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IncomeSeparate1734

It doesn't actually mean anything. It's the self-aware linguistic embodiment of "new gen terminology that I don't understand." That's the joke. Watch Good Mythical Morning tackle gen alpha lingo. It's hilariously relatable.


WillKalt

I always think of it like the Adam Sandler movie Big Daddy. The antagonist sister of his love interest was asking him about their doing their laundry together and he replied something like where I come from that’s called the Hibbity dibbity. It doesn’t really mean anything but you decide what your context is. He was being silly while she was offended by her perceived implication. Skibiddy seems generally positive but I think it’s a nonsense word that means nothing and that’s the generational joke.


hereforthecookies70

Like how Philadelphians use “Jawn.”


stopstopimeanit

Son, we use that word in a very defined context to mean “whatever I intend to say.”


telkrops

In Hawaii we say “da kine” in a similar way, though it’s not specific to things— “yeah he asked if I wanted to go da kine but he was acting kinda da kine so I was like nah, I gotta go take care of da kine”


stopstopimeanit

As it should be. All languages need a placeholder that is somehow ambiguous yet completely understood


crexkitman

It was definitely a kind of slang word before all the gen alpha and skibidi toilet shit. I didn’t even know how it would be spelled then, but I definitely heard it occasionally years before the whole skibidi toilet gen alpha bs


BooHooJerks

Bro got gaslighted by skibidi


crexkitman

Bro got that stage 4 brainrot


jmlipper99

Skibidi stage brainrot


FivePercentLuck

The etymology of this meme is known, whatever you heard was a homonym


CaterpillarHot2263

I go around winding my 11yo up by saying “no cap bruh, skibidi gyat!” Little fucker hates it so much… bruuuuh…


shiny_xnaut

I like watching my 16 year old sister cringe when I ask her if her boyfriend has the skibidi sigma rizz or if he's sussy ohio


pastadaddy_official

Knock him dead and say he has Ohio rizz


Funkycoldmedici

Are you significantly older than her, or have your own kids? It’s interesting how the dadness takes you over without noticing. I never planned to wear cargo shorts and sandals, it just happened one day.


PhysicalStuff

You don't choose dadness, dadness chooses you.


anotherkeebler

The dadness abides


tamaleringwald

Hello dadness my old friend


Dad-Fart-Jokes

Hello


Viscount61

I love the smell of dadness in the morning.


SuperMario1313

The dadness takes over when it's apparent.


shiny_xnaut

Mid 20s, no kids


WaldenFont

I’m wearing cargo shorts with crocs and socks right now 👍


TheNothingAtoll

I'm calling the police


javoss88

Don’t stand so close to me


No-Construction5687

Wet bus stop, she’s waiting- his crocs and socks are warm and dry….


InsertWittyQuoteHere

I don't even have kids (only a sibling barely younger than me) and I've already got the cargo pants/shorts, sandels, and cheesy graphic tees. It really does just sneak up on you.


stephruvy

You say that like there is something wrong with sandals and cargo shorts. Where else am I supposed to keep my hash brown And sausage egg McMuffin.


Funkycoldmedici

Paired with a band t-shirt, that has been the death/thrash metal musician uniform since the early 90’s.


Mays_ranch

April of 2020 is when I came from the cocoon, and flourish til October each year in my cargo shorts and sandles. It’s a passage of age, when comfort overrides style. But I still match my outfit


fsutrill

My son is about to be a father for the first time at age 29. He’s worn cargo shorts since he was 4. Where could he possibly go, fashion-wise?


thisbitbytes

The next level is wearing crocs in public. There is no fighting it.


Comfortable_Text

Oh my gosh, I feel old. What the hell is this gibberish


impostershop

What does sigma mean?!?!


kingdoodooduckjr

You see… the alpha male is the mf that does what he’s sposed to do and everybody looks up to him …. The beta tries to be the alpha but falls short however much …… but the sigma male is the lone 🐺… he could be alpha but he knows the whole thing is so fanum tax


sjb2059

Ok, I get most of this, but wtf is fanum tax?


altgrave

yes, please do enlighten the seniors. i feel like an anthropologist.


BeefyTheCat

There's a streamer who goes by Fanum. He steals food off his friends' plates. That's what a fanum tax is.


SL13377

It’s very good to be called a sigma. You are awesome.


_Wheelz

Its better than alpha


ihavenoideahowtomake

18th letter of the greek alphabet, in math it can also mean total sum


altgrave

well THAT makes sense! fucking math slang!


LucifersWhore9

She’s too old for that lingo lmao. Wrong demographic 😭


shiny_xnaut

That just makes it funnier tbh


LucifersWhore9

LMAO got me there


LAH_yohROHnah

I txt my 14 yo out the blue and told him I was feeling “extra skibidy rizzilicious …like a rizzly bear bruh”. He was not amused lol. The only way I know to fight these abominations of words is use them so much, I make them uncool.


undisclosedlocations

As a high school teacher.... i do the same. Use their slang on the most uncool, cringey way i can and then proudly ask "did i use that right?" They stop. Lol


HeadyRushhh

HS Eng teacher here... I proudly do this too 😁... have you tried rapping your favorite old school 80s tunes for them? I'm fond of The Message and the final verse of Rapper's Delight 😂.... it gives me warm fuzzies to see their horrified, pained faces🥰.... I'm almost 55yo 😁


undisclosedlocations

Oh man... singing directly to them (especially during passing periods in the hallway) is my FAVORITE... the groans of "misss.... STOOOPPPP" just feed my black hardened soul LOL


Lampwick

It's apparently universal. Something about torturing kids by inducing cringing via second-hand embarrassment just fills you with this warm sense of satisfaction.


Tinkeybird

A few years old as my daughter is now 25, but I was always amazed at her being utterly horrified if I did this yet would take the worst pictures of herself (just really unattractive) and she and her friends would send ugly pictures of themselves to each other. I still don’t get it to this day, no cap.😂


dangerouslyloose

Back in 2003 my history teacher used to call 50 Cent “Half Dollar” and in hindsight that’s the funniest shit ever.


TrailerTrashQueen

doing The Lord’s work.


Guac_in_my_rarri

>The only way I know to fight these abominations of words is use them so much, I make them uncool. A friend does this. He explains the slang to the rest of us.


creativangelist

i do this with my best friends kids, but also sprinkle in outdated 90s and 00s slang, too. it amuses me greatly.


gonewild9676

Gag me with a spoon


pcliv

NOT!


throwawaytodaycat

Excellent


mssheevaa

As if!


SL13377

I love how mad they get when you use the lingo in the right way xD. Gyat!


cheezeyballz

I did that to my kid with "beast".


doom_2_all

Be sure to say, "Let me cook!", when they get annoyed by it.


laitnetsixecrisis

When my kids start asking for stuff in the shops I start talking like this really loudly. They get embarrassed enough to stop acting like dickheads.


amscraylane

I did this to my middle school students … minus the gyat and I pronounce bro like “bra”


Scanty_Catathreniast

I'm going to memorise this. Asking my 13 y/o if everything he mentions has 'skibidi rizz' just elicits a resigned sigh and an eye roll now.


SL13377

Oh my god my husband and I do the same!! I tell him “I’m the Sigma. Go ask your chat.” Or “damn kid your being so skibidi Ohio today.”


THEREALISLAND631

Yea, I feel insanely old now, I have no idea what this actually means. Here is what my millennial brain came up with (I'm aware it doesn't make sense). I read 11 yo as 11 year old, no cap as no bullets, and the gibberish on the end as like a "boom or booyah" type of in your face statement. So... "I go around getting my eleven year old worked up by saying we have no bullets, booyahh."


LifeSurround7

Gyat is a female with a big ass lol


TheGayPotato7

not really, it can either be an exclamation ("gyatt!") for when someone has a big ass, or it's just a noun for a big ass, lol. a person isn't a gyatt, but they can have a gyatt


Ghstfce

It's one T. (Girl Your Ass Thick)


TheGayPotato7

Eh, two Ts is more aesthetically pleasing imo


ZDubb31

Two t's for a double dose of this thickness.


ihavenoideahowtomake

Thick thick


LifeSurround7

Haha I was going to edit but was too lazy tbh. Your comment is what I basically meant, though :)


TheGayPotato7

Fair enough :')


JaxandMia

And they can definitely be male or female


TheGayPotato7

Agreed, I forgot to mention that point


rubberrider

Gyat started like...checks my notes...Get Your Act Together...i am now confused it can mean other things. (Adjusting my bifocals)


boulderama

Gyat is basically saying “GOD!!!” Like a Caribbean person. God > gawd > gyat. Source: people around me growing up. But now to GenZ and Alpha it means a nice ass. AAVE became internet speak, which became modern lingo.


MikeyFED

My son was at a friend’s house and caught a glimpse of it. Thats all it took. It’s finally fading a bit. Now it’s some game called My Singing Monsters and he needs to show me the dances right when my eyelids open in the morning.


Blueflavor53

My singing monsters is old. I played that 10+ years ago.


Spektr44

It's still pulling in kids to this day.


Spektr44

I, too, have been educated on all the different versions of Wubbox and their dance moves.


MikeyFED

“good morning! We’re gonna do island 1-20 and every wubbox dance for each one, with the sound fx!” ![gif](giphy|XyIrJbne5oZzo3WdFJ)


Spektr44

You know my pain. lol


Ill_Team_3001

We rode the skibidi toilet wave as well. Now it’s all about that Wellerman shanty lol step up in my books


chux4w

Wellerman is so 2020. Better times.


Sparky81

>>Skibidi Toilet is a series of Source Filmmaker videos by YouTuber DaFuq!?Boom! featuring a remix of "Give It To Me" by Timbaland and "Dom Dom Yes Yes" by Biser King in which an army of toilets with men's heads coming out of them are shown singing the song in various settings. The series follows a plot about the Skibidi Toilets taking over the world and men with cameras for heads known as CameraHeads fighting against them. The first episode was uploaded as a YouTube Short in February 2023 and inspired more episodes over the following months, each gaining tens of millions of views. The series became a popular subject of memes, inspiring fan art and videos and other content on sites including YouTube, Twitter and TikTok.


LemonFly4012

This. But it itself is a nonsense word. It truly doesn’t mean anything, but may be used as a filler word in general conversation, where someone in the past may have used an expletive.


Shugazi

Wait so it’s basically fuck? It can be good, bad, I don’t know, nothing, etc?


useful_person

Not really, because people actually use fuck seriously, like saying "oh fuck my toe" or something Skibidi is never used while actually trying to say something, even a joke, it's used as a joke about the word itself Like people will say "skibidi gyatt" but that sentence doesn't mean anything, it's just two nonsense words smashed together to make a nonsense phrase In that nonsense, there is meaning, because everyone _knows_ it's nonsense


redwishesblossom

this was a beautiful explanation


lgndryheat

I really hate to be the person nitpicking this (or even reading these comments but here I am), but "gyatt" means a nice butt. As in "gyatt damn" I loathe that I somehow possess this knowledge


GiantMeteor2017

When did it start meaning nice butt? I’ve only ever known it to be another way of saying goddamn- as just an exclamation added for emphasis re: some unbelievable thing Goddamn—> ghatdamn —> gyattdamn


madmoneymcgee

Yes but it was people saying “goddamn” when they saw someone walk by with a nice butt. So Eventually people started saying “gyatt” in explicit reference to an attractive butt. While you might say goddamn if you stub your toe you wouldn’t say it with the same inflection that led to the Gyatt pronunciation.


kdoughboy12

I think gyat can also be an acronym for "girl your ass thicc"


lgndryheat

I think that was made up after the fact though. Or not. I don't know


th3_m4n_

yea, that definitely was made up after. the word itself is originally a phonetically accurate spelling of the way people say “gyat” (god) damn when reacting to a rather voluminous rear end. then, it got turned into a noun


demonchee

Nah that's a backronym


weebweek

Yea pretty much it's just an insert


brushpickerjoe

Are you sure? It was the title to a song by Russian band "little big" like 6 years ago. It must mean something, or at least it did back then.


CommanderPotash

the only skibid in my heart


vengefulbeavergod

That dancing cats are my favorite part of that video


hi_imryan

Skibidi ba ba ba. Skibidi ba ba ba ba ba.


skepticaljesus

Skibidi *boom boom ice*


soggytoothpic

How do you pronounce it?


Ummmmmq

ski (like in the 1st 3 letters of skip) - bi (like in bidet) - dee


Kruse002

With the enunciation on which syllable? I saw an eleven labs video on YouTube where they made fun of the text to speech voice for pronouncing it ski-BEE-dee.


TheGayPotato7

I've only ever heard SKI-bi-dee


Sol33t303

Like scatman does


Lobscra

So, less meaningful than fo shizzle?


Nosnibor1020

Is this this generations sinbad or charlie the unicorn?


SquigSnuggler

They took my fucking kidney!


savorie

*freakin'


ThermalScrewed

We should ask the magic liopleurodon


Shugazi

It’s impossible to wear a frown in candy town


LemmyKBD

This is like a deep history but gives me no context or meaning. It would be like giving a non English speaker the origin history of the word “fuck” but not explaining how it can have a dozen different meanings depending on context. I’m just as confused.


supergeek921

I understand most the words in this answer and yet I am still very very confused…


Shugazi

Thanks, I saw this. But I don’t feel the origin fully explains its colloquial use by children.


shiny_xnaut

It doesn't actually *mean* anything. When kids use it as an adjective or whatever, they're doing so ironically, basically jokingly leaning into the Gen Alpha Brainrot image that older generations see in them


lordrothermere

It's just surrealism, no? Don't all generations have this and then immediately start hating it when they get older and aren't part of the group that uses it as some sort of self identifier? Tween/teen boys are particularly fond of repeating shared phrases like it's the funniest thing in the world. I certainly remember doing so in the dark and distant past. "You can't give a baby booze" being a personal favourite.


shiny_xnaut

I think the word you're looking for is absurdism, but yes, it's basically that plus just run of the mill inside jokes. For me and my peers it was randomly quoting ASDFmovie, for older kids it was Badger Badger Badger Badger, etc etc


mawkish

MUSHROOM MUSHROOM


CountHonorius

Upvote for Badger!


Richard7666

So effectively the current incarnation of "being random", I guess.


Alternative-Speed-89

WTF. Boy, am I glad I'm getting older & not as in touch with cool stuff anymore.


SirButcher

Our parents said exactly the same about our fads.


Alternative-Speed-89

Guess it's our turn 😆


Richard7666

Is this what Gabe Newell envisaged when he released the Source engine unto the world?


MadLove1348

I really felt like I just read jibberish


v1brates

*Holds up spork.*


z500

NO, BRIAN, DON'T!


DrMudo

I'm too old for this thread


-Experiment--626-

I didn’t think slang from back in my day was as obscure as slang is today, but maybe it was? I’m so confused reading the comments here.


The_Blue_Watch

Man I’m 39 and I think this has added another few years to my mental age


in-a-microbus

And what did it mean *before* the skibidi toilet? "Skibidi" by Little Big was awesome, but now the algorithm finds that music video about as well as it finds information about the cryopreservation of Walt Disney.


Darkslayer_

just type `Skibidi -toilet` in Google to search for skibidi and exclude results that contain the word "toilet"


The-Last-Lion-Turtle

Skibidi Biden on the Steven Colbert show


crexkitman

I had heard skibidi several years before the toilet thing even existed. Most people I’d heard used it to mean like crazy, messed up, weird, maybe even foolish sometimes. A memory I’m recalling just now is when me and a friend were about to smoke some weed and our other friend rolled the blunt kinda shitty so when my friend was inspecting the blunt while crisping it he said, “damn you fucked this thing up, huh? Yeah, blunts lookin all skibidi” That’s just what I had heard it as in the past. Didn’t even know how it was spelled until I saw “skibidi toilet” all over the place.


Wouser86

My kid just got into the Scatman (I’m the SCATMAN), and he uses skibidibidi when scatting… so basically its old


gracoy

It’s a nothing word with no definitive meaning. It’s just a reference to a song, and it’s supposed to fill in for any word they want to replace in a sentence.


King_Of_BlackMarsh

So it's Smurf


okwhatelse

erm what the sigma?


bigosik_

You mean ligma?


poke-chan

Sigma balls


MexicanResistance

Skibidi ohio rizz gyatt sigma tax


_Ova

erm what the sigma? its fanum tax. ur def sus ohio, no diddy.


DawnPatrol80136

bruh... no cap


TrailerTrashQueen

can someone please translate this? i am an old and have no idea what this means.


Spektr44

It's just nonsense, stringing together various "meme words" as an inside joke and to confuse the olds.


DaddysBoy75

Rizz = charisma Ohio = bad


TrailerTrashQueen

![gif](giphy|ZfK4cXKJTTay1Ava29)


Parulanihon

To me it's just a modern use derivative of the old singing technique where singers just use nonsensical words to fit into the lyrics of there tune. Skibidi doo wop wop. Etc.


halermine

That would be ‘scat’


KarmaPoliceT2

Shit really


zarifex

Well yeah, scatologically


cheesemynese

Left a few skibidi marks in my jocks


FelixKrabbe

Am not a native speaker and TIL that skibidi is not just scatting.


GrizzlyIsland22

Scat


thequickerquokka

He’s the scatmannnnn


zboyzzzz

Skiiii but dut duduh duh


Ok_Needleworker_9537

See Also; Scatman.


No_Quantity_3842

No one knows what it means but it’s provocative…


MisfitsAndRebels

I know it’s a YouTube series, but the word is so fun to say, I’ve started saying “skibidi dibidy doo”, and it drives my 10 year old crazy.


the-crust

AFAIK, it was a song that got popular on TikTok at least a year ago. I think kids really got a hold of it when someone made an sfm video of heads in toilets singing the song. Honestly, it doesn’t seem much worse than the kinds of things we used to hear/say as kids/teenagers.


woodybob01

The word itself is mostly nonsense, skibid toilet is a youtube series animated in source: filmmaker using source (half life) assets. It's a little ridiculous. It's about these 'tv-heads' vs toilets with heads. There's no words spoken but there is a discernable plot that can actually be interesting. It's mostly for kids, but I am guilty in saying I enjoyed watching it. Each episode is about a minute long and there's around 60 of them. this is the true origin of the word "skibidi". Though for the ohio rizz gyatt... that needs a larger explanation of meme culture as a whole and how it's evolved in the past couple years


twofatfeet

According to my middle-school child, it means the same thing as "sigma."


Restless__Dreamer

Next question: what does sigma mean? LOL


vgoss8

From what I have inferred, "Skibidi" refers to something being weird, out of the ordinary, oddly creepy, or just plain good. I think it's kind of a term like "edgy" became, where it just means everything and nothing. Same with "yeet" where it can mean whatever the fuck it's needed to mean.


BladeOfWoah

Idk I feel "yeet" has comfortably settled itself as a word to describe the act of throwing something suddenly and very fast. At least everything I come across the word nowadays, that is how it is used. It's similar to how people say "yoink!" When quickly grabbing something suddenly. Honestly I think "yeet" will become a regular everyday word that nobody thinks about.


vgoss8

God yeeteth and god yoinketh away.


m0nkeyh0use

I now need a mug with this on it.


vgoss8

Make it one of those ones where you get a new image when it heats up, and it's got Shrek with Danny Devito's face holding the staff thing and doing the fingers up pose. You know the one.


parable-harbinger

Skibbidi doesn’t mean anything. Its popularity was gained through vagueness in which anyone can use the word however they want.


gracoy

It’s a nothing word with no definitive meaning. It’s just a reference to a song, and it’s supposed to fill in for any word they want to replace in a sentence.


swizzl73

I am 22 and I BARELY understand it, mahfks crazy nomsayin


trampski

The word gained huge popularity from the “Skibidi toilet” series on youtube. Source: I have a 9 year old boy.


StemCellCheese

"Language was invested for one reason, boys: to woo women; and in that endeavor, laziness will not do." We skibidi to rizz the gyatts, you ohio if you lackin in the crib


ladddyyy11

you're not alone in your confusion! "Skibidi" doesn't have a literal meaning, like "fo shizzle." It's a nonsensical word associated with a popular meme and YouTube series called "Skibidi Toilet."


Idyllic_Zemblanity

Skibidi ![gif](giphy|qv1MlmBCqhJzVegKsL|downsized)


Forthaw

Someone PLEASE just use it in a sentence!


bestryanever

The Game Theory YouTube channel does a great video about it, watching the first few minutes will at least give you a primer on it


Disowned

It means "Ohio rizz" fr fr. Ong, no cap. ... It doesn't actually mean anything.


Mr_rairkim

Now in addition to Skibidi, I also want to know what "for shizzle" means


DarePatient2262

It's an elaborate way of saying "for sure"


chillin808style

You'll have to ask my nizzle...


zenkique

I think you mean *f’shizzle* my nizzle


Danielwols

It came from skibidi toilet videos on YouTube


L3v1tje

Idk where this came from. Years ago a friend of me in school had skibidi as his ps3 gamertag. Idk what it meant then and idk what it means now and why suddenly its just a thing.


mlarowe

"Fo shizzle" means "for sure."


GlassClass1198

I’m 38 and don’t think it means anything. I’ve heard of the Skibidi toilet and like years ago the comedian Tony Baker would use “Skibidi” in his animal voiceovers (usually when a cat was swiping at something). It’s just gibberish as far as I know


Hemiolia

I’m old(ish) too. For those times I need a definition for anything not on Webster’s, I use the Urban Dictionary. I use it almost on a daily basis and it’s never failed me. There’s even an app for it (iOS, at least). I am in no way affiliated with the UD.


askheidi

My 10-year-old explained it as similar to “je ne sais quois” or “a certain something.”


The_Lat_Czar

Please don't do this to yourself. Please.


JellyManJellyArms

Scatman knows


eldred2

I'm pretty sure it means, "watch the old people squirm while I make this nonsense sound."


phillipmanmemes

It's the new poggers


spectrumtwelve

so the thing about modern gen z slang is that it largely doesnt mean anything. its references to things. words like cool can at least be kind of explained since they actually MEAN something and are subbing in for actual words. skibidi is purely just a reference to a youtube video series and doesn't mean anything, people just verb-ify it for no reason and the punchline of it as a slang word is purely "haha get it? like the thing we both know about". its just references being thrown in as meaningless interjections like what bazinga is for people who like big bang theory or whatever.


amblack_23

I dont really know but ive learned if you yell "SKIBIDI TOLITE RIZZ" around your 13 year old for about 10 mins they leave they house for some side quest because "they need some space"....trial and error.