there's also a weird trend of mostly dudes doing that with really rapid speech patterns while expanding their mouths wide for consonants. it's something you won't necessarily hear unless you've had vocal training - it just sounds weird unless you have - but if you know what to listen for, you can't unhear it. the combination of all of these factors makes it really hard to understand people, akin to a thick accent, except that they're using standard US English. I've never needed captions to understand teenagers before - I've not always understood some new slang but this speaking/editing style combo is something else.
try saying "meh" while holding your tongue high and your mouth as closed as possible. then try again with your tongue low and your mouth as open as possible. it's the difference in those two sounds. makes you sound like your mouth is full of cotton, except the sound isn't muffled, it's just your consonants are garbled.
there's also a weird trend of mostly dudes doing that with really rapid speech patterns while expanding their mouths wide for consonants. it's something you won't necessarily hear unless you've had vocal training - it just sounds weird unless you have - but if you know what to listen for, you can't unhear it. the combination of all of these factors makes it really hard to understand people, akin to a thick accent, except that they're using standard US English. I've never needed captions to understand teenagers before - I've not always understood some new slang but this speaking/editing style combo is something else.
Do you have anything to help a normie understand what you mean with that speaking style thing?
try saying "meh" while holding your tongue high and your mouth as closed as possible. then try again with your tongue low and your mouth as open as possible. it's the difference in those two sounds. makes you sound like your mouth is full of cotton, except the sound isn't muffled, it's just your consonants are garbled.
Sounds like typical Upstate New York accents lol