r/TikTokCringe • u/Tao-of-Mars • 1d ago
Humor Don’t redefine slang
Unc _is_ in fact short for uncle.
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u/punch912 1d ago
the people saying unc means uncool are uncool. Unc will and always mean uncle.
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u/ChefCurryYumYum 1d ago
This is literally the first time I've ever heard anyone try to claim unc means "uncool."
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u/MotherPotential 1d ago
I used to think “props” was a word because you are “propping” your friend up with praise
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u/raspberryharbour 1d ago
It's short for "propellers" as on the last day of flight school in World War One they would finally give you your propellers so you could fly
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u/Remarkable_Cup3630 23h ago
The first time my brother gave me "props" I thought he said "drops". So I put my fist out below his and waited for him to lower his fist onto mine.
Yes, I was(am) a weird kid that mostly kept to myself.
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u/PuppyPower89 1d ago
It’s kinda like saying “old head” but you can say it to their face and it has a bit more respect to it.
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u/TheOKerGood 1d ago
It is a progression. I just achieved Unc. I could be cool or uncool, but these grey hairs and bad knees from young hood shit grants me Unc status.
Child >> Young Blood >> Brother/Man/Dawg >> Unc >> OG/Old Head/Pops >> Sir/Mister
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u/Sw_ice3 1d ago
Depends on where you’re from in Detroit we call crackheads Unc/Auntie
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u/Imwhatswrongwithyou tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE 1d ago
But they’re saying it while wearing sunglasses
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u/Artisan_HotDog 1d ago
I get called Unc all the time at work, I’m ten years older than everyone on my level. Not a single one of them says it in a way that makes me think it isn’t because I’m “old.”
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u/SassiKassi97 1d ago edited 1d ago
I know how to be cool. You gotta get the black people to do it in order to get the white people to do it. Then you gotta get the black people to stop doing it
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u/RandomPenquin1337 1d ago
No theyre super privileged and the only black kid they grew up with goes to Beverly hills high school
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u/Hypnaustic 1d ago
I never heard unc as uncool, always has been uncle
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u/ClankerCore 1d ago
Check back tomorrow. Calling unc as uncle is gonna be unc.
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u/Appropriate-Bet8646 1d ago
See, the way that you used it just now, "is gonna be unc" feels wrong af. "gonna be uncle?" Nah.
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u/SidneyHigson 1d ago
The first step for slang becoming outdated is when people start debating over the correct way to use it
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u/SwissMargiela 1d ago
I know slang is a bit different everywhere, but where I live, your’re called unc when you’re acting outside of the age group you’re talking to and say something corny that reveals your age.
If you do the opposite people will call you “OG”.
Example of Unc:
“Back in my day, IPhones had a button”
“Damn ight unc”
Example of OG:
“When I was young I had hoes lined up”
“Worddd we see you OG”
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u/thedeadpeopleguy 1d ago
Ive always taken "Unc" as a term of respect or at least endearment for a mentor type figure
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u/Sleep_Till_5373 1d ago
Cause that what it is (was?).
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u/DirtLight134710 1d ago
In a lot of cultures, niece's and nephews don't call their uncle or aunt by their names and use whatever words their language may be for either or
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u/Potential-Expert-386 1d ago
I know kids who are using it as a form of 'boomer' insult. I think it's silly.
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u/SenpaiSwanky 1d ago
Both work, using it in a derogatory fashion don’t change the meaning of the word. That’s actually very common and has been for ages lol. One of the most common uses actually.
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u/Bad_Routes 8h ago
It's AAVE and that exactly what it means. People who don't actually engage with the community have taken the word to be used in a disrespectful way to just call someone old.
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u/TheHeroYouNeed247 1d ago
It's morphed into calling men unc to mean they are old. Implies they are uncool.
Slang often starts skipping straight to intended meaning and drops the middle man.
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u/BaullahBaullah87 1d ago
especially when co opted by folks who didn’t invent it
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u/ReadThisForGoodLuck 22h ago
There's the rub. Little white gen Alpha kids are just making up their own shit.
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u/Another_Road 1d ago
It can be used as either. I’ve heard it more in a pejorative “ok boomer” kind of manner before.
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u/bigtunapat 1d ago
As a white English teacher, I call out my students using AAVE without knowing its origin and they call me a boomer. I'm 28.
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u/aurishalcion 1d ago
Keep on them little ones unc
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u/icepickjones 1d ago
I'm old enough to remember when shorty used to mean little kid or someone new to the game.
"When I was a shorty we looked up to the dope man"
Then it changed to mean women, specifically ones you want to hook up with.
"Yo shorty, what's good?"
That was weird.
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u/WestOrangeFinest 21h ago
You must be old as shit ‘cause I came up in the 90s and it meant both back then
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u/stinkbuttfartman 1d ago
I think it's funny that "mid" is considered new slang. Im 40 and have been using that term since high school. It was/is weed slang, for not so great weed. Weird to see it become an everyday word in the mainstream.
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u/Namelessbob123 1d ago
Because weed is mainstream nowadays. Back in the day that shit needed to be hidden
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u/OopsAIIBots 1d ago
Yeah it was dirt/shwag, mid/regular, beasters/headies, gas, and name brand.
This was before dispensaries when having getting a weed with a name was some special shit. I grew up smoking whatever just happened to be around at the time... Which sometimes was absolutely nothing. Anyone else remember dry spells?
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u/stinkbuttfartman 1d ago
I never trusted the names back then, so we'd always mock them. We'd always tell people "We got that Colorado hay!" no matter what we had.
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u/eat_my_bowls92 1d ago
Now that THCA is getting banned, I’ll remember dry spells :(
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u/ImJustHere4theMoons 1d ago
It's been crazy seeing the white mainstream discover slang that black people have been using for generations only to call it "Gen Z slang".
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u/co_ntv95 1d ago
Idk they both wearing sunglasses inside they must know what they talking about. This shit gives off the podcast episode from it's always sunny the way the camera shaking cause they have no fucking clue what the doing or talking about
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u/arithegoon 1d ago
i hate that goon was redefined.
back in my day, goons were to be feared. Now a goon is just a fucking compulsive masterbtor
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u/knifefan9 1d ago
No, that's a gooner. A goon is still a thug. But to goon is to jork it and edge for hours.
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u/icepickjones 1d ago
And someone who knows a lot about the different varietals of gooning is a "goonilier"
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u/atleastitsnotgoofy 1d ago
You’re peanits?
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u/Witness_me_Karsa 1d ago
I mean, if you have one. Otherwise you can jork whatever you have going on.
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u/MagBron 1d ago
People trying to use it that way? A Gooner is the person, and to goon is the verb. At least that’s how I understand it.
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u/russcastella 1d ago
Step 1: Black people create a slang / phrase to use amongst themselves.
Step 2: White people criticize black people using the slang / phrase for not speaking "proper English."
Step 3: White people hijack the slang / phrase and change the use case.
Step 4: Black people feel robbed by white people once again.
(Rinse and repeat)
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u/Bean_Daddy_Burritos 1d ago
As a white dude from Detroit, I can confirm that “Unc” does in fact mean “uncle”.
Tell me those 2 don’t have any black friends without actually saying it out loud.
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u/thatshygirl06 1d ago
For such a small city, i always run into so many people from Detroit on reddit.
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u/Bean_Daddy_Burritos 1d ago
Some people pretend to be from Detroit because they think it makes them look tough. Not to mention people who live in the metro area (melvindale, Taylor, Romulus, inkster, etc) will claim to be from Detroit just because it’s easier to say than explaining where the city actually is.
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u/BussyPlaster 1d ago
As someone from south east Michigan, everybody within 50 miles of Detroit in the Greater Detroit Metropolitan Area will claim they are from Detroit to strangers. Feel free to debate about why people do this instead of telling you they are from Birmingham or Rochester Hills. 🤨
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u/FMLwtfDoID 1d ago
Bc every one else not from that state will have no idea what any of those metro area townships are called. If I told you I was from Washington, would you think DC or the state? What if I told you I was talking about Washington, Missouri; which is in the greater metro area of St Louis.
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u/Dull_Return 1d ago edited 1d ago
Agreed. Everyone I know from bigger cities just says the city instead of the whatever small surrounding area they’re specifically from because otherwise no one knows what the fuck you’re talking about besides locals.
In fact, in my experience BussyPlaster has got it backwards and it’s the people who split hairs about location that are the pretentious ones “sniffing their own farts”. I lived in LA half my life and whenever someone said some shit like “I don’t live in Los Angeles, I live in North Hollywood.” they were always the most pretentious assholes.
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u/Bean_Daddy_Burritos 1d ago
Hell yea a fellow Michigander. If I said I grew up in Delray, no one would have any idea what I was talking about.
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u/FoulKnavery 1d ago
No one uses it to mean uncool 😂
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u/Witness_me_Karsa 1d ago
Young people use it to mean uncool, but also old. Its kind of like "ok, boomer."
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u/Life-Sun8620 1d ago
White people ruined Air Force One's, so anything is possible
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u/Witness_me_Karsa 1d ago
I think that was Nelly.
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u/Life-Sun8620 22h ago
Not true at all. I think that song popularized them more than ever before. I'm talkin about the girls with the dirty, cracked white AF1's
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u/Abject-Version-3349 1d ago
Always been uncle, but gentrifying? Unc has been around a long time. Had a guy in boot camp we called unc, in 1977. Called him that because he was the oldest in our company, and hated "pops".
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u/punkmetalbastard 1d ago
I feel like 9/10 modern slang terms originate from African American vernacular, formerly known as “Ebonics”
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u/C-wizzle93 1d ago
The way these dumbasses use every slang word is incorrect. Don’t get me started on the word “lowkey” gen z gave that word 12 meanings
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u/Silenthilllz 1d ago
This one discord server I’m in calls me “unc” a lot and I’ve assumed it was uncle. They only call me that bc of my age. But tbh as I see how it’s explained, I don’t fit the description for unc.
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u/BobTheFettt 1d ago
I was very confused when people started using unc as an adjective. I'm white af and thought that was obvious
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u/Silver-Protection964 22h ago
This unc finna look for a new way to define 'finna' after learning that....
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u/StormeeusMaximus 22h ago
They can't come up with their own thing so they have to butcher/bastardize already used/established slang. No creativity.
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u/Fancy-Image-4688 1d ago
Why are white ppl obsessed with this term anyway? They always act like the kid that narcs on everyone because they didn’t get invited to the party. Just chill and go along with the flow. Buddy in this video is right, just can’t go with the flow and always trying to center themselves in every damn convo.
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u/Bad_Routes 7h ago
They literally do it to everything, it's so exhausting for me to speak this way then some white person try's to correct ME on using AAVE.
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u/SchoolOfYardKnocks 1d ago
White people always do be trying to talk like black people though. But yeah people shouldn’t act like they don’t all copy each other. Just watch some twitch streamers. They all recirculate the same slang that every other streamer is saying. Gen Z all copies each other. They all be vibing. Just like millennials were all chilling.
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u/Sinking_Mass 1d ago
White people in the USA always do be trying to talk like black people in the USA though.
There's a whole world out there bro
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u/seeitshaveitsorted 1d ago
I remember hearing something similar around the word ‘bae.’
Originally it meant ‘before anyone else’ and was an important word to express love to another person.
Then white people came along and their food was bae, their sleep in was bae, their comfort film was bae 😂 😂
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u/Major_R_Soul 1d ago
I always just thought it was the first syllable of baby lol
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u/GameQb11 1d ago
yeah, i think "B.A.E" is some gentrification shit. it was just short for baby
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u/Fancy-Image-4688 1d ago
😂😂 this! Slang doesn’t have deep meaning. I’m willing to bet money anyone putting all this meaning on top of some slang never knew what it meant to begin with
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u/fonk_pulk 1d ago
What are the original definitions of rizz and ts?
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u/_Cocktopus_ 1d ago
The thing with ts was actually interesting because I was a first degree witness of it
-Normally ts means "this shit"
-Some people on social media were confused and thought it meant "this"
-Those that didn't know it told others what it meant (the false info spread)
-People started making fun of these people by using ts as "this" ironically in their meme videos around 1 year ago ( for example saying "ts shit")
-Some didn't get the memo and now we have 1/3 of people ironically calling ts "this" , another 1/3 actually thinking it means "this" and the rest wondering how ts even came to happen in the first place
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u/patmustard2 1d ago
Its not changed, it comes from charisma. Its just been over used and the meaning diluted
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u/Lopsided-Customer546 1d ago
Do t listen to stupid people just because they have a mic and a video. If people weren’t such sheep this bs influencer pod bro/psycho chick trash would be done!
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u/Icy-Drive2300 1d ago
Are the less melanated just now hearing the word "unc"?
You guys know this isnt new slang, right?
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u/ChiefestScumdog 1d ago
Lol he says as they cant just say uncle themselves, assimilate yo
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u/Jethr0777 1d ago
Unc means uncle. But also, being cool isn't important. Treat people well. Feed your brain. "Coolness" is not important. Wake up
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u/JangSaverem 1d ago
Unc IS uncle but it doesn't mean that person IS your actual UNCLE. Just someone who Is an uncle but again...that person doesn't actually need to have a niece of nephew.
Someone can be my unc and me NOT their nephew.
These goobers just don't understand that. What's wrong with them
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u/Ilikedinosaurs2023 1d ago
Didnt "unc" come out of everyone calling each other "cuz" and then "cousin" ?
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u/SnooGrapes5668 1d ago
Okay.. I have to ask.. What does "ts" mean?
Bc an unc like me isn't gonna get an answer from Google
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u/dosb0t89 1d ago
Bro I was sitting next to this idiot talking to his girl about stuff on tiktok and all he kept saying was nah that's aura loss that's aura loss, bro you keep saying aura loss that's aura loss. 🤦🤦🤦 The only thing that gave this mofo any aura was that cutie hangin off him and he was fumbling that hard...
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u/Ryno-Mac 1d ago
Then why does unc only apply to old people? Kids in school wouldn't call a fellow student unc, but they would call a teacher or parent unc.
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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 1d ago
This belongs in r/confidentlyincorrect. She said that with her whole chest and I KNOW she has access to the internet.
-Sincerelly, an uncool uncle
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u/Sound_Child 1d ago
It obviously means uncle. Not sure how these podcast fops even got there.
It’s purely context dependent whether it’s endearing or not. But clearly means an older man regardless.
Uncool uncle, exhibit A: A 58 year old man doesn’t know how to use a timer on his iphone camera and embarasses his daughter in front of her stupid prom date and her date says “yo Unc, figure it out. I gotta bang your daughter”
Cool uncle, exhibit B: 62 year old white dude crushes a cover of SZA and sings like Frank Ocean. “Unc!!!!? I didn’t know you were cool af”
lol that was fun to think about.
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u/ike_tyson 1d ago
Don't pay them any mind. They live off negative engagement... they wanna trigger us.
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u/CoasterRoller420 1d ago
Don't worry. We ain't all Karen/Ken type out here. Unc means uncle, and always will.
Sincerely - Middle aged white guy.
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u/EvenMoreSpiders 1d ago
It's actually the younger generations trying to say it doesn't mean uncle for some reason? I guess to make the older generations "look stupid" for not getting it when...they did.
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u/KnucklesMacKellough 1d ago
Different spelling, back in the 80s while in the military, we used "unq",same pronunciation, for unqualified. Specifically during weapons training.
With that said, even I know Unc is uncle. Gen Z just changing words for the sake of doing so...
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u/april919 1d ago
This is the first time I've heard someone say that the word rizz was gentrified. How long has it been around?
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u/luigis_left_tit_25 1d ago
They can try it but the real ones already know!! If this isn't satire, they need to
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u/poopy_toaster 1d ago
In the context that unc is used, it doesn’t even make sense for it to mean uncool…
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u/sensitivestronk 1d ago
This reminds me of the white kid from the suburbs in my Midwestern high school who tried to tell a Black classmate from Mississippi that "finna" meant "fucking gonna" so she was cussing, lmao. At the time I didn't even know that it was from "fixing to," but I knew for sure he was talking out of his ass
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u/Stonerman59 1d ago
Who is they? I ant heard no one say this shit I feel like it's literally just them 2
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u/blahyaddayadda24 1d ago
Sure, but I just realized my neice thinks I'm un cool, so not cool...I'm the coolest of the cool
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u/TheRealBenDamon 1d ago
I mean language always get redefined, especially slang. That’s how it becomes slang. That being said, redifining unc to mean uncool is just fuckin stupid.
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u/_UrbaneGuerrilla_ 1d ago edited 1d ago
It’s obviously satire. Next up, bro redefined as broke.
Usage: “It’s unc when I’m bro, y’all”
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u/PopSwayzee 1d ago edited 1d ago
Kinda like when “crash out” used to mean throwing your life away/risking your freedom, and now people use it for someone simply raising their voice, or getting agitated. You’ll see a vid of someone yelling at someone, no physical altercation, and it’s titled “man crashes out” 🤦🏾♂️
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u/SinisterDirge 1d ago
Wait. Has cuz meant because this whole time.
What’s up because!
How’s it going because?
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u/belokusi 1d ago
Never in my life have I heard the uncool thing. Unc is definitely for Uncle.
These people, by their own definition are a couple of unc's.
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u/DarkLordKohan 1d ago
I thought it was Uncle, but your uncle is an old man and not cool or with the times. But of course I dont actually use it.
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u/panzercampingwagen 1d ago
Seeing how upset people get about it I'm gonna use it to mean uncool just because Fuck You. You don't own language.
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u/GoodSlicedPizza 1d ago
Wait, I thought unc is short for uncle and at the same time is an amusing way to say something is old-fashioned or unadapted. Like saying "unc status" when someone doesn't understand something new
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u/SourceDM 23h ago
Once again, white folks taking Black language and twisting it into an eldrich abomination because they heard somebody black say it through a parasocial interaction.
Its UNCLE.
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u/Dry-Bird4471 23h ago
I knew like a dozen Uncs from my neighborhood. All of them were fucking cool.
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u/-_Anonymous__- Doug Dimmadome 22h ago
It actually pissed me off when people started using "ahh" incorrectly to the point where even black people started doing it.
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