Remember when comic artists and cartoonists would make up some outlandish slang for a character and it was supposed to make fun of millennials, but we thought that was stupid too?
I don't have a problem with new slang in general - it's interesting to see what new words become popular. Sometimes, though, I just don't like them. I never got used to "yeet" and still dislike it.
Yes we all know language evolves, nobody is saying the kids can’t use new slang and words. That’s simply a part of the human experience regardless of age.
The dislike of this kind of talk is more than just “what was cool is now not and the kids have the new cool and I hate it because it’s not my cool”.
I know it makes an easy strawman for you to slap down but there is valid criticism and some of these terms are already dated as fuck, further reducing the cultural and linguistic impact which is your whole thing apparently.
The comment you replied to isn’t simply talking about new words and slang, it’s about the fucked grammar, the fr frs, etc. The kids aren’t speaking gospel, why raise them up on a pedestal as the drivers of linguistic evolution?
Is “Skibidi what the sigma Ohio” some deep wisdom to you? Maybe rizzler gyat fanum tax rings true in your soul?
That shit makes Jive look like goddamn Shakespeare
I will note that a line for line translation doesn't quite work, as you can see above. This is more of a general translation than a direct word for word translation.
It's believed to have been a part of black American slang for decades, possibly from the term "high-capping" which essentially means bragging. Rapper E-40 used the term in his 1995 song "Da Bumble".
Turns out cappin' is in opposition to no cap (a video game term for an accurate sniper shot)... So where no cap came to mean accuracy, "cappin'" came to mean inaccuracy or deception/lying.
He's trying to sound cool and dangerous but he's a man dying of cancer slowly getting himself in deeper and deeper trouble with no way out. He's desperate.