History TotallyRadical / RealLife

* {{ESPN}} sportscaster Stuart Scott's {{catchphrase}}s were littered with these, particularly "Booyah!"

* Huntsville, AL's Creator/{{ABC}} affiliate WAAY brings us the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiFidO6cs5Y weather rap.]] Marvel at the sheer amount of HeadDesk!

:: Cue the CollectiveGroan.

* John Tesh, who hosts a radio advice show, had a segment explaining teen slang to parents. I don't know who his sources were, but I've never heard someone call their shoes "digs" or their friend "home skillet" unless they're joking around about this trope.

* Similar to the above-mentioned "The Hut", Radio Shack is in the process of changing its name to "The Shack". In fairness, Radioshack's employees have been privately calling their store "The Shack" for ''years''. Makes perfect sense given that ham radio, where the name comes from, is considered rather vintage nowadays. Unless you're an amateur radio hobbyist, that is.

%%** [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/notratched/2590959112/in/pool-badsign This]] could be a [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]] sign gag.

* {{ESPN}} sportscaster Stuart Scott's {{catchphrase}}s are littered with these, particularly "Booyah!"

* Even white nationalism has jumped on the bandwagon with the alt-right, whose members use memes and dress stylishly. This is also OlderThanTheyThink, as the original fascists in the 20th century were also very image-conscious.

** [[http://www.netlingo.com/top50/acronyms-for-parents.php?ModPagespeed=noscript The updated list of 50 acronyms]] contains some real corkers. A/S/L is legit, as pointed out, along with J/O. As are 1337 and 420 (the latter a marijuana reference) but both are a little out of place in a list that seems to concern itself mainly with cybersex. The rest seem to be initialisms of quite arbitrary phrases, or else it's slang particular to an individual chat community. Apparently, [[FreudWasRight banana means penis]]. And "kitty" means vagina, obviously a pun on "pussy". Using either is a good way to give your cybersex session [[{{Narm}} that little something extra]].

* [[http://www.simplecodeworks.com/website.html SiMPLE]], a "kids programming language", ''reeks'' of this trope. From the front page: "Show Me How I Can Use [=SiMPLE=] To Send Totally Private Emails!" Not to mention a constant bashing of C++ on the "More Info" page.

** [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/notratched/2590959112/in/pool-badsign This]] could be a [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]] sign gag.

* Anti-Drug PSA's, particularly during the late-80's and early-90's, were also infamous for using "hip lingo" and "cool characters" to keep kids off drugs.
** That little gem by "Joey" at the end of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTYXZ0qZZEA this PSA.]]
* A mid-90's Smokey The Bear PSA deliberately averted this trope by showing Smokey watching a video of himself rapping about forest fires, at which he wisely acknowledges that he was trying to be something he wasn't in that video. So he instead decides to say straight up that "Only you can prevent forest fires."

* ObjectiveMinistries is a StealthParody of fundamentalist Christianity; their [[http://objectiveministries.org/zounds/ Zounds! Youth Rock Ministry]] is an equally stealthy parody of this trope, to the point where it was originally posted on this page as a straight example.

* The annotation to [[http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/issue176.htm this article]] by Creator/{{Seanbaby}} points out an especially lame example from a company pamphlet shilling gamer chairs. His mockery may have even caused the company to pull the dialogue.

* Articles in magazines trying to explain slang to parents. The words they come up with sometimes...

* [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/babbletrish/2828638805/in/set-72157604794697882/ Possibly the strangest example yet.]] The picture is safe for work, and must be viewed because... you wouldn't believe us if we tried to describe it.
* [[http://www.sweetcred.com/ Sweet Cred]] tries to sell ''candy'' and ''rocking horses'' with... outdated ridiculous slang?
* [[http://www.ifanyoneisthirsty.com/#/journey/ This group's]] mascot, Hizzy.

** Later that year, the [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkSubway New York City Subway]] began a [[http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/nyregion/MTA-targets-manspreading-on-new-york-city-subways.html?_r=0 similar etiquette campaign]], specifically targeting "manspreading" (men, especially young men, slouching with their legs wide apart such that they take up two seats on the train).

* Parents using new slang. Half the time they just use it totally wrong, and the other half they just sound stupid anyway.
* In general, any attempt to connect with a younger generation by using their slang is counterproductive, because part of the reason that slang exists is to ''distinguish'' the younger generation from the preceding ones. An older person trying to use youth slang is already a category mistake. Much better simply to use normal language, rather than trying to pretend to be something you're not.
* Adverts guilty of this trope are documented in the [[Website/{{Reddit}} subreddit]] r/fellowkids.
** [[http://imgur.com/Po83WdC This]] homework assignment attempts to make ''WorldWarI'', of all things, TotallyRadical.

* R U Lethal?, a driver's ed web show that tries to appeal to high schoolers by using painfully obvious pop culture references (Creator/RobertPattinson's hair, anyone?), features a [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy six year old white girl]] that vehemently berates bad drivers using "What's up, my homies?"-style gangsta slang, and refers to Google as "the google".

* While this looks like it might come from the 90s, Creator/CartoonNetwork actually aired this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZUYEUtOIRg anti-bullying ad]] in ''2013''.

** [[http://charlotte.cbslocal.com/2014/06/03/hip-hop-church-opens-in-north-carolina/ This church in North Carolina]]. The whole thing.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqsbn7hPKL4 This "praise" song]], which is indeed genuine.

** World Youth Day 2008 took place in Australia, and the attendees got religious text messages on their mobiles. These switched the "you" for a "u" and so on. An article was published about how they were doing it to "speak their language", and quoting "experts" on how the message would be "seen as cool". They somehow didn't get that people use text speak because it's just quicker (and costs less on programs that charge per character).

* As this Webcomic/{{xkcd}} comic [[http://xkcd.com/1083/ shows]], Lots of politicians on Website/{{Twitter}} use textspeak, despite having plenty of characters left.

*** What? You mean, not that you're connecting via using HTTP via an ISP to a LAMP stack which is running a MMORPG descended from a MUD that liked to call itself a PBBG programmed with PHP and you're connecting to it from a *NIX PC which != M$[[note]]Query: Dual booting aside, can a *NIX PC ''ever'' be M$ these days? There used to be XENIX.[[/note]] after you've read the WSU about event at MIT hoping not to get a 404 reading UTF-8 rather than ASCII or ISO-8859 and the TLA increases as BOINC wants more RAM...[[note]] Try to find a normal teenager-heck, a normal white collar adult- that understood every one of these acronyms. Good luck. [[/note]]

*** "Zerg" = "to gang up on someone"? If that someone is [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Hogger]], I guess... Fun activity: Picture a bunch of juvenile StarCraft players "zerging" somebody on the playground! Never mind that "zerg" is more accurately "everybody rush him at once" and "gank" is more accurately "everybody gang up on him".

* While this looks like it might come from the 90s, Creator/CartoonNetwork is actually airing this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZUYEUtOIRg anti-bullying ad]] in ''2013''.

* At some [[FleetingDemographicRule award]] show a few years ago, Joan Rivers made a comment about a rapper along the lines of "always getting some bling for him and his crew." *cringe, facepalm*

** [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/notratched/2590959112/in/pool-badsign This]] could be a [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]] sign gag, and [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb-foto/2331909529/ this]] (currently inactive link) is where the pic at the top of the page came from.

* R U Lethal?, a driver's ed web show that tries to appeal to high schoolers by using painfully obvious pop culture references (RobertPattinson's hair, anyone?), features a [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy six year old white girl]] that vehemently berates bad drivers using "What's up, my homies?"-style gangsta slang, and refers to Google as "the google".

* Adverts guilty of this trope are documented in the subreddit r/fellowkids.

*** What? You mean, not that you're connecting via using HTTP via an ISP to a LAMP stack which is running a MMORPG descended from a MUD that liked to call itself a PBBG programmed with PHP and you're connecting to it from a *NIX PC which != M$[[note]]Query: Can a *NIX PC ''ever'' be M$ these days? There used to be XENIX.[[/note]] after you've read the WSU about event at MIT hoping not to get a 404 reading UTF-8 rather than ASCII or ISO-8859 and the TLA increases as BOINC wants more RAM...[[note]] Try to find a normal teenager-heck, a normal white collar adult- that understood every one of these acronyms. Good luck. [[/note]]

* In 2014, [[UsefulNotes/PhiladelphiaSubways SEPTA]] (the Philadelphia area's public transportation system) launched it's "[[http://septa.org/service/dudeitsrude/index.html Dude It's Rude!]]" passenger etiquette campaign. The "Watch your language" signs in particular take up an entire window on Market-Frankford line trains, much to the annoyance of people who want to actually be able to see out of them, judging from the chunks torn off the bottom of many of them.

* In TheNineties there was a Dutch ad campaign to keep kids of smoking. Since SmokingIsCool they tried to showcase that cool people don't smoke. What the makers of these ads thought kids considered cool included: a waiter urinating in somebody's food, a guy punching his own father in the face for no reason whatsoever and another guy who made his mother believe his father had cheated on her and messing up their marriage ForTheEvulz. Let's just say the campaign was controversial.

* From {{Cracked}}, this [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19334_the-5-biggest-disasters-in-history-marketing-ideas_p2.html disaster of an ad campaign]] by Silo, using the already outdated in 1986 slang "bananas" for dollars. A new stereo only cost 299 bananas! So people did the [[ExactWords obvious thing]] and showed up at store with 299 bananas (worth $40) to exchange for a brand new stereo, leading to Silo losing thousands of dollars in a day and sitting on more bananas than they could give away for free.

* From {{Cracked}}, this [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19334_the-5-biggest-disasters-in-history-marketing-ideas_p2.html disaster of an ad campaign]] by Silo, using the already outdated at the time slang "bananas" for dollars. A new stereo only cost 299 bananas! So people did the [[ExactWords obvious thing]] and showed up at store with 299 bananas (worth $40) to exchange for a brand new stereo, leading to Silo losing thousands of dollars in a day and sitting on more bananas than they could give away for free.