Origin of Gen Alpha Slang
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- Sorry for cringe
00:00 - Intro
00:06 - Rizz
00:38 - Skibidi
00:48 - Rizz 2
00:53 - Ohio
01:14 - W & L
02:20 - Fanum (Tax)
02:55 - (Fanum) Tax
03:46 - Gyatt
04:02 - A few more
04:03 - Flex & bet
04:25 - GOAT
05:06 - Sigma
06:20 - Outro
His voice tells me that he is verified to do this,
XD
That's brutal
True
This a lil boy? Lmfao
He???
I’m 35 and I’ve been hearing my kids saying these terms all the time. When I ask them what it means they tell me nothing. Thanks for enlightening me.
They probably don't know what it means
I'm 9 and I didn't now what it means until this video I watched it because so many people were saying all the time, I was so confused.
your ass is not 35
They told you nothing because there are two reasons.
1; Their access to the internet, they don't know most of the slang and just use it because everyone in their generation Uses it in their speech
2; Most of the slang, plentiful of their generation knew of such origin but they think, it is their Inside subculture and believe you won't understand so they won't bother to explain it to you.
Conclusively, they will speak to you in normal speech but to each other, it felt like a different language a devolved English language.
I wouldn't hope for them anymore as I am not Gen Alpha, but Generation Z, in comparison I'm slightly less stupid and probably becoming more out of touch but either way, good luck raising your loved ones in these increasingly dystopian future
@@QQn5Good look kid🫡
Skibidi is a scat jazz term that was popular in the 1930s
So it was just a word for a sound? Not necessarily an onomatopoeia though.
The classic “Skibidi-di-bada” (explosions)
@@paingpaingppOOOOOOOHHHHHHH!!!!! now I remember that :)
actually:
swé>swa>swo>so
gebana>gaven>give
ḱe>hit>it
ad>de>ta>to
*h₁me->mis>me
if you speed the words "so give it to me" from the Nelly Furtado/Timbaland song, it would sound like "skibidi". It was the original audio before being replaced by Doser King
@@paingpaingppNo, the original word is Bulgarian. How hard is it to realize that not everything comes from the US, the song is literally Bulgarian and you search for American slang words to find out where it comes from....
gen alpha is saved
the future has rizzen
@@hello-rq8kfAaand... _nevermind._
That's so W rizz
gen alpha has rizzen, billions will fanum tax
Bruh
Fanum himself once said that his nickname came from "phantom"
I stand corrected.
If that's the case, then the etymology of "Fanum" would be from the French "phantasme" -> Latin / Greek "Phantasma" -> Greek "Phantazo" a verb meaning "to make things visible" -> Phantos meaning "light" -> Proto-Indo-European "bʰeh₂-" meaning to shine.
The same root in english eventually turns into the word "ban" meaning, "to vanquish or to prohibit"
@@jdelacruz14791 Interesting
@@jdelacruz14791Ban tax 🔥🔥
When i hear Fanum in my head I hear snoop dogg drop it like its hot
A video about gen alpha by gen alpha
makes sense
A lot of the things in this video are actually from gen z. That's why he got some of it wrong.
Also based comment
@@AnonymousCommentor_skibidi is gen Z?
@@theofficeroliviersamson4498 Independently popularized by Gen Z, with influence of Gen A.
@@AnonymousCommentor_As a Gen Z I’d rather die than admit any of these terms were invented by Gen Z.
Ok maybe W L, GOAT, rizz, and a few more….
Gen Z made Skibibi toilet.
Gen Z/Mi made Skibibi song
Gen A watched Skibibi toilet
"Pogchamp" originated from the death of Jesus Christ.
"Pati" meant reflections of the suffering and death of Jesus Christ. Pati became Passio, later Passion from Italian to English. Passion+fruit= passionfruit, and Passion is the P of POG, a Hawaiian drink in which the caps became a 1990s collectable. Gutierrez gaped his mouth on a Twitchstrem when reviewing the Pog toys, and the rest is rizztory
Did you see the video “the complete evolution of 20 English words”?
@@theofficeroliviersamson4498 yes, but I knew it first from a Tumblr post.
Also, "based" has a complicated history.
preyH(please)>priHos>frijaz>freo>fre>free.
gʷem(step)>gwatis>basis>base.
kap(head)>kaput>haubud>heafod>heaved>heed>head.
All proto-West-Germanic words.
free+base=freebase, a type of cocaine. Addicts to that substance are called baseheads. Lil B shortened it to "based".
Jesus died so we could pogchamp
@@adaywithsmator I am not Christian but I started to respect him after learning about this
@@adaywithsmator no he died so we can be forgiven of our sins
0:30 Cats after the slightest ounce of human contact:
XD
Bro is etymologymaxxing 🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️💯💯💯
For real though I love the effort that you put into this video and the knowledge in linguistics that you have! I would love to see more videos like this!
Etymologymaxxing is a word I never thought I’d see but somehow I’m glad I did
This video strongly reminds me of another video called "being a historian in the year 3023 part 2" by burialgoods
Fellow burialgoods viewer!
I declare this a site of pilgrimage
Yes
This video was pretty skibidi, I feel like this gave me w sigma aura. Only in Ohio would such a Fanum Taxable video be created, you truly are the Gyat GOAT.
SHUT UP
Sometimes, knowing something was written in irony stops me from wailing in agony.
@@qfcbv umm? What in the sigma that means? Anyway couldnt read till the end had to play subway surfers.
stop.
@@gots0359not sigma
Also gyatt originated in African American vernacular. It is a shortening of god damn, as you had stated, but it isn't a melding of the two words, rather it stemmed from the pronunciation of "god" in the phrase, so "god damn" ae -> "gyatt dayum" aave -> "gyatt" il
What does ae mean in ur comment?
@@KertPerteson American English, and il is an acronym I made for Internet lingo
@@Heisenberger_69 i think gyatt comes from god which is pronounced gad and dipthongized for emphasis and becomes giad
@@KertPerteson and I think you're right
This makes a lot more sense than what I did 😅
From a current senior in college studying History and Spanish with an interest in entomology, your pronunciation is very good for your age! Keep up the good work! ❤
Thank you, I like that my videos are getting the attention of wise people.
You mean et(h)ymology, unless you're very interested in various insects.
It's more likely that Sigma (the name of the letter) came from the letter Samekh, as it seems the names of the Greek S-like letters were somehow shuffled
Hence the sound for the letter is S, not š.
@@theofficeroliviersamson4498To be fair, in modern Hebrew both could be used for the modern pronunciation of shinn with “S” shinn being used in the name Sarah, hence Sarah fisher being director sigma in Captain Laserhawk a blood dragon remix.
@@Barakon confusing… But thanks for šerin ðIs wIþ mi
The _name_ "sigma" is just Greek for "hissing or sizzling sound".
@@NetRolller3Dwouldn’t that just be the onomatopoeia ‘sssss’?
As someone who is interested in languages, but despises Gen Alpha slang, this video has been very entertaining to watch.
Interesting that you would be interested in language and yet "despise" contemporary variations.
@@MCSorry Some Gen Alpha slang isn't too bad, but most of it just makes me feel like I'm losing brain cells.
@@MCSorry For example, I don't find terms like "W" and "L" that annoying, while I hate other terms like "Gyatt" and "Skibidi".
Same
It's gen Z slang. Gen A isn't even old enough to create slang
"Skibidi" originates from Skibidi Toilet, the song from Skibidi Toilet is based on a Bulgarian song from 2022 called Dom Dom Yes Yes, where the word was said as "Shtibidi" or "Щибиди". If you translate "Щибиди" into English, it means something along the lines of "Chickpea". So the song literally means 🎵Brrrrr Chickpea Dom Dom Dom Dom Dom Yes Yes Yes Yes🎵!
Thank you very much. I will probably include this in a part 2 if I make one.
@@theofficeroliviersamson4498that's not what it means. The original song is of Boris King, not Fiki. And the original ,,skibidi" sound comes from a 90s Bulgarian rap song. It becomes apperent what it actually means in that song. It basically means to pinch something - Shtip. In that song he takes many words like this and elongates them, in the case of shtip it becomes shtibiditip
Man, who told you shtibidi means chickpea in Bulgarian? Nahut means Chickpea in Bulgarian.
Dumbаss
chickpea almost sounds like skibidi
As someone who has never watched that I thought it came from "skibidi-bop-mm-dada"
Judging by your voice, you are clearly not an adult yet and I'd guess that you are about 13-16 years old and I have to say that if this is true, it is very impressive how high the quality of this video is. The things on the screen move dynamically with what you are saying and display a lot of information and your jokes and transitions are genuinely great. I think that it is incredible that somebody your age is so passionate about linguistics and also manages to pull off a video of the same quality that an adult would create.
Thanks so much! I forgot to credit Wiktionary and Etymonline for most of the research, so that's how I got these results. Though sometimes I feel like it's a curse to have a passion for something like linguistics at my age, something so many people don't want to think about.
@@theofficeroliviersamson4498bro i’m the exact same way 😭🙏
it’s because he’s an expert
@@theofficeroliviersamson4498youll problably be making a new language at the age of 25
@@theofficeroliviersamson4498Man, the Gen Alpha is gonna save us, lil bro....
While Gen Alpha uses these, if you really think about it Rizz, and Ohio and all these other slangs (besides skibidi), they came form Gen Z, since Gen Alpha wasn't quite old enough yet to develop their own culture, they just borrowed it from Gen Z. The main exception is skibidi because its relatively new, since it came out in 2023. There's a really good video called Goodbye Gen Z Hello Gen A which I assume at lot of you have seen.
This is how it is for literally every human generation. The prior 2 generations create the environment in which the current generation grows.
Gen Z grew up on Millenial memes and Gen X pop culture.
Gen A is growing up on Gen Z memes and Millenial pop culture.
It will always be this way, lol
@@necroseusthat’s actually pretty valid ngl
A shit ton of so called "Gen Alpha slang" is just AAVE
@@diridibindy5704 Very true
most underrated video in the linguistic community for real
Diss as in "a diss track" comes from disrespect, wherein dis-, a latin prefix, comes from PIE *dus-, "bad", not *deh1s, "godhood". Instead, the later, the origin of Fanum, gives english Dis, as in "Disar", the norse goddeses. The former, tho, is an origin of such compounds as iranian dusman(bad mind), used in afgan wars as a slur, and slavonic dozhd(bad sky), the rain.
Also, regarding charisma, *gher- - is just a root, not a word. Greek Chero, be happy, comes from indo european word *gheris - so rizz is just that actually, "ris"
Fanum tax being feast tax makes too much sense
It'll have a few million views very quickly but it'll be so much more interesting when 10 years later the algorithm decides to put this into everybody's recommendations.
I'd certainly like that to happen.
Gyatt is just a clipping of "Gyattdamn" which was an exaggerated way of saying goddamn in AAVE
Gosh
Damn! I'm a linguist, and I thought *I* was precocious for being able to pronounce essentially the whole IPA in high school. Your voice hasn't even dropped yet! What a head start!
It's important to keep in mind that the oldest languages like Proto Indo European are actually modern constructions made by comparing similarities between languages. There is no physical evidence of such languages, they are more like linguistic reverse engineering. So theorized is a better word to use than discovered when referring to them.
Yeah, proto indo european IS a reconstruction, of a reconstruction (Proto-Germanic), of yet another *reconstruction* (Proto-West-Germanic)
If fanum means temple, so I'm paying Fanum tax every time I go to church
Skibidi originated from that one middle eastern song with the dude dancing that became a meme in 2022
nah, it was 2023
@@YourLocalTimeWaster okay
@@YourLocalTimeWasterIt is!? I thought that meme was from 2022
And he actually says "Shtibidi", so yhe word has some etymology
@@twellveahadri12 yea, i remember it in like may-june and skibidi TOILET was popular during summer
Actual etamological theory here: even before skibidi became a meme, i noticed people defaulting to it whenever they tried to speak gibberish. Something about the human mouth subconsciously puts that word into existence.
Just look at Glep from Smiling Friends. He says skibidi all the time.
Which makes sense since the origin of the skibidi toilet was some guy scatting (jazz, not shit)
thank you algorithm
how old are you? This video is surprisingly well edited, researched, and has very good pronunciation for sounding so young.
Alright, study time, I got to write this down.
This is a great video, I love seeing videos analyzing the etymology of modern slang seriously. I don’t know if I’ve seen someone do it in long form content as well, so really cool. But there are a few things in the video that I’d like to shed some light on for anyone interested.
1. From what I could research, Skibidi either comes from “shtibidi” from Bider King’s song “Dom Dom Yes Yes,” which is just scat and has no direct origin. Or, it comes from a sped up version of the lyric “So give it to me give it to me” in Timbaland’s song “Give It to Me.” Or both! Skibidi has no real modern meaning because of this meaningless origin.
2. It was only two V’s that were put together to make W, none of V’s ancestors did that. Fun fact, the character for V is related not only to W, but also F, U, and Y.
3. As fun as Olivier Sampson’s idea here is, Fanum actually comes from the word “phantom,” seen here:
ruclips.net/video/M_ayz84QDs0/видео.html
“Phantom” has a really complicated history, but to simplify, it comes from Old French Fantasme from a Latinization of Ancient Greek Phántasma, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-, meaning “to shine.” Keep in mind however, that that explanation glosses over a lot of stuff, same as done in the video.
4. Gyatt does originate from “God damn,” however, sadly Olivier doesn’t give it too much of an overview, because Gyatt’s etymology is fascinating to me. God damn can sometimes be compressed to one word, Goddamn, in African American English, o usually sounds like a (like most dialects of American English), and G is sometimes palatalized to “Gy.” Now we have Gyaddamn, now all we need is clipping of “damn” and devoicing of final /d/ to /t/, again curtesy of African American English, and voilà, Gyatt. I believe the two T’s are there from the two D’s in Goddamn.
5. Finally, though I can find anywhere that confirms this, I’m 99% sure “Sigma” to refer to a man who is ‘just better’ comes from the slang of using Alpha and Beta wolves to refer to people as better or worse.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
btw skibidi comes from a bulgarian song and the word means "pinches"
Its origin is rather… disputed.
Skibidi is just a non-lexical vocal. something that sounds like word but isnt
i always thought it came from the "skibidi bap mm da da [explosion]" meme, oh well
@@cobaltcloud64 that is where it came from
@@theofficeroliviersamson4498 it literally is a word in bulgarian
Thank you, not even gen alpha knows what what any of these means or came from, so they can't explain it even if I threaten with a shovel.
Here's my take on Skibidi
Skibidi is a misspelling of the onomatopoeia of a car's exhaust backfiring - "shtibididob" - first used in the song "Dom Dom Yes Yes" by Turkish artist Biser King.
The misspelling came about when DaFuqBoom interpreted the sound in the song as "Skibidi". Using the software Source Film Maker, he animated several episodes revolving around toilets with human heads protruding out of the bowls. He published his animations on RUclips with the name "Skibidi Toilet" and put an edited version of "Dom Dom Yes Yes" which crossed over with Timbaland's "Give It To Me" as the audio for these episodes. The lyrics of the song are mixed up at different points to make it more rhythmically pleasing, making the lyrics:
"Tr-r-r, shtibididob dob dob yes yes
Shtibidi, dabudu, di di"
You're going places, kid
Skibidi orignates from skibidi toilet memes. I'd actually consider it young Gen Z slang. My little brother was watching skibidi toilet on RUclips before it was mega popular channel and meme.
The only ones that genuinely have me in bamboozlement are Skibidi, Ohio and Fanum Tax.
Contrary to popular belief, Cenat has confirmed that the term is not short for charisma.[1][5]
i've read the interview, and he doesn't provide an alternate explination, just says what it means, and isn't sure how it really appeared in his everyday use, just picked up from his friends
rizz seems to be an older african american vernacular english (aave) word, and while kai is likely saying he wasn't shortening 'charisma', it's still pretty much the best etymology for the word that he popularised
*sniff sniff* Do I smell, underated?
5/gyatt would rizz again
Maybe the worst sentence I’ve ever heard
Random guy just gave the most important english lesson that will ever be taught in the modern day
from like a 10-12 year old lol its its very high quality
Holy sheoit i did not expect to see this on RUclips this is actually so in-depth and etymological with so much extra stuff this is one of the best videos on the topic of Gen Alpha i have seen.
This is the first time I've ever heard of Proto-Afroasiatic, cool
Oh god, i remember gen z making vids on etymology of our slang. Now it's gen alpha's turn and they handled it graciously
You gotta appreciate the dedication
0:47
simple.
they took the corpse of "skibidibi bop mm dada *boom*" and took that first skibidi.
Is it no just from some random guy scat singing?
@@B100P might be where skibidibi bop mm dada *boom* came from, but i don't think the toilet'd be taking from the *source* source.
Smartest Gen Alpha
you: fanum tax
me, an intellectual: feast thwack
Thank you child, I have gained +10 IQ, one day I may even return to having a positive value.
I had an idea on trying to make this video back then cuz I like linguistics, but I forgot about it until this video came to me. Good and information video about Gen Alpha, thanks!
At this point I think etymologists just invoke proto-indo-European when a European language trail fizzles out
This is the best youtube video i've watched this whole week
Skibidi is a Bulgarian word, since the original song is Bulgarian.
In Bulgarian it's ,,shtibidi" not ,,skibidi".
It comes from ,,shtip", which means to pinch. The original song was a 90s rap song, where a guy was singing about pinching and playing with a woman. Later Boris King made the famous version that we know today.
The people in the comments are very stupid. One guys was searching for american slang words to find out where ,,skibidi" is coming from, while the song is bulgarian. Another guy said the singer is Middle Eastern, cause of course Boris is a typical Middle Eastern name and another guy noticed the song is bulgarian, but said the word translates as ,,Chickpea", which is just utterly ridiculous...
You seem to get quite frustrated over people debating about the etymology of the word "Skibidi Toilet"
I don't know who to believe, a thing that happens often in etymology.
Couldnt find any proof of this, i call cap🧢
Nvm
My man just offended every Kannadigga by saying Canada💀💀
(btw thank you for featuring Telugu (my mother tongue) and Kannada, both are equally fascinating languages)
Note from a linguistics amateur:
3:58
I lean more into the second camp, that "Gyatt" is in fact just "God damn" without "damn" as there is a variant ("Gyatt dayum") which doesn't omit the "damn."
I'm pretty certain it's pronounced gyatt not jyatt too.
You're completely right. That's where the word comes from and how the phrase was used for decades before it was introduced to young (and white) teenagers online.
I'm not gonna say words shouldn't evolve but as someone who's used the phrase growing up it's really frustrating seeing the word treated like such an enigma, mispronounced, and in this video carelessly researched when there's plenty of solid info on AAVE
“Gherrr”
Damn bro, that was smooth
This is very well edited!
5:08 Grandissement á abolisse, would be the modern French: except that doesn't mean the same thing. Though the general sense of the phrase still stands. Abolir means "to make illegal" so the French would mean roughly "grown greater than is legal". In late vernacular Latin the phrase "ab oleo" which previously meant "out of season" acquired the technical meaning of "banned, rescinded" which them filtered into common speech. Thus, French "abolir" created from the fusion of the Latin preposition with the verb, and English "abolish" from the French plural second person "abolissez", retained this legal meaning. The correct etymology for "time" though goes back to PIE through Old High German, although Latin "tempus" is a cognate.
thank you
Great video! One correction that I haven't seen from anyone else in the comments, but Fanum doesn't derive from the Latin word for temple. It's just a corruption of "Phantom," which Fanum explained in one of those Google autocomplete interview things.
This is genuinely so well researched and presented very nicely, good job!
Awesome vid!!! Would love for you to redo the section on Gyatt. I believe it comes from Jamaican Patois. There’s less emphasis on spelling and more on pronunciation, because of the nature of how the patois language formed. Ive only heard it with a hard g sound, not the soft g you used when pronouncing it.
I said it with a soft g because I did not really want to say it... But yeah.
Gyatt actually comes from people pronouncing God Damn as GYAD DAMN, extending the g into it's own syllable.
Honestly, nice work dude! Keep on at it, super happy to see the new generation being interested in linguistics 😊
Hilarious and informative, good work kid!
Press F to pay respects to everyone like me who can’t roll their R’s
Cool video. May I suggest some more (older) slang words that would also be described as "brainrot" today similarly to how these ones are?
Here are some:
Yolo, yeet, dab, swag
I might make a part two
@@theofficeroliviersamson4498 If you do ever make a part two, you should know that yolo wasn't invented by Drake - Kanye West used it in a song he made in 2007
Was not expecting someone to make a video like this.
gyatt is polish slang- a conjunction of 2 words that together mean 'nice butt'.
seriously though, this video is fucking amazing, and way too underrated
This guy sounds like a 14-year-old, but his actions show that he is clearly a professional etymologist
Damnn!! The Old English and Greek and Proto-Indo-European pronunciation is genuinely crazy🔥🔥 W video bro
WE STUDYING BRAIN ROT WITH THIS ONE 🗣🔥
I like the way you roll your Rs.
And also kudos to you, you made a great video!
yeah for gyatt they literally did just take the second word out. it went from being an expression one might say in many contexts-particularly, seeing a large ass (usually on a woman)-to just referring to the ass itself. i’ve heard people describe men as having a gyatt too but i think it still is mostly used by men to describe women. but yeah it got said so much that it became a noun and speakers dropped the second part of the expression to make it easier and faster to say. the evolution “god” to “gyatt” probably first happened in african-influenced caribbean english varieties, probably jamaican english. in this variety and several others, [a] before a velar stop [k] or [g] can become [ja] (and is sometimes also long), so god [gad] becomes gyad [gyad]. i’m not entirely sure how the final consonant became devolved, but i think it’s probably assimilation to a glottal stop (which is inherently devolved) that might occur between “gyad” and “damn” when a speaker is saying it with more emphasis
I'm waiting for this to become a youtube legend video that'll be popular in 7 years
feeling the same i saw first video on youtube just uploaded
I love your videos. The perfect combination of etymology and ... idk
I was expecting excruciating brain rot and was happy to know I was wrong
Ive never expected to learn so much from a random kid on the internet. Keep your hard work! You are doing great
4:31 A demon is manifesting in my room WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
This is sick, keep it up :)
You wen some, you leu some
Fighting brain rot by studying the etymological basis of the brain rot. This kids already in 2075 waiting for us to catch up.
1:14 Death Note characters.
Forget pig latin. Now we have goat latin.
It actually blows my mind rizz doesn't descend from the proto indo European power root *reks
I found on reddit a 4 yo post in which there's probably the first usage of the word gyatt. It's on r/teenagers, but the user is cancelled
I’ve literally never heard of “fanum tax” before this video
Your Proto-Indo-European and ancient Greek pronunciation of words containing the letter "R" is sublime btw.
Very insightful video!
xidnaf tier video, excellent work. You have a career in the youtube lingosphere
his introduction to "ohio" sounds like he is presenting in class and i started lol
0:39 The origin of “Skibidi” is basically, someone made a song, and it was paired to someone belly dancing, it became a meme, and of course, people remixed it, this song didn’t have lyrics , and instead went “skibidi dop dop dop dop dop yes yes yes yes yes” and eventually, a RUclipsr by the name “dafuqboom” made a SFM video called “skibidi toilet” where heads from the game “Half-Life 2” come out of toilet assets from various other source games. So I guess skibidi means something is bad/weird?? Basically, they created their own word
Sigma, they started using that because people were using the military alphabet to describe themselves so people started mocking it and calling themselves “sigma males” , and they actually started using it themselves, this is slang made by the internet, it’s not that deep, some of it is, like GOAT and stuff, but like gyatt was made by a streamer for gods sake. 😭😭😭
I trust this kid with my life
Very well formated video, subscribed
okay this is more etymology of gen alpha slang but okay sure
thank you for the random language information. un-ironically this was a really good video with time and effort put into it, good work G.
As a member of Gen Z, I needed this. Thanks.
0:33 the Minecraft music kicking in was crazy.
U should do more language videos, this was actually fun to watch considering im into languages, keep up the good work 💥💥🔥🔥
this is actually underrated and i like it! :]