Origin of Gen Alpha Slang

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  • čas přidán 9. 07. 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

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  • @Badunten
    @Badunten Před 15 dny +8497

    His voice tells me that he is verified to do this,

  • @Meshugaman
    @Meshugaman Před 16 dny +4528

    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.

    • @morbiusfan3176
      @morbiusfan3176 Před 15 dny +317

      They probably don't know what it means

    • @QQn5
      @QQn5 Před 14 dny +111

      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.

    • @payton33446
      @payton33446 Před 14 dny

      your ass is not 35

    • @snifey7694
      @snifey7694 Před 14 dny +67

      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

    • @qfcbv
      @qfcbv Před 14 dny

      @@QQn5Good look kid🫡

  • @maxiawesomekid899
    @maxiawesomekid899 Před 16 dny +3507

    Skibidi is a scat jazz term that was popular in the 1930s

    • @theofficeroliviersamson4498
      @theofficeroliviersamson4498  Před 16 dny +840

      So it was just a word for a sound? Not necessarily an onomatopoeia though.

    • @paingpaingpp
      @paingpaingpp Před 16 dny +635

      The classic “Skibidi-di-bada” (explosions)

    • @twellveahadri12
      @twellveahadri12 Před 16 dny +124

      ​@@paingpaingppOOOOOOOHHHHHHH!!!!! now I remember that :)

    • @article10
      @article10 Před 16 dny +118

      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

    • @AK911Edits
      @AK911Edits Před 16 dny +99

      ​​@@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....

  • @grah969
    @grah969 Před 16 dny +1660

    gen alpha is saved

  • @EpikDollar
    @EpikDollar Před 15 dny +1744

    Fanum himself once said that his nickname came from "phantom"

    • @theofficeroliviersamson4498
      @theofficeroliviersamson4498  Před 15 dny +504

      I stand corrected.

    • @jdelacruz14791
      @jdelacruz14791 Před 14 dny +385

      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"

    • @EpikDollar
      @EpikDollar Před 14 dny +46

      @@jdelacruz14791 Interesting

    • @Playing096
      @Playing096 Před 14 dny

      ​@@jdelacruz14791Ban tax 🔥🔥

    • @martiano13bros
      @martiano13bros Před 10 dny +2

      When i hear Fanum in my head I hear snoop dogg drop it like its hot

  • @randommax7481
    @randommax7481 Před 15 dny +722

    A video about gen alpha by gen alpha
    makes sense

    • @AnonymousCommentor_
      @AnonymousCommentor_ Před 15 dny +50

      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

    • @theofficeroliviersamson4498
      @theofficeroliviersamson4498  Před 15 dny +133

      @@AnonymousCommentor_skibidi is gen Z?

    • @AnonymousCommentor_
      @AnonymousCommentor_ Před 15 dny +35

      @@theofficeroliviersamson4498 Independently popularized by Gen Z, with influence of Gen A.

    • @qfcbv
      @qfcbv Před 14 dny +101

      @@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….

    • @Fangamer1254
      @Fangamer1254 Před 14 dny +40

      Gen Z made Skibibi toilet.
      Gen Z/Mi made Skibibi song
      Gen A watched Skibibi toilet

  • @AsiccAP
    @AsiccAP Před 16 dny +348

    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!

    • @conze3029
      @conze3029 Před 13 dny +21

      Etymologymaxxing is a word I never thought I’d see but somehow I’m glad I did

    • @fandroid6491
      @fandroid6491 Před 6 dny +4

      Etymologymaxxxing
      Basically every language nerd ever

  • @hgc009
    @hgc009 Před 16 dny +324

    This video strongly reminds me of another video called "being a historian in the year 3023 part 2" by burialgoods

  • @article10
    @article10 Před 16 dny +689

    "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
      @theofficeroliviersamson4498  Před 16 dny +113

      Did you see the video “the complete evolution of 20 English words”?

    • @article10
      @article10 Před 16 dny

      ​@@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".

    • @adaywithsmator
      @adaywithsmator Před 14 dny +131

      Jesus died so we could pogchamp

    • @Phoenix-wh2bn
      @Phoenix-wh2bn Před 12 dny +15

      ​@@adaywithsmator I am not Christian but I started to respect him after learning about this

    • @vectorimagefun
      @vectorimagefun Před 10 dny +1

      @@adaywithsmator no he died so we can be forgiven of our sins

  • @Heisenberger_69
    @Heisenberger_69 Před 16 dny +288

    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

    • @KertPerteson
      @KertPerteson Před 15 dny +1

      What does ae mean in ur comment?

    • @Heisenberger_69
      @Heisenberger_69 Před 15 dny +30

      @@KertPerteson American English, and il is an acronym I made for Internet lingo

    • @KertPerteson
      @KertPerteson Před 15 dny +26

      @@Heisenberger_69 i think gyatt comes from god which is pronounced gad and dipthongized for emphasis and becomes giad

    • @Heisenberger_69
      @Heisenberger_69 Před 14 dny +10

      @@KertPerteson and I think you're right

    • @theofficeroliviersamson4498
      @theofficeroliviersamson4498  Před 14 dny +59

      This makes a lot more sense than what I did 😅

  • @filipedias7284
    @filipedias7284 Před 11 dny +94

    0:30 Cats after the slightest ounce of human contact:

  • @yuruem2thereturn44
    @yuruem2thereturn44 Před 16 dny +438

    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.

    • @soyezegaming
      @soyezegaming Před 15 dny

      SHUT UP

    • @qfcbv
      @qfcbv Před 14 dny +40

      Sometimes, knowing something was written in irony stops me from wailing in agony.

    • @gots0359
      @gots0359 Před 14 dny +37

      @@qfcbv umm? What in the sigma that means? Anyway couldnt read till the end had to play subway surfers.

    • @callmefox630
      @callmefox630 Před 14 dny +3

      stop.

    • @petermmm42
      @petermmm42 Před 13 dny

      ​@@gots0359not sigma

  • @TranscendentalMiner
    @TranscendentalMiner Před 15 dny +119

    As someone who is interested in languages, but despises Gen Alpha slang, this video has been very entertaining to watch.

    • @MCSorry
      @MCSorry Před 14 dny +9

      Interesting that you would be interested in language and yet "despise" contemporary variations.

    • @TranscendentalMiner
      @TranscendentalMiner Před 13 dny +2

      @@MCSorry Some Gen Alpha slang isn't too bad, but most of it just makes me feel like I'm losing brain cells.

    • @TranscendentalMiner
      @TranscendentalMiner Před 13 dny +1

      @@MCSorry For example, I don't find terms like "W" and "L" that annoying, while I hate other terms like "Gyatt" and "Skibidi".

    • @ScientistGamer12
      @ScientistGamer12 Před 13 dny

      Same

    • @froxdoggaming3385
      @froxdoggaming3385 Před 13 dny +2

      It's gen Z slang. Gen A isn't even old enough to create slang

  • @kuutti256
    @kuutti256 Před 16 dny +323

    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

    • @theofficeroliviersamson4498
      @theofficeroliviersamson4498  Před 16 dny +44

      Hence the sound for the letter is S, not š.

    • @Barakon
      @Barakon Před 14 dny +8

      @@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.

    • @theofficeroliviersamson4498
      @theofficeroliviersamson4498  Před 14 dny +20

      @@Barakon confusing… But thanks for šerin ðIs wIþ mi

    • @NetRolller3D
      @NetRolller3D Před 14 dny +3

      The _name_ "sigma" is just Greek for "hissing or sizzling sound".

    • @derp777_
      @derp777_ Před 13 dny

      @@NetRolller3Dwouldn’t that just be the onomatopoeia ‘sssss’?

  • @rhysthepokemonandmsmguy2007
    @rhysthepokemonandmsmguy2007 Před 16 dny +322

    "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🎵!

    • @theofficeroliviersamson4498
      @theofficeroliviersamson4498  Před 16 dny +54

      Thank you very much. I will probably include this in a part 2 if I make one.

    • @AK911Edits
      @AK911Edits Před 16 dny +78

      ​@@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

    • @AK911Edits
      @AK911Edits Před 16 dny

      Man, who told you shtibidi means chickpea in Bulgarian? Nahut means Chickpea in Bulgarian.
      Dumbаss

    • @LugerP40
      @LugerP40 Před 16 dny +5

      chickpea almost sounds like skibidi

    • @StuffandThings_
      @StuffandThings_ Před 15 dny +12

      As someone who has never watched that I thought it came from "skibidi-bop-mm-dada"

  • @Swenthorian
    @Swenthorian Před 9 dny +11

    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!

  • @charbird20
    @charbird20 Před 13 dny +47

    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! ❤

    • @theofficeroliviersamson4498
      @theofficeroliviersamson4498  Před 13 dny +14

      Thank you, I like that my videos are getting the attention of wise people.

    • @Teuwufel
      @Teuwufel Před 9 dny +1

      You mean et(h)ymology, unless you're very interested in various insects.

  • @heyitsdave8667
    @heyitsdave8667 Před 15 dny +42

    most underrated video in the linguistic community for real

  • @svetlin_dp
    @svetlin_dp Před 16 dny +136

    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.

    • @theofficeroliviersamson4498
      @theofficeroliviersamson4498  Před 15 dny +59

      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.

    • @teletek1776
      @teletek1776 Před 13 dny

      @@theofficeroliviersamson4498bro i’m the exact same way 😭🙏

    • @Beau-Bo
      @Beau-Bo Před 11 dny +10

      it’s because he’s an expert

    • @yeahok6240
      @yeahok6240 Před 11 dny

      ​@@theofficeroliviersamson4498youll problably be making a new language at the age of 25

    • @VicerimusMortem
      @VicerimusMortem Před 11 dny +4

      ​@@theofficeroliviersamson4498Man, the Gen Alpha is gonna save us, lil bro....

  • @nikitakrim02
    @nikitakrim02 Před 15 dny +40

    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.

    • @nikitakrim02
      @nikitakrim02 Před 15 dny +7

      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"

  • @mrdebdeb
    @mrdebdeb Před 15 dny +29

    Gyatt is just a clipping of "Gyattdamn" which was an exaggerated way of saying goddamn in AAVE

  • @HunkerTV1337
    @HunkerTV1337 Před 9 dny +4

    0:33 the Minecraft music kicking in was crazy.

  • @TompkinsAnimation
    @TompkinsAnimation Před 13 dny +20

    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.

    • @necroseus
      @necroseus Před 13 dny +4

      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

    • @tingledinkle
      @tingledinkle Před 11 dny +1

      @@necroseusthat’s actually pretty valid ngl

    • @diridibindy5704
      @diridibindy5704 Před 10 dny +1

      A shit ton of so called "Gen Alpha slang" is just AAVE

    • @necroseus
      @necroseus Před 9 dny

      @@diridibindy5704 Very true

    • @austinfj4564
      @austinfj4564 Před 7 dny

      ⁠@@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

  • @krisdood713
    @krisdood713 Před 12 dny +5

    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 CZcams 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"

  • @KairyuYT
    @KairyuYT Před 14 dny +6

    Random guy just gave the most important english lesson that will ever be taught in the modern day

    • @kadenyt6623
      @kadenyt6623 Před 12 dny +3

      from like a 10-12 year old lol its its very high quality

  • @Dr.Funknstein
    @Dr.Funknstein Před 13 dny +9

    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.

  • @zeduck415
    @zeduck415 Před 14 dny +23

    how old are you? This video is surprisingly well edited, researched, and has very good pronunciation for sounding so young.

  • @GeneSimmons-ol3kb
    @GeneSimmons-ol3kb Před 16 dny +87

    Skibidi originated from that one middle eastern song with the dude dancing that became a meme in 2022

    • @YourLocalTimeWaster
      @YourLocalTimeWaster Před 16 dny

      nah, it was 2023

    • @GeneSimmons-ol3kb
      @GeneSimmons-ol3kb Před 16 dny

      @@YourLocalTimeWaster okay

    • @twellveahadri12
      @twellveahadri12 Před 16 dny

      ​@@YourLocalTimeWasterIt is!? I thought that meme was from 2022

    • @JKE68
      @JKE68 Před 16 dny +4

      And he actually says "Shtibidi", so yhe word has some etymology

    • @YourLocalTimeWaster
      @YourLocalTimeWaster Před 16 dny

      @@twellveahadri12 yea, i remember it in like may-june and skibidi TOILET was popular during summer

  • @blockmanhatecommentguy6280
    @blockmanhatecommentguy6280 Před 15 dny +19

    btw skibidi comes from a bulgarian song and the word means "pinches"

  • @seeko29
    @seeko29 Před 13 dny +8

    Alright, study time, I got to write this down.

  • @OPUSTACK
    @OPUSTACK Před 16 dny +9

    thank you algorithm

  • @gododoof
    @gododoof Před 12 dny +8

    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.

    • @theofficeroliviersamson4498
      @theofficeroliviersamson4498  Před 12 dny +5

      Yeah, proto indo european IS a reconstruction, of a reconstruction (Proto-Germanic), of yet another *reconstruction* (Proto-West-Germanic)

  • @SysFan808
    @SysFan808 Před 14 dny +5

    0:47
    simple.
    they took the corpse of "skibidibi bop mm dada *boom*" and took that first skibidi.

    • @B100P
      @B100P Před 10 dny

      Is it no just from some random guy scat singing?

    • @SysFan808
      @SysFan808 Před 10 dny

      @@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.

  • @eugeneimnotgonnatellyoumyl5513

    You're going places, kid

  • @xiayu6098
    @xiayu6098 Před 12 dny +4

    Fanum tax being feast tax makes too much sense

  • @changwanyu4231
    @changwanyu4231 Před 14 dny +4

    If fanum means temple, so I'm paying Fanum tax every time I go to church

  • @gambalombo
    @gambalombo Před 15 dny +41

    Contrary to popular belief, Cenat has confirmed that the term is not short for charisma.[1][5]

    • @aiocafea
      @aiocafea Před 15 dny +38

      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

  • @xaviwashere_
    @xaviwashere_ Před 14 dny +5

    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:
    czcams.com/video/M_ayz84QDs0/video.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.

    • @MDDM_Poseidon
      @MDDM_Poseidon Před 9 dny

      How tf did you put a link in your comment??

  • @brido64
    @brido64 Před 4 dny +2

    Dude, the way you presented the facts is actually really fun to listen to, keep up the good work!

  • @miloplayz2012
    @miloplayz2012 Před 13 dny +5

    *sniff sniff* Do I smell, underated?
    5/gyatt would rizz again

  • @DeLittleCat
    @DeLittleCat Před 14 dny +4

    1:14 Death Note characters.

  • @BananaMilkishake
    @BananaMilkishake Před 3 dny +1

    Damn, I’ve just checked out a few other videos and, heck, I’m subscribing. We’ll be watching your career with great interest…

  • @Fayrayz
    @Fayrayz Před 11 dny

    This is genuinely so well researched and presented very nicely, good job!

  • @MrPillowStudios
    @MrPillowStudios Před 14 dny +3

    Was not expecting someone to make a video like this.

  • @j.s.ospina9861
    @j.s.ospina9861 Před 14 dny +6

    This is the first time I've ever heard of Proto-Afroasiatic, cool

  • @meapyboy12345
    @meapyboy12345 Před 10 dny

    Holy sheoit i did not expect to see this on CZcams 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.

  • @realkekz
    @realkekz Před 14 dny +5

    Hilarious and informative, good work kid!

  • @Dark_kage
    @Dark_kage Před 13 dny +6

    Skibidi orignates from skibidi toilet memes. I'd actually consider it young Gen Z slang. My little brother was watching skibidi toilet on CZcams before it was mega popular channel and meme.

  • @lloydnoid6506
    @lloydnoid6506 Před 12 dny +3

    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)

  • @Someone-ym1ny
    @Someone-ym1ny Před 14 dny +1

    Honestly, nice work dude! Keep on at it, super happy to see the new generation being interested in linguistics 😊

  • @chepulis
    @chepulis Před 13 dny +2

    Outstanding.

  • @Xolareclipxe
    @Xolareclipxe Před 15 dny +3

    This is very well edited!

  • @bessie8612
    @bessie8612 Před 11 dny +3

    At this point I think etymologists just invoke proto-indo-European when a European language trail fizzles out

  • @HosheaManein
    @HosheaManein Před 13 dny +2

    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!

  • @Ardeact
    @Ardeact Před 5 dny +2

    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.

    • @Supernimo735
      @Supernimo735 Před 4 dny

      Gen alpha isnt doomed because they're 7 and it's normal for little kids to act like gen a because theyre little kids.

  • @toasty9670
    @toasty9670 Před 14 dny +5

    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

  • @Idkpleasejustletmechangeit

    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

  • @farisanwari777
    @farisanwari777 Před 3 dny +1

    I reckon you'll have an absolute blast diving into the rabbit hole that is worldbuilding

    • @theofficeroliviersamson4498
      @theofficeroliviersamson4498  Před 3 dny +1

      @@farisanwari777 I wanted to make a world where all languages were derived from a single language… Maybe I’ll do that one day.

  • @nathanbeer3338
    @nathanbeer3338 Před 12 dny +2

    People who used Gher: What the hell is χάρης?
    People who used χάρης: What the hell is Xαριζεστάι?
    People who used Xαριζεστάι: What the hell is Kharizesthai?
    People who used Kharizesthai: What the hell is Charisma?
    People who used Charisma: What the hell is Rizz?

  • @TheWebgecko
    @TheWebgecko Před 12 dny +4

    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.

  • @Sambar_Gaming
    @Sambar_Gaming Před 16 dny +33

    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)

  • @lUwUvie
    @lUwUvie Před 12 dny +1

    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

  • @Flo_Resolution
    @Flo_Resolution Před 7 dny +2

    Gyatt might be short for god damn, bc I think folks used to say gyatt damn

  • @seabread8317
    @seabread8317 Před 8 dny +3

    maybe gen alpha isn’t cooked

  • @nicthenerd
    @nicthenerd Před 16 dny +4

    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)

  • @Peggles13
    @Peggles13 Před 14 dny +2

    I love your videos. The perfect combination of etymology and ... idk

  • @Justarandomcatholic
    @Justarandomcatholic Před 12 dny +1

    WE STUDYING BRAIN ROT WITH THIS ONE 🗣🔥

  • @Barakon
    @Barakon Před 14 dny +3

    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.”

  • @naps_878
    @naps_878 Před 13 dny +16

    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."

    • @TanitAkavirius
      @TanitAkavirius Před 11 dny +1

      I'm pretty certain it's pronounced gyatt not jyatt too.

    • @ratboii7656
      @ratboii7656 Před 10 dny +3

      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

  • @pensuls7595
    @pensuls7595 Před 9 dny

    this video is edited very well!! nice work and easy to follow. also other comments already mentioning gyatt coming from aave

  • @SaucyGamers
    @SaucyGamers Před 9 dny +1

    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”

  • @sophiejones3554
    @sophiejones3554 Před 14 dny +3

    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.

  • @mastercule8456
    @mastercule8456 Před 16 dny +3

    This MIGHT blow up

  • @zakguitar2359
    @zakguitar2359 Před 12 dny +2

    This is the best youtube video i've watched this whole week

  • @YurieSnowie
    @YurieSnowie Před 8 dny

    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

  • @thomashedorfer2905
    @thomashedorfer2905 Před 16 dny +8

    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

  • @twitchyjungle
    @twitchyjungle Před 16 dny +4

    underrated

  • @magnus8090
    @magnus8090 Před 8 dny +1

    Skibidi (skibidi toilet) comes from a song used in a series of gmod animation videos on tiktok. It would go something like "skibidi dob dob dob yes yes"... etc. Its better that you just search and youll understand

  • @kosuken
    @kosuken Před 8 dny +2

    This young man has me respect

  • @asonwiwijtrezequal985
    @asonwiwijtrezequal985 Před 14 dny +3

    5:40 r/place ahh flag

  • @cooperdiehr5116
    @cooperdiehr5116 Před 16 dny +4

    Ayy new Xidnaf

  • @GeneralNanachi
    @GeneralNanachi Před 10 dny

    Ive never expected to learn so much from a random kid on the internet. Keep your hard work! You are doing great

  • @user-vc7fh3xx8z
    @user-vc7fh3xx8z Před 10 dny +1

    I'm waiting for this to become a youtube legend video that'll be popular in 7 years

    • @user-vc7fh3xx8z
      @user-vc7fh3xx8z Před 10 dny

      feeling the same i saw first video on youtube just uploaded

  • @AK911Edits
    @AK911Edits Před 16 dny +41

    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...

  • @ick567
    @ick567 Před 14 dny +6

    Never thought rizz would to go the letter “r”

  • @TheJZKguy
    @TheJZKguy Před 4 dny +1

    A Gen Alpha Etymologist before GTA VI is wild 💀🙏

  • @Kaynstein
    @Kaynstein Před 11 dny +1

    I like the way you roll your Rs.
    And also kudos to you, you made a great video!

  • @FebruaryHas30Days
    @FebruaryHas30Days Před 16 dny +6

    Have you ever wondered what "sergal" means in furry slang? Because I have a good feeling that the word is derived from Sanskrit

    • @theofficeroliviersamson4498
      @theofficeroliviersamson4498  Před 16 dny +1

      Well, I definitely missed some words. But I might make a part 2.

    • @EIE-BA5Avinash
      @EIE-BA5Avinash Před 16 dny +3

      I think "shrgal" in Sanskrit means 'fox'. From PIE *krgowlos maybe.

    • @FebruaryHas30Days
      @FebruaryHas30Days Před 16 dny +2

      @@EIE-BA5Avinash Have you noticed how similar sergal is to Indonesian "serigala"?

    • @EIE-BA5Avinash
      @EIE-BA5Avinash Před 16 dny +2

      @@FebruaryHas30Days Sanskrit had a huge influence on SEA regions

    • @FebruaryHas30Days
      @FebruaryHas30Days Před 16 dny +2

      @@EIE-BA5Avinash Exactly, but how did a Sanskrit word somehow make it into furry slang?

  • @Heisenberger_69
    @Heisenberger_69 Před 16 dny +6

    The etymology of "rizz" you have given appears to be a common misconception, as Kai Cenat has denied the "charisma" etymology, even with the similar meaning.

  • @sevadatlbricktv8175
    @sevadatlbricktv8175 Před 16 dny +2

    U should do more language videos, this was actually fun to watch considering im into languages, keep up the good work 💥💥🔥🔥

  • @GaleechLaunda
    @GaleechLaunda Před 9 dny +1

    A fitting introduction of the new generation to the internet. Great job.

  • @loganboi2166
    @loganboi2166 Před 16 dny +5

    pretty sure rizz does not come from charisma said by kai cenat (who coined/popularized the word) but it may be wrong.

    • @takatamiyagawa5688
      @takatamiyagawa5688 Před 16 dny

      I kind of assumed it was onomatopoeia for the sound of a small electric motor attached to an unbalanced rotating mass.

  • @tombenshalommoshe1044
    @tombenshalommoshe1044 Před 15 dny +3

    POV Proto Indo European rizz: omg I have so much wen r ohiyoh dheis teh2go and I have a level 5 ghew deh2p, I'm the grandismetus a abolir and the sin

  • @Australienxo
    @Australienxo Před 12 dny

    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.

  • @w3yr
    @w3yr Před 12 dny

    Commenting to show appreciation for the research that went into this 👍

  • @DoggyBingBong
    @DoggyBingBong Před 14 dny +3

    TOTAL ARYAN VICTORY

  • @animusbathory2257
    @animusbathory2257 Před 14 dny +2

    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.

  • @samisgomisfd0438
    @samisgomisfd0438 Před 4 dny +2

    Skibid is just gibberish said in a part of a music

  • @adamnaameeazim6365
    @adamnaameeazim6365 Před 13 dny +2

    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.

  • @davidsands3785
    @davidsands3785 Před 11 dny +2

    You gotta appreciate the dedication