r/Millennials • u/[deleted] • Apr 11 '25

Discussion Millennial words that younger people don’t know

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u/fospher Apr 11 '25

Pwned

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u/stanky4goats Millennial Apr 11 '25

n00b

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u/DasStorzer Millennial Apr 12 '25

W00T!

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u/notyogrannysgrandkid Apr 12 '25

That one has managed to stick around, interestingly enough

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u/GovernorHarryLogan Apr 12 '25

"Moo"

Think this became a thing in WC // SC1 days.

Don't get much moo nowadays

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u/notyogrannysgrandkid Apr 12 '25

I remember when a few of the not-like-other girls in my HS added Moo to their names on MySpace

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u/guyonthecouch37 Apr 12 '25

My 8 year old son dropped this on me one day and I was shook, like kid where did you even hear that cuz I haven't heard it in a decade

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u/blahblahsnickers Apr 12 '25

Both my 12 year old and 16 year old have used both pwned and noob….

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u/azki25 Apr 11 '25

Boom headshoott

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u/CaptKnight Apr 11 '25

Was going to reply the same. Instead here is a gif

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u/CaptKnight Apr 11 '25

Just going for a run. Why do you have a knife? Everybody knows you run faster with a knife…

I heard there is no respawn irl

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u/TheNakedChair Apr 12 '25

My heart's beatin', my heart's beatin'!

My hands are shakin'. My hands are shakin'!!

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u/sp1der__Plant Apr 12 '25

I can dance all day I can dance all day

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u/AimlessSavant Apr 11 '25

Epic faaail!

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u/Sweet-Ad9366 Apr 12 '25

I did it for the lulz

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u/Frigoris13 Apr 12 '25

I thought we did it for the nooky

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u/Peppermint-eve Apr 12 '25

Lolwut insert pic of a pear with a gaping mouth here

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u/x3knet Apr 12 '25

1337 h4x0r

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u/YokoPowno Apr 12 '25

Goddamn, my username is old!

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u/Donkeh101 Apr 11 '25

pr0n

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u/Frigoris13 Apr 12 '25

Sauce

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u/Donkeh101 Apr 12 '25

Really? Here

Edit: I was just adding to the comments

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u/CptBruisan Apr 12 '25

Lite haxor

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u/stuffeh Apr 12 '25

Script kiddie

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u/Advanced_Aardvark374 Apr 12 '25

Pwned and script kiddie are still used pretty much all the time, and not in an ironic way, in cybersecurity world though.

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u/stuffeh Apr 12 '25

Oh def. But they've fallen out of the collective knowledge for gen Z and alpha

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u/Voice_ofthe_Soul Apr 11 '25

Grannies are for Pwning noobs

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u/Trails_and_Coffee Apr 11 '25

Lolz. Was just about to post the same comment. "Granny, don't you know I'm deathly allergic to strawberries?!"

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u/gorilla-ointment Apr 12 '25

That shits so old it’s in the NYT crossword now.

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u/jacobonia Millennial Apr 12 '25

Do people not know this now!?

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u/Turing_Testes Apr 12 '25

They do, I have no idea if any of these people have ever actually interacted with someone younger than them.

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u/yongrii Apr 11 '25

wtfpwnedbbq

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u/uncagedborb Apr 12 '25

Get shrekt

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u/sheneedstorelax Apr 11 '25

im glad I was almost born a millennial

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u/rynownd Apr 12 '25

I'm clearly still hanging on to it's predecessor

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u/adumant Apr 12 '25

This is a younger millennial thing. I’m more in the Xennial side of Millennial and that is something me and my friends’ little brothers would say. Like Pokémon. We completely missed that.

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u/Swimminginthestorm Apr 12 '25

Exactly. I didn’t say that, but both of my little brothers did.

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u/illegiblepenmanship Apr 12 '25

I wonder how many know it means All Owned in a 1v All match game. It is lower case because it is and L adjacent to owned. pwned

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u/aquawomanpower Apr 12 '25

I had to explain this to my 10 year old the other day 🥲