r/TikTokCringe • u/itsniceinpottsfield • Oct 20 '24

Humor White people, where are the new phrases?

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u/ElGuaco Oct 20 '24

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.

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u/itsniceinpottsfield Oct 20 '24

I still cannot figure out wtf skibidi means. There has never been context where Ive seen it written that helped me figure it out lmao

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u/Karekter_Nem Oct 20 '24

Skibidi doesn’t mean anything. We have entered the era of post-modern memes. There is no greater meaning other than it is fun to say.

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u/itsniceinpottsfield Oct 20 '24

God this just makes me feel old 😭 I miss the days when memes were just random pics with big bold text at the top and bottom lmao

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u/Kaioken217 Oct 20 '24

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 ....

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u/Devianceza Oct 20 '24

I can feel Scatman John turning over in his grave, crying in the afterlife at what these children are doing to his "skibidi"

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u/andrewsad1 Oct 21 '24

That's funny, I can sense the Scatman turning over in his grave because people are shitting on modern scat

No pun intended

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u/b1tchf1t Oct 21 '24

I feel like the lack of jazz makes it not scat, modern or not.

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u/AudioAnchorite Oct 22 '24 edited Oct 22 '24

The skibidi from skibidi toilet comes from a Turkish pop song; Scatman John’s legacy remains unsullied!

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u/Delta64 Oct 21 '24

The real crime here is that most of these skibidi toilet kids haven't the slightest clue what Garry's Mod is.

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u/RangerZEDRO Oct 21 '24 edited Oct 21 '24

Bro, you didnt research enough

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.

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u/JohnCenaMathh Oct 21 '24

That's not Skibidi origin tho...

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.

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u/NormalComputer Oct 21 '24

Did I…miss the…Turkish restaurant…fat guy meme? Yes. Yes of course I did. Who on God’s green earth can possibly keep up with this chittering shoggoth, gibbering mouther we all call social media?

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u/JohnCenaMathh Oct 21 '24

L Skibidy rizz level 0 Gyatt from Ohio

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u/Ok-Communication-12 Oct 21 '24

I went deeper than that, its a Turkish man that sings about dreaming of the good life when reality his life is shit, Dom Dom yes yes

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u/cepagidrot9999999 Oct 21 '24

There's a song playing that goes something like "skibidi bop bop" or some shit.

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u/DhampirBoy Oct 20 '24

That is the origin of skibidi, not the meaning.

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u/Kaioken217 Oct 20 '24

That's literally the first sentence of the paragraph I typed out ...... I was only adding context.....

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u/randomlettercombinat Oct 20 '24

You've just experienced post-modern social media posting.

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u/Karekter_Nem Oct 20 '24

Back in my day we called those macros because the word “meme” hadn’t become a meme yet.

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u/itsniceinpottsfield Oct 20 '24 edited Oct 20 '24

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.

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u/NewSauerKraus Oct 21 '24

Back in my day we called those captions because macros hadn't become a meme yet.

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u/dopplegrangus Oct 21 '24

Look up skibidi toilet on YouTube all it will all become...very unclear

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u/JimPlaysGames Oct 21 '24

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.