How We Spoke In The 2000s

[@NameExplain]

What's your favourite 2000s slang?

[@DKtrek21]

As a gamer, it's noob. It stood the test of time as the go to trashtalk word until now. Toxic millennial gamers are something else

[@limaalphanovemberzulu]

Awesome Sauce, 2 words.

[@NPSee-dv2xr]

Toll paid

[@fuqupal]

Bish!

[@pyrotempestwing]

@@DKtrek21It really should be spelled n00b, with zeroes instead of o’s. But that’s just the ‘90s kid in me being a teen in the ‘00s.

[@dursty3226]

rawr will never be cringe, because it's dinosaur for "i love you"

[@kelsqi-books4835]

The other day I heard a customer saying "rawr means I love you" in all seriousness to explain to her companion why her son kept yelling "RAWR!". ❤ 🦖 I knew I must be the same age as her lol

[@problem9222]

NOO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY DAYS ARE BEING NUMBERED MY BACK AGED BY A THOUSAND YEARS BY SEEING THIS VIDEO TITLE

[@thorpizzle]

I feel like "Talk to the hand" was more of a 90s thing.

[@juliegirl1989]

It was definitely a thing in my friend circle in the early 2000s.

[@mpf1947]

It was, hence being said by Dr. Evil in the second Austin Powers movie (after speedrunning the last decade of pop culture).

[@LindaengelustrupBlogspot]

It was on Ricky Lake in the 1990's.

[@nicholasharvey1232]

I remember a classmate in middle school (probably 1996-1997) who wore a T-shirt that said "Talk To The Hand". Sometimes the phrase is extended to, "Talk to the hand, 'cause the face ain't listening."

[@thorpizzle]

​@@juliegirl1989 If it made its way into the 2000s, it was a holdover from the 90s, and it only lasted a few years.

[@Aureus_]

Time is going scarily fast

[@the80hdgaming]

And sadly, it goes faster the older you get...

[@fuqupal]

Fun fact: The Fukshima earthquake in 2011 that sent a tsunami into Japan was so powerful that it tilted the earth's axis a tiny bit and sent us all one second into the future. If you don't believe me, look it up. And here's the fun part: Ever since people, even young people, have felt that time is speeding up somehow. Look that up too! Millions of people on the webz feel that.

[@maxzytaruk8558]

I'm scared.. just turned 24, I thought time would start speeding up well into my 40s and 50s growing up, but it's already fast 😢

[@chitlitlah]

@@fuqupal I'm replying to you just in case you were as high as I think you were when you typed that so when you sober up, you'll get a notification to come read what you wrote. Please let us know what you were on and what you think about your message now.

[@Curttehmurt]

I am almost certain take a chill pill dates back to the 80s

[@j.p.giambalvo1123]

It does, or possibly earlier. Google Ngram Viewer contains many examples of "take a chill pill" printed in published works during the 1980s, which means it had likely been in verbal use for longer.

[@teflonravager]

I am certain as well.

[@LaVieDeReine86]

I am almost 39. You have just reminded me how deeply old I sound. Which I was blissfully unaware of. However, after consulting my 21yo bf, he informs me that I should sound that old. If I spoke like a 21yo, he said he would, "Legit, ghost my ass irl."

[@alexiswelsh5821]

I remember texting on number pads. It was really annoying

[@nickimontie]

This video is amaze-balls! Foshizzle!

[@Bacopa68]

Chill Out and Chillin' date back to the 80s. Originally "Chill out" and "Chill" were used in the imperative voice and were commands to calm down or be quiet. By the late 80's "chill out" and "chillin'" were used differently to mean simply to relax or waste time.

[@ajwinberg]

I am pretty sure Buff has been around since the 80s or 90s having the same meaning as you mentioned here.

[@ghosthost100]

This was my teenage years 2003 - 2009, cringe but nostalgic!

[@pantone369c]

"lol" and the like are from the 90s. I got the internet in my home in 1994 and everyone in the AOL chatrooms were using them then.

[@elainebenes7971]

But it didn't enter pop culture until the 2000s

[@pantone369c]

@@elainebenes7971 Maybe things didn't catch on as quickly in the J. Peterman office.

[@fuqupal]

LOL it from the 80s

[@fuqupal]

@@elainebenes7971 It entered pop culture in the late 90s.

[@pyrotempestwing]

Fun fact: the earliest known case of OMG was from a letter to Winston Churchill. A lot is older than we think.

[@markadams7046]

Maybe my memory is sketchy, but some of these words being used like these, it seems like they were used before 2000. Maybe they were just slower to get to the British Isles.

[@chitlitlah]

Yes, I remember a lot of these being used when I was in high school in the 90s. One of my friends put "buff" in his internet handle and we still make fun of him for that. I think LOL might date back to the BBS days in the 80s or at least early 90s. Shizzle was Snoop Dogg talk from the late 90s.

[@teflonravager]

I remember Chill Pill from a long time before 2000.

[@limaalphanovemberzulu]

I was born during the 2nd phase of the late 2000s: 2008, and yeah I mostly use these like mostly other teens which is still common and yeah time goes fast tbh.

[@norh4573]

I was born almost halfway through the 2000s (2004). I’m going to feel so old when words like rizz start getting this treatment.

[@nsb9999]

RaWr xD

[@Illumisepoolist]

The gold age of my life. The Gamecube and Game Boy Advance were my gaming memories!

[@belstar1128]

pure epic pwnage 4 teh win

[@belstar1128]

its interesting how some slang stays around forever or for many decades. while other slang became uncool after just a few years

[@Shinathen]

Being born in 2007 I still used a lot of these, up until about 2013 or so

[@duncandewar9885]

IMO has two variants i use (one i may have coined) IMHO and IMNSHO.

[@A_Salty_Fishe]

I was hoping there would be a "fetch" reference! I wasn’t disappointed

[@patax144]

I was born in 1999 but and I learned English during the 2000s in school and with some TV, so that is the slang I learned

[@panosmosproductions3230]

I was born in 2005, and I still use acronyms like lol and words like chillax.

[@reidatherton7743]

Totes my goats, this took me back

[@duncandewar9885]

Two of my three children were born in the aughts. One in the 20th century (2000) and one the next year in the 2nd Millennium.

[@DawnDavidson]

I feel REEEEEAALLLY old now.

[@AncTreat5358]

Yay, the Mean Girls reference! And I'm not a young girl that it appeals to, as you mentioned in the video, but an older gay man. :)

[@Taneth]

A lot of those acronyms come from the days of the telegraph.

[@leiocerayt]

I was born in 2004 so I don't remember much lol. That might be the reason why I didn't feel any nostalgia 🤷🏽‍♂

[@mrengulfeddirector]

Chillax is so boxxy

[@Oscarhudson_Official]

RAWR? More like RALR!

[@jeffjones4654]

OMG was used in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917.

[@electra424]

I feel old

[@Someone-dy5ui]

By 2045 everyone would speak Stupendium

[@jpopbakkari]

Ahh yes, thanks for the trip down memory lane. I said all of these lol.

[@CallunaNightWolf]

Best ending ever!

[@Pangloss6413]

I MUCH prefer this to the slang my fellow zoomers use

[@johnburnside7828]

Bling and buff go back to at least the 1980s.

[@jugganaut26]

Chillax predates the 2000s, IIRC

[@Everfrost1000]

Cool beans

[@NaturallyMeeee]

I thought talk to the hand was 90s...

[@fuqupal]

"Talk to the hand" was popularized with Terminator 3 and that movie was released in 2003.

[@NaturallyMeeee]

@fuqupal no...definitely mid-late 90s. I remember Laura from Family Matters doing it

[@panosmosproductions3230]

No capp, I use capp.

[@nicholasharvey1232]

How do you make a 12-minute video about '00s slang and never mention leetspeak, even in passing? This video missed an opportunity for real pwnage. You could have added a leetspeak segment and extended the video's length to 13:37 and that in itself would have been hugely meta.

[@panosmosproductions3230]

RAP; Rapid Aggressive Poetry

[@jefferybushnik3057]

I'm not a fan of the new series Patrick Makes Me Feel Sad And Old. 😂

[@mingfanzhang4600]

😅😅😅

[@mingfanzhang8927]

😊

[@jacksonokane4176]

I was born in 2000 😂 what a cringe time at least the movies were good

[@mingfanzhang8927]

Kkk

[@mingfanzhang4600]

😊

[@whitewolffearly0013]

woah what

[@mingfanzhang8927]

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[@mingfanzhang4600]

@@mingfanzhang8927 #KFC

[@R08Tam]

LMFAO

[@catalystcomet]

You just going to lose past all of pop punk? Really? What?

[@fuqupal]

The last fun decade before everything started to fucking SUCK!

[@whitewolffearly0013]

accurate