Parents doing text slang wrong

A huge thank you everyone for helping me reach a quite frankly ridiculous half a million subscribers wtf tysm tbh ily gtg lol brb tldr thx

[@LRexx]

my parents once messaged me “KYS” while i was going on a walk. they thought it meant “keep yourself safe”

[@audrey2498]

💀💀💀

[@ChristusVincit236]

i wheezed-

[@engtilde]

@@ChristusVincit236 why the -

[@ghostcreeper243]

Ahhhhhh😂

[@paintyxd]

I am pretty sure they knew what it meant

[@MoonWielder]

All jokes aside here, these parents that were trying to adapt and bond with their kids with texting is honestly the sweetest thing I've ever seen.

[@kingpig8732]

understand the enemy

[@aceistheplacewithunhelpfulaces]

It is kind of cute but it’s really funny to laugh at people failing at acronyms

[@FranciumBoron]

"Titties be hanging" Good Lord.

[@notahuman5722]

@Ace Monster I thought you said it’s not really funny thank god you didn’t otherwise the roasts would be nonstop lol

[@arthurmartin4616]

Parents making an effort is always nice to see

[@LavenderCorpses]

One time I was joking about the phrase 'busting a nut' and my mom asked what it meant. Out of fear I told her it meant to 'work really hard', like to the point where you were exhausted. Totally forgot about it until she came home from work in front of my dad and brother hollering "Totally busted a nut at work today!"

[@HVY526]

Did you tell her the actual meaning? She must be making a fool of herself. 💀

[@wasp795]

it kinda makes sense if your a robot you could work really hard and so a nut (this 🔩) could break

[@sock2828]

I've had almost the opposite of this happen to me when I had to look up an acronym my inexplicably acronym literate 71 year old mother perfectly used in a text, and it turned out to be a pretty common one that I somehow didn't know. I think it's the only time an old person has ever made me feel old and out of touch.

[@velvetbutterfly]

What was the acronym I wonder

[@igneousschwarz]

It's been 5 months since @velvetbutterfly 's question we need the answer and we need it now

[@PresentBomb]

I asked my mom if she knew what WYD meant, and she knew a lot of internet slang, so I assumed she would know. To my surprise, she guessed that it meant, “What? You dumb?” And I started laughing, and then told her what it actually meant.

[@JimJimWACA]

I mean.. I could see that

[@robinrehlinghaus1944]

What DOES it mean though? I'm German

[@SwizzleDrizzl]

some of these alternatives are better than the originals

[@SwizzleDrizzl]

@@robinrehlinghaus1944 It means "What're you doing"

[@bacongaming527]

I thought it meant why your donkers

[@ollie32354]

Matt never fails to impress me with his ability to pronounce keyboard spam.

[@humblebumblebee5055]

He regularly keyboard spams in conversation

[@xfreja]

smash*

[@hexagon8899]

and fails on lmao

[@glitchmasterd5908]

lol

[@KimBouchard]

@@pvzmariosonica8fan Do locals have an abbreviated nickname for it?

[@54_flaws]

this made me tempted to ask my parents what fml meant and my mum said ‘female melting lipstick’ and my dad said ‘flipping microphone latency’ 💀💀💀

[@reharm_reality]

"Flipping microphone latency" lmao fml could mean that for a very small subset of people sometimes I suppose

[@hello_ree]

fbnrl

[@SavouryGalette]

What in the world is FEMALE. MELTING. LIPSTICK 💀💀💀

[@Xnoob545]

That damn microphone latency though...

[@Cheezbuckets]

There’s just something poetic about parents assuming innocent acronyms are full of curse words and nsfw acronyms are entirely innocent.

[@threegoblinsinatrenchcoat748]

My mom has repeatedly used the smirking emoji without knowing what it means, but I think that the worse use of if it was "I got a cucumber, for the salad 😏" I tried desperately to explain to her what that actually meant. She still uses that emoji and I get dealt psychic damage every time.

[@Baloongis2]

Wtf😏

[@vixy2321]

She was doing it on purpose.

[@CircutCircus]

Hey sweetie, I just got your favorite snacks from the store 😏

[@arithesillygoober]

lol 😏

[@Spongyboi897]

My mom once messaged me "Fish fish fiiiiiss🐠🐠🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐠🐠🐠🐠🐠 hhhhhhh", we were talking about getting another pet fish during that time.

[@EG-ui1ep]

once i tested my dad on slang and when it got to the point where i was explaining the difference between peng and leng and he thought i was making it up, he decided to create his own slang: “get your cramps on girls, it’s dodecahedron time!”… we still don’t know what it means, and neither does he

[@BlueLiminality]

When your period pain gets so bad, you go to the twelfth dimension?

[@DrZaius3141]

In Dungeons and Dragons the 12-sided die, a dodecahedron, is usually associated with barbarians who use it as their hit die and often use the greataxe, for which it is the damage die. Therefore, "dodecahedron time" very clearly refers to flying into a rage.

[@engtilde]

@@DrZaius3141 SHIHIHIIIITTTTTTTTT IM SO FUHUUUUCKIN PIIISISISSSSEDDDDDDDD OML OML I THINK IM ACTUALLY GONNA GO INTO A GYCOGIDT

[@overlord5186]

I am going to use that from now. It is weird but i will still use it

[@therighttrousers343]

Was it "get your cramps on" or "get your crampons"? Because crampons are for climbing, traversing ice, that sort of thing. Alongside the dodecahedron DnD comment in the thread, maybe he's just really eager or angry and wants to go Viking?

[@PieIsGud2808]

There’s a pattern. If the acronym is sexual then the parents will think it means something that isn’t sexual and vice versa for non sexual acronyms

[@binary_terror2]

My mom doesn’t use text speak but does inappropriately use emojis. She just uses ones she thinks are cute and one time messaged me “there’s turkey in the fridge 🥺” and I still haven’t recovered.

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

Elaborate, your emoji is to rare for my device.

[@xenolizardz]

@@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts it's the puppy-eyes pleading emoji

[@velvetbutterfly]

What is there to recover from?

[@_StarrySkys_]

@@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts what device are you using

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

@@xenolizardz Thank you.

[@A_Dog_Named_Vox]

I have one. It's not exactly an abbreviation, but I guess it does count as text slang. In Chinese, there's a phrase “玩坏了”, or literally "played with until broken". My mom thought it meant "exhausted" or "done with other people's antics", so she used it to describe everything. Our cat, me, and her friends' kids. They all loved it and thought that it was fun. Talking about our cat sleeping all day long? Joking about a child who is sulking after being teased? Comforting a coworker who is tired of being bossed around by eyeryone else? She uses the phrase in all of that. Actually, the phrase has a meaning more similar to "fucked silly". It usually was jargon from hentai connoisseurs, and describe when someone is being fucked - "played" - so hard that they literally goes limp or even loses consciousness and becomes "broken". So, the aforementioned scenarios become: "Snowball's been soooo tired! He really is fucked silly after all the cat zoomies!" "Awwww little Timmy, your big brother fucked you silly, didn't he?" "Girl, I'm here for you, even though the boss fucks the both of us silly every day!" I have absolutely zero idea how my mom learned it, but I was way too afraid to tell her because it could ruin my image as her innocent and stand-up son. But, everytime I remember my mom using this to describe people - and especially me, I cringe until my brain explodes.

[@arctohru]

Certified pain-peko moment

[@rebeccahherdener2068]

😂🤣

[@melonachii]

oh your poor mother 💀

[@Emihasdreamstoo]

😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@juf9055]

plot twist: she knows what it actually means

[@jakelange1290]

My mom said “LOL” when my favorite uncle died of cancer. I scrambled to actually tell her what it meant before she told “LOL” to anyone else. She thought it meant “lots of love”

[@noahb676rfnn9]

💀

[@engtilde]

💀

[@0861905421]

Why does it not?

[@jamaluddinkhalifa8371]

@@0861905421 "lots of laughter", or "laughing out loud"

[@OpticIlluzhion]

It actually used to mean that back in the day but yeah nowadays nope

[@EnormousPurpleGarden]

In high school, I genuinely thought that FTW meant WTF backwards. Probably because a friend liked to respond to people saying "what the fuck?" out loud by saying "fuck the WHAT?"

[@anteaterborzoiTheBigBorzoi]

I remember a friend online one time trying to tell me what 'smh' and 'lol' meant (even though I already knew, but it was funny to watch anyway). I quote him: "So, my brother said smh means Smack My Head, like a facepalm, and lol means Literally Over Lighted, like when something is too bright" He found out the next day that his brother lied to him and unfriended me probably because I didn't tell him.

[@Cottontailtie]

My mom thought milf meant “mother in law figure” and when she used it casually I nearly choked on my breakfast

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

What's so funny about Mastering In Laws and Finances?

[@LogShaw1587]

Has anyone told her it's "mother I'd like to fuck?"

[@secretsmokystarr]

@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 💀

[@fierytigergaming8112]

@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 Correction: "Mother I like f*cking"

[@LewDanLascivious8276]

I've been saying for a while that this is the dumbing-down of America where people actually use acronyms to spell out words; it's bad enough that a lot of Americans don't know how to spell, use correct punctuation and grammar but now everyone's talking in abbreviated senses, this is scary because people are getting the wrong impression of their friends and relatives text messages because they're not getting body language, the tone of the actual words from someone's mouth or facial expressions, just words on a screen, at least with a landline phone you get the tone of words but the word phone is a derivative of the word phony which means phony communications. I once seen an older man try to look up what an acronym meant that he got on a text from a younger person and I told him "don't do that make the kid spell it out for you" or you'll eventually get more and more dumbed down by technology too. If everyone keeps this up pretty soon they're going to end up living in a cave somewhere like cavemen and women talking to each other like Charlie Brown's teacher.... wah wah wah wah wah wah! And if you think I'm joking on where it's going then how come just 15 years ago or so I heard they've allowed Ebonics in some colleges as an actual language which is just broken English (English slang)? First it was person-to-person communication then started phone to phone communication 150 years ago or so which allowed everyone to separate because they knew they could get ahold of each other from a distance but now it's text to text. This phone s*** is breaking down the fabric seams of our social structure and the way humans communicate naturally and the same with the way Facebook separates millions of us to. "The problems plain to see Too much technology Machines to save our lives Machines dehumanize" Mr. Roboto by Styx

[@BigMac87963]

Honestly “fuck the what” sounds like a perfect replacement for WTF that I will definitely be using for now on

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

"Ouate le phoque" is still my favorite variation though.

[@bitebackbunny]

@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 wadding the seal? lmao

[@devincetee5335]

I honestly used to think that (then again, I don't think I heard for the win before I saw FTW)

[@napstaperd8824]

_"Fuck, the what?"_ Finally, a passive *wtf*

[@blazi7560]

I'm ashamed that I thought that a while ago

[@Exilecomics]

My dad once thought that "lmao" meant "the bad one". He got confused with the French words "le mal"

[@HVY526]

“I’m lmao.”

[@knobletosyt3709]

05:00 they do be hanging tho

[@yahyayazgi]

💀

[@godslittlestidiot2984]

My dad has started using emojis, but only in the exact wrong context. I swear he knows how they work and chooses ones that don't mean what he's textually conveying

[@kaleenar963]

Ooo I want to hear examples

[@godslittlestidiot2984]

@@kaleenar963 My favorite one is I showed him a cover of a book and he just did the punching emoji and dead eye stare happy face like this: 👊😃. Like he obviously meant to do rock on ✊ but he did that instead XD. There's more but it would take tons of scrolling through screenshots to find. I think another good one was he uses the fearful 😱entirely too much.

[@Weegeecloneguy]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6SwqX2eYpaiprs&feature=share

[@godslittlestidiot2984]

@Hatsune Miku's Leek Oh my GOD my dad uses 🥵🤡 once to describe dinner and like it's not wrong but I was like DAD 😅😅😅

[@namegoesfirstthenlastname1785]

@@godslittlestidiot2984 lmao

[@samuelamejia5007]

My mom uses the smirk face weirdly like "Your Cousin is here 😏"

[@kyokazuto]

That's really inappropriate except in Alabama maybe.

[@goldenboy86gd]

@@kyokazuto bruh she clearly doesnt know that 😏 is sexual tho

[@LogShaw1587]

@@kyokazuto Tennessee has more incest

[@cato9105]

@@kyokazuto You misspelled Pakistan

[@DesertsOfHighfleet]

@@cato9105 burkina faso.

[@ThanatosStyx]

Yeah one time when I started teaching myself english about 8 years ago, I was playing online with a friend of mine, and some guys started arguing with him, so I tried to help him out. They asked me why I was protecting him, and if I was his bf.. and back then I thought bf meant bff, so I uhhh said yes :) Back then we used to play in some slightly homophobic servers, so those guys got reaaal quiet after that. Neither of us were gay lmao

[@lazarusrat6159]

I enjoy when the parental version is way more lewd than the intended meaning.

[@Xnoob545]

Well they uhhh... have children do you know how people usually get children?

[@velvetbutterfly]

@@Xnoob545but a lot of parents are from a gen when it was taboo to openly talk about lewd things. Much less feel comfortable saying lewd stuff to or in front of their children

[@symera7809]

Not a parent, but my boss recently asked me if I knew what "sus" meant, because his daughter would say it all the time. Without missing a beat, I said: "Wow, pretty sus that you don't know that." and when he looked at me weird I proceeded to explain it. He responded: "Oh, I thought it meant 'suck u sometime' " I don't know in which context his daughter said it, so that he could possibly get that corrolation.

[@rdx1419]

Must be a weird family tree

[@LogShaw1587]

@@rdx1419 "step bro kinda sus"

[@TMHLBPFan]

@@LogShaw1587 Hell nah family tree goes OUT 💀💀💀

[@limeyrolls]

@@LogShaw1587 noooooooo 💀💀💀

[@LewDanLascivious8276]

I've been saying for a while that this is the dumbing-down of America where people actually use acronyms to spell out words; it's bad enough that a lot of Americans don't know how to spell, use correct punctuation and grammar but now everyone's talking in abbreviated senses, this is scary because people are getting the wrong impression of their friends and relatives text messages because they're not getting body language, the tone of the actual words from someone's mouth or facial expressions, just words on a screen, at least with a landline phone you get the tone of words but the word phone is a derivative of the word phony which means phony communications. I once seen an older man try to look up what an acronym meant that he got on a text from a younger person and I told him "don't do that make the kid spell it out for you" or you'll eventually get more and more dumbed down by technology too. If everyone keeps this up pretty soon they're going to end up living in a cave somewhere like cavemen and women talking to each other like Charlie Brown's teacher.... wah wah wah wah wah wah! And if you think I'm joking on where it's going then how come just 15 years ago or so I heard they've allowed Ebonics in some colleges as an actual language which is just broken English (English slang)? First it was person-to-person communication then started phone to phone communication 150 years ago or so which allowed everyone to separate because they knew they could get ahold of each other from a distance but now it's text to text. This phone s*** is breaking down the fabric seams of our social structure and the way humans communicate naturally and the same with the way Facebook separates millions of us to. "The problems plain to see Too much technology Machines to save our lives Machines dehumanize" Mr. Roboto by Styx

[@supercat4539]

My Dad called my sister “g”, and knows way more slang than we do. I feel outclassed

[@Hereshow2code]

first reply, i guess

[@o_Maple_.]

Second reply I gUeSs Start a chain

[@uhhhhhy]

Third reply, I guess

[@vinny.montgomery]

not gonna let the chain happen

[@exclipser]

fifth reply, i guess

[@tzarina-alexandra9211]

0:36 the way he pronounced that "abt" sounded like a chicken

[@chickenmaster3879]

4:40 I know it means For The Win, but I always read it F___ The What before doing a double take.

[@user-vi5vn1gm6p]

As a non-native English speaker I am here to laugh and learn at the same time

[@blixten635real]

How’s it going?

[@cinnamonroll372]

My dad likes to text me “smh my head”. I love him so much lmao

[@Theworstranslator]

so he says "shaking my head my head

[@cinnamonroll372]

@@Theworstranslator yep exactly lol

[@zips_notebook]

lol

[@Drumb_]

Fuuuccckk, sometimes i do that. 💀

[@notNajimi]

smh my head is very funny, I type that all the time. guarantee he knows and does it on purpose

[@BORLMBK]

Things like this make me glad my parents haven’t been exposed to text language. The extent of my parents’ text language is the odd LOL but nothing more

[@Catastropheshe]

5:15 got to go to go to go to go...(fading, echoing)

[@phs125]

Throwback to my highschool days when I was still learning conversational English, (English isn't my native language) And one of my classmates (girl) sent me a text (guy) saying "I'm pissed off" I couldn't understand exactly what it meant, so I didn't delete that message ( I usually deleted all my messages) My parents decided to check the phone when I was in school, and found a text they didn't understand, from a girl, they got curious, this was before internet was common, so they took out the old dictionary my dad borrowed from his brother in the 60s, and searched the word "piss" When I finally reached home, I got my ass whopped because some girl wanted to pee on me.

[@devinlewis5116]

You poor thing 😅

[@DeathnoteBB]

Damn… hope you got therapy

[@athmaid]

How is it your fault anyway skullemoji

[@LewDanLascivious8276]

I've been saying for a while that this is the dumbing-down of America where people actually use acronyms to spell out words; it's bad enough that a lot of Americans don't know how to spell, use correct punctuation and grammar but now everyone's talking in abbreviated senses, this is scary because people are getting the wrong impression of their friends and relatives text messages because they're not getting body language, the tone of the actual words from someone's mouth or facial expressions, just words on a screen, at least with a landline phone you get the tone of words but the word phone is a derivative of the word phony which means phony communications. I once seen an older man try to look up what an acronym meant that he got on a text from a younger person and I told him "don't do that make the kid spell it out for you" or you'll eventually get more and more dumbed down by technology too. If everyone keeps this up pretty soon they're going to end up living in a cave somewhere like cavemen and women talking to each other like Charlie Brown's teacher.... wah wah wah wah wah wah! And if you think I'm joking on where it's going then how come just 15 years ago or so I heard they've allowed Ebonics in some colleges as an actual language which is just broken English (English slang)? First it was person-to-person communication then started phone to phone communication 150 years ago or so which allowed everyone to separate because they knew they could get ahold of each other from a distance but now it's text to text. This phone s*** is breaking down the fabric seams of our social structure and the way humans communicate naturally and the same with the way Facebook separates millions of us to. "The problems plain to see Too much technology Machines to save our lives Machines dehumanize" Mr. Roboto by Styx

[@dawnstream12]

Lmao

[@alex-uq1yj]

as a person who has English as a second language, I thought that "mf" meant "my friend"

[@tirsden]

Well, the word "bastard" has a variety of meanings to Australians, including both contexts for what you've said. XD

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

Better if it did.

[@fruferbu]

see you later mf

[@aleatoryone]

Depending on the friend, you're not THAT wrong

[@purpleissupeirior]

I mean, same thing

[@okaymoonstorm]

No one ever taught me SMD, so I saw it as SMH and to this day, even KNOWING the meaning, my brain still goes: “Shake/shaking my dick”

[@reharm_reality]

I do a similar thing where when ppl say smdh (for shaking my damn head) I read it as smd and go "suck my dick... head?" It's worse that it sort of makes sense that way lol because then I start thinking it could be right.

[@Xnoob545]

I was recently playing modded Minecraft and I thought of SMD components (like SMD resistors, SMD capacitors, SMD diodes, etc) SMD stands for surface mount devices, they're a type of component that basically goes directly on the circuit board They're famously annoying to remove IRL and in the modpack I'm playing they happen to be a crafting component

[@Sopran0livia]

When I was younger I thought “ikr” meant “I can relate”, and I still don’t know why I thought that.

[@angelodc1652]

I thought that "I know right" was IKN

[@Vox-Multis]

I mean, that's more or less the same meaning anyway.

[@Xnoob545]

I kan relate

[@Hrochnick]

I have a relative who thought LOL meant "lot's of love". He one day sent an email informing the wider family of a death of a someone in his close family. Lovely email, heartfelt, well written, ended with LOL. To be fair, he (and others) were using LOL for lot's of love for years, if not decades, before texting was even a thing. Still, tragic and hilarious all at the same time.

[@rainbowycutesy]

Ohhhh nooooo💀

[@worlds_worst_tf2_player]

BROOOOOOO 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@brunoslybruno]

to be fair, if he had been using it way before internet slang, then theres no reason to stop, specially if those people he sent the email too also use it that way

[@Hrochnick]

@@brunoslybruno Agreed. There were probably only a few of us that even noticed and found it tragically funny.

[@sola_is_chilling]

"I hope you recover from your loss of your mother! LOL!"

[@BB-TheCandleFairy]

4:34 this is both hilarious and so much better in every way- Like pair it with the original, plus this interpretation, you just get this threatening combination of “be right back, better run b*tch.”

[@Spheraz]

you can uncensor the bitch part

[@devincetee5335]

Yes

[@Spheraz]

@@devincetee5335 No

[@EP1CxEMAN08]

brbbrb

[@kiraoshiro9251]

I was thinking about my family texting each other but with these alternative meanings. We use brb all the time so I'm imagining my mom saying something like "gonna run to the store real quick, *better run bitch* "

[@No.1StendyShipper]

1:03 Bro imagine you getting a text saying stfu when you didn’t even do anything 💀

[@cheeseburgermonkey7104]

i love how this guy has the random talent of being able to pronounce absolute gibberish

[@puredemon5926]

"Better Run Bitch." I love that. I wanna start using it but I don't think my mom would like it lol.

[@newyorkyankees81]

Or Better run Boii!

[@itsrass_.]

that's too innocent, but ydy

[@sabotower1792]

4:48 Okay, but I will now be adopting “Fuck the what?” into my lexicon

[@Cardinalt]

​@Grand Master Yoda holy shit, yoda

[@cosmictwizzler]

Fuck the what is a lexicon

[@Bigbarbin]

Cant blame them, I used to think “Np” meant noob and got angry at people for saying it to me after I thanked them for something 😂

[@mrblakeboy1420]

2:58 i tried to think of what the w would be and my first thought was wavacado

[@yahyayazgi]

😂

[@alice5790]

wettuce

[@g00berthealien]

SAME

[@leeshajoi]

I am not a parent but somewhere along the line I got the impression that "smh" meant "so much hate" and now I have to do a double-take every time I read it.

[@Simon-ps3oj]

smh

[@igku8339]

I'm young and I always thought it meant "somehow" til this video

[@wetsockfullofhotmeat]

I thought that for years

[@drawingbirb]

Oh me too. Never knew it meant something entirely different.

[@RedoCasshan]

I thought it meant "something".

[@GattoCatto_]

Your voice is perfect for commentary and the fact you say literally *everything* is so funny. Your voice is really charming

[@Hrochnick]

Bit too fast though, I have to pause (finger hovering over the spacebar) regularly to laugh or I'll miss the next three...

[@GameyRaccoon]

It's literally because hes british

[@thelichking5436]

creepy but ok

[@GattoCatto_]

@@thelichking5436 EXCUSE ME?? I'm just complimenting Matt???? (ㆆ_ㆆ)

[@GattoCatto_]

Where are these people coming from stop liking my comment lol

[@tobeseve4020]

I will never not be thinking about the time my dad told all of his coworkers he would be "out of pocket for the weekend" because he thought it meant not checking your phone.

[@Thatrondomperson5430]

“Am I just a simple British girl I’ve got tea in my blood so I dance with the king and my soul is torn apart”

[@DiamondRoller37]

I love the fact that these parents turned the wholesome ones unwholesome and the unwholesome ones wholesome, like in what context did you all see these lol

[@1UPWonders]

My mum just loves using emojis in texts but they’re always relative to the subject in conversation, I struck gold

[@revenevan11]

Must be nice!!! 🌾

[@whisperoftheworm6479]

Wow 🎍

[@huebuckle8198]

Great 🛖

[@St.Sogofhedgehogs]

amazing🦒

[@tobyewolfe9998]

1:31 I think older people are from a time where initials were used in an official setting, which is why sometimes they give the initials such descriptions.

[@mr.chinglemitts]

I remember when my parents told me that WTF meant "We truly forgive" and I looked at it that way for 5 years.

[@JacobDuby]

I just asked my parent what they thought some of these meant and the highlights were: My mother not understanding at first and just saying "smuh" for smh My mother thinking stfu meant "shit, that's fucked up" My father thinking rofl meant "right on, fucking loser" My mother thinking tbh meant "too bad, homie" And my mother somehow getting fml right EDIT: I should mention this was before they saw this video and it was a complete coincidence that their responses were similar to responses in the video

[@LogShaw1587]

Why would you show your parents a regular KZbin video that's just begging to feel awkward and stupid because of your sense of humor and/or taste in music.

[@Keznen]

Well "smh" is pronounced "smuh" just like how "lol" is pronounced "lole".

[@celestial260]

My mom thought "ong" meant overturn Nigeria's government because she had heard about the young communists of today hating nigeria in the newspaper.. i thought she was being satire, but it was genuine or maybe it was satire, i can never tell with her

[@VINCE-pp3es]

its all ways worrying with family like that

[@rdx1419]

Overthrow Nigeria’s government bruh ong they need to do that shit

[@myluciferislonely4313]

this is kinda random but i got intense deja vu while reading this comment

[@natoutofhell]

Your videos bring me five minutes of happiness every day and it's really nice. Ty for doing what you do

[@karinbrouwers3809]

Everyone: Me (an 18 year old): doesn’t know half the shit he’s saying and having to look it up. Yeah, I’m done.

[@Jasnah.Kholin]

my mom is convinced emojis are hieroglyphics and gen z texting is like a foreign language

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

🍄🐹😎🍞🐑🐖🎄🎵🥐🐛🌊🕶️🕜😭💔🙊😈🤓🤥 Right, fellow kids? I totally understand Gen Z.

[@cardboardking577]

@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 🥵🥗🙏😈💀😔😂🤣👿✋😝😍🤔😋😆

[@LogShaw1587]

It is Why can't we just talk normally why do we gotta do all the gay emoji shit

[@EP1CxEMAN08]

👈💣🏳🙂✋💧 ✌☀👈 👇✋👈☀🏳☝🙁✡🚩👇✋👍💧

[@MattManDX1]

Your mom is correct

[@Dale-ct5ru]

Great video Matt! A future suggestion: stories of how people ended up with their nicknames. There are some funny ones out there. An old friend of mine wrote a note about someone named Franklin, but his handwriting was so abysmal it looked like it said Evanflin. I proceeded to call this friend Evanflin for a year (pronounced just like the names Evan Flynn)

[@TheGelasiaBlythe]

My nephew, learning to talk, couldn't say my name - Danielle. I mean, it's a tough one to say and spell. His first attempt was gold, as he blurted out, "Dinga!" Of course, my entire family was there, and it immediately got taken up as my new nickname. Poor kid couldn't recreate that name, and I was just "Ga" after that. People who met me would hear that nickname and wonder what in the world prompted it, though.

[@maggielovestoads]

I call my brother “T Cat” because when we were kids we were at Home Depot and there was pesticide that said it worked for tent caterpillars and I proceeded to use it as a fake insult and then it just ended up getting shortened and being his nickname somehow….

[@throwawayaccount4008]

My dad is the best at coming up with nicknames. The first nickname he gave me was "Statue" (apparently, one time when I was 3, I imitated a statue). From there, it has evolved into Statch, Statchaleuia (I still have no clue where he got the "-leuia" bit from), Leuia (pronounced "loo-ya"), Loo, Glue, and finally, Glucosamine.

[@TheGelasiaBlythe]

@@throwawayaccount4008 tell him you answer to Chondroitin now.

[@krystal1722]

We had a new classmate from Wisconsin that I started calling Cheeseboy and the nickname has followed him for over 10 years. He's an adult with a child and people still call him Cheeseboy.... 😕 I did that.

[@leeharding9349]

“Later my darling son” my heart…

[@alexandersergal]

I always read GG as "get good" and it always gives me a chuckle.

[@joshgiesbrecht]

"hit my unit" is absolutely fucking perfect. In fact, she went above and beyond the meaning and made it better.

[@Biggoose_]

I literally never knew Goat was an abbreviation, I just thought goats were cool

[@dadoctah]

Back in the sixties, Charlie Brown, in the comics, went through a long stretch of worrying that "sometimes you're the hero, other times you're the goat". The choice he made would determine the outcome. So now when I hear "you're the goat", I can't help thinking it translates as "you made the wrong choice".

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

Of all places, I recently had the meaning of GOAT explained to me in a sermon.

[@Saasan]

I thought had something to do with people wanting to "EGOT" or get an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. Like, a strange misspelling somehow?

[@anophelesnow3957]

@@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts How did your sermon go? Jesus was the lamb of God, but also the GOAT of God?

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

@@anophelesnow3957 Nearly. The elder said that people use the phrase GOAT about athletes and celebreties, but Jesus really was the GOAT. It was weird, I go to the kind of congregation where talking about Napoleon is considered a topical reference, so I wasn't expecting a lesson in slang. I was expecting him to bring out Matthew 25:32 "All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats." But no. Mixed messages I guess.

[@amzrigh]

My best friend in middle school (late '90s) thought "lol" meant "loser online" In high school, I got my friend a shirt that just said "WTF?" When her mother asked what it meant, knowing she wouldn't be allowed to wear it if she told the truth, my friend answered, "Where's the fire?"

[@kilikclia]

As someone who almost never used abbreviations or gets on social media often, I still have to look up these slangs, and boy was I wrong about some of them 😅

[@s.i.k.3879]

Same!

[@Iluvpie6]

I feel like a lot of older people think that internet slang/acronyms can stand for anything they want

[@thanoof]

Because they do

[@Iluvpie6]

@@thanoof well I suppose so, but no one will know wtf you’re talking about. There are specific sociolinguistic conventions that they adhere to.

[@tirsden]

@@Iluvpie6 *Language* moon pie fiddle sticks *is* not my best look *overrated* wouldn't think twice.

[@scaredandconfused]

Never forget the time my aunt thought 'lol' meant 'Lots of Love' and sent that to someone on facebook who's mother had just died I miss you aunt Rita, you never failed to make me laugh 😂 Edit: Forgot to mention that the girl who's mom died then proceeded to block my aunt and poor Rita was so confused as to why. Me and my dad had to tell her what 'lol' meant and she felt so bad she cried 🥲

[@BlueDragon-vm1bt]

I'm sorry for your loss, lol

[@naan000]

aww your poor aunt :(

[@The_lamb_sauce]

My mom taught me text slang because me texting is basically when your 50 year old grandma gets a new phone

[@foxfour3683]

Not my parents but my grandma thought “lol” meant “lots of love” and so when she was at a funeral of a family member, at the end of her eulogy she just said “LOL”. Everyone just stared at her. It was very awkward

[@sockeyestation]

I want to live in the world where FML really means Funky Man's Love

[@SamanthaTheSonicFan]

In a different context, STFU, FML and HMU could also technically be used for "So Thankful For You (U)" or "For My Lord" or "Help Me Understand". I guess it just depends on the message and the general "feeling" of it. I love how these parents make up their own acronyms and some of them come out more wholesome than their original intention!

[@engtilde]

Stop spamming

[@scythal]

@@dannypipewrench533 We should really bring in GBWY as an acronym. Is it pronounced G-bwee? G-B-W-Y? Who knows!

[@keylimepie3143]

In one context STFU stands for Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Had a social studies textbook with that in it and some person who previously had the book had it circled and put "lol" next to it.

[@engtilde]

@tvrhd2022 💀

[@cosmictwizzler]

@@engtilde ???

[@Kiuytd]

I am very ashamed of myself for thinking a year ago that ‘SMH’ meant so much hate 😂

[@robotface42O]

My grandma though lol was lots of love so once her sister passed she told everyone lol. We ended up having a good laugh at over it now but at the time people where horrified

[@ReuPortPsy]

Congrats on half a million subs! I couldn't be happier to be part of a community like this.

[@Matt_Rose]

😊😊😊

[@rinoz47]

Smh matt! (Slapping my hands)

[@paperstrawsYT]

@@rinoz47 smh (slapping my hands) chain

[@OfficialSuperMKG]

@@paperstrawsYT smh (slapping my hands)

[@whisperoftheworm6479]

gtg (great time Gary)

[@tommybones7015]

I once worked with an older woman who had just given birth. Upon her return from leave she said ‘wow, I guess I’m a real milf’… she thought it meant ‘mother over forty’

[@tirsden]

I guess the I and the L got lost on the way home from the hospital.

[@purpleissupeirior]

@@tirsden mother in late fourties

[@watsonwrote]

Technically true? Lmao

[@Brick_One_A_Lego_Story]

​​@@watsonwroteIt is still undecided as it technically depends on the OP's intention to sleep with that woman 😉

[@thepenguin9411]

In like 2018 I used to think stfu meant stuff u. I figured it out quickly, it was just at the time barely anyone used it and nobody was telling the meaning.

[@TumoPlayz]

i love how you pronounce misspellings

[@sketchyskies8531]

Parents try to relate to us, but some fail spectacularly. And that's ok.

[@TMHLBPFan]

What you think was gonna happen when different generations coexist? 😂

[@HVY526]

Hey, Anne.

[@elysiiumv]

3:47 i was actually showing my parents your video on people saying two thing at the same time, earlier this day, and the “enjoy the milf” part came up. my dad immediately knew what it meant and refused to elaborate whereas i had to explain to it to my mom (fun times). i wouldn’t even have been surprised if SHE knew, but my dad?? he doesn’t even speak english??

[@arcanine_enjoyer]

Your dad uses incognito mode a lot 😏

[@chezncrackerslol894]

@@arcanine_enjoyer plot twist: their dad *IS* incognito mode

[@cbeans5311]

1:04 nice time

[@milic5749]

When I told my mom what WTF meant, she gasped and said "I thought you weren't allowed to swear on the internet!"

[@gianna526]

I'm 15 and I always though "stfu" meant "stuff you" and wondered why I saw so many people saying that to each other.

[@Calmtimer]

Telling other people to stuff themselves is pretty nasty

[@smashthesubscribebutton]

Your comment is from 15 minutes ago tho

[@VINCE-pp3es]

imagine me learning to type by playing a mmorpg at the age of 9 in the mid 2000s ... it was a baptisim of fire is all ill say

[@tirsden]

@@Calmtimer - Most Americans have no idea what it means. XD

[@gianna526]

@@tirsden What does it mean? I only know the word stuff as matter, material, articles, or activities of a specified or indeterminate kind that are being referred to, indicated, or implied.

[@lefthandedspanner]

many years ago, someone thought "lol" was short for "lots of love" this backfired when they texted a recently bereaved colleague with "sorry about your nan lol"

[@slipperthefox8349]

My mom used to think smh meant "so much hate" and just thought people were really critical

[@Rynamarole]

For the longest time I thought that SMH was short for somehow and only realized it wasn't watching one of Matt's other videos

[@nonamelegend_vapor]

I was so confused as a kid when people used FTW for “for the win” and not “fuck the world”

[@Calmtimer]

For a long time I thought it meant "Face that when", it made no sense but my brain went with it

[@minecraftify95]

@@Calmtimer FTW when a star goes soupernova intentional pun

[@gaxalee7392]

Same(still sometimes read that way tbh). Also, almost always read “ofc” as of-fucking-course.

[@Calmtimer]

@@minecraftify95 kid named face that: 🗿

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

@@gaxalee7392 Of F*cking Course ofc means Of F*cking Course! Come on why even use a F otherwise!

[@hyejusleftlung]

1:02 “she sent stfu to my grandfather” I AM ROLLING ON THE FLOOR RN OMMGGGG JENRKEJEK

[@Orange_Fever]

Ended the video with gtg, well done 👏👏👏

[@desireesepertino7077]

Honestly? I empathize with these confused parents, as a non native english speaker it can be hard to understand these type of abbreviation at first. Like, the first time I saw people using the term yt people I thought they were talking about youtubers not white people, it was pretty confusing.

[@squarohedron0664]

I've never seen someone say yt people

[@AtkataffTheAlpha]

My friend once thought "ofc" was "of fu*cking course." They thought I was swearing until I explained what "ofc" meant

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

I mean, it makes more sense. I still sometimes read it that way

[@AtkataffTheAlpha]

@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 yeah. Sometimes the error way of the slang sounds much better than the actual meaning

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

@@AtkataffTheAlpha If we're enough to think of it that way, it may even ends up being the actual meaning. I will still interpret ofc with an emphasis on the F because I just like it better that way personally.

[@redcoder09]

i died right about 3:57 with those four consecutive "UH"s 💀

[@yahyayazgi]

LOL same

[@Intelligence_Core3]

Yep! That also made me laugh 😂😂😂

[@Son-GohanDBZ]

SAME

[@nicoleshelly2244]

When people have a life slang no longer makes sense. I only know pre 2018 slang since I graduated that year & got a life.

[@penguin22penguin22]

I oddly learned a LOT from this video! I never knew what a lot of these stood for.. i had no idea GOAT was even an abbrieviation! I learned smh FINALLY!!!

[@screamindog8772]

my dad sends me memes without actually understanding them and it’s the most wholesome thing ever

[@justanordinaryreddeadlover9695]

Oh my god, last night I thought “has Matt ever done abbreviation fails yet?” And HERE WE ARE

[@LightOrange]

4:14 I SEE IT!

[@HVY526]

See what?

[@iKadaj]

i remember in middle school people telling their parents that "omfg" meant "oh my fridge gorillas", and when the internet was still new and people were getting used to it there was much debate on whether "lol" meant "laugh out loud" or "lots of love" which was used for signing (originally handwritten) notes, letters, messages, etc (which had now become emails)

[@caitlinrix294]

I used to think 'MTE' stood for 'Me Too, Eh?'. I'm not Canadian, nor did I first hear it from a Canadian.

[@TheLugiaSong]

To be fair, I used to think FTW was WTF backwards, because I thought some games banned WTF since it basically contains a swear.

[@Frostfern94]

My boss for the youth group I volunteer at, in an interview, said “the big corporations are yiffing a lot” or something similar, and me and my friend could not stop ourselves laughing, much to the confusion of the boss and the person we were interviewing. Unprofessional, maybe, but how else do you react to that? We were like 17 at the time so this was years ago.

[@KrokoSIM]

“Sport magnificent hunter.”