Sorry SNL, Gen Z Didn’t Invent That Slang

Rachelle and Madison discuss Elon Musk’s episode
of Saturday Night Live. Specifically they break down the ”Gen
Z Hospital” sketch, where everybody seems to be speaking in
internet slang, and the backlash to it. Rachelle explains how all
the language used isn’t just from the internet or from Zoomers but
from African-American Vernacular English (AAVE). This isn’t a new
thing, of course—white Americans have been appropriating Black
culture for as long as America has been around—but as
this Paper magazine article by Rob Dozier points out, the
internet has made it particularly easy for those words to lose
their original context. Podcast Production by Daniel Schroeder and
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