Youth slang is a unique phenomenon within which regular changes take place. In this article, we will have the opportunity to learn about the popular abbreviation "2k16". What is this cipher, what is its meaning and how should it be used in speech? It's time to deal with the accumulated questions.
Meaning
Why 2d16? What is this incomprehensible mixing of a number with a single letter? In fact, everything is very simple. The letter "k" in the cipher can, according to the Global Network, mean one of two things:
- A prefix identical to "kilo-", equal to a thousand.
- Slang for "mower" or "piece", which is the same number.
As a result, understanding why young people use the "2k16" bundle, what this encryption means and how to use it yourself, is as easy as shelling pears. It turns out that only the number 2016 is hiding behind it, which served as the designation of the previous year. Now it’s 2017, which means that on the World Wide Web, at least on Russian-language resources, somewhere you can stumble upon a new abbreviation -2k17.
Origin
If what 2k16 means has been clarified, then it is not possible to establish exactly who first invented and used the indicated cipher. The abbreviation quickly became viral, gained the widest popularity among the user (especially among the teenage audience) and began to be used by a large number of commentators in groups and on public pages of the VKontakte social network, on anonymous forums, in chat rooms, etc.
Usage examples
So, everything seems to be clear about the abbreviation "2d16", what it is and what it is "eaten with". It remains to figure out in what context such slang can be used so that it does not look stupid, but is “in the subject.”
So, the user network audience at one time especially actively used such a construction: "Oh, right now (now) would be in 2k16 …". What does it mean? Such a proposal was usually defamatory in nature and was aimed at either bullying or humiliating the person to whom it was addressed. Its meaning was to show another user: “It’s already 2016 outside the window, and you still continue to… (write, speak, do something like no one has been doing for a long time).”
Better examples are the following sentences:
- Oh, right now I would like to go to clubs in 2k16.
- Eh, right now I would buy in 2k16, not download computer games.
- Eh, right now I would write in 2k16: “Oh, right now.”
And many other options. In addition, the reduction of 2k16 has become commonbe used in the new type of pictures that 2016 brought to the youth sphere. On the Internet, in teenage slang, they began to be called "top pictures" or "fashion pictures". Usually they depicted young boys and girls dressed in the latest fashion, or separately photographed body parts, beautiful landscapes, often with depressive overtones, etc. Over the picture itself, text was placed in large print and usually in white. It was in it that the cipher "2k16" analyzed in this article was often used. Today, the fashion for such Internet art is gradually subsiding.
What if you encounter 2076 instead of 2k16?
2076 is another cult number for the Internet that can mislead and misunderstand an inexperienced user. Surprisingly, in this case, even those who know the meaning of the abbreviation 2d16 are not always familiar with the number 2076, and even more so with the history of its appearance.
Actually, 2076 also stands for 2017. Quite a reasonable question - what is the analogy between them? After all, there is practically no connection … And this is true. The history of the appearance of the number 2076 is connected with the field of "gaming" or, to put it more clearly, computer games.
Today, an Internet resource called Twitch is gaining popularity on the Web. This is an American platform that allows fans of virtual spaces to live stream their games. People who implement this are called "streamers", and their broadcasts are called "streams" (from the English stream - stream).
Despite the fact that the project is American, a person from any country can register and broadcast there. So, today there are a large number of Russian-speaking "streamers" on Twitch. Among them are well-known, loved by the audience, and those who are just starting their journey. One of the most popular "streamers" of the entire CIS is a "gamer" under the nickname Arthas. On one of the live broadcasts, he dropped the ill-fated "2076", which quickly spread through social networks and began to be actively used by young people.
2k16 and teen love of numbers
Probably, today's youth are very fond of mathematics. Such a conclusion can be drawn if we pay attention to how actively adolescents generally resort to various numerical abbreviations and bundles. Today, slang, in addition to the already parsed 2k16, 2k17 and 2076, is replete with such numbers as:
- 1488 - means the code slogan of the nationalists. In modern Internet culture, it is used not for its intended purpose, but in a comic context.
- 322 - means the organization of a fake match (especially typical for the field of computer games), in which the player, the whole team or any organizing and interested person bets on the loss of the team. He, in turn, deliberately lends himself to the opponent and, as a result, loses in order to gain money from bets.
- 1312 - comes from the first letters of the English alphabet ACAB. This abbreviation stands for all cops are bastards and is a defiant response from football fans(including minors) to the police and the well-known expression “there are no innocents”, according to which only a person is needed, and there will be guilt.
- 146% (out of 100% possible) - means a significant, absurd advantage in something. This number was the source of many Internet memes (funny pictures), especially in 2011, after one of the Duma TV channels aired preliminary voting results in the Duma elections, according to which the voter turnout in the Rostov region was 146.7%.
It follows from all this that 2d16, contrary to what might be expected, is not at all alone in its existence.
