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May Likes Toronto

This is the greatest thing ever.

16 September at 17:38 | Open on mstdn.ca
54 comments
Leah Bobet

@MayInToronto Oh god, there's something about how that accent hits "very based" that I just need in my pocket to poster to things like an audio post-it note. 😄

16 September at 18:09 | Open on mstdn.ca
Graham

@MayInToronto @binaryphile Amazing but I’m a little scared that I understood most of that.

16 September at 18:55 | Open on mastodon.social
May Likes Toronto

@ghalldev @binaryphile We're doing the work of keeping up. Or maybe this language has gotten too mainstream and Gen Alpha's lingo is going to be even more unhinged.

17 September at 0:02 | Open on mstdn.ca
Graham

@MayInToronto I’m gonna go with the second one. 🤣

17 September at 0:15 | Open on mastodon.social
AlsoPaisleyCat

@MayInToronto you do realize that the youngest of the Z’s are adults now.

Gen A is already driving the vocabulary shift.

@ghalldev @binaryphile

17 September at 1:05 | Open on tenforward.social
May Likes Toronto
AlsoPaisleyCat

@MayInToronto

Actually, today I learned that the influencers in demographics have once again revised the age ranges.

Gen Z runs from 1997 to the early 2010s - more than two decades in a single demographic generation? Can that be right in our rapidly changing world?

So the oldest Gen Alphas are just coming out of middle school?

Anyway, it’s hard to keep up and it makes me wary of the groupings even if it does put all our current teens in the same demo.

When one considers it disaffected post-Boomer young adults in the mid 1980s that Douglas Coupland described in his novel ‘Generation X’ are now bluntly reclassified and tossed in with the Boomer Generation they felt blocked by.

Coupland, born in 1961, wrote from the experience of his own peer group and their experiences in Vancouver which experienced economic recession in the mid 1980s. But there’s a certain bitter irony that he himself and those whom he sought to voice have had even their Gen X identity away.

@ghalldev @binaryphile

@MayInToronto

Actually, today I learned that the influencers in demographics have once again revised the age ranges.

Gen Z runs from 1997 to the early 2010s - more than two decades in a single demographic generation? Can that be right in our rapidly changing world?

So the oldest Gen Alphas are just coming out of middle school?

17 September at 4:20 | Open on tenforward.social
Stone Bear
I see Dud people!

@MayInToronto I had an Uncle that spoke with that kind of accent, but he was also in the RNVR during WWII, so he had a "Variable" vocabulary.

16 September at 19:18 | Open on mas.to
JW Prince of CPH

@MayInToronto I'd buy almost anything from this dude 😂

16 September at 19:47 | Open on helvede.net
Niels Chr. Nielsen

@jwcph @MayInToronto You're never too old to start learning a new language!

16 September at 19:53 | Open on mastodonapp.uk
nachtet

@jwcph @MayInToronto I love how he scrunches up his fist in the effort to get the words out, bless him 😁
(and half the time I have no idea what he's telling me 😂)

17 September at 5:12 | Open on norden.social
cetan
Regis - HTTP 1.1/418 Teapot
Steve Gisselbrecht

@rmd1023 @MayInToronto
I can't decide if I'd rather believe that he learned all of that from cards and is slightly tickled to be recording this absolute gibberish, or that he goes home every night and watches drag queens on youtube and wrote the script.

16 September at 21:14 | Open on mas.to
bubbajet 🥥🌴 VOTED

@MayInToronto @grayabbott Winner of the internet for the day. 👏👏👏
16 September at 20:50 | Open on mastodon.world
mxk

@MayInToronto saw a video for Beamish a few days ago in the same style, that was also pretty lit.

16 September at 21:15 | Open on hachyderm.io
Medea Vanamonde🏳️‍⚧️ ♀
Omega
Vio

@Weregopher @MayInToronto I was thinking about it too, but I don't know, it doesn't cringe me ?

17 September at 8:15 | Open on eldritch.cafe
Emmy - Dial Tone *biiiiip*

@MayInToronto nothing has made me feel older in recent memory, and there have been many attempts.

16 September at 22:10 | Open on hachyderm.io
Code of Amor 💘
David Croyle

@MayInToronto As if I wasn't already drawn to The Royal Armouries in Leeds!!!

16 September at 22:18 | Open on wandering.shop
PirateRo

@MayInToronto we have one of the largest collections of medieval armor in the works at the Met in NYC.

16 September at 22:22 | Open on mastodon.world
Nicky

@MayInToronto The Royal Armouries is pretty cool, too. I mean, they host actual jousting.

16 September at 22:27 | Open on wandering.shop
Sindarina, Edge Case Detective
EV not Petrol

@MayInToronto we went to the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris and walked around the armoury.

To keep the kids occupied I asked them to work out what weapons they would need if we had a zombi apocalypse. Kept them pretty occupied. Just for the record they didn’t think armour itself was a good idea….you have to be able to run.

16 September at 22:58 | Open on aus.social
Jason A. Bock

@MayInToronto
My favorite thing about this is how my old-man GenX ass has no idea what he's saying. 🤣
@shplink

16 September at 23:38 | Open on c.im
shplink

@bocko @MayInToronto Something about weapons and armor, I think.

16 September at 23:50 | Open on c.im
May Likes Toronto

@bocko @shplink The guy speaking probably doesn't either, but he's 100% in character. That's the best part about this.

16 September at 23:56 | Open on mstdn.ca
steve johnson

@MayInToronto Negative aura point if you miss the giftshop.

17 September at 0:57 | Open on heads.social
Brian Tatosky

@MayInToronto This is both the greatest thing *and* I want to go this museum. So I guess it's working! :)

17 September at 6:01 | Open on mastodon.online
Søren Markvard Riis

@MayInToronto @virtualbri And I’d gladly pay a premium for a guided tour with him! He’s 1337… (Showing my age here!)

17 September at 6:50 | Open on helvede.net
🅺🅸🅼 🆂🅲🅷🆄🅻🆉

@MayInToronto Watching this really shows how doomed the world is when GenZ takes over.

17 September at 6:55 | Open on social.data.coop
May Likes Toronto

@kimschulz I don't think so. The younger people definitely started it and it's a good way to do intergenerational bonding.

17 September at 6:59 | Open on mstdn.ca
Luke
Transdisiplinääriseksi

@MayInToronto lol why does he even look like he's wearing an armor under that suit :D

17 September at 7:40 | Open on polyglot.city
Sara Passmore
Wolf480pl
XeonSquared
@MayInToronto this vs the aus senator using zoomer language in the same week
:blobcatgoogly:
17 September at 8:09 | Open on social.shadowkat.net
Maltita
jonny (good kind)

@MayInToronto i love how much fun he seems to be having while also genuinely being bewildered by what he is being asked to read

17 September at 8:33 | Open on neuromatch.social
Martijn Vos
Slay hits different when gesturing at a mass of polearms.
17 September at 9:00 | Open on friendica.opensocial.space
europlus :autisminf:

@MayInToronto @sam it’s so beautiful he just knows how *bad* it is and sounds.

17 September at 9:02 | Open on social.europlus.zone
Agarwaën
Nanode
Cal Alaera

@MayInToronto Well, I know where my next vlog is gonna be.

17 September at 9:37 | Open on kind.social
Arne Visscher
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