Gen Z slang term 'motion'Generational language differencesModern dating preferences and success indicators

Do you have motion?

Sep 11, 2025 · 1:12

Summary

Do you have motion?" Kareem asks an older rider, who admits they're unfamiliar with the latest Gen Z slang making the rounds. The host explains that having motion means you're succeeding, killing it, making moves in life. It's the kind of momentum you'd want in a partner, not just a friend. The rider catches on quickly. By the end, they're all joking about being literally in motion on the subway. Kareem gets dubbed Gen Z himself. The slang just dropped, apparently. And now everyone's got it.

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Do you know the new slang? What?

Motion. Motion.

Are you familiar with it? No, I'm not. I'm an old person.

So somebody told it to me at dinner the other day. They go, "Oh, you got motion." I was like,

"Are you like, do you think I'm good at That's what I thought." Yeah.

'Cause that makes sense. Motion in the ocean, blah, blah, blah. And and no, it's more about like you're like

you got motion like momentum like describing because. No, you know, it means like you got motion, you know,

like when you have motion, you are succeeding like like what is like Yes. It's like but but it's slang. It's like instead of saying like you've been doing well or you're blowing up. It's like

you're killing it. Yeah. You got motion. Like right now you got moves. You're making moves. So you don't want to be with someone if you're like dating. You don't want to be with someone with no motion.

Yeah. Okay. You want to be with someone that has motion.

Marcus, are you familiar with. Are you familiar with motion?

Like has anyone told you you've got motion? Oh, no. I have no one's ever told me.

Have you heard. Have you heard that that slang? No, I haven't.

Oh. Oh. So it it just dropped. They call me Gen Z. They call me Gen Z.

It just dropped. It just dropped.

You got motion. I got motion.

You got motion. You got motion.

We're. We're on a subway. We got motion. We're literally in. Literally moving. We're literally in motion.

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