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If you've ever spent more than 0.5 seconds around teens today, then chances are, you left totally confused. What are they talking about? Why are they constantly saying "six-seven"? Are we actually living in a simulation right now?! If it's any consolation, you are not alone. Apparently, every teenager acts the exact same way, and Jimmy Fallon just parodied it in the funniest way. The comedian made a sketch video featuring Gen Z slang, attitudes, and behaviors, and its hands-down the most spot-on re-enactment we've ever seen.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon host and guest star Charlie Puth wore hoodies, shorts, socks, and Birkenstocks as they hung out together on what looked exactly like a teen boy's bedroom. Their wigs featured a pile of hair on top of their heads, giving them the mullet-adjacent hairstyle all boys seem to have nowadays.
Their convo -- which takes place with their phones in their hands because of course it does -- features a lot of "bro" and "king" and "one hundred percent."
"Leg day, bro. I cooked!" Puth says at one point, making Fallon break character a little to laugh.
"Yeah, king, get an arm day for me, bro," Fallon says, prompting Puth to reply, "Yeah, bro, trust."
What are they even saying -- and why does it sound like every teen conversation we've ever heard?!
They look at "brainrot" together, then sit next to each other just looking at their phones and chuckling.
Later, they make up their own slang terms because the old words "are feeling kind of mid." These include things like, "Awkward, but still kind of cool," which they call "Cheez-It."
"Yeah, 'cause it's kind of cheesy, but it's also 'it,'" Fallon says.
They also define a made-up word, "Skoink!" which means: "That feeling when you're at a restaurant, and your friend orders something that you almost order, and at first your jealous, but then you realize you actually love what you're eating, so you learn how to cook it, and you make it for your dad, and he's like, 'Wow, I'm really proud of the adult you're becoming.'"
Hey, it makes more sense than some of the dubious explanations we've seen for past slang terms!
Before the video ends, they spend a lot of time repeating "six-seven" and "forty-one," which is so accurate it hurts. In the comments, people were loving this video.
"As a parent of an 11 yr old, this is my daily hell," someone commented. Someone else shared, "My 11-year-old cringed and laughed in equal measure -- this skit was slay, apparently. 😂"
"I'm a high school teacher and I'm dying. Spot. On. I love how you still made them likable. It wasn't mean, just totally how they are! ❤️" another wrote. "Omg this is my kid upstairs right now 🤦♀️" someone else said.
One person wrote, "The hair is killing me its so spot on 😂😂😂😂😂😂" Another said, "My 13 yr old's response: 'that hair looks amazing on Jimmy Fallon.'"
Mr. Lindsay, middle school teacher and teen slang expert even commented, "Skoiiiiinnnnkkkk."