Same! I've never really gotten into internet slang, but I've always been able to understand it. Skibidi is the first time I am just truly lost
Skibidi is just a stupid YouTube video series that went viral - the same as all the other stupid memes that prior generations absolutely adore:-). It's an "in-joke" in that you either have heard of it or not, despite being sent around by elementary school children. It's not ah... uh... "good", in the classical sense, but it is somewhat remarkable in being made by someone easily with modern technology, and not needing any dialog it is understandable world-wide.
Here is a ~1 minute version that pretty much sums up what the whole thing is about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WePNs-G7puA.
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Anybody else feeling a smug sense of superiority knowing that this gen-Alpha "skibidi" meme was built with an almost 20-year-old Milllennial-era game?
I was forged in the fires of Gmod before you were even a twinkle in your daddy's balls, kiddo
Me to the creator of Skibidi moments before I'm kicked in the shins
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Noooooooo. I want hamster dance, that baby, and Charlie the Unicorn. I can't handle the change.
Skibidi doesn't have a universal meaning as a slang word. It gets tossed around differently depending on the group of friends using it.
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For me "skibidi-bap" is a vocal flourish I'd hear in dub or reggae, like, not as classic as "booom selecta" or some others but it's up there.
I’m young millennial but as long as crinj means cringe… I’m only not sure about rizz, skibidi, or ohio.
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Rizz is short for charisma, Ohio is a terrible place to be, and Skibidi seems to be a chameleon word with many different uses - cool, bad as in good, bad as in bad...
Old millennial with a middle schooler, so I learn enough to screw with them. If you have rizz, you’ve got charisma, if you are rizzing, you’re using charisma to flirt. Skibidi I’m guessing on, but it’s something that’s just generally whack, to use our own generations slang. Ohio is not one I’ve heard, but I’m guessing just a metaphor for a general state of pathetic, just like the state itself.
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It's funny how you hit the nail on the head with Ohio perfectly since that's exactly the origin of it, people notices how there's nothing ever going on in Ohio and it just evolved from there.
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I’m only not sure about rizz, skibidi, or ohio.
I mean, Ohio should be self-explanatory to anyone familiar with the state.
Ohio is what we in the US might call a "fly-over state." Meaning, a state that you want to fly over/through as part of a trip to elsewhere, rather than a place that you want to visit.
It's pretty close to actual English:
"Father, you have no charisma. You are fruitlessly pursuing the love of your wife for real, it's cringeworthy!"
"I might be shit, but your mother has a lot of charisma. My world is boring without her"
"She's the greatest of all time"
"Seriously?" "Yes for real."
I do think it's funny for the supposed child of the pair to call it a fruitless pursuit, but also kind of appropriate, age wise!
Time to get the birds and bees talk, fruit of the pursuit.
Yeah well, that's just my translation of "simping" in this context while trying to avoid using slang myself.
"Unsuccessful courting" might be better.
I'm not sure if it's really used in the context of married people.
not sure if it's really used in the context of married people.
My flirty comments usually got the well-deserved eye roll from my partner. And I would do anything they ask for, unconditionally. They would, too, but usually managed to do it before I had the chance to ask for anything. Definitely the GOAT.
I can see how to a child this may look as simping.
Holy shit, forty three year old millennial here and I actually got it right.
Now to celebrate with a nice ibuprofen for my back.
"Papa, you have no game. You drool over mama, seriously. That's cringeworthy!"
"I might be (???) but your mom got mad game. My world turns upside down without her. She's the greatest of all time."
"For real?"
"For real."
Skibidi in this usage means "bad."
"I might be bad (skibidi), but your mom got mad charisma (rizz).
As a Wisconsinite, Ohio being a term for lame is fucking awesome lol.
Elderly in the mid 30s?
Fuck.
I feel old anyway, but now I feel even older now.
Shit.
Ehm...
Get off my lawn, kids!
Rizz = Charisma Simp = Insult basically meaning somebody who would do anything to get attention from someone (typically a man wanting attention from a woman) No cap = No lie/For real
Skibidi = ??? Mad = Intensifier ; So mad rizz = Immense charisma Ohio = Boring/Dull GOAT = Greatest Of All Time FR = For Real
All I could gather from skibidi, even with googling as it was the only one of two (ohio being the other) I had no about, was that it changes meaning depending on the sentence
e.g. Sick can mean ill or awesome, (The) Shit is good and (This is) Shit is bad
I have found that "skibidi" can simply be replaced by "crazy" in every usage that I have seen so far. It's just that people who use skibidi would probably don't use crazy in the same way.
Us oldies being able to parse it, just means that it is now out of date. ;-)
Crinj fr fr.
Gyatt, yaaas shook!! Ima yeet this zaddy glazed, no cap bussin.
(people who know this realize that zaddy doesn't fit, but I was so desperate to work it in...)
Nay from me, for such variances of speech are wrought clear as by the Stone of Alexandria.
While my brain feels pain from being stuck in Shakespeare mode, I gladly find that I can freshly read this Z-speak. It giveth me hope to see our generations Twix'd, that some sweet crunch of justice might produce this flimsy wrapper.
Say I continue with said gen-z memes, but only if we follow with the Chewie rawrs of translation.
Forsooth I must be done with Shakespeare's voice if I'm to think with ought but frank exhaustion. The verse at times goes on too long fr.
Translation without hesitation. Transcription bypassing conniption. As Bill Mahr says it blows his mind, to see such rap in real time. A mind that can turn on a dime is indeed a thing of no friction. And it's not just me or the B.I.G. that commands such a brilliant machine. It's all who can speak or exclaim with a squeak who is heir to the vocally miraculous conceit.
I don't see it as all that much different from Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky. Like half the words are made up, but context clues offer enough info to piece together meaning.
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Hey dad, you have no charisma. You just do anything mom says and you're cringy.
Yes, it's true, but she is be best there ever was and I would be nothing without her.
Really?
Yes, really really.
I appreciate that Ohio now just means boring/lame. My friends who grew up there confirm this is accurate.
I asked my daughter if she would have a skibidy night tonight or nah. She is 14.
Her response:
What?
What?
What???
Oh, you are saying skibidy. I thought I was having a stroke.
Very interesting YT clip from a linguist on exactly this. He traces its history and some origins go back quite a ways and lots come from the Black community, which should surprise no one.
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The only thing I don't like about linguistics coming from the Black community is saying "axe" instead of "ask". God that triggers me.
Is that really something that came from the black community though? It was around before North America was colonised.
Modern dialectal ax is as old as Old English acsian and was an accepted literary variant until c. 1600.
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=ask
So older, yes, but also possibly a separate phenomenon unless certain people happened to still use that variant when enslaving people.
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Not sure. It might not have originated from the black community but it definitely is being used more and more within it.
"Bro, you need to get your kid to watch Peppa pig or something because I can't understand her half the time."
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rizz
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Simp
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cap
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crinj
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Skibidi
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ohio
I've read it and I still don't get Ohio (besides the state).... oh yeah I STILL DON'T GET IT AFTER READING
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Papa, you illin
I may be illin, but yo moms mad chill. My world is ratchet without her.
She lit
Yasss?
Yas, Yas
We moved up a level
Alpha to zoomer but I can translate now
Papa, you ain’t fly
Maybe but Mum’s da bomb. She’s the XD to my RAWR
She’s hella aiight
Oh snap?
Crackle pop
Father, thy woman driveth thee to lovers’ foppish folly
Forsooth, but dignity is coin I gladly trade for Cupid’s coveted ware — She is fair moonlight upon the waters of my soul
Speak narrow truth now Father for such promises my childish heart cannot but leap upon with faith
Tis ground I speak to catch thy eager feet, Child, and though it bury my ambition it lifteth me as well it quench my thirst
90's Edition:
Dad, you need to take a chill pill! You're totally buggin' out over mom and it's grodie!
Whatever, don't go there! I may be a scrub, but your mom is gettin' jiggy wit it! She's all that and a bag of chips!
Wazzzuuuuup!?
Waaaaaazaaaaaaap!?
Now combined with vong speak (german exclusive):
Vadder, du kein 1 rizz hast, du nur Mudda simpen tust. 1 cringe ey!
I bims 1 skibidi, aber 1 mudda voll rizz. Ohne sie ist alles 1 Pimmel. Sie bims GOAT.
Sie bims?
Sie bims.
Sayin 'crackle pop' in response to 'oh snap?' is legit hillarious. Ive never heard that before.
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Dad, you're not cool. You're madly in love with my mother, and it's cringey.
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Maybe it's weird, but your mother is special and I can't imagine life without her.
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She's the best person I've ever met.
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Are you sure? -- I'm positive.
how to i pronounce fr? (even if i don't say it out loud i gotta pronounce it in my head)
do i expand the acronym and say "for real" (e.g. /fə‿ɹiːl/) or do i say /fɹ/ like in fruit?
i don't understand why most people on the internet don't use IPA for conveying pronunciation
while it is more complicated, and unless you are a phonology nerd, you have to look things up (including me), it is incredibly more concise
it is, in fact, the only way to concisely convey any pronunciation (excluding single language focused phonetic notations)
different english dialects have different pronunciation: e.g. fur can be /fɜː(ɹ)/, /fɜɹ/ and /fʌr/
While this is not the case for your comment, others also use made-up words for conveying pronunciation. Ghoti is a perfect example why that is problematic.
Not sure if you're looking for a legitimate answer or not but I can provide my take: to me, looking at that standard, I cannot make heads or tales of the pronunciation at a glance. Learning a whole new set of symbols and standards is simply more effort and less efficient in the long run when considering the amount of necessity actually required. I.E. it is not an incredibly common everyday issue. It can also be meaningfully resolved with something more linguistically universal (the known and taught alphabet), so the time spent, the effort expended, does not pay dividends and ultimately the half measure typically works near equivocally.
I am aware of Ghoti (fish) and Ptoughneigh (Tony) but really, those a more fun experimental ways to twist pronunciations and examples given generally sick to things people would know and understand the way to pronounce, and if not, could also be easily fixed. Even so many would not even second guess because the importance is usually of such low value that it can be wrong until corrected, further diminishing the value of learning a more rare and nonstandard (for general communication) standard.
Different dialects do tend to have slights to the pronunciation but again, it just feels like such a non-issue.
That's simply my layman take as to why I wouldn't learn it. I can't speak for anyone else
Just f as in fan then roll the r. Frrrrrrrrrrr. Fr fr sounds like two short bursts of submachine gun fire.
Pretty sure it's just expanded and pronounced "for real," so frfr would be "for real for real."
It's halfway in between. You say "f'ree". It sits in the spot between 1 and 2, like a wobbly and uncertain syllable, that lingers as "mine" beyond "me".
Notice how the former is longer than the latter, despite being the same number of notes. A warble, a wiggle, a bridge between meters, "FR" is timed out like "baroque".
what?
mine is /maɪ̯n/
me is /miː/ (UK), /mi/ (US) or /mɪ/ (northern England)
baroque is /bæˈɹɒk/ (UK) or /bəˈɹoʊk/ (US)
do you just want to add an /iː/ between fr and fr?
/fɹiːfɹ/?
Makes me think of how Samurai Jack got his name:
This is how I'll talk to my kids. Not because they spend too much time on my phone, but because I look at too many memes
I'm glad you posted it, it was funny. I couldn't come up with something like this either.