Hi bro. I can help you linguistically with skibidi. It comes from vernacular Bulgarian. Basically, it's a calque of щипибибоб, which is the sweet way to talk about pinching. It entered English Slang thanks to a Pop Folk Song of famous Bulgarian artist Fiki and through a lot of remixes, ended up in skibidi toilet. The correct pronunciation would be shtibidi. Trust me, I am Bulgarian. It's my mother tongue.
I also thought that it came from that Little Big song? They released a song called Skibidi (a while ago), not sure if it’s the same song, but I think the actual voice clip in skibidi toilet is from that song. Didn’t know it originated from Bulgaria though, that’s cool!
It's like Baby Boomers saying "groovy", "far out", and "ride on" back in the 1970's. Just like how Gen. Z is dropping their ¿Epolect? ¿Genelect? as they get older, we are now seeing Gen. Alpha adopt new words to make Gen. Z feel out of touch and then Gen. Beta will do the same to them. Only Gen. Sigma will go their own way and invent their whole new language.
I’ve gone back and looked at some of our old Minecraft parody songs and compared them to that Gen Alpha song and we weren’t that much better than them 😂
For those who don't want to look it up, "skibidi toilet" is a web video series about anthropomorphic toilets that take over the world while singing a sample from "Dom Dom Yes Yes", a song with a scat line in it. The "skibidi" in the name refers to a part of that scat line, and has entered Gen Alpha slang as a synonym for "evil" or "bad".
They're not "anthropomorphic toilets", rather they're human-toilet hybrids. I'm not sure if it's implied that they took over the whole world, just the city of Goofy Ahhh, Ohio.
My dad would in the 90s when I was young deliberately mix current slang (fairly up to date actually, since he was a highschool teacher) with slang from the 80s and 70s and even slang that was outdated when he himself was younger including old jazz lingo from the 1930s (he was born in ca 1955), just to embarrass my brother. 😂 It didn't work on me because I have the same humour and I'm AuDHD so I was never particularly cool myself. So now I'm 41 and I'm keeping up the tradition using ancient slang combined with internet slang from 90s and up including some relatively current ones, deliberately used wrong just to annoy my nieces and nephews 😂
I'm pretty sure quite a few dad's (and uncle's) do this... There's no way you as an adult will be cool to a teenager*, so there's really no point in trying to use their slang correctly; even if you somehow do use it correctly it's still "cringe" because you're not supposed to be cool as an adult; so if you're going to be uncool anyway; why not have some fun and be deliberately uncool in a ridiculous fashion... You might even make them laugh. (*well... there's a slightly better chance to be able to be "cool" as an uncle or aunt than a parent, because you're _not_ their parent... But you will only be ever be "cool" by being weird in a fun way, rather than by behaving like a teen)
“New tools to express themselves” so glad that kids can finally express what it feels like to stick out one’s gyatt for the rizzler. If only gen z could have expressed ourselves like that.
I hope you know, black gen z kids and the younger black millennials have been using most of these terms.. except the “rizz” and “skibidi” one obviously. These terms are just being used incorrectly or in cringey ways, which is why gen z doesn’t claim it. But go to any black gen z person and use these slangs they’ll only be confused at why they aren’t using the terms correctly.
I'm almost inclined to see "rizzler" as more akin to "Once-ler", who was already a popular character in late 2010s-early 2020s meme culture. While the name is nonsense in English, -ler is apparently a suffix in German that, according to Wiktionary, is "Used to create nouns linking a person (or thing) to some group, activity, object; similar to -er, but usually attached to nouns, not verbs." Which does seem to fit with how it's used in Once-ler and rizzler. I'm not a linguist, though, so I could be talking nonsense for all I know.
chancellor, tailor, jailer, sailor, retailer, settler, come to mind top of my head, not including all the general -er ending words for occupations/businesses because rizzLer is in question
an interesting thing i noticed about "gyatt" is that there used to be a slang word in german in like 2017 something?: "gött"/"göt", which not only was pronounced pretty similarly, but also meant pretty much the same thing and while it looks to also be of similar linguistic origin, looking similar to the german word for god, i think it actually comes from somewhere completely different, given germany's colorful migratory background i once heard it was like an adaptation of a turkish word? but no idea honestly
this reminds me of a passage from the historical archives of the grand cyber repository "a handsome man can steal food unpunished, but a carefree man outside the law is cursed to strange places and cannot rest" a rough translation of anglo scripture that goes "Rizzler gyatt fanum tax, sigma ohio skibidi"
Skibidi comes from a skat song, “Skibidi dob dob dob yes yes” From there, it was used in skibidi toilet, and became synonymous with that, before people started hating skibidi toilet, and associating it with evil, so now it means evil.
Language will always evolve. Newer generations are supposed to make up words to see what sticks and what doesn't. In a few decades, some of these words might even stick around and be apart of common discourse. I still feel like Gen Z had cooler slang tho.
The words themselves aren’t annoying. It’s how forced their usage is. People just unnaturally plug them into whatever song/TikTok/tweet because it’s the “current thing” and they wanna go viral. If they actually used them because these are the words that first came to mind, it would be way less annoying, but they purposely and unnaturally force them into their language to be edgy. That’s what’s annoying.
It started as a joke by my generation (gen z) making fun of people who take the whole Alpha and Beta thing too seriously, But it's now used by Gen Alpha, It's slang for something that's good, cool or impressive.
The African culture thing is interesting, it has defined what is "cool" from music (jazz, r&b, hip hop) but now we can see that transition from music as the vehicle for this to streaming
I’ll never forget the time I heard Sheff G say “Oh you tryna bust māthās?” মাথা or /ˈmaːt̪ʰaː/ is a Bengali word referring to the head. I did not expect to hear it in a Brooklyn drill song, of all places.
My dad would in the 90s when I was young deliberately mix current slang (fairly up to date actually, since he was a highschool teacher) with slang from the 80s and 70s and even slang that was outdated when he himself was younger including old jazz lingo from the 1930s (he was born in the late 50s
I've seen a couple of theories about the origin of "skibidi" in the comments, but I'mma add my own: "skibidi" is a word coined by DaFuq?Boom! (a Russian creator) from the song "Skibidi" by Little Big (a Russian dance music band), which was released and blew up like 5 or 6 years ago. In that song, however, skibidi makes no sense and is used just as a rhythmic word - the lyrics go "skibidi wa-pa-pa, skibidi wa-pa-pa-pa-pa, skibidi boom boom ai" etc.
sorry but this is completely wrong, Dafuqboom is indeed Russian but the song that the skibidi toilets are singing is a remix of the songs Dom Dom Yes Yes by the Turkish singer Biser King and Give It To Me by Timbaland. The original song got popular on tiktok thanks to a hefty guy making several videos dancing to the it, creating the popularity that motivated the creation of the remix that dafuqboom uses in his videos. Additionally, the same cover that dafuqboom uses was later sampled by someone and remixed with Lady Gaga's song Bloody Mary, the result of which even ended up being used by dafuqboom for a skibidi toilet episode that took place in a dance club
Fanum can also mean temple or a place of worship in Latin. Therefore, a fanum tax can be a tax levied on temples doing their business. Sigma is a character in Bungou Stray Dogs who was created out of thin air and works for Fyodor Dostoyevsky. “I just want to be your sigma” can actually mean “I want to run a floating hotel for you”
skibidi came from that "skibidi bom bom bom yes yes yes" guy, idk if ppl still remember that meme but the creator of skibidi toilet basically took that meme and turned it into a man with his head in the toilet
Man, I was old and out of touch before I made it out of elementary school. To this very day I don't know why that man had a "roflcopter" or why it went "soisoisoisoi". No cap, homeskillet. And I ain't no bluenose or no jive turkey, neither, just a cat not in on the skinny. Ya dig?
Sigma male gained popularity because if the “how to be alpha” tips from online got a guy socially ostracised the pick up artist could cover up it being bad advice by saying “well you must of just be too manly for most people to handle”
I swore to you dafuq!?boom! First created the first episode of toilet, as a practice for his Animation on SFM, the guy is legendary when its about SFM, i was a regular back in 2019. Its quite magical on how something that suppose to be less significant became more prominent, meme culture always do this out of spite with the help of the domino effect
maybe Shakespeare used it, but that doesn't mean it comes from him. for that, either there has to have been a tradition which goes back to his works or you have to show that the people who re-introduced it were inspired by Shakespearean English. since it's just a clipping though (i.e. a process that happens in languages _all_ the time) it's most like just an unrelated re-invention
Yeah like the previous reply said it’s just the convergent evolution of language and the same process of clipping was used to get there. And im pretty sure the shorthand version of cousin, at least how I’ve always seen it, is cuz or cuh.
i dont mind their silly gen alpha words but i dont like how theyre using gyatt as a noun people would say “gyatt DAMN” and stopped saying damn so it’d just be “GYATT” and this usually happened whenever they’d see an ass so now they made the word “GYATT” to mean “ass” like “level 100 gyatt” “look at that gyatt” and it doesnt make sense theyre calling ass “god” 😭 gyatt was only supposed to be used as an exclamation. its like saying “look at that wow”
You know, this means that it is valid to fight a Level 100 Gyatt in a JRPG being that gods or godly beings are usually final bosses in JRPGs. Bonus points if the god is a god of butts and that is meaningful.
Rizzler is kind of like a combination of words, it is most probably stemming from the Jeff the Rizzler memes, combining the word rizz with the popular creepypasta Jeff the Killer.
Can you make a video of the word "skibidi"? It pronounced like "shibidi" in the song but toilet lovers turned it into "skibidi". Where did the k sound came from?
Sigma originally started off completely as a joke. It did not mean lone wolf or anything serious, it was a joke making fun of the beta male alpha male content but then people started using it like they would with beta and alpha
Quoting one man (rough translation): Cringe, rofl, zashkvar [untranslatable, means "so old it's cringe"]. Those were the words I still could understand. Those were the words I still could accept. Those were the words I understood how to use. But guys... Aboba, amogus, squash, pupysh (???), simple dimple... I have a feeling that I came back to the times of "Unexplainable, but a fact" (a russian tv show) and am trying to understand the language of reptiloids. In other words, "this is fine" P.S. So English speakers don't use "rofl" anymore?
I mean we still do use rofl but it’s very out of date and mainly used, from what I’ve noticed, by people online who are in their late 20s or in their 30s. You’ll almost never see Gen Z or Gen Alpha use it unless they’re trying to be intentionally ironic or cringe. It’s MUCH more common place now to use LOL or LMAO/LMFAO, adding an ‘O’ to increase the intensity of how funny you thought something was.
Okay, from what I understand, the word 'skibidi' actually comes from the song 'Dom Dom Yes Yes' by Biser King, a Bulgarian music artist. However, in that song, he doesn't say 'skibidi'; he says 'shtibidid,' and that word means nothing in Bulgarian; it's a made-up word. Most of the lyrics in the song aren't Bulgarian; it's nonsense, like scat music. But since this made-up word was misspelled, it took off as 'skibidi,' and now we know of 'skibidi toilet.'However, now people interpret 'skibidi' as a synonym for 'bad' or 'evil,' and I'm guessing it's because the 'skibidi toilets,' the antagonists, are bad and evil.But, in reality, when elementary schoolers say words like 'skibidi' or any other Gen Alpha lingo, they don't know what the word means either; they just say it. If I had to guess why, it's probably because it sounds funny or it's just a trend to say it.
almost no "new" slang is actually new, people are just constantly rediscovering stuff and recycling. "cap" (as in "no cap") reportedly goes back to the "early 1900s" (dubious) but is at least way older than gen z. All new slang either revived old slang or just AAVE lol
I think then skibidi is actual new slang because it literally stems from the scatting of the skibidi toilets, and literally is not traceable elsewhere.
@@iantaakalla8180 except that's not really "slang", it's a cultural reference specifically used because of its absurdity. It has no other meaning besides being funny, and so that people can say "look at all the crazy words we use, we are so weird". I feel like it's too self aware to count
Well it turns out I was wrong, skibidi is scatting from a Bulgarian song but as far as the English term “skibidi” goes, it basically started from Skibidi Toilet
Remember MLG? It was also "brainrot". This "brainrot" just evolves, and as we're getting older, we start noticing that this "brainrot" sucks(according to us) because it's cringe.
Even if it's completely normal for the younger generations to come up with new words, that doesn't mean I have to like it. It's my turn now to ridicule them for their stupid words, and I intend to fully take advantage of this! Doesn't make any sense to forego one of the few perks of getting older, especially when those words are specifically weaponized to make me feel old.
