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Probably because you grew up with it an understand it. Here's some 1950s brainrot slang:
I'm a circled guy to an ex paper shaker when this bird dog tried to bash her ears at this fat city place, not supermurgitroid!
The best part about that scene is that this is Barbara Billingsley, aka June Cleaver.
Haha! . . . Translation, please?
I'm married to an ex cheerleader and this pick up artist was trying to flirt with her when we went out to a nice restaurant, not cool!
Wowza!
That is genuinely harder to understand than the tweet
I was reading the memoir of a Battle of Britain pilot published posthumously in 1943 when he used the word "ginormous" (the word was even in the included glossary, explained as a combination of gigantic and enormous). It was very surprising as I'd always assumed that word was Valley Girl speak that dated to the 1980s at the earliest.