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When one dad decided to lean really, really hard into his kids’ slang, the internet couldn’t help but react. Mostly because we’re all in tune to the ridiculous things our kids are saying that make zero sense, and we can all commiserate together.
In a post that swiftly blew up on Threads, user @bydavidweiss shared the text he sent his children — and the cringe-inducing way he tried to motivate them to clean their room. His message was the perfect blend of Gen Alpha slang and millennial cringe.
Basically, it’s a masterpiece (even if his kids don’t think so).
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“Bruh, your room is looking lowkey chopped AF” is SENDING ME. (See? Two can play at this game.)
What happened next was one of those beautiful internet moments where you really feel part of a village, albeit virtual.
Dozens of moms and dads jumped into the thread, posting screenshots of themselves exactly copying the message and sending it to their own kids. Some reported surprising success — one parent said their kid stared at the text, muttered “bet,” and actually cleaned up.
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One mom’s teen had only this to say: “I’m blocking you.” LOL.
These days, Gen Alpha — kids, infants really, born between 2010 and 2025 — have a slang ecosystem that feels like a foreign language to adults, even those comfortable with Gen Z terms like yeet or lit. (I’m cool enough that “lit” seems about as cool as “groovy” now, just saying.)
Online content and social media platforms like TikTok and Threads have turned slang into blending, remixing, and reinventing language faster than ever. Words and phrases that once meant one thing now get recycled into totally new contexts. Terms like “bet,” “no cap,” “bussin,” and, yes, “lowkey chopped AF” are all part of that lexicon.
Oh how far we’ve come from “IDK, my BFF Jill.” (If you know, you know. If you don’t, good Lord I’m old.)
Regardless of whether we can all accept that we’re not actually cool anymore (becoming a parent just like, automatically does this to you), we can all agree that messing with our kids in harmless ways like this is just plain FUN.
