age. I'm like 16 years younger than NL so I don't really need her intel to stay on top of the vernacular but its interesting to see what's big with the gen-z gen-alpha cusp people.

Cheeks is out buns is in

damn I was a minecraft nerd whose favorite movie in 9th grade was melancholia …… 😢

Two twos, my word, fam 🇨🇦

I was in on “breaded” before they IPO’d

The most "cheeks" streamer on twitch!

Subtitles: English (Canadian)

WOW COLORS IN MY SUBTITLES!

Summoning Salt: Social Darwinism WR Progression

"Tuff?" Like, from The Outsiders? Set in Tulsa in 1965?

Pardon me we were called "bionicle kids"

Not me catching strays for bionicles in elementary school

Cool subtitles libarian

damn unc didn't know he's like at least 10 years late on breaded

"they were obsessed with bionicle or yugioh or some shit" I have been fatally stricken twice at once

Minecraft kid (derogatory)