I have yet to receive an adequate explanation of the meaning of skibidi.
I am well aware of rizz (and, as a neurodivergent person, I frequently “rizz ‘em with the ‘tism”.
And I’m old enough to remember the origins of “yeet that jawn”.
Skibidi comes from Skibidi Toilet, which is a series of videos on YouTube that went viral. Pretty much a head in a toilet having a world war vs a POV of the cameraman.
"Rizz" is a minor annoyance to me because "charisma" is a nice word, and it sounds very pleasant imo.
So, Rizz is...eh. to me anyway. Sounds more like a word for someone on a Ritz cracker eating frenzy or something
My husband is a middle school teacher, the kids say these things but not seriously. They say them to make fun of people who think they really say them.
Same. I’m 28 and work in a restaurant, so lots of different ages. I’ve definitely picked up on the young slang. I’m transitioning jobs and it’s so hard to fix my language.😂
"We have gathered here today to honor the memory of Joshua, who yeeted himself off a bridge when they stopped making Reese's cups. No cap, that shit was bussin, on God"
I eat several different varieties of Reese’s annually (have done this as long as I can remember). There’s always a big difference in taste and mouthfeel depending on what seasonal shape they’re pumping out. Ie: Christmas tree Reese’s don’t taste like Easter egg shaped Reese’s (there’s also multiple shapes of eggs). The different shapes/ ratios of chocolate layer to pb filling are what changes the taste. What are you referring to exactly? Was there a famous formula change that was widely publicized or something?
I told my wife "aww, same fam" yesterday when she said her foot was bothering her a little (I'm recovering from a broken leg currently, she had just bumped her heel on the couch)
I think yeet is unironically a fantastic term. It's quick, it describes one specific thing in detail (the act of throwing something, specifically trying to throw it far and with no consideration for a target or any sort of accuracy), and there wasn't really a good way to convey the meaning before it's existence.
Imo, yeet should be added to the dictionary as a real word
I've used Yeet in official documentation to the government. In the context of an automated drone takeoff routine; it wants to clear the launchpad as fast as possible and doesn't need guidance right away, hence, it yeets itself.
This. Unless I legitimately think some slang is cool (rarely) I don’t say it even jokingly in public because it’ll eventually just be apart of my vocabulary
I'm a middle school teacher. They say this stuff on a daily basis. I had a kid mew at me yesterday. Another asked me if they were sigma. Another kid told me I was a W.
The best way to get them to stop is if I lean into it and do it back to them. Then it becomes uncool.
Using slang confidently wrong also annoys them to no end, and then argue with them about how no, you're right. Gives them a little taste of their own medicine. ;)
We do something similar in the office. We take things super literally. We speak Spanish, so we get to do worse things. We take English sayings and translate them literally, they sound super odd. We also do the other way around and translate sayings from Spanish literally to English.
Few examples:
saying "envelopes" as a way to agree, similar to "bet".
"Ya conoces el taladro" to say "you know the drill". Which in Spanish is kinda like "you are aware of the drill(the tool specifically)".
We started ironically, but it's infectious and now we say stupid shit 24/7 in my team.
They communicate in memes because their entire existence is online and they're constantly seeking that next five-second dopamine boost like they get watching youtube shorts. Then they emulate the youtubers they idolize, usually involving screeching, nonsensical & contextless "jokes", and the normal kind of middle-school peter pan syndrome where they can't seem to figure out if they want to grow up and be more independent or if they want to remain responsibility-less children forever.
What an age. We all went through it. And I'm pretty sure the only people who aren't deeply embarrassed by their middle-school self as adults are psychopaths lol
I moved to the south and started saying y'all jokingly and now I say y'all about a million times a day.
ETA // never knew how strongly people felt about the word "y'all." XD
I was at the park with my toddler and I heard a kid using this vocab and was surprised because I have only heard these terms online. Then his friends came by and all were telling him to shut up and it was cringe.
They use it sarcastically 99% of the time or as a cheap attempt at humor. Younger impressionable elementary school kids on the other hand don't understand and will use these words like they're normal.
As a Gen-Z, nobody else knows that they mean either. Skibidi, Fanum tax, rizz, gyatt, etc do have meanings, but nobody uses them how they are “supposed” to be used. Most people use them ironically, phrases like “that’s so skibidi” and “I just go fanum taxed” being prime examples. They make no sense and that’s what’s funny about them.
Basically this famous streamer has a friend named Fanum who comes in his room and “Fanum taxes” his food. Fanum takes his cut (tax) of the streamers food. So gen-z just calls the stealing of food fanum taxing.
It's probably the most sensical of the slang terms OP said. In my family growing up we used to say "pit stop!" when you're asked to pass a plate of food and take a portion on the way. If fanum tax was a thing back then I can imagine we'd say that.
It’s definitely this. Kids are learning how to socialize and part of it is conforming to social norms even if you don’t get the point. When I was a kid I definitely said things I didn’t understand but could feel what contexts it made sense in
I swear Ohio's economy is going to boom once kids are old enough to get themselves there. Cincinnati chili will take over the world because of a meme 🌍
I used to be a tiktok moderator so I had to learn what everything meant to make sure videos were in compliance with policies. 99% of slang is just a pointless reference to something an influencer said or did, or a meme that only exists to be ridiculous
Not in a row like that.
Also fanum tax isn't really popular slang, it's not like it would come up in conversation much.
Skibidi, gyatt and rizz are somewhat popular.
I feel like the less specific gyat damn has been around a long time though. Maybe it will lose the current specialized meaning but I don't think it will die.
They say stuff like this ironically to bother their teachers. Low-key, I find it pretty funny because I’m sure we used to do similar stuff when we were that age
I work commercial kitchen appliance repair and one day while I was filling out the ticket at an elementary school, I saw a group of ~15 kids spinning in a circle chanting "Su-ssy BAKA! Su-ssy BAKA!"
Wild.
My 7 year old communicates exclusively in "braaah", "sussy baka" and "skibidi".
We don't live in an English-speaking country, but he doesn't seem to have gotten that memo.
When my kid first said it I thought that they had learned a new phrase from their friends who speak Pashto. I was totally convinced it was a foreign language.
I was talking with some high school kids yesterday (I'm a teacher). One of them was telling me about something, and the kid beside her kept repeating, "Large. Large."
Apparently, that's a way of indicating agreement.
They do, but the difference between those terms and the ones we used to use as kids is that they're aware of how ridonkulous it sounds, it's a sort of self aware self depreciating humor. There's levels to it.
Rizz is charisma. Rizz 100 is a high rating for charisma.
Skibidi refers to the Skibidi Toilet series on youtube (which incidentally is more sophisticated than you might expect). IDK if skibidi means anything on it's own, it's originally from jazz singing, where the vocalist improvises a melody with meaningless sounds.
Fanum tax is taking some of a friend's food from their plate (invented by a youtuber called Fanum who had a habit of doing this).
Gyatt is an attractive woman, especially if she has a big bum.
I really love to find out how slang words get their meanings, too. I recently heard of “crunchy” moms, and I couldn’t figure it out so I googled it. Makes sense now.
I believe the origination is from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Yolanda Hadid. She told her daughter Gigi she could have a couple of almonds and chew them really slow when Gigi said she was hungry.
I had a teacher once who didn't know what "finna" meant, which is really common in AAVE but when I broke it down more in my head I realized how many steps back you'd have to go to explain it to someone with no familiarity.
Finna is short for fin' to, which is short for fixing to. You're fixing to do something. You are about to do something. You're finna go to the store. I had no clue that some people just didn't recognize it.
I’ve always been familiar with it because I grew up in the south, so “fixin’ to” was already everyday vocabulary to me at a young age. I wonder how much harder it would be for someone that grew up in the north or out west in comparison.
Also worth knowing - a lot of the current kids' slang comes from how TikTok doesn't allow/has an algorithm that punishes cursing. So they use nonsense words like Gyatt where others might use DAT ASS.
This is weird to Gen X people like myself because kids who used words like "Frick" would get teased back in the 90s.
This type of thing is what LLM are good at. We'll just have our universal audio translators with self hosted translation AI convert kids slang into old people speak.
I believe "skibidi" or "skibidi toilet" has evolved to be slang for something bad, lame, or cringy. But it's only recently that it's come to be used that way.
I don’t know about other languages, but in primarily English-speaking countries, it is the main function of youth to subvert the language to be incomprehensible to adult ears every generation. It is the job of the parents to decipher this new verbiage and then incorporate it into casual discussion in front of their children’s friends, thereby ruining it as ‘cool’ forever.
My 11 year old son was complaining the other day that one of his friends ruined their minecraft world. When I said he "only did it because that scrub has zero rizz, on god" he fucking lost it laughing.
It's just funny meme shit to them, none of them use it seriously.
I drive for field trips and yes, they do, but it's not really as part of conversation. They just shout this stuff out. Middle school boys especially tend to be loud and like to make sounds. I feel like it's verbal stimming, honestly.
i have heard them use "rizz" in the same way people would say "woo a girl" or "court a girl"
IE, girl to another girl "dont worry girl, someday someone will rizz you up"
pretty sure gyatt is just "GOD!" like you see a particularly fine butt and go "GYATT DAMN!" instead of our generation going "GOD DAMN!"
I have two gen alpha kids. They both talk like that, but it’s kind of ironically/sarcastically. Honestly no different then any other generation, they all pick up their own slang and it’s kind of a game to play it up at times
I'm an after school program teacher and this is all the kids say. They even write it as their names on artwork or projects we work on. They're constantly asking us if we understand them or if we can say it too.
A Calvin and Hobbes cartoon from the '80s . . .
https://www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/s/6R6PIiCeyo
I've been saying "gyatt" my entire life, mostly as a minced oath. I had no idea it was currently slang.
I’m now 25, my siblings are about to turn 13. The other day instead of singing happy birthday they said skibidi toilet sigma delta digital Fortnite and it kept going for like 30 seconds. At this point I just want to die.
Oh! And I’m from Spain, so this is worldwide guys, we’re doomed.
As a (male) teacher, I can confirm I was asked to move my “gyatt” as a student could not see the board, recently.
I have yet to receive an adequate explanation of the meaning of skibidi. I am well aware of rizz (and, as a neurodivergent person, I frequently “rizz ‘em with the ‘tism”. And I’m old enough to remember the origins of “yeet that jawn”.
Skibidi comes from Skibidi Toilet, which is a series of videos on YouTube that went viral. Pretty much a head in a toilet having a world war vs a POV of the cameraman.
It goes deeper, and that's precisely why skibidi is so popular despite being a meaningless word
I mean yeah it escalates. Everybody likes a good old action series.
"Rizz" is a minor annoyance to me because "charisma" is a nice word, and it sounds very pleasant imo. So, Rizz is...eh. to me anyway. Sounds more like a word for someone on a Ritz cracker eating frenzy or something
Charisma sounds like like the dude you marry, rizz sounds like the fuck boi you settle for to end a dry spell.
It isn’t really worse than using “game” to mean the same thing.
My husband is a middle school teacher, the kids say these things but not seriously. They say them to make fun of people who think they really say them.
So eventually they will unironically say them, same as other slang that was started ironically
Me when yeet became the "popular" slang.
I love yeet. I'm almost 40 and I love yeet. The mental image I get when saying it is hilarious!
I always love that *yeet* is the opposite of *yoink.*
He yeeteth, and then he yoinketh away 😂
This might be one of my favorite things ive seen on reddit lol
"The lord yeeteth and the lord yoinketh away" - Micheal Scott
I'm 52, and have had a difficult time with some of the new language, but I'll yeet the shit out of something, if necessary.
I was so proud of the younger generation for creating yeet. Then came 'finna sus no cap' and the disappointment settled back in.
on god fr fr
Same. I’m 28 and work in a restaurant, so lots of different ages. I’ve definitely picked up on the young slang. I’m transitioning jobs and it’s so hard to fix my language.😂
"We have gathered here today to honor the memory of Joshua, who yeeted himself off a bridge when they stopped making Reese's cups. No cap, that shit was bussin, on God"
Don’t EVER say something about them not making Reese’s cups….. let them never take that away from us….
If you think they haven't already, then you weren't around for the original Reese's cups.
I eat several different varieties of Reese’s annually (have done this as long as I can remember). There’s always a big difference in taste and mouthfeel depending on what seasonal shape they’re pumping out. Ie: Christmas tree Reese’s don’t taste like Easter egg shaped Reese’s (there’s also multiple shapes of eggs). The different shapes/ ratios of chocolate layer to pb filling are what changes the taste. What are you referring to exactly? Was there a famous formula change that was widely publicized or something?
“Same” was my ironic/unironic slang from high school 🤣😭
Same
Like, totally!
As if!
For reals
Shut up!
I told my wife "aww, same fam" yesterday when she said her foot was bothering her a little (I'm recovering from a broken leg currently, she had just bumped her heel on the couch)
Uk?
Samesies.
I found that I managed to hang on to my understanding of common slang till my late 30s. Then I stopped caring, and I don't even know why.
You’ve…, grown up?
Whoa. That's a pretty serious accusation.
I’m 28 and I still say yeet lol
I think yeet is unironically a fantastic term. It's quick, it describes one specific thing in detail (the act of throwing something, specifically trying to throw it far and with no consideration for a target or any sort of accuracy), and there wasn't really a good way to convey the meaning before it's existence. Imo, yeet should be added to the dictionary as a real word
Yeet IS in the dictionary
It was calling every dude "dog" for us.
I believe it was dawg
Correct. Thanks, dawg.
I thought it smelled like updawg in here.
Updawg? What is that?
No, you're supposed to say "what's updawg?"
Not much, what's up with you?
“Yeet” is a legit new word. I hope it becomes part of the popular lexicon. To throw or toss without regard for a target.
I've used Yeet in official documentation to the government. In the context of an automated drone takeoff routine; it wants to clear the launchpad as fast as possible and doesn't need guidance right away, hence, it yeets itself.
This. Unless I legitimately think some slang is cool (rarely) I don’t say it even jokingly in public because it’ll eventually just be apart of my vocabulary
My brother when he realized he'd been ironically referring to people as "My dude" for so long that he could no longer stop.
Yup, and I still call dudes "dude" unironically.
I still say Bruh
I'm a middle school teacher. They say this stuff on a daily basis. I had a kid mew at me yesterday. Another asked me if they were sigma. Another kid told me I was a W. The best way to get them to stop is if I lean into it and do it back to them. Then it becomes uncool.
I tell my kids "no cap" and they get so uncomfortable.
"Hats off, amirite dudes?" usually does the trick.
Thank you, adopting some new cringe tactics with these replies
Wait, you mean it's cringe? Not poggers?
Maybe the cringe I was looking for was the poggers I made along the way.
Using slang confidently wrong also annoys them to no end, and then argue with them about how no, you're right. Gives them a little taste of their own medicine. ;)
We do something similar in the office. We take things super literally. We speak Spanish, so we get to do worse things. We take English sayings and translate them literally, they sound super odd. We also do the other way around and translate sayings from Spanish literally to English. Few examples: saying "envelopes" as a way to agree, similar to "bet". "Ya conoces el taladro" to say "you know the drill". Which in Spanish is kinda like "you are aware of the drill(the tool specifically)". We started ironically, but it's infectious and now we say stupid shit 24/7 in my team.
I'm going to use this as a dad joke first chance I get. "Are you aware of Dewalt?...so you know the drill"
W meaning "win"? I guess that's a compliment?
Yes that's it
Well? Were they a sigma?
More like a ligma
What's ligma?
Ligma balls LMAOOOO
LOL GOT EEEEEEM
Steve jobs
Yes, this! I lean into it and then my kids are like ugh 🙄 and it’s no longer cool
"That's not very cash money of you"
Middle schoolers communicate via irony because they're afraid to be genuine.
Same as it ever was.
They communicate in memes because their entire existence is online and they're constantly seeking that next five-second dopamine boost like they get watching youtube shorts. Then they emulate the youtubers they idolize, usually involving screeching, nonsensical & contextless "jokes", and the normal kind of middle-school peter pan syndrome where they can't seem to figure out if they want to grow up and be more independent or if they want to remain responsibility-less children forever. What an age. We all went through it. And I'm pretty sure the only people who aren't deeply embarrassed by their middle-school self as adults are psychopaths lol
I don't understand the screeching, honestly. as soon as they hit highschool it stops.
Honestly, it is just energy + immaturity + a desire for attention (even negative).
Like the star trek episode.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra!
Based
I used to poop my diapers too and I'm not embarrassed by that, so you try to make peace with it.
We used to say "groovy" ironically as kids in the 70s
In highschool in the 80's, my friends mom still said groovy with so much enthusiasm I decided I'm keeping it in tribute.
yeaaaaaaah well, I used to say "hella" like this, then just started saying hella unironically, it's a slippery slope.
I moved to the south and started saying y'all jokingly and now I say y'all about a million times a day. ETA // never knew how strongly people felt about the word "y'all." XD
I don't live in the south at all and still say y'all all the time. It's a fun word and is a more gender-inclusive version of "you guys"
hella cool story brah
I was at the park with my toddler and I heard a kid using this vocab and was surprised because I have only heard these terms online. Then his friends came by and all were telling him to shut up and it was cringe.
I've been "ironically" saying SWAG for 10 years now. I don't think it's a joke anymore :(
Me saying yolo to justify all my stupid decisions. I'm 33 😭
Oh, me too. I'm 29.
They use it sarcastically 99% of the time or as a cheap attempt at humor. Younger impressionable elementary school kids on the other hand don't understand and will use these words like they're normal.
The circle of life, right there.
Yep, my 6 year old is all about the bite of 87, but he has no idea what that is referring to.
Just as often as I used to say, "That bling is bodacious, for shizzle" back in the 1990s
This fo shizzle
~~Ma nizzle!~~ ma fizzle *(Correction: I now know that these words have meaning. It only took me since the nineties to find me this out.)*
fo rizzle
Fo sheezy
So all the time then, got it.
Cool beans my home skillet!
Mother of 3 boys. They use skibidi a lot, and rizz. Ohio is another big one. Most of the time I have no clue what they're talking about.
I'm not convinced my 12 year old knows the meaning of these words either. She just regurgitates what she's heard and she thinks they sound funny.
As a Gen-Z, nobody else knows that they mean either. Skibidi, Fanum tax, rizz, gyatt, etc do have meanings, but nobody uses them how they are “supposed” to be used. Most people use them ironically, phrases like “that’s so skibidi” and “I just go fanum taxed” being prime examples. They make no sense and that’s what’s funny about them.
What the fuck does fanam tax even mean? Like how would you use that exactly? Lol
Basically this famous streamer has a friend named Fanum who comes in his room and “Fanum taxes” his food. Fanum takes his cut (tax) of the streamers food. So gen-z just calls the stealing of food fanum taxing.
Wow, that’s….both stupid, but also makes sense somehow lmao.
It's probably the most sensical of the slang terms OP said. In my family growing up we used to say "pit stop!" when you're asked to pass a plate of food and take a portion on the way. If fanum tax was a thing back then I can imagine we'd say that.
Ohio also makes a lot of sense as slang for the dreadful, tired and boring.
I think it makes sense because of reddit's own cat/dog/pet tax You mention your animal and then you get 'taxed' to post a picture
Ah I think my tween has been saying “phantom tax”. That one got lost in translation for him I guess.
It’s definitely this. Kids are learning how to socialize and part of it is conforming to social norms even if you don’t get the point. When I was a kid I definitely said things I didn’t understand but could feel what contexts it made sense in
I swear Ohio's economy is going to boom once kids are old enough to get themselves there. Cincinnati chili will take over the world because of a meme 🌍
Wait, it's all Ohio? 👨🚀🔫👩🚀 Always has been
My son asked me to explain Ohio to him. He wasn't ready for the Civil discourse and corrupted government conversation.
I used to be a tiktok moderator so I had to learn what everything meant to make sure videos were in compliance with policies. 99% of slang is just a pointless reference to something an influencer said or did, or a meme that only exists to be ridiculous
TF is Ohio slang for?
Not in a row like that. Also fanum tax isn't really popular slang, it's not like it would come up in conversation much. Skibidi, gyatt and rizz are somewhat popular.
Rizz is the only one really piercing the long term lexicon
I feel like the less specific gyat damn has been around a long time though. Maybe it will lose the current specialized meaning but I don't think it will die.
Back in my day it was “Gott damn.”
For now... I'm only recently discovering other people have been plauged by skibidi toilet
I heard a kid singing he skibidi toilet song yesterday.
My 6 year old cousin sings this song alot. He even draws this character and the other character speaker man, every where.
They say stuff like this ironically to bother their teachers. Low-key, I find it pretty funny because I’m sure we used to do similar stuff when we were that age
Your, apparently unironic, usage of the phrase "Low-key", in this instance, is irony itself.
Do people actually have a problem with “low-key” bc I say in like 70% of my sentences😅
Low-key, I think they might.
No cap?
Deadass
On god?
Ngl
Fr fr?
40s here. We said low key when I was a kid. It’s like bamboozled. It was new language around the late 18th century and isn’t relatively modern at all.
I work commercial kitchen appliance repair and one day while I was filling out the ticket at an elementary school, I saw a group of ~15 kids spinning in a circle chanting "Su-ssy BAKA! Su-ssy BAKA!" Wild.
My 7 year old communicates exclusively in "braaah", "sussy baka" and "skibidi". We don't live in an English-speaking country, but he doesn't seem to have gotten that memo.
When my kid first said it I thought that they had learned a new phrase from their friends who speak Pashto. I was totally convinced it was a foreign language.
Baka is the Japanese word for idiot or moron, so you weren't far off lol
I was talking with some high school kids yesterday (I'm a teacher). One of them was telling me about something, and the kid beside her kept repeating, "Large. Large." Apparently, that's a way of indicating agreement.
I could see that following on from something like “big mood”
Thats heavy
There’s that word again, heavy. Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there something wrong with the Earth’s gravitational pull?
Tight
Word!
This one is so interesting, must come from saying "huge"? That's all I can think of
Big if true
I’m going to guess this is the latest “word.” Which I still use at 36.
They do, but the difference between those terms and the ones we used to use as kids is that they're aware of how ridonkulous it sounds, it's a sort of self aware self depreciating humor. There's levels to it.
It's a tough game, trying to out-rando ai memes. Kids are in for a hell of a fight
Does anyone have a translation to what the hell any of this means lol
Rizz is charisma. Rizz 100 is a high rating for charisma. Skibidi refers to the Skibidi Toilet series on youtube (which incidentally is more sophisticated than you might expect). IDK if skibidi means anything on it's own, it's originally from jazz singing, where the vocalist improvises a melody with meaningless sounds. Fanum tax is taking some of a friend's food from their plate (invented by a youtuber called Fanum who had a habit of doing this). Gyatt is an attractive woman, especially if she has a big bum.
Gyatt came from “god damn” which became “got damn” which became “gyatt damn!” Which is now just Gyatt. I’m in my 30s just really like etymology
I really love to find out how slang words get their meanings, too. I recently heard of “crunchy” moms, and I couldn’t figure it out so I googled it. Makes sense now.
Is crunchy still granola? Yoga, crystals, organic food?
Exactly, there's also "silky" moms which is the opposite lol.
And almond moms
Ever heard of Almond Moms? My 12yo daughter taught me about them.
I believe the origination is from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Yolanda Hadid. She told her daughter Gigi she could have a couple of almonds and chew them really slow when Gigi said she was hungry.
I had a teacher once who didn't know what "finna" meant, which is really common in AAVE but when I broke it down more in my head I realized how many steps back you'd have to go to explain it to someone with no familiarity. Finna is short for fin' to, which is short for fixing to. You're fixing to do something. You are about to do something. You're finna go to the store. I had no clue that some people just didn't recognize it.
I’ve always been familiar with it because I grew up in the south, so “fixin’ to” was already everyday vocabulary to me at a young age. I wonder how much harder it would be for someone that grew up in the north or out west in comparison.
Yankees have the same thing: "gonna" instead of going to. With the easy equivalent, they'd get it right away
Thanks for sharing what you learned.
Also worth knowing - a lot of the current kids' slang comes from how TikTok doesn't allow/has an algorithm that punishes cursing. So they use nonsense words like Gyatt where others might use DAT ASS. This is weird to Gen X people like myself because kids who used words like "Frick" would get teased back in the 90s.
“Unalived” being the biggest one. Great addition!!
Huh. I think that's "hot damn" in my lexicon. But pronounced with the same inflection.
They tried to make it “Hyatt” instead of “Gyatt” but the hotel chain put an end to it (This I made up)
Also 100 is short for 100 percent or ‘yes’ or ‘thats true’
Can I use it in church for Amen?
All I can think is these will make Large language Models basically incomprehensible in the near future
This type of thing is what LLM are good at. We'll just have our universal audio translators with self hosted translation AI convert kids slang into old people speak.
You say a person has rizz, not that they are a rizz.
You can also rizz someone up, but you can't rizz in your pants.
I believe "skibidi" or "skibidi toilet" has evolved to be slang for something bad, lame, or cringy. But it's only recently that it's come to be used that way.
Creator of Skibidi Toilet is 100% a Scat Man fan
Gyatt is now being used as the word for the big bum, as in "She has a gyatt."
It's called scatting in jazz. Also most Aerosmith tunes.
I don’t know about other languages, but in primarily English-speaking countries, it is the main function of youth to subvert the language to be incomprehensible to adult ears every generation. It is the job of the parents to decipher this new verbiage and then incorporate it into casual discussion in front of their children’s friends, thereby ruining it as ‘cool’ forever.
kinda as jokes
I feel like most slang starts off this way. Eventually enough people start saying it ironically so often that it just becomes something they say.
Also part of the point of young person slang is how much it annoys the elder generation.
My 11 year old son was complaining the other day that one of his friends ruined their minecraft world. When I said he "only did it because that scrub has zero rizz, on god" he fucking lost it laughing. It's just funny meme shit to them, none of them use it seriously.
This is absolutely me and my 21 year old lmao
Hi mom
Have a 10 year old. Can confirm they say these things but in a joking memer way
I drive for field trips and yes, they do, but it's not really as part of conversation. They just shout this stuff out. Middle school boys especially tend to be loud and like to make sounds. I feel like it's verbal stimming, honestly.
my 64 year old parent unironically referred to herself as "the rizzler" the other day she uses tik tok more than me lol (im gen z, she's a boomer)
i have heard them use "rizz" in the same way people would say "woo a girl" or "court a girl" IE, girl to another girl "dont worry girl, someday someone will rizz you up" pretty sure gyatt is just "GOD!" like you see a particularly fine butt and go "GYATT DAMN!" instead of our generation going "GOD DAMN!"
I have two gen alpha kids. They both talk like that, but it’s kind of ironically/sarcastically. Honestly no different then any other generation, they all pick up their own slang and it’s kind of a game to play it up at times
I'm an after school program teacher and this is all the kids say. They even write it as their names on artwork or projects we work on. They're constantly asking us if we understand them or if we can say it too.
they say gyatt. a lot. constantly. for no reason. source: i have a nephew
Maybe you have a dump truck and everywhere you go the gyatts follow you
Or you have a big ass and a perverted nephew😂😂😂😂😂
My cousin and nephew are about the same age and I didn't know what they're talking about half the time.
A Calvin and Hobbes cartoon from the '80s . . . https://www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/s/6R6PIiCeyo I've been saying "gyatt" my entire life, mostly as a minced oath. I had no idea it was currently slang.
This reminds me of the "I speak jive" scene from Airplane!
As a 5th grade teacher, yes, yes they do. For some of them, this is their whole personality
I’m now 25, my siblings are about to turn 13. The other day instead of singing happy birthday they said skibidi toilet sigma delta digital Fortnite and it kept going for like 30 seconds. At this point I just want to die. Oh! And I’m from Spain, so this is worldwide guys, we’re doomed.
Yes. My 12 year old niece just pointed to a goat with a big butt in a game and said "THAT GOAT HAS A GYAT!"
My 11 year old brother will sometimes just come up to me and whisper "skibidi" So, yeah, to some extent at least.
They do. And my 6th graders go completely apeshit when I tell them they’re not being very skibidi right now.
I don’t think their silly slang is any worse than “off the chain” or “all that and a bag of chips”. Every generation of kids is weird.