The most recent Saturday Night Live episode, hosted by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, drew heated controversy on Twitter.

The "Gen Z Hospital" skit delved into slang, attributed by the show to Gen Z. However, people online criticized the show for its poor execution and mislabeling what most in the Black community would identify as African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) that's since been appropriated by white teenagers. 

The video shows a group of mostly white actors playing teenagers at the hospital, anxiously waiting to hear how their "bestie" is doing.

"Don't be pressed, the doctor will be in shorty bro, deadass," one of the characters stated. 

The cybersphere, had their own thoughts on the Gen Z sketch, which received a 2-star rating from entertainment news website, Vulture.

According to Feminuity, AAVE, also known as Black Vernacular English (BVE) is often used out of context in an effort to be "relevant, relatable, or for credibility." Amid the rise of social media, AAVE has become a commodity for non-Black people to use in both online and personal conversations. 

AAVE originated in the American South in the 17th and 18th centuries, coinciding with the first 100 years of British colonization according to Oxford Handbooks Online. Despite its origins, AAVE rose to prominence in the South during slavery, and made its way across the country during The Great Migration per PBS. 

"In the large cities you had spatial segregation but you also had the formation of separate communities often with a kind of oppositional culture to the rest of the U.S. This created an ideal context for African American Vernacular English to develop along a sort of separate track," linguist Guy Bailey told PBS.

According to the Linguistics Society of America, AAVE is derived from two possible sources: some linguists contend that the vernacular stems from the combination of nonstandard English used by indentured servants mixed with African colloquialisms while the two groups interacted, and others assert that the dialect originated from exclusively African language structures.

"The Black folk who learned to speak English learned to speak it from English people who were ignorant themselves, historian and kemetologist, Anthony Browder, said on BET's The Breakdown during a March episode focused on "Black English." 

"But even within us adapting this foreign language, this oppressive language, there were methods of speaking and communicating that were part of the African culture that we use to dress up this language, to give feeling and soul to this language…It is because of the energy that emanates from the body that gives life to the words that transform the consciousness of the people hearing those words," he added.