I just love how English keeps evolving in the funniest way 😂

Clock that tea = call that shit out

While this is nonsensical, it's actually a trend stemming from a tweet that used bizarre AAVE and people have caught on. https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/when-the-chile-is-tea-but-the-finna-is-gag

Please in the name of the sub explain to us what "clocked that tea" means both the right meaning and the tik tok one

Nonblack people stop using AAVE incorrectly challenge (impossible)

Tea = gossip/drama Clock = to notice Noticing gossip? Yeah, I think this person's just dumb.

That's not what any of this means. I don't translate for outsiders though

...I don't think it is

This entire post showcases the importance of utilizing some etymological research when learning a new language. Dialects and slang still have grammar and syntax rules.

As a native English speaker I can confidently say I’ve never heard someone say “clocked that tea” a day in my life

“clock” is sometimes used to mean something close to “understand”, and “tea” is (recently) a term from AAVE/LGBT circles to mean something close to “hot”. The poster is using terms vaguely grafted into a sentence to mean something those words don’t mean because theyre cultural signifiers of certain elites. they want to be seen as cool but are just failing miserably.

They’re wrong. They’re explaining it wrong.

Baseball, huh?

never heard of such a phrase lolol

Clocked being to have identified, tea being the info and/or drama, right? Clocking that tea would be discovering the info, if I understand my kid’s slang correctly.

I’m deciding that “SMTHN” is a portmanteau of smithing and smiting.

white 16 yo tiktok girls try to just speak normal english challenge (impossible)

Clocked that tea… I knew about that gossip. I’ve used “clocked” since the 90s as slang for: picked up on/figured out. I clocked him for being a cheater when they met. Tea: gossip. Watched drag race since the first season. Common slang in the queer community came mainstream in the last 10-15 yrs. Social media made it more common. Omg I have piping hot tea!! Babe, pull up a seat because I’m am serving you up some hot tea and let’s not let it cool! It’s so common now I don’t use it anymore. It’s overused.

Probably an LGBT thing (I'm a card carrying member dw)

She flumbled the scrimly

My assumption is she was ready for that tea alarm

I thought tea meant truth. Drag queens all around the world say 'ain't that the tea' and 'let me give you the tea sister' and "and that's the tea sis". When someone says something you didn't know you can say 'Tea?!' so it's like for real!? 'I know "spill the tea" usually means tell me truth or it can mean tell me the latest, but I have never heard tea mean drama. Must be a TikTok thing.

Say it with me people. Brainrot english isn't english.

Fun fact: This saying originated from the LGBT community

I had this experience at work a few years ago when a young person that I had become friendly with talked about getting “zooted” over the weekend. I was like…ummm…I don’t think we should be talking about doing cocaine at work.

I am 25, American, older gen z but a tiktok user. I have *never* heard the phrase "clocked that tea" in my life.

I hate it, I hate slang in my own language and in english that’s just full on griberrish

She really put the pussy on the chainwax

“Clocked” has been an idiom for “figured out” for a long time. I’m gonna say half a century or more. Tea is drama. 

"clocked that tea" makes zero sense and nobody should ever say it, make sure you actually understand slang before you use it otherwise you'll look like an idiot or possibly even offend someone

Yeah I won't be committing that to memory.

She jizzed the jam out of the fizzy dizzy

As well as the punchy meaning, and the newer tiktok one for figuring something out, there's a pretty old one for spotting/seeing/noticing something. "Did you know Kendall is somewhere in this club?" "Yeah, I clocked her motor and bodygoon out front the moment I got here". Or... "I clocked some proper tasty looking fresh warm pretzels in that new bakery. I might get one!" "Nah, if I can't get one wi' me Greggs loyalty points I'm not interested".

I love how the gay/drag queens slang became this popular and they ran with it far too lol

This is one of the reasons parents don't understand half of what their kids are saying. Skibidi.

fr on god skibidi ahh sigma

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yes.. “clock that tea” doesn’t usually mean to do something well, but this is why i love sociolinguistics! we can say the same words and phrases across time and, for some reason or another (often to create and maintain in-groups as outsiders more widely adopt the in-group’s culture), we begin to interpret and reclaim these words to have new pragmatic uses. some examples just off the top of my head at 9am.. dope, washed, slay, drag, fish, ,, just imo as a senior linguistics undergrad :3

Devolving.

You're using a Calc. That's short for calculator. It's slang

Also, "clocked that tea" is actually wrong in this context