Stuff I Keep Hearing About Tht I'm Completely In The Dark On

Aleppo

The ongoing appeal of The Walking Dead to several of my coworkers.

Some great peppers came from there. They're no harrisa though.

All of the stuff in this thread. Also:

- Major Laser
- LaCroix
- Hamarabe the Go-Rilla or something?
- Nabin from Walking Dead and the Outrageous Thing He Did
- Gary Johnson? Some Doof In A Suit My Cousin Bellows About On Facebook
- Christmas Creeps
- Evil Clowns That Aren't "It"
- Switch?
- Kylie Jenner?
- Carpool Karaoke
- Jo(h)n Oliver

I feel that anyone over high school age shouldn't even try to keep up with the teenage lingo. Nothing good can come from trying to work in "on fleek" into your everyday repertoire, in part because on fleek is already old and saying on fleek immediately identifies you as an old person.

If you really want some youth cred then say something like "The Chainsmokers had a really good song on the radio last week." Except don't say radio because nobody listens to the radio anymore.

For sure. And to be clear, I typically have no interest in using the lingo. I just like to know what it is and understand what it means. It's fun. I think I've stated before somewhere on this forum that I love slang and slang creep. I find it fascinating to watch.

I read your disclaimer, but.....If you enjoy people who really get into Halloween with creative costumes, you probably should google for Heidi Klum's history of Halloween costumes. She is *really* into Halloween costumes. She throws a massive Halloween party every year in which she completely shows up all her guests* with costumes that took months of planning and hours of execution.

If you don't care about Halloween costumes, then yeah, no big deal.

*Except don't look at Halloween 2016. Heidi's costume was completely dumb this year.

Dabbing. I know what it is but I don't know why it is.

Whenever I find myself in the mall and Mrs. Sherbert is off on some other planet, I will venture into Hot Topic, not necessarily to buy anything, but to stare at all the shirts, bobble head dolls, and assorted swag of whatever commercial properties are "in" with a certain crowd. Usually, given my already fanatic devotion to pop culture (especially pop music), most of the stuff I see doesn't really raise an eyebrow. Bunch of Marvel stuff: I knew about that years ago. Cartoons like Regular Show, Gravity Falls, and Rick and Morty: I already watch them. Attack from Titan: Not my kinda anime, but I've heard of it.

But what the fuck is Five Nights at Freddys? I mean, I know of it now (horror video game involving a rip-off of Showbiz Pizza), but apparently it's super popular with a certain crowd, or at least a crowd that's willing to spend money on t-shirts and keyrings with the animatronic characters smeared all over it. Is this game really as massive as the marketing appears to be, or is it super niche?

Blac Chyna - A person? A wrestler? There was a wrestler called Chyna right? Is this just the black (or "blac") version of her?

The mannequin challenge

For a long time I thought it had something to do with Spice or synthetic marijuana. I am still not sure that is not the case.

You know how old I am? When I read this I laughed cause I figured you just pulled a kinda indie sounding band name out of your hat. "Haha Chainsmokers, nice". Then I was on Spotify and there was one of their songs. 

*Goes back to listening to Mumford and Sons*

Yeah, but being "woke" is different from being "awake". And it stems from AAVE where that sort of verb tense is generally acceptable. (I am neither black nor a serious linguist so you may take this with a grain of salt.)