Tagged AAVE

The AAVE tag flags terms originating in African American Vernacular English: the structured dialect of English spoken historically and currently in Black American communities, with its own grammar, phonology, and lexicon. This tag is editorially important because it credits a source culture that internet slang routinely strips of attribution. Most viral 2010s-2020s English slang originated here. Notable: rizz, bussin, no cap, hits different, periodt, deadass, finna, hella. The tag captures both AAVE-coined neologisms and grammatical AAVE features that became mainstream slang despite still being judged "incorrect" in white-mainstream registers.