An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The VSCO girl trend, a contemporary rehashing of "valley girls," rose almost as quickly as it fell, but the phrases popularized alongside the ...

When Tony Thorne first started researching slang, he was largely on his own. This was in the ’80s, when, according to Thorne, the academic community “virtually ignored” slang as a part of linguistics.

A college of various internet slang: "brat" (top left), "demure" (top right), "rizz" (bottom left), and "crash out" (bottom right). "What they talkin' 'bout? They ain't talkin' 'bout nothin'" I'm sure ...

Millennials and Gen-Zers of the world have really taken technology and run with it, which is understandable considering they grew up with it at their fingertips. Although sometimes it's difficult to ...

For about as long as the internet has existed, it’s been used for illicit activity. Before e-commerce ballooned into a multi-trillion dollar industry, the first deal facilitated by the internet was a ...

Tumblr, YouTube, and Twitter have been leading the slang game recently. "Snatched" is officially the new "fleek," "sis" is the new "bro," and adding "boots" to the end of any adjective is totally a ...

If there's one thing we know about the deep corners of the World Wide Web, it's that language on the Internet often does not resemble any other language known to humankind. Words get shortened; ...

I came of age online. LiveJournal and Tumblr were fixtures for me in the early 2010s, when Harry Potter fan-fiction was written at warp speed and Tumblr had not yet banned adult content. In those days ...

What exactly drives the creation and spread of slang? There is some social science to it.