In a failed attempt to be helpful, a social media marketing company, SocialBee, completely missed the mark. The company published a blog providing readers with a list of words that could assist in ...

YouTuber Colleen Ballinger, aka Miranda Sings, was called out on Twitter for "mocking AAVE." Ballinger wrote in an apology that she was "trying to sound like an awkward mom who uses gen z slang." Much ...

Lizzo slams white people for picking up African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and bashing Black people, the originators, for using it. She called for it to be gatekept. The “About Damn Time” ...

The term "woke," originating from African-American Vernacular English, signifies social consciousness and alertness to ...

Did you feel this article's "aura" before clicking on it? If so, it's time to "lock in" because The Register-Guard sat down with four Monroe Middle School students to get to the bottom of current ...

For most people, the idea of going back to middle school is a waking nightmare. Trying to figure out where you fall on the social ladder was hard enough once, let alone repeating the endeavor. As with ...

A Parents guide to decoding the lingo your kids use in texts, on TikTok, and IRL. Fact checked by Elizabeth Brownfield Teens in each generation develop a unique language of their own—and the same can ...

Whether on College Walk or while scrolling on social media, slang terms such as “slay,” “periodt,” and “queen” are unavoidable on campus and in Generation Z online spaces. Though popular across Gen Z ...

Lizzo calls out white people for using, and demonizing AAVE, and urges the Black community to start gatekeeping their language. Lizzo has had enough of cultural appropriation. The singer went to ...

The educator named Ryan Price, who works as an English teacher at Buckingham Charter Magnet High School, posted three videos about the "Gen Z dictionary," which have gained 4.6 million views combined.