Martin Scorsese Guessing Slang

About

Martin Scorsese Guessing Slang is a viral video of American and Italian film director Martin Scorsese attempting to guess what various Gen Z slang terms mean with his daughter, Francesca. The video became the subject of discussions and memes on Twitter / X and TikTok as it trended online in early October 2023.

Origin

On October 5th, 2023, the youngest daughter of film director Martin Scorsese, Francesca, uploaded a video on her TikTok^[1] account with her father titled "Dad Guesses Slang." In the video (shown below), Martin tries to guess the meaning of popular Gen Z slang as part of a game with his daughter explaining the meaning and usage in a sentence to help him. The video garnered over 983,000 plays and 146,000 likes in less than 24 hours.

Spread

Francesca's video quickly went viral on social media, as fans of the filmmaker and others shared the content with jokes and memes. For instance, on October 6th, 2023, X^[2] user @ManiLazic replied to Scorsese's video with the caption "Martin Scorsese discovering the expression 'hits different' with the example 'seeing a film on 70mm hits different'… pure bliss." The post (shown below, top) garnered more than 23,000 likes and 1,500 retweets in less than 24 hours.

On the same day, X^[3] user @filmsbyzoe replied to the video (shown below, bottom) with the caption "she’s doing God’s work fr," praising Francesca for doing the bit with her father. The tweet amassed roughly 3,900 likes and 222 retweets in a few hours.

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