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

Youth slang is a unique phenomenon, within which regular changes occur. In this article we will have an 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 kind of incomprehensible mixture of a figure with a 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 to "kilo", equal to a thousand.
• Slang word "mower" or "piece", which is equal to the same number.

As a result, to understand why young people use the "2k16" bunch, what this encryption means and how to use it, it turns out to be simpler. 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 it means is 2k16, it's clear that it's not possible to pinpoint who first invented and used the cipher. The reduction quickly became viral, gained wide popularity among the user (especially among 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, the reduction of "2k16", what it is and what it "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 at one time was particularly active in using such a 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 the other user: "It's already 2016 outside the window, and you're still continuing ... (write, talk, do something as nobody has done for a long time)."

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, which brought to the youth sphere in 2016. On the Internet in teenage slang, they began to be called "top-pictures" or "fashion pictures". Usually they depicted young guys and girls dressed in the latest fashion, or separately photographed parts of the body, 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 such Internet art is gradually falling.

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

2076 - another cult for the vastness of the Internet 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, but 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 getting more and more popular Internet resource called Twitch. This is an American platform that allows fans of virtual spaces 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 his 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 the youth.

2k16 and adolescent love of numbers

Perhaps modern young people are very fond of mathematics. Such a conclusion can be made if we pay attention to how actively adolescents in general resort to various numerical abbreviations and bundles. 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 substitution 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 the English 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 guilt.
• 146% (out of 100% possible) - means a 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.