{"id":17102,"date":"2026-04-26T06:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/17102\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T06:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:24:09","slug":"sam-altman-had-a-millennial-moment-with-gen-alpha-internet-slang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/17102\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman Had a Millennial Moment With Gen Alpha Internet Slang"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even as a perma-online millennial, I can relate to the struggle OpenAI CEO Sam Altman<\/a> faced on Saturday, when he tried and failed to use a Gen Alpha internet slang term correctly.<\/p>\n

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“we still get looksmaxxed on frontend a little but we IQmog hard now,” 41-year-old Altman posted on X.<\/p>\n

Tyler Cosgrove of TBPN \u2014 which just got acquired by OpenAI<\/a> this month \u2014 took it upon himself to correct Altman with this explainer on X.<\/p>\n

sam just so you know for next time this is technically incorrect usage of the “-maxx” suffix<\/p>\n

to “looksmaxx” is to improve oneself, it’s not really a comparison between two different things (“-mogged” is a comparison however). so the correct usage here would’ve been something like: <\/p>\n

“we still get looksmogged on frontend\u2026”<\/p>\n

or<\/p>\n

“we still need to looksmaxx our frontend\u2026”<\/p>\n

Cosgrove is correct. There are also other uses of the “-maxx” suffix. Business Insider previously reported on the term “Chinamaxxing,”<\/a> where “-maxxing” describes going full-tilt into Asian-inspired lifestyle choices like practicing tai chi at dawn and drinking hot water.<\/p>\n

One X user weighed in on Cosgrove’s explanation, venturing that “‘Looksmog’ doesn’t exist you just say ‘mog.'”<\/p>\n

“‘lookmogged’ maybe be needlessly repetitive in isolation but it provides useful context given the ‘IQmog’ that appears later in the sentence,” Cosgrove responded.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Sam \u2014 don’t feel bad. Lots of Gen Alpha internet slang is nearly incomprehensible to us millennials. Who among us did not at one point ask a friend or colleague what the “youth” mean when they’re out here talking about “skibidi toilet?”<\/p>\n

Happy weekend, Silicon Valley. Now let’s get back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even as a perma-online millennial, I can relate to the struggle OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced on Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12342,12334,1329,12339,4861,12332,12340,12335,12341,12336,157,370,12337,12338,2799,12333],"class_list":{"0":"post-17102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-openai","8":"tag-maxx","9":"tag-41-year-old-altman","10":"tag-business-insider","11":"tag-dawn","12":"tag-explainer","13":"tag-gen-alpha-internet-slang","14":"tag-hot-water","15":"tag-iqmog","16":"tag-lifestyle-choice","17":"tag-millennial-moment","18":"tag-openai","19":"tag-sam-altman","20":"tag-suffix","21":"tag-tai-chi","22":"tag-term","23":"tag-x-tyler-cosgrove"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}