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40 years ago and before, slang had to travel by... get this... word of mouth. Now one obnoxious tik tok influencer (and the word is valid because they do actually influence others) to say something for a 12 year old to make it the new thing in her school, thereby infecting an entire town/village/planet. it's skibidi if you ask me. And I'm 55.
Slang travelled through print magazines, underground zines, radio, musicians, books, etc.
Radio was huge. Some rapper could make slang local to his street corner famous and it would be in car commercials within two years.