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Why Are Kids Now Suddenly Saying 'City Boy'?

Why Are Kids Now Suddenly Saying 'City Boy'?

We’ve recently explained the meanings behind choppelganger and lowkenuinely – some newer words entering teen vocabulary. Now there’s another catchphrase you might hear uttered (or should I say, yelled) from your child’s lips. “City boy, city boy” is the call of Gen Alpha currently, with TikTok creator and teacher Philip Lindsay noting kids in his class have been saying it for a few weeks now. “It’s a meme from an old video clip that they’re just repeating,” explained the teacher, who is based in the US. The memes actually first did the rounds in 2022 and appear to be popular again – such is the bizarre nature of the internet. In the comments section for Mr Lindsay’s latest video , people noted the catchphrase had spread to New Zealand too. But what does it even mean? The City Boy meme originates from a clip from the animated series, Gravity Falls. In one early episode, from 2012, a police officer character named Deputy Durland makes fun of the main character who comes from the city and thinks he can solve a local crime. Cue, Durland and his colleague mocking him and shouting: “City boyyyy, city boyyyyy.” But the context in which it’s being used online and shared is sometimes tied to the slang term “city boy” , according to YouTuber MrToucan Explains Memes . In this instance, a city boy is “a man who prioritises his success and goals over relationships”. And here’s where it gets a bit weird. The YouTuber explained: “People started using it as a reaction clip whenever they see a guy doing something savage or acting coldly towards women in the name of self-improvement.” It’s giving red pill. One person noted in the comments section: “ So, its like sigma with another name?” For context, sigma was a popular term in 2025 when it was used to describe a certain type of guy – a lone wolf who doesn’t follow the pack and is considered successful and cool, but on their own terms. From a Gen Alpha perspective though, Mr Lindsay suggested the phrase “city boy” doesn’t really mean anything and kids are just shouting it out at all opportunities – a bit like six-seven. Related... WTF Does Sigma Mean?! A Teacher Explains What Your Kid Is Saying If A Kid Mentions You're Someone's 'Choppelganger', It's A Pretty Harsh Diss Move Over 'Six-Seven'. Kids Are Saying 'Lowkenuinely' Now

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‘A woman screams from a high balcony: “Help me! I’m freezing to death!”’ – novelist James Meek returns to Kyiv

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Stepping off the night train, full of memories of his life there three decades ago, the writer finds a changed city fighting for survival My first flat in Kyiv was a couple of metro stops outside the city centre, just opposite Volodymyrskyy market, in a nondescript mid-20th century block. The lease was arranged by post. It took me five days to drive there from Edinburgh in an old Polo in November 1991. Finding my way to Kyiv was easy – one road from Calais takes you straight there – but once I got to the outskirts, I must have used a paper map to navigate through the city. I spoke no Ukrainian, and enough Russian to ask basic directions, but not enough to understand the answer. I could read the street signs. I found a parking space round the back and began to unload my stuff. Recently, I went back. I crossed the road from the square by the metro and went through the market. It’s a neater, quieter place than I remember from the early 1990s, not so much because of the war as from the gradual changes over the intervening years, when peasant farmers around Kyiv became fewer and post-communist supermarkets and commercial food distribution systems replaced the old state shops. In the weeks before and after the 1991 referendum, when Ukrainians voted to leave the Soviet Union, precipitating its quick disintegration, I went to the state shops to queue for cheap, rationed, often scarce items such as bread and hard cheese; the market was a place of plenty and, for locals, high prices. Row upon row of countrywomen in aprons sold huge jars of sour cream, chalk-white towers of cottage cheese wrapped in muslin and pots of horseradish in beetroot juice, alongside vendors from the Caucasus offering persimmons, pomegranates and fresh coriander, and pickle merchants with buckets of Korean carrot salad and wild garlic stalks. All this is still abundant in Kyiv, still locally made, but packaged and stacked on supermarket shelves by big firms. Nobody’s selling homemade sour cream now – perhaps they’ll be back in spring? – there’s only one pickle seller, and the meat counter is no longer quite the shrine to pork fat it once was. Continue reading...

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