Millennials shocked after realising Gen Z have given ‘CC’ entirely different meaning now

If you thought the term 'CC' was something to do with emails, you'd be wrong - according to Gen Z, anyway.

Gen Z - those born between 1997 and 2012 - have seemingly come up with their own slang and lingo that can sound a bit like a different language to others.

I mean, I'm Gen Z and even I can't keep up with the ever-changing terms and acronyms.

Some popular terms that I do know are the typical ones like FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), Ghosting (when someone starts ignoring you or stops texting) and the simple letter 'L' which means loss rather than win.

However, Millennials are speaking out about their shock after discovering what Gen Z mean when they say 'CC'.

What does CC actually mean?

What do you know 'CC' as? The thing you typically see at the top of your email but never really pay attention to the meaning? Yeah, me too.

The actual definition of 'CC' is carbon copy which means the address that appears after the 'cc:' header would receive a copy of the message.

The CC header also appears inside the header of the received message.

You can spot it in your emails (Tyla)

So, what do Gen Z mean when they use CC?

Now, Gen Z is using 'CC' for 'Check Comments' according to an Instagram post that called out to those 30 and up.

"At this rate.. I'm convinced these kids just can't spell," one user wrote under the post.

"It took me forever to know what "asl" meant. I thought it still meant age/sex/location..." another chimed in.

"Thanks but no thanks, cc is when I send an email but ya'll gonna see it too so no one can say nothing about how I didn't send said email," a third user confirmed.

Apparently it means something different now (Getty stock photo)

Meanwhile, a final user wrote: "Lord have mercy *pulls out notepad to add this one*"

So, next time you go to CC someone into an email - maybe update them that the term has in fact changed.At least, according to Gen Z anyway!

Elsewhere, Millennials have been dealt another major blow as they discover that Gen Z apparently don't know what 'happy hour' is.

"People used to work from 9 to 5. And you were happy at 5:01 because your workday ended," Eugene Remm, co-founder of Catch Hospitality Group, told The Post. "But now there is no beginning of work and there is no end to work.

"So I think if you said 'happy hour' to 95% of [20 somethings] that used to do that on a regular basis, they would look at you and say, 'Hey, Boomer, I don’t know what happy hour is.'"

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