Millennials overuse the word "awesome". It's like the one thing they/we say.
This pizza is awesome. That song is awesome, etc. It totally devalues the word and renders it meaningless.
Gen Z has retarded ebonics slang, like "no cap", "bussin" fr fr", etc.
It should be obvious why that's bad.
Do your part and start incorporating words like rad and groovy into your speech. Tubular is too of it's time and people wouldn't take it seriously. But casually using rad and groovy would become accepted I believe.
We've lost the latitude of language we had in the 90s and earlier to describe things.
Instead, black slang started dominating in the 2000s and has only gotten worse.
Now the only word that isn't ghetto slang that people use is "awesome" or "cool".
Also don't use it in a hipster or ironic way. Just use it like you would normally and people will get used to it.
I would say the difference though was people didn't think acting like a ghetto thug was cool until the 90s and 2000s.
I still can't wrap my head around why white people think that black culture is cool.
It's what a middle schooler would say is cool. Brag about yourself, talk like a moron, freak out and try to act tough at any perceived slight, think ignorance is a virtue. It really blows my mind when I see people trying to emulate ghetto stuff and not knowing what cool really looks like. It's like people have a retarded child's idea of what cool is. It's something that truly baffles me.
White people liked things in black culture in the past, like Jazz or the black owned clubs. But it didn't seem like white people were ashamed to be white or wanted to become black. It was like in the 1970s how everyone got into Kung Fu really hardcore. But there was no sense that they wanted to become Chinese. It was just a cool thing that they wanted to do.
How cringy would it be if all the white people in the 70s who were into the kung fu craze started unironically bowing all the time and talking in Engrish, etc.
That's what we have now, more or less.
I think music has always been a vector. The people pushing gangsta shit in the 90s and 2000s were, I imagine, pushing jazz and rock and roll in previous decades. I really only like music that has more of a white people sound: folk, country, orchestral stuff.