The comments under a video: twelve words in a row
The thread under a video, first ten comments
This is a W. Third rewatch.
Mid. Everyone's praising it on autopilot.
Ratio incoming.
No cap, the second half is cooked.
The editing is giving season one.
Season one? Cap. There's cringe at 12:40, go back and look.
Creator only likes the nice comments. Sus.
He doesn't read them. I've messaged him three times — delulu, I know.
The host has rizz, the rest is optional.
Rizz? He's on his phone the whole video. L.
None of these words gets explained, and the thread rolls on. There is nobody here to ask what a word means, and no reason to.
A thread runs from a verdict to a fight and on to reactions
It opens with a verdict. Then a fight over whether the verdict is true. Then people are answering each other, and the video is somewhere off screen.
W
A win or something good; the opposite of an L.
Free food at the meeting? Big W.
One letter in place of a whole comment.
L
A loss or failure; to 'take the L' is to accept it.
Forgot my ticket at home — massive L.
The same thing with the sign flipped, and just as short to type.
Mid
Mediocre or overrated; not as good as the hype.
Everyone loves that place, but the food's kinda mid.
The most insulting form of disagreement: not an insult, a demotion.
Cap
A lie or exaggeration; to 'cap' is to lie.
You beat him one-on-one? That's cap.
An accusation of lying that fits in three letters.
No cap
For real, no lie; used to stress you're being honest. The opposite of cap.
That was the best show I've seen all year, no cap.
Attached to your own words, not someone else's: one accuses, the other swears.
Ratio
When a reply gets more likes than the post, signaling disapproval.
His bad take got ratioed into the ground.
About what the thread did to the commenter. The video has nothing to do with it by now.
Cringe
So awkward it makes you wince; secondhand embarrassment.
Watching him try to rap was pure cringe.
Been in everyday speech long enough to have moved out of the internet and into the office.
Sus
Suspicious or shady; popularized by the game Among Us.
He left right when the bill came? Kinda sus.
Came out of a game into ordinary talk and stayed there.
Cooked
Doomed, exhausted, or in serious trouble.
Three exams tomorrow and I haven't studied — I'm cooked.
About yourself, it's a complaint. About someone else, a verdict. The tone flips with who it's about.
It's giving
It gives off the vibe of; it resembles.
That outfit? It's giving main character.
Not a word, a frame: anything at all goes after it.
Delulu
Delusional in a hopeful, self-aware way.
I keep thinking he'll text back — I'm so delulu.
Said about yourself, and almost always as a joke.
Rizz
Charm or skill in flirting; short for charisma. If you 'got rizz,' you win people over fast.
He's got rizz — walked over and had her laughing in a minute.
Not confused with W: one is about the result, the other about the person.
Some of these will make it to spring. Others won't
Cringe, sus and mid have held on for years. Something in the rest will be gone before you hear it a second time.
We edit this deck as we go: when a word leaves the conversation, it leaves the deck — and in the app the deck updates without a new version from the store.
Questions and answers
What about the rest of the words?
On the deck page, all of them. These twelve are the ones sitting in one thread.
Why is there Spanish on the card?
Every one of these twelve is spelled the same in Spanish — the slang travels as is. The card still shows both sides, so you know it isn't a different word over there.
Where do the definitions come from?
From the Gen Z Slang deck — the same cards as in the app.
By tonight the thread will be twice as long, with a dozen new words in it.
The Gen Z Slang deck holds the rest — in the app they come a few a day.
