In some cases, some Gen Z slang has been derived from African-American Vernacular English, which has led to accusations of cultural appropriation. Many Gen Z slang terms were not coined by Gen Z members and were already in usage and simply made more mainstream. Ease of communication with the internet results in slang proliferated to greater and swifter extent. Gen Z was the first generation to grow up entirely within the internet age and much of their slang originates from online media and social media apps like TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter. Generation Z slang differs from slang of prior generations. This is a list of slang used by Generation Z generally those born from the mid 1990s to the early 2010s in the Western world.
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