August 27-30, DSF’s Digital Internship Program will present an Online Theatre Festival featuring three exciting projects. One project will be a world premiere: Buried by Guinevere Govea. Click here for Blog Post #1 and here for Blog Post #2

Blog Post 3: Gen Z Glossary for BURIED

With the popularization of social media, especially among the younger generations, new slang has come to light via the internet. Everything on the internet is fast paced and constantly changing, and so is the language that people are using these days. Overnight, new phrases emerge, and for any generation, it can be exhausting to keep up.
However, terminology like this is important to many people in Generation Z (who are, according to the Pew Research Center, are people born between 1997-2012), as it oftentimes extends beyond the internet and into daily conversations. Since Buried is a show revolving around internet culture and the generation most commonly associated with this language, author Guinevere Govea felt it was important to include some of the language in the script. In order for everyone to have a fair understanding of the content in this show, the production team has created a glossary of the terms used in the show, which will be streamed on Twitch on Friday August 28th at 2:30PM PST, and then once again on YouTube the following day at 2:00PM PST.
warning for language
GLOSSARY
F(for respects): 
In the gaming community, the ‘F’ key on the controller or put into the chat was how your character in the game paid respects to another dead character. It has since been incorporated into everyday speech as a funny nod to when someone leaves a conversation or dies in a game or in other media.
Shane Madej: 
Not strictly a term, but he is a person of interest. He is an actor and producer known for various works, among which is BuzzFeed Unsolved: Supernatural, the work referenced in the show. Particularly, he is known for being a skeptic who enjoys making light of potential supernatural encounters.
[Adjective] Boy/Boi: 
A tool for personifying anything and everything in an attempt at humor. For example, instead of referring to my cat as my cat, I might refer to him as my “fluffy boy”. Or similarly, if I encounter an abnormally sharp cactus, I might call it “spiky boy” even though this cactus does not have a gender. By personifying it, I can make light of it.
AF: 
Standing for As F***. This is used when the magnitude of a quality in an event or person or action exceeds the speaker’s expectations.
LMAO: 
Literally standing for “Laughing My Ass Off”, meaning that something is extremely funny.
 
WTF: 
Standing for “What The F***”.
 
TF: 
Standing for “The F***”. This is always a question, though it may not look it. Tends to represent surprise. Example: “TF is that?” or “TF were you thinking?”. Always as a response for something unexpected.
 
Bruh: 
Like “Dude” it is a gendered, gender neutral term used to refer to someone when you are impressed or disappointed by their actions. Ex: “Woah, Bruh, that flip was sick.”
 
S/O: 
Standing for “Significant Other”, a gender neutral term for someone’s romantic partner.
 
Simp: 
Someone who does more than they need to do for someone to like them, kind of like a kiss ass.
written by Eva Nemirovsky and Emily Holzman
DSF Digital Internship Participants