robert irwin interview

Gen Z has their own slang that seems to have a life of it's own. Americans hear the popular phrases so often that it can be easy to forget that not every teen and young adult knows all the lingo. But Robert Irwin, the late Steve Irwin's son, was interviewed for Pedestrian TV where they asked him to guess American Gen Z slang.

It turned into this chaotically silly exchange as Irwin repeated the popular words and phrases in his thick Australian accent. Something about an Aussie saying "that's cap" just sounds like it's not supposed to go together. The 20-year-old himself couldn't contain his laughter throughout the whole interview realizing that he didn't know as much as he thought he should as part of the Gen Z generation.

In his defense, there were some Gen Alpha phrases thrown in there so plenty of American 20somethings would've also been confused on a couple of those. Even with the few curve balls, Irwin starts off strong in the word game.

When Pedestrian TV asks the Australian icon what "slay" means, he answers, "slay...that happens to be what I do all day everyday, 'nough said," clearly showing he knows the lingo. Well...until they get to "slaps." Irwin thought it was a hand game where you try to avoid getting your hands slapped. But the slang meaning quickly popped into his head, "oh like slaps as in like music. Like that slaps, like that goes...that slaps, that goes hard, that's a banger." Nice save.

The few that tripped up the Aussie were, "glizzy," "GYATT," and "sigma." It was at that point Irwin admitted to feeling old and quickly slipped into an American southern accent saying, "I don't know what the kids are saying these days but I'm clearly behind the times." Commenters couldn't get over his his accent switch up and one dubbed him a Millennial at heart.

"That Aussie's old man accent is SOUTHERN AMERICAN. I think my brain just broke," one person writes.

"That southern American accent slaps. All rizz. no cap," someone jokes.

"Lowkey its good he doesn't know the trending terms, means he's worried about more important matter in the real world love you either way robert," another person laughs.

The accent really threw people and they simply could not get over the fact that other people outside of America do random accents for no good reason with one person writing, "so the Australians also like to mimic accents when they're feeling silly. Just sounds like they're turning their accent off."

Another person added to the chorus dubbing Irwin a honorary Millennial saying, "as a Texan I did not expect that accent at the end spot on. Robert is definitely Millennial coded."

While Robert Irwin is displaying his Millennial energy, he shouldn't feel alone. Slang is always changing and evolving leaving each generation a little more confused than the last as slag turns into acronyms being sounded out or words that simply don't exist. Plus he's on a completely different continent, so he gets a pass on the slag. Southern accent was top tier though.