I am almost 70. I have meowed, mooed and other sounds all my life. Recently I have found out that I have ADHD and some Autism as well. I am getting assessed.
Congrats on discovering your membership to the Cool Kids’ Club! :D We’re glad to have you.
Meow!
My Xennial boss is by far the biggest vocal stimmer in our office.
Replace “Gen Z” with “parrot” and this still works.
I do the occasional “ruh roh”
We allow ourselves the occasional Scooby snack…as a treat.
It still gets me that one of the last transmissions of the SS El Faro (ship) before it sank, was “ruh roh” Scooby do impression
It’s the sound of their dreams being crushed in the dream crushing machine. Millenials and Gen Xers used to make similar noises back when they still had dreams.
Life means experiencing the crushing of your dreams and the death of all hope. I get by on just so many antidepressants.
Gen Z:
Some of that isn’t limited to gen Z. I’ve had older coworkers make buzzer noises for correct/wrong (like those on a gameshow)
Assuming the Scooby doo one is stuff like “ruh roh”, that specific trend might be recent, but people have been doing silly voices for a while
Although a lot of it could be tiktok trends (or vines for the millenials)
Yeah i’m an early millenial and i got in trouble as a kid at a trading card game convention because i was playing the x files card game, which involved asking the other player yes/no questions and the guy demoing the game mistook my no buzzer noise for a yes buzzer noise and lost because of it.
That’s definitely a skill issue on their part
Wtf is a yes buzzer sound?
“Ding ding”? Still not acceptable lol
That’s not a buzzer though
I’d use it instead of duh
About 6 years ago we were sitting on the beach and a larger wave came in out of nowhere that went say 20-25 feet further up the beach to where we were sitting, I grabbed her and my phone and said ruh-roh as she realized and stood up, didn’t have time to grab the small Bluetooth speaker we had and it got soaked and I grabbed it a few seconds after as the wave retreated. It isn’t a term I say often, but I think it was something I did back in my early twenties when there was the possibility of kids being around. Instead of yelling “oh shit” my 37 year old brain decides to sound like a cartoon dog.
Her: *high chuckle* “Like! Let’s get outta here!”
You: *ihihihihihihi*Zoiks!
Recently I’ve picked up some 25-30 year olds.
OOP makes employment sound really weird. Like picking mushrooms. Or contracting a disease.
It’s entirely accurate. From both perspectives.
I got “picking up abandoned cats at the shelter” vibes.
Like he’s rescueing young people.
All those 35-year-old gen-z folks are certainly weird.
You would be weird too if you spent the first ten years of your life in a coma.
Zoinks!
Jinkies, even.
I’m 37 and my ~24 year old coworker and I just speak in memes to each other for most of the day.
Temba, his arms wide
Shaka, when the walls fell
Am 24. Do indeed in memes.
To shreds you say?
and the wife?
To sheds you say?
And how about the wife?
I hate how they talk about people like property they own.
🫢: Oh my God!
😡: Erm, excuse me? He’s my God too, you know!
Its more like a town, not like property.
It’s the same as saying “my town.” It’s not “yours” because you own it, it’s “yours” because you care for it.
