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How are half of these "Gen Alpha phrases"? The edging Wikipedia article was created in 2004, for example.
yeah but it's mainstream now
Simply means that those terms/phrases are en vogue right now. Generally spoken generations are usually heavily influenced by the generation before them, popularizing things that someone before came up with
It's mainstream and also sometimes used outside of the strictly sexual context now