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title: "chat · GenZ Decoded"
description: "chat: A way of addressing your audience or friends as if livestreaming, often for a reaction. Example: \"Chat, is this real? Did that actually just happen?\""
url: "https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/chat/"
lang: "en"
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# chat

Gen Z[#internet](https://genzdecoded.com/slang-for/internet/)

**Meaning.** A way of addressing your audience or friends as if livestreaming, often for a reaction.

See it in a sentence

Chat, is this real? Did that actually just happen?

## How each generation says it

The closest equivalent for this idea in every generation.

- Gen Z · this one

    chat

- Gen Alpha

    No word for this one yet.

- Millennial

    No word for this one yet.

- Gen X

    No word for this one yet.

- Boomer

    No word for this one yet.

- Plain English

    way of addressing your audience or friends as if livestreaming, often for a reaction

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## Related slang

- [catfish](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/catfish/): Someone who creates a fake online persona to deceive others, often in dating.
- [caught in 4k](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/caught-in-4k/): Caught doing something with clear, undeniable proof.
- [chronically online](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/chronically-online/): Spending so much time on the internet that your views and jokes stop making sense to people offline; usually a put-down, sometimes said about yourself.
- [clanker](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/clanker/): A slang insult for a robot or AI.

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