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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

How are half of these "Gen Alpha phrases"? The edging Wikipedia article was created in 2004, for example.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

yeah but it's mainstream now

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Simply means that those terms/phrases are en vogue right now. Generally spoken generations are usually heavily influenced by the generation before them, popularizing things that someone before came up with

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

It's mainstream and also sometimes used outside of the strictly sexual context now