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AZyo. I had to edit the fucking list so I could make it alphabetical.
'snack' has been around for ages wtf
Time is flat circle.
A lot of these are AAVE and have been around for ages in the Black community.
As often with slang I guess, but at least half of these were in common usage over a decade ago, so not exclusive to Gen Z. Triply so for Big yikes, bop, dank, drip, eboy, goat, high-key, hits different, L, rent-free, salty, sis, smol, TFW, W, they jump out to me as predating my childhood, never mind Gen Z's.
Also finesse is just a normal word and has been usable in that sense for over five centuries.
L has been used for at least 30 years. See Big L song Ebonics.
Oh but Moe the dank, the dank! (1995)
who was saying eboy before 2016
Poggers isn't even on the list.
Finna is short for "fixing to," and I first learned it over 15 years ago, from a guy who is like 42 years old now.
Also, stan is a reference to the Eminem song, it's not a portmanteau.
i know this is just a listicle by some communications major collecting a $50 check from a once-popular print publication reduced to content farming, but like some of these are literally recycled from when i was a kid. some of them are from before I was born. Is that really what zoomers think "camp" is? do boomers really not know what "camp" is? also that's not the etymology of "stan" at all which is annoying because it's not hard to find out that it's a reference to an old eminem song.
This one is multiple decades old, but maybe the spelling is new
Specifically it usually means they are angry/resentful of a failure, especially in competition with someone else
notably missing:
23skidoo
more and more people are sayin it!