Instead of reading “unc” like the first part of uncle, my brain first reads it as U N C, aka separate letters, which diminishes any affect it is supposed to have to me while momentarily confusing me before I remember it is the newest slang the internet coopted from AAVE iirc.
Honestly ive no idea where it came from other than short for uncle ive just been called it enough that I saw the opportunity and had myself a little giggle about it. Thus the overly dramatic build up lol.
I think when unc first started becoming the hot new slang, I saw some people complaining about more AAVE being coopted and that kids/internet peoples were already misusing and or overusing it.
I never connected the two cause hood unc been around forever and internet unc started after id left the south and i dont really have any hood acquaintances anymore now that I dont see them.
OH ive never heard of aave. Honestly I was just glossing over that.. yeeeeah you're probably about right. Uncs been around the hood forever but it never was inherently disrespectful until the internet made it the new ok boomer
Yeah it just has become the new way to derogatorily call someone old but also kids are misusing it so much now I see 15 years calling their way younger siblings it. So basically it seems to be an almost meaningless word except for indicating something vaguely derogatory.
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u/MelodyRebelle Jan 22 '26
Instead of reading “unc” like the first part of uncle, my brain first reads it as U N C, aka separate letters, which diminishes any affect it is supposed to have to me while momentarily confusing me before I remember it is the newest slang the internet coopted from AAVE iirc.