Something "weird" – or maybe something "brat" – seems to be happening with internet slang this summer. The language of the chronically-online is transcending TikTok and entering the political arena, with some potentially lasting, real world consequences. In the latest installment of Word Processing, our ongoing look at language, Gen Z linguist Adam Aleksic tells Piya Chattopadhyay about the political and cultural force of memes and online language… and how it all shapes our popular lexicon.