Millennial Tries Decoding Gen Z Slang

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:05]What's up, my creepers?

[00:00:07]It's day 15.

[00:00:10]And I'm doing, if you're unaware, Hello, Gerald.

[00:00:17]I'm doing a challenge where I'm practicing speaking every day a little bit while I play Minecraft.

[00:00:24]It's day 15.

[00:00:27]Hey Max one, how are you doing?

[00:00:31]I'm on a search to go find some spruce wood because I like using spruce.

[00:00:39]Now, I feel pretty out of touch with a lot of you guys' lingo.

[00:00:47]I think a lot of my viewers are Gen Z.

[00:00:50]A lot of you are millennials, like me.

[00:00:52]I'm a millennial.

[00:00:54]I'm in my 30s.

[00:00:56]And I'm a mom, and I feel really out of touch with a lot of the slang that's being used these days. So, I thought it would be fun.

[00:01:07]I wrote down a whole list of Gen Z slang.

[00:01:11]I thought it would be fun to go through it and try to explain it, try to define what it means.

[00:01:19]I think I know some of them, but there's probably going to be a lot that I don't know.

[00:01:25]So, I'm always game to learn what the kids are saying these days. I can't believe I'm old enough to say that.

[00:01:36]So, here we go.

[00:01:38]You guys feel free to roast me in the chat. That's totally fine.

[00:01:44]All right, first one. Glow up.

[00:01:49]Isn't that when somebody kind of has a beauty transformation, like maybe they start off a little ego and then they grow up and they become beautiful.

[00:02:03]Like if you've ever seen Harry Potter, like the Neville Neville Longbottom, that guy.

[00:02:10]He had a pretty nice glow up.

[00:02:14]Let's see.

[00:02:15]Rizz.

[00:02:17]I hear that a lot.

[00:02:20]Rizz, that I'm pretty sure that's just short for a charisma.

[00:02:24]Like if you got good rizz, then you know how to get a girl, right?

[00:02:32]He's got the rizz. But you guys also use it a lot with other words, so I don't know.

[00:02:41]Is that a mesa?

[00:02:43]That's so cool.

[00:02:45]I got to write this down.

[00:02:47]I'll take note of these chords.

[00:02:49]Let's do that real quick. All right.

[00:02:53]Sweet and cactuses.

[00:02:57]Guys, I love exploring in Minecraft.

[00:03:02]You never know what you're going to find. And is that Yeah.

[00:03:06]That means there's a lush cave below as well.

[00:03:10]I'm getting distracted.

[00:03:13]Let's see. What's another word? Delulu.

[00:03:17]Isn't that a character from Teletubbies?

[00:03:21]No, doesn't that mean delusional?

[00:03:26]Y'all be coming up with silly words.

[00:03:33]Delulu.

[00:03:36]Sometimes I feel a little Oh, there's a mine shaft down there, too.

[00:03:40]Sometimes I feel a little delulu at the end of the day.

[00:03:46]Uh-oh.

[00:03:48]Oop, that's not what I wanted.

[00:03:51]Nice. Let's just take all of it. Take all the loot because I'm a loot goblin.

[00:04:02]Um okay, this one I genuinely have no idea what it means and I don't know if I'm pronouncing it right.

[00:04:09]Phantom tax.

[00:04:13]Yeah, I can't even begin to try to guess what that means.

[00:04:18]But it sounds like you should get it checked out.

[00:04:22]Phantom tax.

[00:04:24]No clue.

[00:04:27]How about mewing?

[00:04:30]Okay, I think I've heard of this one.

[00:04:33]Isn't it Does it have something to do with your jaw?

[00:04:40]Maybe I don't even know.

[00:04:45]I don't even know if I'm on the right track. Mewing. I know that's what a kitten sounds like.

[00:04:52]How about mogged or mogging? Mogged?

[00:04:57]Does Doesn't that mean like they're trying to look cool? They're trying to have a smolder or something.

[00:05:10]I don't know.

[00:05:12]All I know is they the last season of Stranger Things everybody said that Millie Bobby Brown was mogged.

[00:05:25]Ohio.

[00:05:27]Don't know. No clue.

[00:05:30]All I know is it's a state.

[00:05:36]Uh this one I have used before. The it's giving.

[00:05:42]It's giving she's definitely a millennial and doesn't know what she's talking about.

[00:05:50]Armadillo.

[00:05:53]If we ever get any dogs, we could get some wolf armor.

[00:05:57]That'd be cool.

[00:05:59]I'll have to remember that that that's here.

[00:06:02]Maybe we'll also find a desert [music] temple in the desert.

[00:06:07]All right, what else?

[00:06:09]Touch grass. Doesn't that just mean get outside?

[00:06:12]Literally touch grass.

[00:06:15]Ooh, there's a spawner down there. Cuz y'all be on your screens all day inside.

[00:06:21]You need to get out and touch that grass.

[00:06:24]At least I hope that's what it means, unless it means something totally different.

[00:06:29]Okay, go away.

[00:06:33]Oh, skelly spawner.

[00:06:36]Cool.

[00:06:38]Probably the best kind of spawner you could get if you want to make a farm out of it.

[00:06:45]You know what, we have plenty of melons.

[00:06:46]I don't need that.

[00:06:48]We'll take our horse armor though. Get rid of that. Do we have pumpkins? Keep the seeds.

[00:06:55]Keep the bones in case we come across any dogs.

[00:06:59]It'd be fun to have pet dog.

[00:07:02]Ooh.

[00:07:07]Name tags are always good. We need got to name those creepers.

[00:07:11]Though I feel like they're not as valuable anymore now that you can craft them, but oh well.

[00:07:21]This music is low-key slapping. How'd I do?

[00:07:28]Was that cringe?

[00:07:30]Okay, I'm done.

[00:07:33]What else?

[00:07:36]Mhm, neckbeard.

[00:07:40]Y'all be crazy.

[00:07:43]Is that just a beard that's on your neck?

[00:07:47]My cousin can only grow a neck beard.

[00:07:49]It's kind of funny.

[00:07:52]Okay, I feel like I'm in some warm biomes and I don't think spruce is going to be there.

[00:07:58]But this is good to know in case we ever need any of these colorful blocks.

[00:08:03]Um living rent-free.

[00:08:05]We We use that. I feel like millennials use that term.

[00:08:09]We got something stuck in our head. It's living rent-free in there.

[00:08:17]Um vibe check.

[00:08:21]Just checking the vibe.

[00:08:26]Chat.

[00:08:28]I I guess that's you guys refer to the general public as chat because of live streams and stuff.

[00:08:39]Like just saying we're cooked chat.

[00:08:46]Something like that.

[00:08:48]Am I going in circles? I hope not.

[00:08:52]I did write down my home coordinates before I left, so don't worry.

[00:08:57]Is that a village?

[00:08:59]Mhm. [cough] >> [clears throat] >> Camel. Did I bring a saddle? Do I have a saddle? Can craft a saddle.

[00:09:05]Although the camels are pretty slow, aren't they?

[00:09:11]What else?

[00:09:14]Canon event.

[00:09:20]Canon usually means that something is part of the like true story.

[00:09:28]So canon event, does that just mean truth?

[00:09:34]Like it actually happened.

[00:09:38]Standing on business.

[00:09:42]Does that just mean like you're not changing your opinion about something?

[00:09:50]I'm standing on business.

[00:09:55]Cartography table.

[00:09:59]You know, I guess I will take the Oh, we could also get cats.

[00:10:06]Look at all the cats. That's tempting.

[00:10:09]Although, that's not my main objective.

[00:10:11]I saw a desert temple up there. Excuse me.

[00:10:14]About skibidi.

[00:10:18]Seriously.

[00:10:20]I have no idea what it means, but I know you guys say skibidi toilet and skibidi toilet rizz. Why? Why?

[00:10:28]I just don't understand.

[00:10:30]But, I'm sure that's what people said about us millennials when we made up words. Although, I'd feel like we don't have as many made up slang words as you guys, but maybe I'm wrong.

[00:10:44]Oh, seriously, what does skibidi mean?

[00:10:48]Brain rot.

[00:10:51]Hey.

[00:10:52]At least you guys are self-aware that you're doing it.

[00:10:59]That's just mind-numbing content, right?

[00:11:07]Wait, this temple is way up here.

[00:11:11]What else you got?

[00:11:12]Looks maxing.

[00:11:14]Or anything maxing. I feel like I've heard that a lot lately.

[00:11:18]Maxing. That just means like you're doing it a lot, doing whatever the thing is.

[00:11:24]Or trying to For instance, for looks, I guess you're really trying to look good.

[00:11:34]Mhm, let's do this.

[00:11:38]Anything good?

[00:11:41]I'll take an emerald.

[00:11:43]Bones.

[00:11:48]Garbage.

[00:11:50]I will take those.

[00:11:52]I will take that.

[00:11:53]More bones and leather. I would like some leather cuz I want to Oh.

[00:11:59]Do an enchanting setup.

[00:12:07]What else?

[00:12:10]Use this.

[00:12:12]Oop.

[00:12:15]Um, looks like I'm mixing beige flag.

[00:12:17]Okay.

[00:12:19]Red flag is something bad.

[00:12:23]Green flag is something good. What is beige?

[00:12:28]I'm going to take a crack at it. I don't know if this is what it means, but beige flag is I'm going to say something that's maybe a little bit concerning, but you're willing to overlook it because of reasons.

[00:12:46]I don't know.

[00:12:49]Mhm.

[00:12:51]Which way did we come from? Which way did we go?

[00:12:56]Did we come from that way?

[00:12:58]Yeah.

[00:13:00]Let's go this way.

[00:13:08]Okay.

[00:13:13]Aura? Aura? Is that how you say it?

[00:13:15]Aura?

[00:13:17]That's Oh.

[00:13:20]Don't exit the boat early.

[00:13:25]Or uh that I'm pretty sure I know what it means.

[00:13:29]I'm just trying to think of how to describe it.

[00:13:33]Like when somebody has good aura, they're just I don't know how to describe it.

[00:13:44]Oh, by the way, this challenge is for me to get better at speaking, by the way.

[00:13:48]I don't do any edits.

[00:13:51]I don't do any retakes in my videos.

[00:13:53]It's just me trying to practice speaking for as long as I can.

[00:13:57]And with the hopes to get better.

[00:14:02]And to take be able to take that into real life.

[00:14:10]What else? Cap for that.

[00:14:15]No cap, cap. I can't I can't ever remember. Does it mean No, it means a lie, right?

[00:14:23]Cuz fact fact and cap.

[00:14:27]Pretty sure.

[00:14:30]Goated.

[00:14:32]That just means like the greatest of all time.

[00:14:37]The goat.

[00:14:39]Peak.

[00:14:41]Something that's really awesome, the best, I guess.

[00:14:48]What if you're peak and goated?

[00:14:53]Pookie.

[00:14:55]Y'all be calling each other that?

[00:14:59]Is that just a pet like a a nickname for your significant other?

[00:15:09]Sigma.

[00:15:13]Alpha.

[00:15:15]A bunch of Greek letters. I don't know why you're you're using them.

[00:15:23]There's a well.

[00:15:24]Oops.

[00:15:28]Sounds like a sorority to me.

[00:15:32]And another village.

[00:15:35]Where are we, by the way?

[00:15:37]Okay.

[00:15:40]Well, let's at least go see if they have a blacksmith. Let's hit this ruined nether portal up, by the way.

[00:15:46]Just checking to make sure my audio is working, because y'all know I've been having troubles with that lately.

[00:15:53]And another village.

[00:15:57]This is a very giant desert.

[00:16:02]Anything good?

[00:16:04]Might as well take this for the nether lodestone, maybe.

[00:16:10]Honestly, you don't really care.

[00:16:13]Let's grab the gold block.

[00:16:17]Nice.

[00:16:20]All right, which one first? This one.

[00:16:25]cooked I I've used that before.

[00:16:30]That just means like you're dead, or like it in reference to I guess I used it in a reference to like my legs being dead after a workout.

[00:16:48]Or you guys say, "We're cooked, chat."

[00:16:57]Hmm.

[00:17:00]Ooh, I like this color bed. I'll be taking that.

[00:17:06]Don't need a brown bed. That's no fun.

[00:17:12]What else?

[00:17:14]big back Does that just mean large?

[00:17:22]Look at these kitties. I want to get them and I just don't have any fish.

[00:17:26]Large like rotund.

[00:17:30]Like big back behavior.

[00:17:32]Like my daughter tonight who ate a ginormous dessert. Is that big back behavior?

[00:17:44]Bussin.

[00:17:47]You guys are crazy. Bussin. What is that?

[00:17:53]Oh, lovely. Pillager Outpost.

[00:17:57]That just means I've heard it in reference to food like that's bussin.

[00:18:01]Like it's really good.

[00:18:06]Why?

[00:18:10]How about sus? That's just short for suspicious.

[00:18:15]Pretty sure we use that. Millennials use that.

[00:18:19]Should we check this out real quick?

[00:18:26]Slaps. Something slaps.

[00:18:29]Does that mean like it's just really good or really funny?

[00:18:36]Hello everybody.

[00:18:38]Ow.

[00:18:39]Ow.

[00:18:42]Quick.

[00:18:43]See if we can get a goat horn.

[00:18:50]Nice.

[00:18:52]We got that. Let's take the dark oak.

[00:18:55]I have got a tree back home. I don't need it. Take the arrows.

[00:19:01]I got enough wheat to be honest.

[00:19:04]I just don't have a whole lot of space for everything.

[00:19:09]Now I got turned around.

[00:19:17]Um Look at all their little structures. There's a lot of them.

[00:19:27]Okay, I got turned around. Which way?

[00:19:36]This way?

[00:19:37]Kind of.

[00:19:39]We'll try it.

[00:19:42]I believe I can fly.

[00:19:44]Oh.

[00:19:46]Right onto a cactus. I can believe I can fly.

[00:19:49]What is that?

[00:19:52]Another village?

[00:19:54]And another jungle.

[00:19:57]Goodness.

[00:20:00]>> [snorts] >> Drip.

[00:20:05]Does that refer to an outfit?

[00:20:11]Maybe?

[00:20:12]Or how you look? I don't know.

[00:20:15]Uh let's check this desert temple.

[00:20:19]Eight.

[00:20:21]Like she she ate with that outfit.

[00:20:26]That means like she killed it.

[00:20:28]She nailed it. It looked real good.

[00:20:33]I think.

[00:20:38]More templates.

[00:20:41]And we're full.

[00:20:48]Mid. Something that's mid is kind of meh.

[00:20:53]Not awesome, but not horrible. Oh, I didn't even check all these. What am I doing?

[00:20:59]Infinity is good.

[00:21:01]What can I stick in my bundles?

[00:21:07]Do I have Yeah, you don't need all that.

[00:21:12]Take the emeralds.

[00:21:16]Take the gold.

[00:21:17]>> [snorts] >> Apples.

[00:21:24]Sweet.

[00:21:27]Mhm.

[00:21:30]What else? Slay, like slay queen.

[00:21:37]I don't know really how to describe it but other than that.

[00:21:41]Like What was it, night time?

[00:21:48]About Okay, this one I genuinely have no idea. Stan.

[00:21:54]Why you Why you be saying stan?

[00:21:58]Stan sounds like a boring man.

[00:22:06]I have no idea.

[00:22:09]All right, I don't want to be going into a jungle again.

[00:22:13]I just would like some spruce.

[00:22:21]I'm weak.

[00:22:24]That means like when something's really funny and you're just weak from laughter, I guess.

[00:22:40]What else? Uh catch these hands.

[00:22:46]Does that mean you're going to fight somebody?

[00:22:52]And chopped.

[00:22:57]That's a TV show. I don't know what you guys mean.

[00:23:02]Chopped, Is that a Savannah?

[00:23:06]Yep.

[00:23:11]Mhm, snatched.

[00:23:14]Does that mean you look good? Like she's snatched.

[00:23:19]I don't know.

[00:23:24]Okay.

[00:23:26]Guap. Giat, guap, g u a p, is that it? I don't know.

[00:23:36]Is that short for something?

[00:23:43]I'm pretty sure giat is another one.

[00:23:48]I don't know.

[00:23:50]You literally don't know.

[00:23:58]This ain't it, chief.

[00:24:03]What do you say that for?

[00:24:07]Hey, look.

[00:24:10]Let's see we get any treasure.

[00:24:17]Uh, could be better, could be worse.

[00:24:21]I'll take those.

[00:24:25]I really don't feel like stopping to look at the other stuff because I'm just trying to find spruce.

[00:24:34]Maybe across the ocean blue we'll find something.

[00:24:43]Another boat.

[00:24:45]Big boat, big back boat.

[00:24:49]Uh, clap back.

[00:24:52]Is that just like a quick comeback?

[00:24:59]Tell me we're not going back to where we started. Like where where I spawned in.

[00:25:05]There's mangrove.

[00:25:10]This is cool jungle boat.

[00:25:15]Oops.

[00:25:17]All right.

[00:25:21]Nice.

[00:25:25]Maybe I should check.

[00:25:27]Oh, no. It's buried in sand. Forget it.

[00:25:31]Keep going this way.

[00:25:38]Cracked.

[00:25:40]What does that mean?

[00:25:42]Something's cracked.

[00:25:50]This is a really big mangrove. Do we have more desert as well? This is We going back to where I came from.

[00:26:01]Whoa.

[00:26:04]Gnarly.

[00:26:08]OP.

[00:26:12]I'm pretty sure I know what this means.

[00:26:13]I don't know if it stands for something.

[00:26:17]OG is like the original gangster, right?

[00:26:21]OP Oh, overpowered. Duh. I should know that.

[00:26:25]That's game lingo.

[00:26:30]Crash out.

[00:26:32]Does that just mean like a meltdown you where you lose it? Feel like I crash out every day.

[00:26:38]My toddler or not toddler, my child definitely children definitely crash out every day.

[00:26:48]Cringe.

[00:26:50]Something's cringe.

[00:26:53]Woah.

[00:26:55]Woah.

[00:26:58]That's kind of cool.

[00:27:01]I guess we go this way.

[00:27:04]So, what are my cords doing here?

[00:27:08]Okay.

[00:27:11]I'm just seeing warm biomes.

[00:27:16]Maybe I went the wrong way.

[00:27:20]Face card, no clue.

[00:27:22]What is this terrain?

[00:27:26]What?

[00:27:27]What is that? Woah.

[00:27:31]Shattered Savannah, maybe?

[00:27:35]That's wild.

[00:27:37]It doesn't look safe, either.

[00:27:42]Flow state.

[00:27:44]That kind of mean you just like get into a rhythm and you're You know what I'm saying?

[00:27:58]All right, this looks newish, maybe.

[00:28:03]GG. That mean good game.

[00:28:09]Gucci.

[00:28:12]Does that mean I think you guys say something like it's all Gucci? Like it's all good, maybe?

[00:28:19]Maybe not.

[00:28:21]>> [clears throat] >> Cuz isn't Gucci a brand?

[00:28:31]Another pillager outpost.

[00:28:36]Well, that was on my list and we still haven't found any spruce, which is unfortunate.

[00:28:47]Maybe if I keep looking, I'm also going to collect some more leather while we're out.

[00:28:55]If I can.

[00:28:57]Let's do this.

[00:29:01]Cuz I would like an enchantment set up.

[00:29:08]Really guys, no leather?

[00:29:10]That's rude.

[00:29:14]I'm trying to think of slang that millennials used.

[00:29:18]Maybe didn't even realize it was slang.

[00:29:21]All right, now we're getting to like the normal biomes, like forest.

[00:29:28]I really would like to find a spruce before the time runs out. I just feel like I if I don't, then I have not accomplished my mission.

[00:29:42]I cannot see.

[00:29:46]I I'm pretty sure millennials quote vines a lot. Do you guys know what vine is?

[00:29:54]Like the OG real reels.

[00:29:59]That didn't last long, did it?

[00:30:04]Bees, maybe I should get a hive.

[00:30:08]Some good flowers, too, should bring back.

[00:30:16]Any of my millennial viewers, what slang did we use? What words did we come up with that the adults were like ooh.

[00:30:26]Or they had no clue what we were saying.

[00:30:28]I'm going to go get some cherry blossoms cuz definitely need some cherry wood.

[00:30:39]But other than that, did I leave off any any slang words that you guys use a lot?

[00:30:58]Let's quick go get some of these.

[00:31:03]And we'll let the sun set.

[00:31:08]And maybe I'll find some spruce next time.

[00:31:21]Well, how did I do? How many did I get right?

[00:31:24]How many did I get wrong?

[00:31:26]Yep, I probably got a lot of them wrong.

[00:31:30]It's so weird that I'm [snorts] at the age where I don't know what you guys are saying anymore.

[00:31:41]So, I still kind of just feel feel like I'm you know, in my early 20s, but I'm not.

[00:31:57]Nice.

[00:31:59]That'll be fun to build with.

[00:32:04]And we'll let the episode end into the sunset.

[00:32:10]Thanks for joining along. I had fun with this video. Maybe we'll find some spruce next time.

[00:32:16]And subscribe if you want to follow along the journey.

[00:32:20]And I'll see you guys next time. Bye.