Demetria McKinney’s ‘Roni’ Moment Exposes Hilarious Generation Gap

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Funny intergenerational hiccup at a lah-lah casual dinner for Demetria McKinney-the singer-actress. The ex-“House of Payne” celeb took some time to reflect on her comedic nightmare, wherein her younger friend did not know “Roni,” thereby reflecting on age and changing slang.

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The scene must have looked somewhat like this: Demetria McKinney sitting in Poppantos having casual conversation with her bestie or so she thought when she threw out “Roni”-that infamous word from a previous generation-so to a blank stare. The little lady had no clue what Demetria meant! After Demetria explained that it meant a fine woman, the girl said, “Ohhh, you mean a fine sh!t,” and it began to dawn on Demetria that she was now considered ancient.

The video showed Demetria laughing as she recounted the incident to the cameraman, the former saying maybe she was yelling because of the loud noise in the restaurant. In a real sense, she was almost in shock that a term so familiar to her generation meant nothing to a young lady. The anticlimactic moment right there-you never realize how far time has gone until a youngster starts calling the slang of your generation ancient.

The comment section turned into a full nostalgia fest, dissecting what one can name a Roni: one commenter had to resurrect that Bobby Brown track: “She’s sweet little girl; the sweetest girl in the whole wide world; she makes the toughest homeboy fall deep in love,” transporting everyone back to the good old days.

Another stated, “You a Roni to ppl my age – what older men called the younger fine sexy women. I think I heard it in a song Tenderroni first.” So going through the signifier across generations via music and culture.

Yet the realest was: “Before my time actually means you’re old without saying your old.” That ate separate because it’s essentially true; when the younger generation starts dropping expressions like “before my time,” it’s a discreet way of saying, well, you have indeed been around for quite some time.

One was trying to work on contemporary synonyms: another said that in these times, they say “young tenda” instead of Roni. In the meantime, someone else got brilliant: Tender Roni… QT Pie, Wife Material, Someone who will take care of you, a young or old man’s everything. That one sums up why those terms remain: they endorse fine women.

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Everyone was cracking up during the entire sidetrack while getting sentimental about the evolution of language. Demetria took it all in stride, laughing along with her official vintage title while giving love to the classic terms that defined her generation. It’s one of the few universal experiences everyone has sooner or later-when you realize that your cultural references are not so new anymore. But as demonstrated by Demetria, you can still laugh and show the younger generation the way to the classics.