For many parents the struggle to stay up to date with their children’s interests and hobbies can feel like fighting a losing battle – one which has just become even harder thanks to a hilarious new viral meme that sees people posing fake guides to what popular texting acronyms really mean.
The online trend sees people picking an imagined topic of conversation – from Lord of the Rings to orange juice – and then ‘translating’ abbreviations like OMG and WTF with new meanings to fit that subject.
Using the opening line, ‘Is your child texting about…’ the witty Twitter users then post the hilarious, and fairly ridiculous, guides on the social media site, to the delight of their fellow tweeters.
Meme: Due to parents constantly trying to figure out what their kids’ texting codes mean, Twitter made memes about fake scenarios
Articles: Some of the Google searches and articles about parents trying to decode children’s texts are so unintentionally hilarious, Twitter started to make fun of them
Scenarios: Some users made up different scenarios that kids could be texting about like this Charles Dickens text decoder
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the ‘is your child texting about it’ meme has thrown Twitter in a frenzy of excitement with people coming up with all sorts of topics from politics to religion – there’s even a meme about Olive Garden.
One user wrote, ‘Is your child texting about Olive Garden?
‘Here’s a quick guide to find out: OG: Olive Garden, LMAO: love me an olive, LOL: lots of lasagna, ROFL: ravioli or flavorful linguine, BRB: breadsticks rock, bro, WTF: where’s the fettuccine, STFU: some tiramisu for us.’
People found the Olive Garden tweet so entertaining, it has already racked up over 24,000 retweets and over 71,000 likes.
Cryptocurrency: In one highly unlikely scenario, one user shared that kids are actually talking about cryptocurrency and bitcoins
Congress: While many parents wish their children were texting about Congress, this user
Lizards: This user hilariously joked that your child might be texting about herpetology, the study of amphibians and reptiles
The real meanings of some of the most popular acronyms being use are: BRB – be right back, LMAO – laugh my ass off, TTYL – talk to you later, LMK – let me know and WTF – what the f**k.
However, kids have adapted these basic codes and have since created so many more that are far more complex and much less obvious.
IWSN, for example, means ‘I want sex now’, while KPC appropriately translates to ‘keeping parents clueless’.
Meanwhile, someone else gave a different scenario, about Martin Luther, saying, ‘Is your child texting about Martin Luther? WTF: Worms time, friends, FYI: F**k your Indulgences, LOL: Luther or Leo?
OJ: Apparently, kids are actually texting each other about orange juice and WTF really means ‘where’s the fruit?’
LOTR: While this scenario about Lord of the Rings texts is made up, it could very well be used by some teens who are fans of the trilogy
Meals: This guy joked that teens are actually texting each other different recipes from Rachel Ray’s cookbook
‘GTFO: Going To Fight Orthodoxy, ROTFL: Really Offensive Towards Fathers and Laity, JFC: Just fully constipated, LMAO: Luther’s Marrying? the Absolute Oddball.’
Another person shared, ‘Is your child texting about Congress? BRB – Budget resolution brouhaha, WTF – Well, they filibustered, TTYL – Talk to your legislator, LMAO – Long markup, amendments offered, OFC – Often files cloture.’
Someone else wrote, ‘Is your child texting about orange juice? Let’s find out: LMAO: love me an orange, OML: orange, my liquid, WTF: where’s the fruit?, ROFL: real orange fluid lover, OG: orange guice.’
Books: While it may be every parents dream that their kids are really texting about libraries, it is highly doubtful
Enough: Some of the scenarios were so bizarre, that one guy just gave up and said that the texts are really code words for noises
People couldn’t handle how funny the fake texting memes were and one person commented saying, ‘Now whenever I say WTF you know I’m really saying where’s the fettuccine?’
One teenager even joked on the Olive Garden meme, ‘That is exactly what I mean when I say these things…my cover is blown.’
The memes about fake texting codes got so out of hand, people started to just make stuff up like the one user who wrote, ‘Is your child texting about meaningless noises?’ followed by a bunch of jumbled letters next to acronyms.
Whether or not parents actually know what their kids are texting about is still undecided.