If social media lingo has you feeling like you need a translator lately, youre definitely not alone.
You might get lucky enough, likeDamon Sharpe, to find an Alpha wholl patiently teach you their ways.
Already, the trendy slang of their youth feels increasingly outdated.
Generation Alpha, however, has been immersed in a fully digital environment since birth.
Its not a variation of an existing word, so you cant reason out its meaning.
Definition: Skibidi is a prefix referencing the YouTube seriesSkibidi Toilet.
The word has no fixed meaning and could mean cool, good, or bad.
Origin: Skibidi Toilet is a massively popular web series created byDaFuq!?Boom!.
According to Redditsr/etymologycommunity, the term Skibidi evolved fromscat singing, a jazz form with nonsensical, wordless vocals.
In 2018, it resurfaced with a song titled Skibidi from the Russian rave bandLittle Big.
The web series resurrected the word in 2023, inserting it into Gen Alphas vocabulary.
Examples: Hes got skibidi rizz.
Where are myskibidi slicers?
Sigma
You may have heard of the Alpha Male.
Definition: The Sigma male is the coolest member of the group.
He surpasses the Alpha male because he is indifferent to his influence.
The term has also expanded to include Sigma females with the same characters.
TikTok has also created aSigma face.
#sigma#christianbale
sonido original Danibluu
r/GenAlphasubreddit paints the sigma male as a member of the manosphere.
Replying to @Z_Russell94 Do you know what#sigmameans?!
I asked my students and Im not sure if they do either.
As best I can gather, its the same thing as being him.
I LOVE middle schoolers and the chaos of these conversations.
Chad, GigaChad
Definition: A Chad is the ultimate, stereotypical alpha male.
A Gigachad is more attractive than a Chad and is at the peak of masculinity.
Origin: The Chad, in this context, was first described in David Welchs New In Town Chicago.
Khalimov is a model for Sleek N Tears, a Russian photographer Krista Sudamaliss project.
$chan users described his body as the perfect human specimen destined to lead us against the reptilians.
(Source:@Wisgarus).
In AMPs videos, Fanum taxes the other streamers by taking bits of their food.
Example:Marj said shes not hungry, then shefanumtaxeshalf my shawarma plate.
It is an acronym used on social media platforms to communicate disrespect while avoiding suspension.
Origin: The term has roots in earlier generations and has been described byUrban Dictionaryauthors since 2003.
However, it gained significant traction on TikTok, where it became more widely recognized.
Typically, its used in text form only.
Example: You clearly cant explain it sosybau.
(Source:@miin3verse)
Looksmaxxing
Definition: Looksmaxxing is a combination of looks and maximizing.
It means modifying ones physical features to achieve peak attractiveness.
Hardmaxxing goes to more brutal extremes with aesthetic procedures like rhinoplasty, hair transplants, and steroid use.
Its one technique for looksmaxxing.
Origin: The term is a shortened form of the acronym AMOG, meaning Alpha Male of the Group.
It has been used on forums like4Chansince at least 2016, but it recently became more popular on TikTok.
Example:My gf is mogging you.
c’mon sit down and never talk.
John Mew startedOrthotropicsand established his own London School of Orthotropics.
Eventually, the appliances triggered seizure episodes and made the boy struggle to eat.
According to theAmerican Association of Orthodontists, Scientific evidence supporting Mewings jawline-sculpting claims is as thin as dental floss.
Despite the controversy, mewing has become popular in TikTok culture, particularly among Generation Alpha.
Example: Shes mewing for the perfect jawline shot (Source:@RaevanLuna).
In the book, he refers to brain rot as the inability to hold complex thoughts.
Yeet
Definition: An expression of excitement with no fixed meaning.
It only became popular in 2014 with the release of Yeet!
Example: ey Uso got lots of moves, and he be styling on em.
YEET (Source:@GuruOfAllThings).
In 2021, she made aTikTokto share the word, which got over 858,000 views.
Users shared edited videos of weird occurrences, proclaiming that such things could only happen in Ohio.
Lil Bs song, Swag Like Ohio, became the soundtrack for the trend.
Naturally, Ohio evolved to become an adjective synonymous with weirdness.
A rizzler is a person who has rizz.
Origin: Rizz, theOxfordWord of the Year 2023, was coined by the Twitch streamer Kai Cenat.
In late 2023, seven-year-old Christian Joseph went viral in aTikTokphoto of him wearing a Black Panther costume.
Example: I am the skibidi alpharizzler (Source:@telekeninja).
Origin:Gyattevolved as a derivative of God damn in African American Vernacular English.
Nicki Minaj has also used it in herXposts as far back as 2012.
Their Gen Alpha audience adopted the term, and #gyatt currently has 499,000 posts onTikTok.
Their slangs linguistic innovation is a testament to their creativity.
Despite the exciting possibilities, the younger generation prefers that adults tread carefully.
