Everybody been rumoring about R2. So releasing this thing kinda unexpected

Its an ambiguous slang statement that can mean several different things at once. It requires extra work to ground in a well-defined meaning.

Much in the same way 'going to the bank' could mean a financial institution or a river, 'dropping' something can mean releasing a new thing, stopping support, or physically fumbling an object on the ground. OP could have done a better job disambiguating with either different words or more context.

It picked up a lot of use by GenZ+ especially though the phrase "New {something} just dropped".

It's not you

More like in the past 10 years or so, but yes. On a side note, "leaked" has also subtly changed meaning from the actual product (such as a game being released early through piracy etc) to just information about the product.

Depends where they dropped the thing. In your lap, or in a bin? Context, as always, is key.

I wonder if we can extend the context length. It already fine-tuned with YaRN so we can't get free extend with that method.