• OpenStars@discuss.online
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          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?

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              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.

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          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.

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        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…

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          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.

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        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.”

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          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.

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            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.

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              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.

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        “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.”

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        Elderly in the mid 30s?

        Fuck.

        I feel old anyway, but now I feel even older now.

        Shit.

        Ehm…

        Get off my lawn, kids!

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        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

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          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.

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        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…)

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        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.

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        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.

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      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.

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    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.

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    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.

    https://youtu.be/BFgg-Gy0E2g

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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.

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        Is that really something that came from the black community though? It was around before North America was colonised.

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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.

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      I’ve read it and I still don’t get Ohio (besides the state)… oh yeah I STILL DON’T GET IT AFTER READING

      Corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn field corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn corn football corn corn fuck michaigan corn corn corn corn Person: Where are you from? Ohioan : Corn by 🌽 September 27, 2019

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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

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        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

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          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

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            I unironically like this version the best out of the entire chain

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          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!?

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          Sayin ‘crackle pop’ in response to ‘oh snap?’ is legit hillarious. Ive never heard that before.

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      1. Dad, you’re not cool. You’re madly in love with my mother, and it’s cringey.

      2. Maybe it’s weird, but your mother is special and I can’t imagine life without her.

      3. She’s the best person I’ve ever met.

      4. Are you sure? – I’m positive.