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
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....
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"
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!
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
"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
@@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".
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.
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.
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 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
@@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.
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! ❤
"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🎵!
@@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
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"
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 so true actually. As Gen Z,my most impactful memories being way younger (like 11) was experiencing millennial memes like Numa numa, leak spin, smosh, epic face, and stick figures on crack. Can’t forget Rage face memes of course. And the gen X pop culture was things like nirvana and Green Day for me. It wasn’t until middle school that people started saying “W” or “L” or “Bet”. I remember it being really odd and fascinating. Couldn’t ever really get into that honestly, though I tried
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"
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.
The day has come that I, as a genz, watch a video of the next generation about linguistics. I'm getting older and still have no idea how to adult, fuck. Good video.
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!
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
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.
As a bonus for what you said about sigma, I believe it’s usage came from the idea of sigma males which was made up by people who were all butt-hurt about being called a beta male. The idea of alpha and beta males come from a later proven wrong study about wolves, and so these “sigma males” just took another greek letter
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.
Your pronunciation for old Greek is so good! I do wanna give you one little tip ζ is more pronouncedas ‘dz’ instead of ‘s’. Otherwise everything was perfect, keep it going 😊. Ps. I use the attic pronunciation, which my teacher told us is the purest form of old Greek. The sound changed over time though so other pronunciations are also commonly accepted.
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)
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.
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.
Holy, I just wanted to tell you that this is incredibly fascinating to me, I never seen someone that is interested in these kind of stuff that are this young, you've earned my respect, keep doing whatever you're doing brother, can't wait to see grown up in a few years:) Stay humble king
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...
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)
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.
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
@@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
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."
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
I searxhed on google about a year ago and it said gyatt means get your act together, but i heard some gen alpha girls say on a yt short that it mean "girl your ass thick" Weird...
We were saying skibidi in 2018 at my HS. It’s crazy how popular the word has become. Not sure if it grew independently or if it stemmed from us (or even before us). It’s most common use back then was in the phrase “skibidi aut” where “aut” comes from “autism”
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
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.
You could go as far as saying skibidi might be derived from another language. I speak a few languages and skibidi somewhat resembles the Russian “вскипятить” which is like boil or to boil
In the G.O.A.T. section, when pronouncing the etymologies of Greatest of All Time, you forgot to pronounce the long and overlong vowels as long and overlong vowels (ī = long i, ô = overlong o)
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.
4:35 I thought that goat was referring to the animal & that this animal in modern day symbolized greatness hence good things or people being called “the goat.”
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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
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
Etymologymaxxxing
Basically every language nerd ever
Etymaxxing
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 😅
"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
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
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
I know exactly what you mean
be historian from 3033
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....
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
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!
I hope you become Ph.D. at Linguistics and later randomly show up at TV, showing this banger of scholarly research.
0:30 Cats after the slightest ounce of human contact:
XD
Я
most underrated video in the linguistic community for real
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.
@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
@@froxdoggaming3385 Huh. The Gen Z slang I’ve come across isn’t as bad. The bad stuff is mostly from Gen Alpha, at least that’s how it is for me.
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.
"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"
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"
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
@@necroseusthat’s so true actually. As Gen Z,my most impactful memories being way younger (like 11) was experiencing millennial memes like Numa numa, leak spin, smosh, epic face, and stick figures on crack. Can’t forget Rage face memes of course. And the gen X pop culture was things like nirvana and Green Day for me.
It wasn’t until middle school that people started saying “W” or “L” or “Bet”. I remember it being really odd and fascinating. Couldn’t ever really get into that honestly, though I tried
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"
Gyatt is just a clipping of "Gyattdamn" which was an exaggerated way of saying goddamn in AAVE
Gosh
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.
I always thought skibidi was just a shortened form of a scat line like "ski ba dee bop mm doo wop bop dee doo da"
Skibidi originated from that one middle eastern song with the dude dancing that became a meme in 2022
nah, it was 2023
@@YourAverageSlovakGuy okay
@@YourAverageSlovakGuyIt is!? I thought that meme was from 2022
And he actually says "Shtibidi", so yhe word has some etymology
@@twellveahadri yea, i remember it in like may-june and skibidi TOILET was popular during summer
I never in my life thought I would thourghly enjoy a video made by a child and then proceed to subscribe. But here I am.
You're going places, kid
Dude, the way you presented the facts is actually really fun to listen to, keep up the good work!
how old are you? This video is surprisingly well edited, researched, and has very good pronunciation for sounding so young.
The day has come that I, as a genz, watch a video of the next generation about linguistics. I'm getting older and still have no idea how to adult, fuck.
Good video.
If fanum means temple, so I'm paying Fanum tax every time I go to church
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!
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
Skibidi originated from a russian meme vskipiti toilet which means a toilet thats overflowing
I am Russian and I don't remember such a meme.
Fanum tax being feast tax makes too much sense
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.
As a bonus for what you said about sigma, I believe it’s usage came from the idea of sigma males which was made up by people who were all butt-hurt about being called a beta male. The idea of alpha and beta males come from a later proven wrong study about wolves, and so these “sigma males” just took another greek letter
A Gen Alpha Etymologist before GTA VI is wild 💀🙏
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.
How tf did you put a link in your comment??
5:39 it's because Telugu and Kannada scripts are also brahmi descendants
0:33 the Minecraft music kicking in was crazy.
This young man has me respect
Was not expecting someone to make a video like this.
One month late but HOLY SHIT I HAD NO IDEA RIZZ CAME FROM CHARISMA! I had no idea what it meant,Outside of someone who gets girls.
thank you algorithm
When i think Gen A is doomed, you give me hope. You’re seriously eloquent with words for your age, I just hope your peers are the same too.
Gen alpha isnt doomed because they're 7 and it's normal for little kids to act like gen a because theyre little kids.
Alright, study time, I got to write this down.
Your pronunciation for old Greek is so good! I do wanna give you one little tip ζ is more pronouncedas ‘dz’ instead of ‘s’. Otherwise everything was perfect, keep it going 😊. Ps. I use the attic pronunciation, which my teacher told us is the purest form of old Greek. The sound changed over time though so other pronunciations are also commonly accepted.
@@gacha_girlz1835 yeah, I forgot about the dz and zd… Thanks for reminding me.
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)
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.
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)
Holy, I just wanted to tell you that this is incredibly fascinating to me, I never seen someone that is interested in these kind of stuff that are this young, you've earned my respect, keep doing whatever you're doing brother, can't wait to see grown up in a few years:)
Stay humble king
This is very well edited!
This is the best youtube video i've watched this whole week
This is the first time I've ever heard of Proto-Afroasiatic, cool
You gotta appreciate the dedication
Hilarious and informative, good work kid!
Damn, I’ve just checked out a few other videos and, heck, I’m subscribing. We’ll be watching your career with great interest…
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...
I don't know who to believe, a thing that happens often in etymology.
Couldnt find any proof of this, i call cap🧢
Nvm
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.
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)
the one unemployed friend on a tuesday:
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.
thank you, I am now a professor in brainrot
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.
Fanum Tax = Grasped Feast
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
A fitting introduction of the new generation to the internet. Great job.
*sniff sniff* Do I smell, underated?
5/gyatt would rizz again
Maybe the worst sentence I’ve ever heard
@@henrykrebs6367 That's the point lol.
Wtf, I expect everyone but you, an authorized voice, to come and make this happen, keep it up
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
I searxhed on google about a year ago and it said gyatt means get your act together, but i heard some gen alpha girls say on a yt short that it mean "girl your ass thick"
Weird...
TLDR; gen alpha terms are created by genz.
I left a worthy heritage for my ancestors
We were saying skibidi in 2018 at my HS. It’s crazy how popular the word has become. Not sure if it grew independently or if it stemmed from us (or even before us). It’s most common use back then was in the phrase “skibidi aut” where “aut” comes from “autism”
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
Honestly, nice work dude! Keep on at it, super happy to see the new generation being interested in linguistics 😊
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.
You could go as far as saying skibidi might be derived from another language.
I speak a few languages and skibidi somewhat resembles the Russian “вскипятить” which is like boil or to boil
3:51 I thought it was a shortening of, Get Your Act Together.
Ive never expected to learn so much from a random kid on the internet. Keep your hard work! You are doing great
At this point I think etymologists just invoke proto-indo-European when a European language trail fizzles out
I love your videos. The perfect combination of etymology and ... idk
In the G.O.A.T. section, when pronouncing the etymologies of Greatest of All Time, you forgot to pronounce the long and overlong vowels as long and overlong vowels (ī = long i, ô = overlong o)
He also didn't pronounce the long consonants as long :)
What is an ô?
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
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
Gyatt might be short for god damn, bc I think folks used to say gyatt damn
maybe gen alpha isn’t cooked
seriously though, this video is fucking amazing, and way too underrated
I'm Italian and even I didn't know fano was a word 🔥🔥🔥🔥 No but seriously, this video is like everything I wanted from life, good video man
Well I hope I pronounced it right! But thanks so much for the support.
@@theofficeroliviersamson4498 Yup, pronounced pretty good 👍 :)
xidnaf tier video, excellent work. You have a career in the youtube lingosphere
4:35 I thought that goat was referring to the animal & that this animal in modern day symbolized greatness hence good things or people being called “the goat.”
etymology nerd before he hit puberty
Never thought rizz would to go the letter “r”
0:43 word skibidi actually comes from that one song
1:14 Death Note characters.
lol
Damnn!! The Old English and Greek and Proto-Indo-European pronunciation is genuinely crazy🔥🔥 W video bro
underrated
bro just put my fries in the bag
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