2k16: what is this code number and why do children know it?

Youth slang is a unique phenomenon, insidewhich occur regularly. In this article we will have the opportunity to learn about the popular "2k16" reduction. What is this cipher, what is its meaning and how to use it in speech? It's time to deal with the accumulated questions.

Value

Why 2k16? What is this incomprehensible mixture of a figure with one single letter? In fact, everything is very simple. The letter "k" in the code can, according to the information of the Global Network, mean one of two things:

• The prefix, identical "kilo", equal to a thousand.
• Slang word "mower" or "piece", which is equal to the same number.

As a result, understand why young people usethe "2k16" link, which means this encryption and how to use it, turns out to be simpler than simple. It turns out that behind it is only the number 2016, which served as the designation of last year. Now in the yard of 2017, which means that in the World Wide Web, at least on Russian-language resources, somewhere, yes, you can stumble upon a new reduction - 2k17.

Origin

If what is meant by 2k16 is clarified, then for sureIt is not possible to establish who first invented and used the cipher specified. The reduction quickly became viral, gained wide popularity among the user (especially in the teenage audience) and began to be used by a large number of commentators in groups and on public pages of the social network "VKontakte", on anonymous forums, in chat rooms, etc.

Examples of using

So, about the reduction of "2k16", what is it and whatit "eat", like, everything is clear. It remains to understand in what context such slang can be used, so that it does not look stupid, but was "in the subject".

So, the user network audience in its owntime is particularly actively used this design: "Oh, right now (now) in 2k16 ...". What does it mean? Such a proposal usually had a defamatory character and was aimed either at bullying or humiliating the one to whom it was drawn. Its meaning was to show another user: "It's already 2016 outside the window, and you're still continuing ... (write, talk, do things the way nobody has done for a long time already)."

More illustrative examples can serve as the following suggestions:

• Oh, right now in 2k16 going to clubs.
• Oh, right now in 2k16 to buy, and not download computer games.
• Oh, right now in 2k16 to write: "oh, right now".

And many other options. In addition, the reduction of 2k16 was often used in new types of pictures that brought to the youth sphere in 2016. On the Internet in teenage slang, they began to be called "top-pictures" or "fashion pictures". Typically, they depicted young guys and girls dressed in the latest fashion, or separately photographed body parts, beautiful landscapes often with a depressive overtones, etc. On top of the picture was placed the text of a large font and usually white. It was often used in the code "2k16" analyzed in this article. Today, the fashion for this kind of Internet art is gradually falling.

What to do if you run into not with 2k16, but with 2076?

2076 - another cult for spaceInternet number that can introduce inexperienced users into confusion and misunderstanding. Surprisingly, in this case, even those who know the meaning of the abbreviation 2k16, are not always familiar with the number 2076, and even with the history of its appearance - and even more so.

In fact, 2076 also means 2017. Quite reasonable question - what is the analogy between them? After all, there is almost no connection ... And it really is. The history of the appearance of the number 2076 is associated with the field of "gaming" or, more clearly, computer games.

Today the Internet is gaining popularityan online resource called Twitch. This is an American platform that allows virtual space lovers to conduct live broadcasts of their games. The people who realize this are called "streamers", and their ethers - "streams" (from English stream - flow).

Despite the fact that the project is American,A person from any country can register and conduct their broadcasts there. So, today on "Twice" there is a large number of Russian-speaking "streamers". Among them there are well-known, beloved audiences, and those who are just beginning their journey. One of the most popular "streamers" of the whole CIS is the "gamer" under the nickname Arthas. On one of the direct inclusions, he dropped the ill-fated "2076", which quickly spread over social networks and became actively used by young people.

2k16 and teenage love of numbers

Perhaps modern youth lovesmathematics. Such a conclusion can be made if we pay attention to how actively adolescents in general resort to various numerical abbreviations and ligaments. Today slang, in addition to the already dismantled 2k16, 2k17 and 2076, is full of such numbers as:

• 1488 - means the code slogan of nationalists. In the modern Internet culture is used not for its direct purpose, but in a comic context.
• 322 - means the organization of a dummy match(especially typical for the field of computer games), in which the player, the whole team or any organizing and interested person puts on the losing team. He, in turn, is specifically susceptible to the opponent and as a result loses in order to gain money from bets.
• 1312 - comes from the first letters of Englishthe alphabet ACAB. This abbreviation stands for all cops are bastards and is a provocative response of football fans (including minors) to the police and the famous expression "innocent no", according to which only a man is needed, and there is wine.
• 146% (out of 100% possible) - meansa significant, absurd preponderance in something. This number was the source of many Internet memes (funny pictures), especially in 2011, after in the Duma elections one of the TV channels showed on the air preliminary results of the vote, according to which voter turnout in the Rostov region amounted to 146.7%.

From all this it follows that 2k16, contrary to possible expectations, is not at all alone in its existence.