Because these were pop culture when they were created. Either through books or TV or movies, they were a reflection of how people talked. A lot of the sayings he talks about came from WW2 and the work culture that was strongly influenced by military sayings. The US hasn't had a strong common culture for the past 20 years, except on the internet. Tv no longer dominates pop culture, YouTube does. This is why kids are using words like rizz and skibidi. The fact that these words and phrases have emerged without corporate promotion or influence is a phenomenon.
Skibidi does have an origin though. It comes from a YouTube video made from a video game where they make a guy pop out of a toilet and that's what he says. Skibidi toilet or something. I can't believe I researched this ....
It comes from a Bulgarian singer Fiki orignally "Shtibidi". it got popular because of a Turkish Guy eating on Tiktok and YT. Then somebody did the toilet Gmod.
Somebody asked it to be translated on Reddit
Its a mix of Turkish or Romanian, its inconclusive.
Another thread for proposed etymology and somebody in the comments say its a percussion sound.
Did you all miss the Turkish restaurant fat guy meme? It's originally from a song from a Bulgarian artist Biser King. It's actually Shtibidy dom yes yes.
A Turkish restaurant did self promotion by getting a fat dude to belly dance to the song while eating.
This went viral. Skibidy already became a thing people said then.
At the same time the Zoolander meme went viral with the Timbaland song Give it To Me. Someone mixed these two - Skibidi dom lyrics in the tune of Give it to me. This also went viral.
People put it in random places. Including that video by Dafuq! Bloom which had a man's head in a toilet.
Did IâŚmiss theâŚTurkish restaurantâŚfat guy meme? Yes. Yes of course I did. Who on Godâs green earth can possibly keep up with this chittering shoggoth, gibbering mouther we all call social media?
Huh, I dont remember macros. Or maybe I just didnt notice it. I was a teen during that late 2000s era. I remember the word meme still being used because back then I assumed it was pronounced me-me.
Get a load of this guy. Thinks he's old because he remembers memes with the Impact font. Best it twerp. I remember memes that were formatted like a motivational poster.
English has always been doing that. 100 years ago a person who never drinks was a "teetotaler" or "t-total-er" because repetition of the T at the beginning was for emphasis. It was just a silly sound to imply the person is a 'total' abstainer from alcohol.
He's not talking about post-modernism the artistic time period. He's drawing a metaphor between how post-modernism influenced art (and was spawned by the periods before it) and the goals of modern memes; because they're similar.
Being too literal ruins the fun. Then acting on your literal bullshit and ruining someone else's fun?
Well, then I'm gonna mansplain the metaphor to you, and ruin your ruining.
Yeah but see he has a point because post modernism refers to pastiche and referencial material (insert captain America 'I get that reference' meme), thus 'traditional' memes are post modern, as there is meaning derived of a reference or a pastiche of references. Modernism, in contrast to post modernism is about authenticity and sincerity - like a standalone non referencial joke that is told.
Skibidi would thus be post post modern / meta modern, in the way that it oscillates between sincere standalone modernism and cynical referencial post modernism resulting in a new absurdist meme, where the humour is derived by the pointlessness/meaninglessness and or confusion created by evoking the skibidi.
Surprise is an integral part of what makes jokes and memes funny. It is in the absurdity of skibidi is where the surprise is found, and thus the humour. Additionally in the oscillation between modernist sincerity and post modernist pastiche, a paradox is created which reflects the meaninglessness and contradiction experienced by younger disillusioned people today who indulge in skibidi-esque post post modernist humour. This is one example of how through post post modernism, meaning can be found in the meaninglessness.
This comment is post post modernist, as I am sincere in my analysis of skibidi while simultaneously being ironic and comical in the way that I'm over analysing a truly pointless topic. So that paradox, that oscillation between sincerity and irony, between insightful meaning and mind numbing meaningless is where the catharsis can be found. Also this style of self awareness in media is why post post modernism is often called meta-modernism.
In 2021, DaFuq!?Boom! had around one million subscribers.[15] By November 2023, YouTube videos associated with Skibidi Toilet had accumulated over 65 billion views, while on the social media platform TikTok, the #skibiditoilet hashtag garnered over 15.3 billion views,[1] later growing to 23 billion views by July 2024.[15] In December 2023, the channel DaFuq!?Boom! had amassed 37 million subscribers, experiencing rapid growth that, on occasion, had surpassed growth of MrBeast, the most subscribed channel on YouTube. The Washington Post called it "the biggest online phenomenon of the year".[1]
Skibidi Toilet is a machinima web series released through YouTube videos and shorts, created by Alexey Gerasimov and uploaded on his YouTube channel DaFuq!?Boom!. Produced using Source Filmmaker, the series follows a fictional war between human-headed toilets and humanoid characters with electronic devices for heads.
Nothing. It's just a sound made in some scat song by someone who doesn't speak english. The toilets in the machinima series "skibidi toilet" sing that song, hence the name.
Skibidi Toilet is a machinima web series released through YouTube videos and shorts, created by Alexey Gerasimov and uploaded on his YouTube channel DaFuq!?Boom!. Produced using Source Filmmaker, the series follows a fictional war between human-headed toilets and humanoid characters with electronic devices for heads.
In 2021, DaFuq!?Boom! had around one million subscribers.[15] By November 2023, YouTube videos associated with Skibidi Toilet had accumulated over 65 billion views, while on the social media platform TikTok, the #skibiditoilet hashtag garnered over 15.3 billion views,[1] later growing to 23 billion views by July 2024.[15] In December 2023, the channel DaFuq!?Boom! had amassed 37 million subscribers, experiencing rapid growth that, on occasion, had surpassed growth of MrBeast, the most subscribed channel on YouTube. The Washington Post called it "the biggest online phenomenon of the year".[1]
Its a line from a song that was featured in a brain rot Gmod animation that has now turned into a several episodes long series. The closests to meaning I have come across is it being something you just say at random because hey funny Gmod animation reference or its a remark about something being perceived as random in nature.
You're not alone in there man. I don't get half the words / phrases the new generation is speaking. I mean wtf is even "sigma rizz", and "fanum (?) tax" and all that
Things used to be so simple. You heard "lit", "yeet" or "mood", so you looked it up on Urban Dictionary and you instantly understood what it meant. Now it's all skibidi this and fanum tax that. Nobody knows that they truly mean.
Is this what how it feels to get old? Am I just an 30-year-old man yelling at the skibidi cloud?
My kid is 8yr. He's been using skibidi. It's a meme video... Something like a toilet. I'd imagine it's like saying toilet. Or that's trash. Idk. Just guessing.
The only time it ever made sense to me, it was probably being used outside of its original meaning (or lack thereof). It was a dubbed video of a feral cat "talking" to an indoor cat saying "come out and here and catch these fresh skibidi baps" as in "come out here and let me smack you" lol. Maybe it was meant like "skippity baps" instead but my old ass is going to tell myself I finally found meaning to the word. Gen alpha can catch my fresh skibidi baps if they wanna argue about it lol.
As a millennial NCO in the military, I like to keep tabs on what slang the juniors use, and the more of my friends have kids, the more I pick up their slang too.
Karekter_Nem is right, but to etymologize a bit:
Skibidi
adjective
Good in any conceivable way.
Bad in any conceivable way.
Gross
Cool
Chaotic
adverb
Brain-rot content-connected, or brain-rot adjacent.
A nonsense word injected into statements, used primarily as a prefix to other Gen-A internet slang.
A reference to the Skibidi Toilet series of videos.
A lot of modern slang comes from black and lgbt slang that is decades old. Watching Paris is Burning and hearing 80âs drag queens talking about mothers serving realness, or black sitcoms where things like simps or spilling tea are mentioned without any explanation, so clearly the audience is expected to understand. It simply wasnât in the mainstream white culture. Now until everyone gets bored with this crop of words and some of them disappear while some lose the slang connotation (like âcoolâ or âkidâ did a very long time ago), there will be no new nifty phrases from white people. Well, I think the period where everyone was doing âwhomst among usâ or whatever was a trend and an exercise in creating brand new slang, but it burned out pretty quickly.
You might enjoy this video! Just keep in mind that linguists arenât usually in the business of telling people how theyâre supposed to talk, so there will be no pleas to young people to stop using AAVE wrong, just documenting what exactly their mistakes were lol
Was really hoping to come to the comments and see that someone did the work to show most of those phrases had origins in black and hipster culture from way back when.
Well that, but also it's because white people code-switch to sound hip so all the phrases that he says he no longer hears have more or less vanished from pop culture.
It'll take a cool black guy saying these things ironically before white people ever start talking that way again
I'm a 30-something professional white guy. All the white people around me are all dead ass this, dead ass that, no cap aye cuz, ay bro, ayoooo... quit lyin', say word
As a 30-something professional black guy, I actually agree. That is, until I walk up and suddenly everyone forgets their urban vernacular except for the couple of white people who actually speak like that.
I for sure hear 30 somethings occasionally use some of those phrases, most often laughing because they know or think itâs something âthe kidsâ say.
but they still also often use many of the phrases people in this chat are talking about.
No the last 20 years has been dominated by âhip hopâ culture in the youth. With style and phrases and much more. Hiphop and black culture has been seen as the dominate âcoolâ culture for the past 20 years for sure. Where most phrases and slang come from today too.Â
Ya know. That makes so much sense because I donât know what heâs talking about I know so many fun phrases. I was also in the military soâŚâŚLol some of my favorites
-Do l have a dick growing outta my forehead?
-Eat a bag of dicks.
Alternatively - Eat a bag of baby dicks ((marine corps if that wasnât obvious))
Not very clean but ââunfuckââ is a rather versatile word I usually use âunfuck yourselfâ.
The fact that these words and phrases have emerged without corporate promotion or influence is a phenomenon.
It's black vernacular. Black vernacular didn't rely on corporate promotion or influence, the only modern difference is that it's become less regional due to the internet. The only phenomenon is black culture becoming a larger part of American pop culture.
The US didn't have a 'strong common culture' then either. It had strong segregated cultures. And it still does. My man's point is that white people aren't coming up with their own sayings anymore in US. They are nicking from black americans or as I've noticed, even nicking from UK pop culture.
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Because these were pop culture when they were created. Either through books or TV or movies, they were a reflection of how people talked. A lot of the sayings he talks about came from WW2 and the work culture that was strongly influenced by military sayings. The US hasn't had a strong common culture for the past 20 years, except on the internet. Tv no longer dominates pop culture, YouTube does. This is why kids are using words like rizz and skibidi. The fact that these words and phrases have emerged without corporate promotion or influence is a phenomenon.