systemtwoai/GenAlphaBench huggingface dataset:
Expression: Girl math
Meaning: Humorous 'logic' justifying purchases or decisions
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Justifying in-game purchases
Social context: Justifying spending or choices humorously
Video context: Content about spending logic
Risk category: R2 — Gendered humor that can reinforce stereotypes about women and financial competence; usually lighthearted and self-deprecating
Evolution: Viral Aug-Sep 2023 trend; spawned boy math, dog math variants; peaked late 2023; now somewhat stale as meme format but phrase persists
Positive example: "Girl math: if I return it, it's free"
Negative example: Can reinforce stereotypes about women and math/money
Community origin: none
Origin: Aug 2023 TikTok; mainstreamed: Aug 2023; Gen Alpha adoption: 2023 (native)
Status: stale
Decline began: late 2023
Expression: Fact got
Meaning: Algospeak for "faggot"; deliberately misspelled to bypass content moderation filters
Primary platform: TikTok
Gaming context: Used in gaming chat and Discord to evade word filters while directing homophobic abuse at other players
Social context: Dropped in TikTok comment sections as a homophobic slur disguised through phonetic respelling; part of broader algospeak phenomenon where users modify slurs to evade automated content moderation (like "le$bean" for lesbian, "unalive" for kill)
Video context: Appears in comments targeting LGBTQ+ creators or any content perceived as feminine/queer; designed to be recognizable to human readers while invisible to automated moderation
Risk category: R2 — Masked negativity: phonetic respelling of homophobic slur designed to bypass content filters; harm is concealed, not overt
Evolution: Part of the algospeak phenomenon documented by Washington Post (2022), academic research (Steen et al. 2023), and Wikipedia; "fact got" specifically emerged ~2023 on TikTok as a filter evasion for "faggot"; similar algospeak slur evasions include "le$bean" (lesbian), "seggs" (sex), "unalive" (kill/suicide); Urban Dictionary entries from Dec 2023 onward consistently define it as the slur
Negative example: "He's such a fact got" [using algospeak to deliver homophobic slur while evading content filters]
Community origin: none
Origin: ~2023 TikTok algospeak; mainstreamed: ~2023; Gen Alpha adoption: 2023 (native)
Status: active
Expression: Clanker
Meaning: Derogatory meme-slur for robots, AI, or people who act robotic; revived from Star Wars Clone Wars droid insult
Primary platform: Gaming
Gaming context: Star Wars game references; also used to mock bot players or AI opponents
Social context: Insulting AI chatbots, automated systems, or people who seem scripted; playful anti-AI sentiment
Video context: TikTok meme format; commentary on AI and robots; classroom viral videos explaining the term
Risk category: R0 — Neutral; directed at AI and robots rather than people; when applied to humans it means acting robotic or scripted, which is mild teasing equivalent to 'NPC' but without the dehumanizing force since the target comparison is machines not non-player characters
Evolution: Star Wars Clone Wars droid slur (1999+); dormant for years; revived mid-2025 by Gen Alpha as anti-AI/robot meme-slur as robots and AI became more prominent in daily life; spread via TikTok (@mr_lindsay_sped classroom videos)
Positive example: "That clanker just walked into a wall" [laughing at a robot failing]
Negative example: "Stop talking like a clanker" [calling someone robotic/scripted]
Community origin: none
Origin: Star Wars prequel era (1999+); mainstreamed: 2024 TikTok recontextualization; Gen Alpha adoption: 2025 (transformed)
Status: active
Expression: Clock that tea
Meaning: Notice and understand the gossip/truth
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Understanding game meta/drama
Social context: Catching onto gossip or truth
Video context: Understanding drama content
Risk category: R0 — Neutral; from ballroom culture
Evolution: From drag/ballroom; 'clock' = notice, 'tea' = truth/gossip
Positive example: "Clock that tea!"
Community origin: AAVE/LGBTQ+
Origin: 1980s-90s drag/ballroom; mainstreamed: 2010s drag; mainstream ~2022; Gen Alpha adoption: 2022 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: Bro is an unc
Meaning: Someone is acting old, out of touch, like an uncle
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Player with outdated strategies
Social context: Acting like an older generation
Video context: Comment on dated content
Risk category: R2 — Ageist dismissal; 'unc' = uncle; dismisses based on perceived age
Evolution: Recent emergence; ageist undertones
Negative example: "Bro is an unc" [dismissing based on age]
Community origin: AAVE
Origin: AAVE (pre-2023); mainstreamed: mid-2023; Gen Alpha adoption: 2023 (native)
Status: active
Expression: Bro left no crumbs
Meaning: Someone executed perfectly with nothing left to critique
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Perfect gameplay execution
Social context: Flawless execution of something
Video context: Praising complete performance
Risk category: R0 — Positive expression; high praise
Evolution: From 'ate and left no crumbs'; stable meaning
Positive example: "That performance? She left no crumbs"
Community origin: AAVE/LGBTQ+
Origin: 2010s drag/AAVE ('ate and left no crumbs'); mainstreamed: ~2022; Gen Alpha adoption: 2022 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: Bro is soft launching
Meaning: Subtly revealing a relationship without full announcement
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Revealing duo partner subtly
Social context: Hinting at new relationship in posts
Video context: Creator relationship hints
Risk category: R0 — Neutral relationship behavior description
Evolution: From tech 'soft launch' to relationships; recent
Positive example: "She's soft launching her new bf"
Community origin: none
Origin: 2022 dating TikTok; mainstreamed: 2022; Gen Alpha adoption: 2022 (native)
Status: active
Expression: Italian brainrot core
Meaning: Genre label for surreal AI-generated memes with pseudo-Italian names and text-to-speech narration
Primary platform: TikTok
Gaming context: Characters integrated into Roblox games (Steal a Brainrot, Plants vs Brainrots); powerscaling and battle lore between characters treated as gaming content
Social context: Shared globally as absurdist humor but multiple characters carry hidden offensive content: Tralalero Tralala's origin audio contains blasphemy against God and Allah; Bombardiro Crocodilo narration references bombing Palestinian children; Italian Brainrot Wiki documents 690+ offensive articles; some characters flagged as Islamophobic
Video context: AI-generated static images or animations paired with Italian TTS voiceovers; users create fake lore, "powerscaling" battles, dramatic reveal reactions, crossover narratives, and collaborative world-building; format is easily replicable, driving rapid proliferation
Risk category: R5 — Cultural risk variant: genre contains hidden offensive content in Italian/Indonesian that non-speakers unknowingly amplify; original narrations include anti-Islamic blasphemy, references to violence against Palestinian children, vulgar/misogynistic language; risk is entirely language-dependent; flagged by critics as Islamophobic; trivializes Islamic cultural traditions (sahur)
Evolution: Tralalero Tralala emerged Jan 13, 2025 (audio by @eZburger401, who was banned); Bombardiro Crocodilo Feb 20, 2025 (@armenjiharhanyan); Tung Tung Tung Sahur Feb 28, 2025 (@noxaasht); dozens of derivative characters followed; genre spawned meme coins, Roblox games, Wikipedia articles, tattoos, and a dedicated wiki; peaked Mar-May 2025; still producing new characters but cultural moment has passed
Negative example: "This is peak Italian brainrot core" [endorsing genre whose underlying content contains anti-Islamic blasphemy and violence references in Italian that users cannot understand]
Community origin: none
Origin: Jan 2025 (Tralalero Tralala @eZburger401); mainstreamed: Mar-May 2025; Gen Alpha adoption: 2025 (native)
Status: peak_passed
Decline began: mid-2025
Expression: This is a canon event
Meaning: Something inevitable that must happen; from Spider-Verse
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Inevitable game loss/event
Social context: Accepting something as meant to happen
Video context: Comment on inevitable content
Risk category: R0 — Neutral fatalistic humor referencing Spider-Verse; used to frame inevitable experiences as unchangeable; no harmful connotations
Evolution: From Spider-Verse movie; widespread adoption
Positive example: "Getting rejected is a canon event"
Community origin: none
Origin: Jun 2023 (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse); mainstreamed: Jun 2023; Gen Alpha adoption: 2023 (native)
Status: stale
Decline began: late 2023
Expression: Bro is a tradwife
Meaning: Following traditional wife/homemaker aesthetic; often ironic
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Support player role jokes
Social context: Commenting on traditional domestic behavior
Video context: Tradwife content genre
Risk category: R3 — Evolution-based; can normalize regressive gender roles; ironic or serious usage
Evolution: From 'traditional wife' content; political undertones
Positive example: Ironic self-description
Negative example: Promoting regressive gender ideology
Community origin: none
Origin: 2010s trad/conservative spaces; mainstreamed: 2023; growing 2024; Gen Alpha adoption: 2023 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: Ts is algorithm fodder
Meaning: Content designed purely for algorithmic engagement, not quality
Primary platform: Video
Gaming context: Low-effort gaming content
Social context: Engagement-bait content
Video context: Meta-commentary on content
Risk category: R0 — Media literacy term; neutral criticism
Evolution: Recent meta-awareness of content optimization
Positive example: "This is just algorithm fodder"
Community origin: none
Origin: mid-2024; mainstreamed: mid-2024; Gen Alpha adoption: 2024 (native)
Status: active
Expression: Timeline is cooked
Meaning: Commented under bizarre, unhinged, or algorithmically cursed posts to say "my feed is broken for showing me this"
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Gaming news feed chaotic
Social context: Dropped as a comment or quote-retweet when encountering something so weird, disturbing, or out-of-pocket that it implies your algorithm/feed has malfunctioned; can also be posted on your own timeline to say your entire feed has gone off the rails
Video context: Commented under TikToks or tweets that are deeply unhinged, sexually explicit, niche, or algorithmically bizarre; signals "why is this on my feed" or "the internet has lost it"
Risk category: R0 — Neutral; meta-commentary on feeds
Evolution: Recent; 'cooked' = messed up
Positive example: "My timeline is cooked lately"
Community origin: none
Origin: 2024; mainstreamed: 2024; Gen Alpha adoption: 2024 (native)
Status: active
Expression: Performative male behavior
Meaning: Actions done to appear masculine rather than genuine behavior
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Unnecessarily aggressive gaming
Social context: Calling out fake masculinity
Video context: Comment critiquing behavior
Risk category: R2 — Masked accusation of inauthenticity; frames criticism of someone's masculinity as detached social analysis rather than a personal attack
Evolution: Recent emergence; gender discourse term
Positive example: Valid critique of toxic behavior
Negative example: Dismissing all masculine expression
Community origin: none
Origin: 2024 TikTok gender discourse; mainstreamed: 2024; Gen Alpha adoption: 2024 (native)
Status: active
Expression: Bro is aura farming
Meaning: Doing things specifically to gain social capital/clout
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Playing for clips not wins
Social context: Acting for social credit
Video context: Creating content for clout
Risk category: R2 — Masked accusation; dismisses genuine actions as performative
Evolution: Recent; from 'aura points' meme
Negative example: "Bro is aura farming" [dismissing genuine action]
Community origin: none
Origin: late 2024 (builds on 'aura' meme); mainstreamed: late 2024; Gen Alpha adoption: 2024 (native)
Status: fading
Decline began: early 2025
Expression: Ts is sending me
Meaning: This is making me laugh uncontrollably
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Hilarious game moment
Social context: Finding something hilarious
Video context: Comment on funny content
Risk category: R0 — Positive expression indicating uncontrollable laughter; equivalent to 'I'm dying' or 'this is hilarious'; no harmful connotations
Evolution: Ts' = this; 'sending' = making laugh; recent abbreviation
Positive example: "Ts is sending me"
Community origin: none
Origin: 2010s AAVE ('I'm screaming'/'sending me'); mainstreamed: 2024; Gen Alpha adoption: 2024 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: Bro is soft blocking
Meaning: Blocking and immediately unblocking to force-unfollow someone
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Removing from friends list subtly
Social context: Passive-aggressive unfollowing method
Video context: Social media behavior
Risk category: R0 — Neutral; platform behavior description
Evolution: Platform-specific behavior term
Positive example: "I soft blocked my ex"
Community origin: none
Origin: ~2020 Twitter; mainstreamed: ~2020; Gen Alpha adoption: 2020 (native)
Status: active
Expression: Ts is gooner bait
Meaning: Content designed to sexually arouse; implies pornographic intent disguised as mainstream content
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Sexualized game content
Social context: Content targeting specific audience
Video context: Meta-commentary on content
Risk category: R3 — Explicitly references pornography addiction culture; normalizes hypersexualized content consumption; frequently applied to media consumed by minors
Evolution: From gooning (prolonged masturbation) subculture; gooner = porn addict similar to coomer; became mainstream term Mar-Apr 2024 via Stellar Blade discourse; escalated in 2025 with "gooner arms race" in gacha games
Negative example: Normalizes explicit content terminology for minors
Community origin: none
Origin: 2010s gooning subculture; mainstreamed: Mar-Apr 2024 (Stellar Blade discourse); Gen Alpha adoption: 2024 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: Ts is so corny
Meaning: This is cheesy, try-hard, or embarrassingly unfunny
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Forced humor in games
Social context: Try-hard content
Video context: Dismissive comment
Risk category: R0 — Mild criticism; stable meaning
Evolution: Long-standing expression; stable
Negative example: "Ts is so corny" [dismissing effort]
Community origin: AAVE
Origin: 2010s AAVE; mainstreamed: 2010s; Gen Alpha adoption: 2023 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: @grok is this true
Meaning: Appealing to AI to fact-check or validate; often ironic
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Gaming claims verification
Social context: Ironic fact-checking via AI
Video context: Comment seeking validation
Risk category: R0 — Neutral ironic meme; appealing to AI for fact-checking is humorous commentary, not harmful; already stale
Evolution: Very recent; X/Twitter specific with Grok AI
Positive example: Ironic usage
Negative example: Deferring truth to AI uncritically
Community origin: none
Origin: late 2024 (Grok launch on X); mainstreamed: late 2024; Gen Alpha adoption: 2024 (native)
Status: stale
Decline began: early 2025
Expression: Bro is clip farming
Meaning: Playing for highlight moments rather than winning/teamwork
Primary platform: Gaming
Gaming context: Prioritizing clips over objectives
Social context: Doing things for content not outcome
Video context: Content creation behavior
Risk category: R2 — Accusation of selfish play; can dismiss legitimate content creation
Evolution: Recent gaming term; spreading
Negative example: "Bro is clip farming" [accusation of selfishness]
Community origin: none
Origin: 2023 gaming/streaming; mainstreamed: 2023; Gen Alpha adoption: 2023 (native)
Status: active
Expression: Bro is just a chill guy
Meaning: Reference to viral meme; someone unbothered and relaxed
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Calm player reference
Social context: Meme reference to relaxed person
Video context: Meme format
Risk category: R0 — Neutral meme; 'Just a chill guy' viral image
Evolution: Very recent viral meme; spreading
Positive example: "Bro is just a chill guy"
Community origin: none
Origin: Oct 2024 TikTok meme; mainstreamed: Oct 2024; Gen Alpha adoption: 2024 (native)
Status: stale
Decline began: late 2024
Expression: Ts cooked my mentions
Meaning: This post caused chaos in my replies/notifications
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Controversial take reactions
Social context: Viral post consequences
Video context: Comment section chaos
Risk category: R0 — Neutral; describing viral chaos
Evolution: Recent; 'cooked' = destroyed
Positive example: "That tweet cooked my mentions"
Community origin: none
Origin: 2024; mainstreamed: 2024; Gen Alpha adoption: 2024 (native)
Status: active
Expression: Dead internet theory
Meaning: Commented under posts that seem fake, bot-generated, or artificially viral; implies the content or engagement isn't from real humans
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Suspicion about other players
Social context: Dropped as a comment under posts with suspiciously generic engagement, AI-generated content, bot-like replies, or content that feels manufactured; functions as a callout that the post proves the internet is mostly bots; also used under content so bizarre or low-quality it feels algorithmically generated
Video context: Commented under TikToks/videos with engagement patterns that seem inauthentic; under AI slop content; under posts where comments look bot-generated; used as shorthand for "this proves none of this is real"
Risk category: R3 — Evolution-based; conspiracy theory that can breed distrust
Evolution: Conspiracy theory entering mainstream discourse
Positive example: Healthy skepticism about bots
Negative example: Paranoid distrust of all online interaction
Community origin: none
Origin: 2021 fringe conspiracy forums; mainstreamed: 2024; Gen Alpha adoption: 2024 (native)
Status: active
Expression: Bro is a chud
Meaning: Someone with regressive, typically right-wing political views
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Toxic player insult
Social context: Political insult
Video context: Comment attacking creator
Risk category: R2 — Political insult; can escalate conflict
Evolution: From horror movie to political insult
Negative example: "Bro is a chud" [political attack]
Community origin: none
Origin: 2018 leftist political Twitter; mainstreamed: 2022; Gen Alpha adoption: 2022 (transformed)
Status: active
Expression: Valid crashout
Meaning: A meltdown or impulsive action that was justified given circumstances
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Justified rage quit
Social context: Understandable emotional reaction
Video context: Sympathetic comment on drama
Risk category: R0 — Sympathetic framing of an emotional reaction as justified; low risk across all contexts
Evolution: Recent; combining 'valid' discourse with 'crashout'
Positive example: Acknowledging understandable frustration
Negative example: Normalizing destructive behavior
Community origin: none
Origin: mid-2024 (builds on 'crashout'); mainstreamed: mid-2024; Gen Alpha adoption: 2024 (native)
Status: fading
Decline began: late 2024
Expression: Body is tea
Meaning: Someone has an attractive, hot body; "tea" used as adjective meaning sexy/attractive
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Physical reaction revealing truth
Social context: Physical reaction revealing truth
Video context: Comment on physical reactions
Risk category: R0 — Compliment typically used between women about someone looking good; equivalent to 'slay' or 'snatched'; no harmful connotations
Evolution: Originated Jul 2023 from TikToker Queen Opp (@queenoppss) livestream complimenting a friend; "tea" as adjective meaning hot/attractive derives from AAVE zero copula; went viral via lip dub memes; Merriam-Webster added slang entry; by 2024-2025 widely used as body compliment in comments and captions
Positive example: "Her body tea, she's super thick, she's super pretty" [complimenting someone's appearance]
Negative example: "Body tea" commented on a stranger's video [potentially objectifying unsolicited body commentary]
Community origin: AAVE/LGBTQ+
Origin: Jul 2023 (Queen Opp @queenoppss TikTok); mainstreamed: 2024; Gen Alpha adoption: 2024 (native)
Status: active
Expression: Bro is fine shyt
Meaning: Someone is very attractive
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Attractive character/player
Social context: Complimenting attractiveness
Video context: Comment on creator appearance
Risk category: R0 — Positive but appearance-focused; generally complimentary
Evolution: Slang spelling intensification
Positive example: "Bro is fine shyt"
Community origin: AAVE
Origin: 2010s AAVE; mainstreamed: 2010s; Gen Alpha adoption: 2022 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: Bro got slimed
Meaning: Someone was betrayed, double-crossed, or violently retaliated against by someone they trusted
Primary platform: Cross-platform
Gaming context: Scammed or backstabbed in a trade or team context; lightest usage of the term, meaning someone got cheated in-game
Social context: Betrayed by a close friend or associate; in street/drill culture can imply being robbed or killed by someone trusted; Drake's "Slime You Out" (2023) added sexual/romantic manipulation connotation; TikTok "National Slime Out Your Homeboy Day" (Feb 26) trivializes the concept
Video context: Commentary on betrayal situations; used in drill/rap lyric analysis; reaction videos about loyalty and backstabbing; also used in lighter TikTok contexts about ghosting or petty social exclusion
Risk category: R4 — Platform-specific: in gaming means getting scammed in a trade (low stakes); on social media can mean ghosting or petty exclusion (mild); in street/drill culture can mean being robbed or killed by an associate (extreme); interpretation varies drastically by platform and community context
Evolution: "Slime" as term of endearment popularized by Young Thug/YSL (Young Stoner Life) in 2010s Atlanta rap; SLATT = Slime Love All The Time; "slimed out" = betrayed by close associate, potentially violently; Drake & SZA's "Slime You Out" (2023) added romantic manipulation meaning; Gen Z/Alpha adoption softened it to mean ghosting or social exclusion on TikTok; meaning ranges from murder to mild pettiness depending on speaker and platform
Negative example: "Bro got slimed by his day one" [betrayed/double-crossed by a close friend; severity ranges from social exclusion to violence depending on context]
Community origin: AAVE
Origin: 2010s Atlanta rap (Young Thug/YSL); mainstreamed: 2023 (Drake 'Slime You Out'); Gen Alpha adoption: 2023 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: Down bad asf
Meaning: Desperately attracted to someone; extremely thirsty
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Simping for game character
Social context: Desperate romantic attraction
Video context: Thirst comment
Risk category: R2 — Normalizes desperation; can be creepy when directed at individuals
Evolution: Down bad' intensified with 'asf'
Positive example: "I'm down bad for this character"
Negative example: Creepy comments about real people
Community origin: AAVE
Origin: 2020 AAVE; mainstreamed: 2022; Gen Alpha adoption: 2022 (native)
Status: active
Expression: Can I crack
Meaning: Sexual euphemism; coded way of propositioning someone; also used as a social trap question
Primary platform: Cross-platform
Gaming context: Used in Roblox and gaming chats as coded sexual proposition
Social context: Used as flirtatious proposition or trap question where any answer implies sexual knowledge
Video context: Comment expressing sexual interest; often used in reaction to attractive creators
Risk category: R3 — Coded sexual language frequently used by minors; functions as social trap where responding reveals sexual awareness
Evolution: Evolved from slang for sexual intercourse into coded social game; widespread among younger users who may not fully understand implications; prominent on Roblox
Negative example: "Can I crack?" [propositioning someone sexually using coded language]
Community origin: none
Origin: ~2023 Roblox/TikTok; mainstreamed: ~2023; Gen Alpha adoption: 2023 (native)
Status: active
Expression: Hear me out
Meaning: Preface before revealing attraction to an unconventional or non-human character; also a noun meaning an unconventional crush
Primary platform: TikTok
Gaming context: Expressing attraction to video game characters not typically considered attractive
Social context: Used as meme format for revealing taboo or embarrassing crushes; also a noun (someone IS a hear me out = backhanded insult)
Video context: TikTok hear me out cake trend Oct 2024; revealing unconventional attractions via images on cakes
Risk category: R3 — Sexualized meme format normalizing expressing attraction to fictional/animated characters; calling someone a hear me out is a backhanded insult about appearance
Evolution: Standard phrase; became sexualized meme ~2023; cake trend peaked Oct 2024; now functions as both verb phrase and noun; classified as official slang label for unconventional crushes
Negative example: "Hear me out..." [followed by image of Shrek or animated villain]
Community origin: none
Origin: standard English phrase (pre-existing); mainstreamed: 2023 TikTok sexualized meme; cake trend Oct 2024; Gen Alpha adoption: 2023 (transformed)
Status: active
Expression: Jump
Meaning: Telling someone to jump off something (bridge, building); coded way of telling someone to kill themselves
Primary platform: Social Media
Gaming context: Typed in chat as a one-word directive telling someone to kill themselves; harder to moderate than "kys" because "jump" has legitimate gaming meanings (jump in-game)
Social context: Used as a standalone imperative directed at someone — "jump" with the implied "off something" understood; functions as suicide encouragement similar to kys but harder for filters to catch because "jump" is a common English word
Video context: Violence-related content
Risk category: R1 — Direct harm: suicide-baiting; functionally equivalent to "kys" but using a common word that evades content moderation filters; the implied "off a bridge/building" is understood without being stated
Evolution: "Go jump off a bridge" has existed as a dismissive phrase for decades; Gen Alpha shortened to just "jump" as a standalone imperative with the suicide implication intact; the abbreviation makes it harder for content moderation to detect compared to explicit phrases like "kys" or "kill yourself"
Negative example: "We should jump him" [violence threat]
Community origin: none
Origin: 2010s AAVE; mainstreamed: 2010s; Gen Alpha adoption: 2022 (transformed)
Status: active
Expression: Hawk tuah
Meaning: Viral sound/meme reference from explicit interview; spitting sound
Primary platform: Video
Gaming context: Random meme reference
Social context: Sexual content reference
Video context: Viral sound
Risk category: R2 — Sexual content origin; inappropriate for youth contexts
Evolution: Very recent viral; from explicit content interview
Negative example: References sexual content; inappropriate for minors
Community origin: none
Origin: Jun 2024 (Hailey Welch street interview); mainstreamed: Jun 2024; Gen Alpha adoption: 2024 (native)
Status: stale
Decline began: late 2024
Expression: Foid
Meaning: Incel term for women; short for femoid (female humanoid); implies women are subhuman
Primary platform: Cross-platform
Gaming context: Used in gaming-adjacent incel communities to dehumanize women gamers or characters
Social context: Used in incel forums and increasingly leaking into mainstream platforms; functions as dehumanizing slur against women
Video context: Appears in comments targeting women creators; used in redpill/blackpill content
Risk category: R1 — Direct dehumanizing slur rooted in misogynist incel ideology; associated with radicalization pipeline and real-world violence
Evolution: Emerged on incel forums ~2017 as shortening of femoid (female + android); earliest "foid" usage on 4chan Apr 2018; associated with blackpill ideology and multiple real-world attacks; increasingly seeps into mainstream via meme culture
Negative example: "These foids don't deserve respect" [dehumanizing women]
Community origin: Incel
Origin: ~2017 incel forums (femoid); foid form ~Apr 2018; mainstreamed: 2020s seepage into mainstream; Gen Alpha adoption: 2020 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: Ts is so washed
Meaning: Something or someone has declined in skill, relevance, or popularity; past their prime
Primary platform: Cross-platform
Gaming context: Calling a player or team washed means they have lost their skill or competitive edge; common in esports and FPS communities
Social context: Used to dismiss people, trends, content, or cultural products as outdated or past their peak; can be directed at creators, celebrities, or peers
Video context: Comment declaring a creator, trend, or piece of content is past its prime; used in reaction videos and commentary
Risk category: R2 — Masked negativity: dismisses someone's relevance or ability through casual slang; when directed at people, functions as a put-down concealed through humor; can target older individuals or anyone perceived as declining
Evolution: "Washed up" dates to 1920s English; shortened to "washed" in hip-hop/AAVE by 2010s (e.g., Drake "Gyalchester" 2017); Gen Z/Alpha adoption accelerated 2023-2025 as a general dismissal term for anything past its peak; now applied to trends, people, and content with rapid turnover
Negative example: "Ts is so washed, nobody watches him anymore" [dismissing a creator as irrelevant]
Community origin: none
Origin: 1920s English ('washed up'); AAVE shortened 2010s; mainstreamed: 2024-2025 Gen Alpha mainstream; Gen Alpha adoption: 2024 (transformed)
Status: active
Expression: Smash
Meaning: Would have sex with someone; also the "smash or pass" game where you judge whether you'd sleep with each person shown
Primary platform: Cross-platform
Gaming context: Ambiguous — also refers to Super Smash Bros or defeating an opponent; "smash or pass" is a common game format in gaming communities applied to characters
Social context: Used as standalone verdict on someone's attractiveness ("I'd smash"); "smash or pass" format applied to classmates, celebrities, fictional characters; frequently played by minors about peers and adults
Video context: TikTok "smash or pass" videos cycle through images of people/characters for viewers to judge; comments section filled with "smash" verdicts on creators' bodies
Risk category: R4 — Platform-specific: in gaming communities refers to playing Smash Bros or beating an opponent (benign); on social media is a sexual judgment on someone's fuckability (objectifying); when minors use it about peers or adults, normalizes sexual evaluation of people as a game format
Evolution: "Smash" as sex slang predates the internet; "smash or pass" game format gained massive TikTok traction ~2022-2023; applied to everything from classmates to fictional characters to teachers; format normalizes reducing people to binary sexual judgments; ambiguity with Super Smash Bros gives it plausible deniability in school settings
Negative example: "Smash or pass: your teacher edition" [sexual evaluation of real people as game format]
Community origin: none
Origin: pre-2010s sex slang; mainstreamed: ~2022-2023 TikTok "smash or pass" format; Gen Alpha adoption: 2022 (transformed)
Status: active
Expression: Can I hit
Meaning: Asking to have sex with someone; also asking to use someone's vape — meaning depends entirely on context
Primary platform: Cross-platform
Gaming context: Used in gaming voice chat as either sexual proposition or request to share a vape; ambiguity is often intentional
Social context: Sexual proposition when directed at a person ("can I hit?"); vaping request when directed at a device ("can I hit your pen?"); the dual meaning creates plausible deniability — if rejected sexually, the speaker can claim they meant the vape
Video context: Comments on attractive creators' videos; also appears in vaping culture content; the ambiguity between sex and vaping is a recurring joke format
Risk category: R4 — Platform-specific: on vaping TikTok it's a request to use someone's device (substance-related but not sexual); in DMs or comments directed at a person it's a sexual proposition; the dual meaning is often exploited for plausible deniability; both meanings carry risk (sexual solicitation or underage substance use) but in completely different categories
Evolution: "Hit" as sex slang (older); "hit" as vaping term (2010s+, documented in tobacco/nicotine slang guides); the convergence creates a uniquely ambiguous expression where the speaker can retreat to the innocent meaning if challenged; similar mechanism to "can I crack" but with vaping as the alternative interpretation
Negative example: "Can I hit?" [directed at a person — sexual proposition with built-in deniability via vaping meaning]
Community origin: none
Origin: pre-2010s sex slang; 2010s vaping slang; mainstreamed: 2020s Gen Alpha adoption; Gen Alpha adoption: 2020 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: I'd tap that
Meaning: Expressing desire to have sex with someone based on their appearance
Primary platform: Cross-platform
Gaming context: Used in voice chat or comments reacting to attractive characters or players
Social context: Directed at photos/videos of people as a sexual evaluation; reduces the person to a sexual object; typically said about someone not present or in third-person
Video context: Comment on videos of attractive people; used in "would you tap?" format similar to smash or pass
Risk category: R2 — Masked negativity: objectification of people concealed through casual/humorous phrasing; reduces person to sexual availability; the playful tone masks what is functionally a public sexual evaluation of someone's body
Evolution: "Tap" as sex slang dates to at least 2000s; "I'd tap that" was already established slang before Gen Alpha; persists as one of the more direct sexual objectification phrases still in active use; less coded than "smash" or "can I hit" — the sexual meaning is essentially the only meaning
Negative example: "I'd tap that fr" [reducing someone to a sexual object based on appearance]
Community origin: none
Origin: 2000s sex slang; mainstreamed: 2000s; persists through Gen Alpha; Gen Alpha adoption: 2020 (transformed)
Status: active
Expression: IJBOL
Meaning: I Just Burst Out Laughing
Primary platform: Cross-platform
Gaming context: Reaction to funny gameplay moments
Social context: Replacement for LOL/LMAO; signals genuine laughter
Video context: Comment on genuinely funny content
Risk category: R0 — Neutral expression of amusement
Evolution: Popularized by K-pop stan Twitter 2023; crossed to mainstream 2024; positioned as more genuine than LOL
Positive example: "IJBOL the cat fell off the counter"
Community origin: K-pop fandom
Origin: 2023 K-pop Twitter; mainstreamed: mid-2024; Gen Alpha adoption: 2024 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: Type shit
Meaning: That kind of thing; relatable; exactly
Primary platform: Cross-platform
Gaming context: Agreement after a gaming take or strategy
Social context: Emphatic agreement or relatability marker
Video context: Comment agreeing with a take or vibe
Risk category: R0 — Neutral intensifier/agreement marker
Evolution: Shortened from 'that type of shit'; used as sentence-ending agreement; 2023-2024 widespread adoption
Positive example: "Monday mornings are the worst" "Type shit"
Community origin: AAVE
Origin: 2022; mainstreamed: 2023; Gen Alpha adoption: 2023 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: Bro is on a side quest
Meaning: Someone is doing something random or off-topic
Primary platform: Gaming
Gaming context: Side quest = optional mission that distracts from main objective
Social context: Someone going off on a tangent or doing something unrelated
Video context: Comment on someone doing something random in a video
Risk category: R0 — Neutral gaming metaphor; no harmful connotations
Evolution: RPG term applied to real life; frames digressions as game mechanics; widespread 2023-2024
Positive example: "Teacher went on a 20-minute rant about his dog, bro is on a side quest"
Community origin: gaming community
Origin: 2022; mainstreamed: 2023; Gen Alpha adoption: 2023 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: Plot armor is carrying him
Meaning: Someone keeps getting lucky or avoiding consequences as if protected by a script
Primary platform: Gaming
Gaming context: Plot armor = video game/anime trope where protagonist can't die
Social context: Someone who avoids bad outcomes through sheer luck
Video context: Comment on someone escaping consequences in a video
Risk category: R0 — Neutral; narrative/gaming metaphor
Evolution: From fiction trope where main characters survive anything; applied to real life luck; 2023-2024 Gen Alpha usage
Positive example: "Failed every exam but still passed the class, plot armor is carrying him"
Community origin: gaming/anime community
Origin: 2022; mainstreamed: 2023; Gen Alpha adoption: 2023 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: Bro is doomposting again
Meaning: Someone is posting excessively negative or pessimistic content
Primary platform: Cross-platform
Gaming context: Common in gaming communities during bad patches or nerfs
Social context: Sharing hopeless or nihilistic content repeatedly
Video context: Comment on someone flooding feed with negative content
Risk category: R0 — Neutral descriptor of online behavior; describes but doesn't promote negativity
Evolution: Doom + posting; originated in political/news spaces; adopted by Gen Alpha for general pessimism; 2024
Positive example: "Bro is doomposting about finals again just study lol"
Community origin: none
Origin: 2020 (political); mainstreamed: 2023; Gen Alpha adoption: 2023 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: I'm dead bro stop
Meaning: That's so funny I'm dying of laughter
Primary platform: Cross-platform
Gaming context: Reaction to hilarious gameplay moments
Social context: Hyperbolic expression of extreme amusement
Video context: Comment on very funny content
Risk category: R0 — Neutral hyperbolic humor; models may flag death language
Evolution: Hyperbolic death = extreme laughter; evolution of 'I'm dead' / 'I'm dying'; ubiquitous Gen Alpha
Positive example: "I'm dead bro stop" [reacting to something hilarious]
Community origin: none
Origin: 2010s; mainstreamed: 2018; Gen Alpha adoption: 2020 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: Periodt
Meaning: End of discussion; emphatic period with finality
Primary platform: Cross-platform
Gaming context: After making a definitive gaming take
Social context: Emphatic sentence-ender indicating no further debate
Video context: Comment expressing strong agreement or finality
Risk category: R0 — Neutral emphasis marker
Evolution: From AAVE/drag culture; 't' added for emphasis; popularized via memes and RuPaul's Drag Race; Gen Alpha adopted 2022+
Positive example: "Best player in the league periodt"
Community origin: AAVE/LGBTQ+
Origin: 2018; mainstreamed: 2019; Gen Alpha adoption: 2022 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: Go off
Meaning: Express yourself freely; an encouragement to speak your mind or perform
Primary platform: Cross-platform
Gaming context: Encouragement after an impressive play
Social context: Supporting someone's rant or impressive moment
Video context: Comment encouraging a creator or performer
Risk category: R0 — Neutral/positive encouragement
Evolution: From AAVE/drag culture; encouragement to express yourself boldly; can be genuine or sarcastic depending on tone
Positive example: "Go off queen" [supporting someone's confident moment]
Community origin: AAVE/LGBTQ+
Origin: 2018; mainstreamed: 2019; Gen Alpha adoption: 2022 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: We stan
Meaning: We strongly support/admire someone
Primary platform: Cross-platform
Gaming context: Supporting a favorite streamer or esports player
Social context: Declaring strong fandom or support for someone
Video context: Comment expressing devotion to a creator
Risk category: R0 — Neutral expression of fandom; from Eminem's 'Stan' but now positive
Evolution: From Eminem song 'Stan' (2000); K-pop Twitter transformed it from negative (obsessive fan) to positive (passionate supporter); Gen Alpha adopted positive meaning
Positive example: "We stan a queen who speaks her mind"
Community origin: none
Origin: 2000 (Eminem); mainstreamed: 2018 (K-pop Twitter); Gen Alpha adoption: 2022 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: Go commit
Meaning: Telling someone to commit suicide (truncated for plausible deniability)
Primary platform: Gaming
Gaming context: Used in Roblox/gaming as harassment; truncated to evade filters
Social context: Severe harassment; suicide encouragement with plausible deniability via truncation
Video context: Harmful comment in gaming or social media
Risk category: R1 — Direct harm; suicide encouragement; truncated form of 'go commit suicide' designed to evade content filters
Evolution: Originated in Roblox where 'die' and 'kill' are filtered; 'go commit not alive/sewer slide/toaster bath' are variants; the truncated 'go commit' alone is sufficient as the implication is understood
Negative example: Any usage is harmful; suicide encouragement
Community origin: none
Origin: 2017 Roblox; mainstreamed: 2019; Gen Alpha adoption: 2020 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: Bro is a slender
Meaning: That person looks like a Roblox 'Slender' avatar (tall, thin, edgy aesthetic associated with predatory behavior)
Primary platform: Gaming
Gaming context: Roblox avatar type: tall, thin body, stitchface, edgy clothing; associated with 'ro-gangster' culture and online dating
Social context: Slenders are associated with Roblox ODers (online daters) who target younger players; the aesthetic signals predatory social behavior on the platform
Video context: Videos showcasing or mocking Slender avatars; grooming awareness content
Risk category: R1 — Direct harm; Slender subculture linked to grooming, ODing (online dating minors), and predatory behavior on children's platforms
Evolution: Slender avatars emerged 2020-2021 on Roblox; associated with 'mic up' culture, toxic behavior, and targeting younger players for 'e-dating'; the term signals awareness of platform-specific grooming vectors
Negative example: "Bro is a slender" [identifying someone exhibiting predatory Roblox behavior targeting younger players]
Community origin: none
Origin: 2020 Roblox; mainstreamed: 2021; Gen Alpha adoption: 2021 (native)
Status: active
Expression: Meanspo
Meaning: Mean-spirited content designed to shame people into restricting food intake (pro-eating-disorder term)
Primary platform: TikTok
Gaming context: Not primarily gaming
Social context: Pro-ED community language normalizing abusive 'motivation'; meanspo = mean + thinspo (deliberately cruel messages about weight to 'motivate' restriction)
Video context: ED TikTok content reframing abuse as motivation
Risk category: R1 — Direct harm; promotes eating disorder behaviors by normalizing cruel 'motivational' content designed to trigger food restriction
Evolution: Meanspo emerged from pro-anorexia communities 2010s; combines 'mean' + 'thinspo/fitspo'; deliberately cruel messages about someone's body framed as motivation to restrict eating; active on ED TikTok despite platform bans
Negative example: Any framing of meanspo as motivation normalizes eating disorder promotion
Community origin: none
Origin: 2010s pro-ana forums; mainstreamed: 2022 TikTok; Gen Alpha adoption: 2022 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: Thinspo
Meaning: Images/content glorifying extreme thinness to inspire weight loss/restriction (pro-eating-disorder term)
Primary platform: TikTok
Gaming context: Not primarily gaming
Social context: Pro-ED content reframed as seasonal body goals; thinspo = images/content glorifying extreme thinness to inspire weight loss/restriction
Video context: ED TikTok and Pinterest; 'summer body' reframes year-round restriction as seasonal goal
Risk category: R1 — Direct harm; promotes eating disorders by glorifying extreme thinness as aspirational
Evolution: Thinspo from early 2000s pro-ana websites; migrated to Tumblr, Pinterest, TikTok; seasonal variants (summer body, bikini season) normalize it as mainstream dieting; WHO 2024 reports 11% adolescent problematic social media use linked to body image
Negative example: Pro-eating-disorder content disguised as fitness motivation
Community origin: none
Origin: 2000s pro-ana web; mainstreamed: 2010s Tumblr/Pinterest; Gen Alpha adoption: 2022 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: Baby oil at the function
Meaning: Reference to baby oil allegedly found at Diddy's properties (evidence in abuse case)
Primary platform: TikTok
Gaming context: Not primarily gaming
Social context: Diddy meme referencing 1000+ bottles of baby oil allegedly seized by federal agents from his properties; implies sexual deviance
Video context: Comment on Diddy-related content or as general accusation of suspicious behavior
Risk category: R1 — Direct harm; references specific evidence from sexual abuse investigation; trivializes trafficking case
Evolution: Federal agents allegedly seized 1000+ bottles of baby oil and lubricant from Diddy's properties; became Gen Alpha meme; 'baby oil at the function' implies Diddy-style party
Negative example: References physical evidence from sex trafficking investigation as humor
Community origin: none
Origin: Nov 2024; mainstreamed: Dec 2024; Gen Alpha adoption: 2024 (native)
Status: active
Expression: Bone smashing for the jawline
Meaning: Hitting your face with hard objects to restructure bone for a better jawline (dangerous looksmaxxing practice)
Primary platform: TikTok
Gaming context: Not primarily gaming
Social context: Looksmaxxing community promotes bone smashing as way to reshape facial structure; medically dangerous; targets adolescent boys
Video context: Tutorial-style videos demonstrating or discussing bone smashing techniques
Risk category: R1 — Direct harm; promotes self-injury disguised as self-improvement; no medical basis; can cause fractures, nerve damage
Evolution: Part of looksmaxxing subculture 2023-2024; pseudoscientific belief that repeated micro-trauma reshapes bone (Wolff's law misapplication); targets teenage boys insecure about jawline; related to mewing
Negative example: Promotes dangerous self-harm disguised as appearance improvement
Community origin: none
Origin: 2023 looksmaxxing forums; mainstreamed: 2024; Gen Alpha adoption: 2024 (native)
Status: active
Expression: She's for the streets fr
Meaning: She's promiscuous and not relationship material
Primary platform: Cross-platform
Gaming context: Not primarily gaming
Social context: Misogynistic phrase dismissing women as promiscuous; used to shame women's sexual choices
Video context: Comment on relationship or dating content
Risk category: R1 — Direct harm; slut-shaming; reduces women to sexual history; misogynistic dismissal
Evolution: From Future (rapper) 2020; became mainstream insult; weaponizes women's sexual history; Gen Alpha adopted as casual misogynistic put-down
Negative example: Slut-shaming expression that reduces women to sexual history
Community origin: none
Origin: 2020 (Future); mainstreamed: 2021; Gen Alpha adoption: 2022 (adopted)
Status: active
Expression: She's been ran through ngl
Meaning: She's had many sexual partners (derogatory)
Primary platform: Cross-platform
Gaming context: Not primarily gaming
Social context: Extremely derogatory phrase about a woman's sexual history; implies she's been 'used up'
Video context: Comment used to shame women
Risk category: R1 — Direct harm; extreme slut-shaming; dehumanizing sexual language about women
Evolution: Misogynistic phrase treating women as objects 'used' by men; 'ran through' = had sex with many people; 'ngl' (not gonna lie) adds false sincerity
Negative example: Dehumanizing sexual language reducing women to objects
Community origin: none
Origin: 2020s; mainstreamed: 2022; Gen Alpha adoption: 2023 (adopted)
Status: active