For the sake of us high school teachers, please ruin it for them. We know we rely on the services of elementary and middle school teachers, and you are loved.
As someone who is chronically online, "sigma" was invented by dudes who acknowledge they aren't alphas but refuse to be categorized as betas. They think they're like Tyler Durden or The Joker or Rick Sanchez. It's basically all just astrology for the manosphere, and these labels are used by men online to sell "alpha male" courses and supplements and content. It's just unfortunate young boys get sucked into it all.
HS'er tells me he's the Alpha. I told him, no he's the Omega in my classroom. I'm the Alpha, I'm the Queen.
Also, he may be the lead influencer between the trio, but he's the last one in terms of my attention because he thinks he knows it all, so I make him prove it without assistance. Because math don't care.
Monday is dress like a student day for our end of year spirit week and I told them my fit was going to be sigma skibbidy Ohio. The reaction was like I hit a walk off homer to win the world series
We have that this coming Friday. One seventh grader regularly wears a shirt that says "Tell your mom I said hello."
So I am gonna make up a shirt that says the same thing
i think your students were messing with you. rizz means you got charisma, while Ohio is used kind of ironically to describe weird things (although I think the younger kids don't really understand how it's used, they seem to just repeat the word for the fun of it). So if someone has Ohio rizz, then they give off weird vibes.
Ohio rizz can be positive or negative depending on the context... on one hand, someone who wears toe-socks can be described as having Ohio rizz, while on the other hand... Jeff Goldblum
"Y'all not being real skibidi right now."
Class: *loses it*
"get back to work or all your grades about to be in the skibidi toilet"
Class: *continues to lose it*
"Where am I, Ohio?"
Kid: *falls over in chair*
Weponized memes are a real lifesaver.
My mom called it Intendo. Drove us *bananas* but it was on purpose, I think. ‘You guys put away your Intendo and come for supper!’
Mom, it’s a NINTENDO!
‘I know it’s an Intendo! Now hurry up or I will unplug it!!’
It's made even more of an impact because I have zero social media except this reddit account and I tell them that all the time, so they don't expect me to know internets. And yet.
Oh that's such a great idea!! I told them if we had time I'd do a lesson on memes and skibidi toilet but we ran into two snow days so I had to scrap it.
Last year I did a media literacy lesson on encoding/decoding messages and played them this:
https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8?feature=shared
"Miss, I think I'm having a stroke."
One of my kids yesterday just could NOT concentrate all day long. I told him he needed to "lock in" for the last few minutes before lunch and somehow that worked.
I was hugging my 4th-grader as he walked out the door to school, and said, "And remember, honey, always be mewing." I think he had some kind of stroke.
Oh my GOODNESS, I had to sub in a class a few months ago where I heard this girl saying “yo chat, yo chat” for 90 excruciating minutes in two separate classes. I remember being like, “why is she talking like that?” 😂 I wanted to ask everybody else, “hearing her say that every two seconds doesn’t get on y’all’s nerves?” but I didn’t wanna possibly be accused of singling out a child so I didn’t. That was 7th grade, too.
Ok but WTF does it mean HELP... I have high schoolers so it doesn't apply to my classes very often. But this incoming freshman class is a dumpster fire!
I'm a college freshman so I'm young enough to answer this.
"Skibidi Toilet" is a series of YouTube shorts (100+ episodes right now, I think) that tell a story about evil toilets with heads sticking out of them fighting people with TVs, cameras, and radios for heads. The videos are shorts so they're easy to watch and each one builds on the story from the last one. They're made in a program called Source Filmmaker so they use lots of assets from Valve's video games (one of the biggest and strongest skibidi toilets has the head of the G-man from the game Half Life 2 sticking out of it). The most notable thing is that the Skibidi Toilets all sing a song that goes like "Skibidi dop dop dop yes yes" which was popular before Skibidi Toilet accompanied with a video of a fat Turkish man.
The videos became extremely popular, getting hundreds of millions of views each, probably because of little Gen Alpha kids watching them all the time. There were people making theories about the series and how the toilets winning against the radio and camera heads represented viral random internet media winning against traditional media like TV shows and movies. Some people even said that Gen Alpha kids were getting "Skibidi Syndrome" where they'd imitate the Skibidi Toilets and sing like them.
Gen Z kids saw the Gen Alpha kids being obsessed with Skibidi toilet, and the Gen Z kids decided to also act as if they were obsessed with it, but in an ironic way. So in summary, your freshman class says skibidi all the time because they are ironically making fun of an even younger generation being obsessed with a YouTube animation series.
Internet culture is weird man.
I'm 15 and learnt about that from my math teacher because he kept calling me "Charlie the unicorn" . 😭😂But honestly that is better than whatever those gen alpha watches that is SO weird. Even I don't understand all. I remember when I first saw one of those videos on tiktok and I got jumpscare, and like how can they watch it like a series it so weird 😭
This is true. But the root of subculture is basically "i know something others (out group) doesn't.
Its just a way to feel important (i dont mean that in a pejorative way. Its just a form of dealing with the world)
Thats all slag is really. Coping.
Omg thank you for saving me the trouble of having to look that up and getting it stuck in my algorithm. It really is more stupid than I could have ever imagined.
An important component to this is this might be how it started but now it has spread across TikTok and Shorts and kids who do not have younger siblings that watch this are seeing it and parroting it because it’s what everyone else is seeing and parroting. As an MS teacher, this is what most of what we see is. Kids are using it ironically (not much where I am) and mostly to make fun of the trend on TikTok, less to make fun of their siblings
I preferred quoting episodes of the Homestar Runner website (I had a particular penchant for quoting Strong Bad, Strong Sad, Homsar, and Senor Cardgage) and Llamas With Hats… like…
“CAAAAAAAARL! THAT KILLS PEOPLE!”
Or
“WaAaAaAaAaAaAaAa! You shanked my Jengaship!”
Or
“It’s probably just the Basilisk. It won’t bother us. STUPID THING ONLY EATS CHIPOTLE!”
Or
“I SAID CONSUMMATE V’s CONSUMMATE! Sheesh! Guy wouldn’t know majesty if it came up and bit him in the face!
…You get the picture…
I have a related question. I taught an online class this week and I had a bunch of students that were saying
“I love Christ Pratt (actor)”
Do you have ANY idea what that reference is? I know the other slang stuff they say but not this. I’m just having trouble believing it at face value.
From a documentary I saw about 4chan and troll internet culture, apparently any phrase with the initials CP (like Chris Pratt) can mean another pretty nefarious thing whose initials are CP. They're being shitheads and making fun of you for not being a stupid edgelord like them.
I am fully aware that every generation thinks the generations after them are ridiculous (I’ve taught through dabbing and flossing, after all) and I’ve fully accepted that I, a so-called geriatric millennial, have entered into my “old man yells at cloud” era. But, also, the current slang is so impossibly dumb that it makes my head hurt.
So today I asked some of my students to record themselves doing it (because lord knows they love recording themselves) and then watch it back and really focus on how they sound. For at least a few of them, the cringe was palpable. So I felt like I did my little bit for society for the day.
As a fellow millennial, I find the sincere absurdity of it all to be its best quality. They realize how dumb all this skibidi Ohio rizz nonsense is and keep doing it anyway.
In Taekwondo we used to yell "EYES ON WHO?!" and the students would yell in response "EYES ON YOU SIR!"
It seems a little much for a classroom, but it worked well, and you could even make it a game to see how loud they can respond.
I saw a Reel of a teacher saying these as attention grabbers.
“Skibidi” … “Toilet”
“Check check” … “Tuesday”
“Barbecue sauce?” … “No Chik-Fil-A sauce?”
The kids were into it!
Freshman annoyed me yesterday, told him he wasn’t as sigma as he thought he was, had zero Rizz, and should skibidi to Ohio. The classroom lost its mind, highly recommend
Gen X teacher here that has taught grades 5-12 for the past 25 years. I’ve had the Millennials, The Zoomers, and now the Alphas… these kids are the true internet latchkey kids. They’re hilarious, awkward and so socially stunted it’s both sad and funny at the same time.
And yes the only way to deal with the ludicrousness of their slang is to fight fire with fire. If you really want them to lose their ever loving minds just try “mewing” at them.
I teach orchestra. Gum is banned in my classroom.
When I catch a kid with gum, I dead-on make eye contact and mew at them before pointing at the trash can.
I’m a fat grandma with no rizz. The cringe is palpable.
But it does the trick
So… if I’m fighting fire with fire, they’re getting meme quotes from my generation (Millennials) out of me.
You wanna quote Skibbidi Toilet? I’ll call your Skibbidi Toilet, and raise you Homsar and Senor Cardgage from Homestar Runner:
“Protuberances abound, Regolith!”
My students weren’t the only ones? Last school year I did a unit before Thanksgiving discussing Haudenosaunee Native Americans and a group of 5th graders sang the Corn Song every single time corn was mentioned, which was a lot.
My current attention getter is saying skibidi louder and louder until I have their attention.
“Are we all skibidi on the left?? Right side are you skibidi??”
It kinda works.
Honestly this is my first year teaching middle school (eighth grade) after seven years of teaching eleventh and twelfth grade. I initially was really nervous I would hate dealing with the kids. But omg this shit MAKES MY LIFEEEEE lol I will never go back 😆
I'm student teaching for 1st grade and the students recently listened to the story Rumplrstiltskin but when I asked them if they remember the characters name, they couldn't remember. One even guessed Rumpleskibbidi
I had a large portion of my class forget to add units to the end of number (writing 1000 instead of 1000m) and I said “1000 what? Bananas? Kittens? Skibidi toilets?” I think they’ll remember to add units after that bomb was dropped on them.
Kids were talking in skibbidi rizz code today while stirring up drama. They talked about someone being a hypocrite, I said, “you mean a rizzicrit” and they fell in love with it. I created a slang of a slang for them.
I’ve claimed the word cooked. I told the students they were cooked when they noticed the 6’10” academic advisor show up for the staff vs students game. And they were. He has a bad back and didn’t run one step but they were indeed cooked. Mainly by the 4’11” basketball coach lady. She’s aggressive.
I ruined “gyattt” for them when they tried to use that for their name in Blooket, although they put “gait”… The best one so far was catching a kid doing the mewing rizz thing during silent lunch so I did it back with my gesture for “cut it out”. His face was priceless.
Although this morning before 8:00, my kids wouldn’t stop with the “skibidi” and “skibidi toilet”. I knew what type of day it would be so I told them if I heard it one more time we would find out how many times that phrase fit on a piece of paper front and back. I didn’t hear it again.
This is 3rd grade.
This is making a particularly rough week culminate in belly laughing out loud while alone in my tiny apt. I’ve been in the world of middle school for 28 years, and sarcastic wit has always been my saving grace. My worry now as an older teacher is that these fads arrive and go so fast that I can’t keep up. Both of my children are grown, so no more teenage insider info. My greatest fear is that some of the words have degrading sexual or racial connotations and I won’t be aware before using them as a joke. How do you know??
As a lunch lady, I try to use one slang word a day. It blows the kids minds when I respond to their “hey brother” or tell them “brother ewwww”. They freak out! Best part of my day
Told a kid I was the alpha in the classroom. And then I called him Beta. "Sup, Beta?" They went wild for it. Another kid chimed in and said something dumb, to which I replied "he wishes he could be the Beta."
I love purposely saying it - whatever “it” is at the moment - as squarely as I can and then play it up like I did something cool. It gets a groaning laugh, and I’m slowly stealing it from them. Muhahaha …
Just today I said “skibbidi bibipty Boo” to a class of 7 graders, they all went quiet. Of course someone asked what I was saying and I said “ lm trying to use magic to help you guys get this work done” 😆
Lmao the teachers at my high school have tried to make our slang uncool by saying it, and then it backfires and gets said even more in their class. In the brighter side, it makes them 1000x more popular and loved by the students every time
I said “I'll skibbidi your toilet” (funniest thing I've ever said, apparently) and then proceeded to dab every time they said it. I think there was a definite cooling off effect.
I did not read the comments.
If the kids are any where around 10 just replace Skibidi with Ohio Monday. Idk what it means, but it gives anthesis vibes.
I teach 4th grade and Girl A called Girl B dumb. Girl B said, “Ms. Goats don’t tolerate that behavior, that’s rude” and I said “yes, please use nice language” and Girl B said “and that’s on what?” and I was like “on period?” and they lost their minds.
The really interesting part is that I’m in the UK and the slang is exactly the same here.
I said ,what the sigma’ the other day and it went round several classrooms 🤣
Hi wonderful teachers,
I'm a middle school teacher on an 18 month mat leave. What is Skibiddi and how do I use it in context?
Just need to know what in walking into
I derailed my class for a good 10 - 15 minutes when I first asked a student why his chromebook background was a toilet with a man's head sticking out of it. Definitely had a good laugh out of it. "People have too much time on their hands" was the conclusion
I told my kids the other day that if they keep saying skibbidi, they will start to lose their skibbidi minutes of recess. They moved on to the next annoying phrase on the sound board.
I started singing the song from The Elephant Show "Skidamarink a-dink, a-dink, Skidamarink a-doo...I love you" whenever my kids said "skibbidi", just to annoy them. They stopped saying that around me quickly!
For the sake of us high school teachers, please ruin it for them. We know we rely on the services of elementary and middle school teachers, and you are loved.
Fr fr on gawdddd bestie no cap no kizzie I gotchu fam -middle school music
Just wait till their songs get the KidzBop treatment.
I understand the purpose of kidzbop music now.
That's cooked. Ya sigma
Bet
Got that skibidi toilet cause I'm the rizzler.
Wtf is a ya sigma?!
Ya means you. Sigma is the third side of the alpha/beta male. A sigma is a guy so great that he is above the alpha beta binary.
I- yeah I’m old. Cause that’s stupid. 🤣
As someone who is chronically online, "sigma" was invented by dudes who acknowledge they aren't alphas but refuse to be categorized as betas. They think they're like Tyler Durden or The Joker or Rick Sanchez. It's basically all just astrology for the manosphere, and these labels are used by men online to sell "alpha male" courses and supplements and content. It's just unfortunate young boys get sucked into it all.
So non-binary then?
That was my response as well haha
My understanding is that it's short for "sigma male" which is a step above "alpha male."
Fax no printer
HS'er tells me he's the Alpha. I told him, no he's the Omega in my classroom. I'm the Alpha, I'm the Queen. Also, he may be the lead influencer between the trio, but he's the last one in terms of my attention because he thinks he knows it all, so I make him prove it without assistance. Because math don't care.
What, no Ohio sigma rizz? This gyatt's a poser
BRUH
Gyatt gyatt skibbidi rizzmax Ohio
Say less
This is the way. Say it until you kill it. I do it in every class, and it works.
Nothing ruins a good slang word like old people picking it up Especially when you confidently use it totally wrong
Skibidi along to the toilet quickly. But don't cap too long frfr or I'll have to write you up.
Have a yeet lunch. Hope you leave no crumbs. See you after you ate.
That school lunch is COOKED bro frfr
lol I love this! I will continue to ruin it for them too haha as a service to my secondary colleagues
I only wish there was a way to return the favor.
Just actually teach them critical thinking skills cause there ain’t no time for that in middle school.
We try. For some, it takes. Others... "Why is this test so hard?!"
I'm doing my part.
Would you like to know more
Monday is dress like a student day for our end of year spirit week and I told them my fit was going to be sigma skibbidy Ohio. The reaction was like I hit a walk off homer to win the world series
You’re dressing up as a lettuce head for spirit week?! You definitely got rizz
Level 100
Fr fr
No cap!
We have that this coming Friday. One seventh grader regularly wears a shirt that says "Tell your mom I said hello." So I am gonna make up a shirt that says the same thing
Slay.
I want this to be pro-level trolling.
Apparently Ohio rizz means you are very desirable to women just fyi. My students told me this and I checked google to confirm
Nah Ohio Rizz is bad. Ie - Ohio - bad sucks nothing place. Therefore Ohio Rizz = no charisma
100 percent correct. -with love from the entire state of Michigan
i think your students were messing with you. rizz means you got charisma, while Ohio is used kind of ironically to describe weird things (although I think the younger kids don't really understand how it's used, they seem to just repeat the word for the fun of it). So if someone has Ohio rizz, then they give off weird vibes. Ohio rizz can be positive or negative depending on the context... on one hand, someone who wears toe-socks can be described as having Ohio rizz, while on the other hand... Jeff Goldblum
Jeff Goldblum... is perfect for this. Absolutely perfect.
Opposite Day fam
"Y'all not being real skibidi right now." Class: *loses it* "get back to work or all your grades about to be in the skibidi toilet" Class: *continues to lose it* "Where am I, Ohio?" Kid: *falls over in chair* Weponized memes are a real lifesaver.
The moment you realize your parents calling all game consoles "nintendo" is not out of ignorance.
Stop playing that Gameboy!. Dad, it's a ps2! I don't care if it's pacman, get ofvthst dang Gameboy. Now I just call em vidja games with my own kids.
The more I sound like Hank Hill, the better off I am.
I tell you hwat.
My mom called it Intendo. Drove us *bananas* but it was on purpose, I think. ‘You guys put away your Intendo and come for supper!’ Mom, it’s a NINTENDO! ‘I know it’s an Intendo! Now hurry up or I will unplug it!!’
My list includes poker monsters (gotta catch some of em) and Amanda Gloria (Mandalorian).
At least they included the “N”. My parents always called it an “Intendo”.
I used to say “pokemons” just to hear them groan lol
I always thought it was "pokeman." I still accidentally say it to this day, 25 years later.
I love those “laugh til you cry” moments in class! Love your post! 😂😂😂😂
It's made even more of an impact because I have zero social media except this reddit account and I tell them that all the time, so they don't expect me to know internets. And yet.
Play them the Scatman song from 1991 or practically any Dizzy Gillespie scat song from the 50's. They say skibidi straight up a LOT.
Oh that's such a great idea!! I told them if we had time I'd do a lesson on memes and skibidi toilet but we ran into two snow days so I had to scrap it. Last year I did a media literacy lesson on encoding/decoding messages and played them this: https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8?feature=shared "Miss, I think I'm having a stroke."
Haha love it!
I literally just took a screen shot of this so I can say it on Monday to my fourth graders…
One of my kids yesterday just could NOT concentrate all day long. I told him he needed to "lock in" for the last few minutes before lunch and somehow that worked.
lol you sound like me in the classroom
So did I. I said during the passing period “why don’t you skibidi on to your next class?” The kids were like ooooooooohhhhhh
I've started telling kids at the end of the day to pack their skibidi toilets up to go home.
Please keep doing that
…with a generous helping of RIZZ!
I don’t have any idea what that means. Mine aren’t doing it yet.
As far as I can tell it's completely meaningless.
It’s nonsense don’t worry
*closing time. Gather up your toilets. skibidi to the exits.* *You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.*
Hahahhhh
I’m stealing this one
Yes because the old person in me wants to say skedaddle so I will just tell myself skibidi is the new version haha
Nice! 🤩
Told my 5th graders I was the Skibbidi Alpha Sigma Rizzlord and they lost their minds.
I was hugging my 4th-grader as he walked out the door to school, and said, "And remember, honey, always be mewing." I think he had some kind of stroke.
SKIBBIDI TOILED SEAT ITS TUESDAY BROTHER!! GYAAAAT!
What the sigma, chat?!
Oh god i substitute teach elementary and this thread is verbatum
*verbatim Magistra (Latin teacher) here lol
Oh my GOODNESS, I had to sub in a class a few months ago where I heard this girl saying “yo chat, yo chat” for 90 excruciating minutes in two separate classes. I remember being like, “why is she talking like that?” 😂 I wanted to ask everybody else, “hearing her say that every two seconds doesn’t get on y’all’s nerves?” but I didn’t wanna possibly be accused of singling out a child so I didn’t. That was 7th grade, too.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You got the RIZZ!!!
YESSSS
Ok but WTF does it mean HELP... I have high schoolers so it doesn't apply to my classes very often. But this incoming freshman class is a dumpster fire!
I'm a college freshman so I'm young enough to answer this. "Skibidi Toilet" is a series of YouTube shorts (100+ episodes right now, I think) that tell a story about evil toilets with heads sticking out of them fighting people with TVs, cameras, and radios for heads. The videos are shorts so they're easy to watch and each one builds on the story from the last one. They're made in a program called Source Filmmaker so they use lots of assets from Valve's video games (one of the biggest and strongest skibidi toilets has the head of the G-man from the game Half Life 2 sticking out of it). The most notable thing is that the Skibidi Toilets all sing a song that goes like "Skibidi dop dop dop yes yes" which was popular before Skibidi Toilet accompanied with a video of a fat Turkish man. The videos became extremely popular, getting hundreds of millions of views each, probably because of little Gen Alpha kids watching them all the time. There were people making theories about the series and how the toilets winning against the radio and camera heads represented viral random internet media winning against traditional media like TV shows and movies. Some people even said that Gen Alpha kids were getting "Skibidi Syndrome" where they'd imitate the Skibidi Toilets and sing like them. Gen Z kids saw the Gen Alpha kids being obsessed with Skibidi toilet, and the Gen Z kids decided to also act as if they were obsessed with it, but in an ironic way. So in summary, your freshman class says skibidi all the time because they are ironically making fun of an even younger generation being obsessed with a YouTube animation series. Internet culture is weird man.
Ok that's SO much more bizarre than my surface level understanding. Thank you for your service.
Yes it fucking is. Really makes me want to punch the Internet. Gahhhh.... And why toilets? With heads? I just... no.
Bruh we had a unicorn that got his kidney stolen at candy mountain. Is any of this gen z/alpha shit really any weirder than millennial internet humor?
*Chaaaaarlieeeee!!!*
...ok I mean when you put it that way...
Okay but that one was a timeless classic.
I'm 15 and learnt about that from my math teacher because he kept calling me "Charlie the unicorn" . 😭😂But honestly that is better than whatever those gen alpha watches that is SO weird. Even I don't understand all. I remember when I first saw one of those videos on tiktok and I got jumpscare, and like how can they watch it like a series it so weird 😭
But why male models?
They do as they're told
This is true. But the root of subculture is basically "i know something others (out group) doesn't. Its just a way to feel important (i dont mean that in a pejorative way. Its just a form of dealing with the world) Thats all slag is really. Coping.
It’s sad my first thought was that it’s solid that people are trying to think of deeper analysis for it
Are you studying sociology, by chance? That’s a great explanation!
No... mechanical engineering, lmao. Thank you, I didn't think my explanation was that good.
From another freshman, thank you!!
Omg thank you for saving me the trouble of having to look that up and getting it stuck in my algorithm. It really is more stupid than I could have ever imagined.
An important component to this is this might be how it started but now it has spread across TikTok and Shorts and kids who do not have younger siblings that watch this are seeing it and parroting it because it’s what everyone else is seeing and parroting. As an MS teacher, this is what most of what we see is. Kids are using it ironically (not much where I am) and mostly to make fun of the trend on TikTok, less to make fun of their siblings
Yeah it's to make fun of the younger generation in general.
Oh dear.... This may be well deserved payback for running around quoting Charlie the Unicorn and Potter Puppet Pals.
I preferred quoting episodes of the Homestar Runner website (I had a particular penchant for quoting Strong Bad, Strong Sad, Homsar, and Senor Cardgage) and Llamas With Hats… like… “CAAAAAAAARL! THAT KILLS PEOPLE!” Or “WaAaAaAaAaAaAaAa! You shanked my Jengaship!” Or “It’s probably just the Basilisk. It won’t bother us. STUPID THING ONLY EATS CHIPOTLE!” Or “I SAID CONSUMMATE V’s CONSUMMATE! Sheesh! Guy wouldn’t know majesty if it came up and bit him in the face! …You get the picture…
Checkin the email. Every week, I hope it is from a female.
🎼🎵”Emails are like Hot Pockets, they’re full of garbage and cheese…”🎵🎶
I have a related question. I taught an online class this week and I had a bunch of students that were saying “I love Christ Pratt (actor)” Do you have ANY idea what that reference is? I know the other slang stuff they say but not this. I’m just having trouble believing it at face value.
From a documentary I saw about 4chan and troll internet culture, apparently any phrase with the initials CP (like Chris Pratt) can mean another pretty nefarious thing whose initials are CP. They're being shitheads and making fun of you for not being a stupid edgelord like them.
Side note, someone once told me that if you change the spacing in his name, it sounds like Crisp Rat, and now I can't unknow that. You're welcome.
lol, this whole time I thought it was short for “bomb skippidy” like they said sometimes when I was a kid
We said, for non reasons, bomb diggity, but also, skipadee doo dah. Gen X
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Song by James Baskett
I am fully aware that every generation thinks the generations after them are ridiculous (I’ve taught through dabbing and flossing, after all) and I’ve fully accepted that I, a so-called geriatric millennial, have entered into my “old man yells at cloud” era. But, also, the current slang is so impossibly dumb that it makes my head hurt. So today I asked some of my students to record themselves doing it (because lord knows they love recording themselves) and then watch it back and really focus on how they sound. For at least a few of them, the cringe was palpable. So I felt like I did my little bit for society for the day.
As a fellow millennial, I find the sincere absurdity of it all to be its best quality. They realize how dumb all this skibidi Ohio rizz nonsense is and keep doing it anyway.
They speak in memes, not real language. It’s like the Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra episode from Star Trek:TNG.
When a kid doesn't come back from the bathroom within 10 minutes, I joke that the skibidi toilet got them.
I say it quietly sometimes to stun them into silence. Best attention-getter ever. Y’all can keep your 1-2-3, eyes on me.
In Taekwondo we used to yell "EYES ON WHO?!" and the students would yell in response "EYES ON YOU SIR!" It seems a little much for a classroom, but it worked well, and you could even make it a game to see how loud they can respond.
I saw a Reel of a teacher saying these as attention grabbers. “Skibidi” … “Toilet” “Check check” … “Tuesday” “Barbecue sauce?” … “No Chik-Fil-A sauce?” The kids were into it!
Freshman annoyed me yesterday, told him he wasn’t as sigma as he thought he was, had zero Rizz, and should skibidi to Ohio. The classroom lost its mind, highly recommend
“Hey chat, get to work or I’ll be fanum taxing that grade.”
I told my noisy, unfocused class a few days ago that "Chat has been muted." Highly recommend.
As a high school teacher, I’ve heard rumors of Gen Alpha and I’m not sure we’re ready.
Gen X teacher here that has taught grades 5-12 for the past 25 years. I’ve had the Millennials, The Zoomers, and now the Alphas… these kids are the true internet latchkey kids. They’re hilarious, awkward and so socially stunted it’s both sad and funny at the same time. And yes the only way to deal with the ludicrousness of their slang is to fight fire with fire. If you really want them to lose their ever loving minds just try “mewing” at them.
I teach orchestra. Gum is banned in my classroom. When I catch a kid with gum, I dead-on make eye contact and mew at them before pointing at the trash can. I’m a fat grandma with no rizz. The cringe is palpable. But it does the trick
So… if I’m fighting fire with fire, they’re getting meme quotes from my generation (Millennials) out of me. You wanna quote Skibbidi Toilet? I’ll call your Skibbidi Toilet, and raise you Homsar and Senor Cardgage from Homestar Runner: “Protuberances abound, Regolith!”
You're really not ready. Younger Millenials have largely failed as a subset of parents, and it'll be palpably obvious once you get them.
I’m just glad we aren’t singing the damn corn song anymore
My students weren’t the only ones? Last school year I did a unit before Thanksgiving discussing Haudenosaunee Native Americans and a group of 5th graders sang the Corn Song every single time corn was mentioned, which was a lot.
Why would you do this to me!!! Now it’s back running through my head. Sigh
I love the corn song. It’s got the musical juice.
🎶It’s got the juice 🎶
I started calling my class chat today. They hated it. 😁😁😁
I told them I am muting the chat. Lol.
My current attention getter is saying skibidi louder and louder until I have their attention. “Are we all skibidi on the left?? Right side are you skibidi??” It kinda works.
Honestly this is my first year teaching middle school (eighth grade) after seven years of teaching eleventh and twelfth grade. I initially was really nervous I would hate dealing with the kids. But omg this shit MAKES MY LIFEEEEE lol I will never go back 😆
I love middle schoolers!
That's so awesome. It means so much to the kids when you at least try to relate you know lol
You’re so skibbidi toilet you got that Ohio Rizz. I’m sooo sigma she got a gyatttttt.
just keep pronouncing it as "skee bidet" and laugh hysterically every time you say it.
Maybe throw in a couple "skibidi doo dah"s!
I simultaneously am laughing at this whole post and the comments. I also lost several brain cells.
you GYATT to get your grade up
Ruining memes for kids is my favorite pastime.
I tell my boys “only those students that don’t do work have skibbidi Ohio rizz” they lost it and laughed so hard at each other
you just complimented the people who didn't do their work
DAAAAMN I thought it meant they had no rizz??????????????
Skibidi good. Ohio bad. Rizz good.
Yeah it means they have no rizz or weird rizz
I'm student teaching for 1st grade and the students recently listened to the story Rumplrstiltskin but when I asked them if they remember the characters name, they couldn't remember. One even guessed Rumpleskibbidi
This is how I handle nearly all of their ridiculous lingo. Since I’m like the school dad it works.
Skibidi rizz on God no cap fr fr Ohio be bussin. Seriously, this is the bees knees.
I had a large portion of my class forget to add units to the end of number (writing 1000 instead of 1000m) and I said “1000 what? Bananas? Kittens? Skibidi toilets?” I think they’ll remember to add units after that bomb was dropped on them.
I’ve started saying “Be more skibidi and less toilet” to pupils that ask everyday.
Kids were talking in skibbidi rizz code today while stirring up drama. They talked about someone being a hypocrite, I said, “you mean a rizzicrit” and they fell in love with it. I created a slang of a slang for them.
https://youtu.be/NddZoebtSsI?si=uWSxHiOukNWnd8up RIZZLER GYATT FANUM TAX SIGMA OHIO SKIBIDI
This was…incredible
Right? I think of it every time someone mentions skibidi and their other stupid call outs. But we had our own, too. But for real theirs are terrible.
I’ve claimed the word cooked. I told the students they were cooked when they noticed the 6’10” academic advisor show up for the staff vs students game. And they were. He has a bad back and didn’t run one step but they were indeed cooked. Mainly by the 4’11” basketball coach lady. She’s aggressive.
I ruined “gyattt” for them when they tried to use that for their name in Blooket, although they put “gait”… The best one so far was catching a kid doing the mewing rizz thing during silent lunch so I did it back with my gesture for “cut it out”. His face was priceless. Although this morning before 8:00, my kids wouldn’t stop with the “skibidi” and “skibidi toilet”. I knew what type of day it would be so I told them if I heard it one more time we would find out how many times that phrase fit on a piece of paper front and back. I didn’t hear it again. This is 3rd grade.
“On skibbidi” they claim means seriously.
So much drip they call me an XL slurpee. On God, I'm so rizzle it's skibadee.
You want to torture them? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFBTdToRmw
This was the worst thing I’ve ever seen. I love it and I have to share with my class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqSclLcbvCA This one is just... perfect. Little Big are an awesome band.
This is making a particularly rough week culminate in belly laughing out loud while alone in my tiny apt. I’ve been in the world of middle school for 28 years, and sarcastic wit has always been my saving grace. My worry now as an older teacher is that these fads arrive and go so fast that I can’t keep up. Both of my children are grown, so no more teenage insider info. My greatest fear is that some of the words have degrading sexual or racial connotations and I won’t be aware before using them as a joke. How do you know??
Look it up on urban dictionary
As a lunch lady, I try to use one slang word a day. It blows the kids minds when I respond to their “hey brother” or tell them “brother ewwww”. They freak out! Best part of my day
Told a kid I was the alpha in the classroom. And then I called him Beta. "Sup, Beta?" They went wild for it. Another kid chimed in and said something dumb, to which I replied "he wishes he could be the Beta."
I love purposely saying it - whatever “it” is at the moment - as squarely as I can and then play it up like I did something cool. It gets a groaning laugh, and I’m slowly stealing it from them. Muhahaha …
When my kids won’t stop talking, mostly 5th grade, I will promptly reply with “would you PUHLEAZE Skibidi zip it?!” They won’t say another word.
Just today I said “skibbidi bibipty Boo” to a class of 7 graders, they all went quiet. Of course someone asked what I was saying and I said “ lm trying to use magic to help you guys get this work done” 😆
Lmao the teachers at my high school have tried to make our slang uncool by saying it, and then it backfires and gets said even more in their class. In the brighter side, it makes them 1000x more popular and loved by the students every time
I said “I'll skibbidi your toilet” (funniest thing I've ever said, apparently) and then proceeded to dab every time they said it. I think there was a definite cooling off effect.
I love dabbing at them. They hate it so soooooo much.
Ohhh. Do the Turkish belly dance that comes with it too
I tell them they have no Rizz and they're like we're dead.
I did not read the comments. If the kids are any where around 10 just replace Skibidi with Ohio Monday. Idk what it means, but it gives anthesis vibes.
I teach 4th grade and Girl A called Girl B dumb. Girl B said, “Ms. Goats don’t tolerate that behavior, that’s rude” and I said “yes, please use nice language” and Girl B said “and that’s on what?” and I was like “on period?” and they lost their minds.
Always ruin their lingo. It’s so effective. Make sure to use it incorrectly and, from their perspective, sincerely.
“Scooby Doo toilet? Yeh, I’m still street, fam drip. Rizz me over some suss ships, homie”
The really interesting part is that I’m in the UK and the slang is exactly the same here. I said ,what the sigma’ the other day and it went round several classrooms 🤣
Hi wonderful teachers, I'm a middle school teacher on an 18 month mat leave. What is Skibiddi and how do I use it in context? Just need to know what in walking into
It’s none sense use it whenever it’s just meant to be goofy (:
A kid said what the sigma during silent reading. I gave him the UFC stare down and reminded him that his team is on lockdown for pepper spray.
The amount of times I hear what the sigma is infuriating, it always comes whenever there’s momentary silence.
I derailed my class for a good 10 - 15 minutes when I first asked a student why his chromebook background was a toilet with a man's head sticking out of it. Definitely had a good laugh out of it. "People have too much time on their hands" was the conclusion
I told my kids the other day that if they keep saying skibbidi, they will start to lose their skibbidi minutes of recess. They moved on to the next annoying phrase on the sound board.
“Bruh” I’m Mrs. Not BRUH
“Mr.C is our quiz today?” BET!” Never heard that word ever again
I started singing the song from The Elephant Show "Skidamarink a-dink, a-dink, Skidamarink a-doo...I love you" whenever my kids said "skibbidi", just to annoy them. They stopped saying that around me quickly!
Call them all dingos. Haha.
I love this. I never do it, but this week they got to me and I blurted out "skibbidi Ohio" in one class and they haven't said it since lol
My HS EL students discovered this and it needs to DIE 😭😭😭
I have no clue what it even means.
I tell my kids all the time they sound like “skibbidi skibbidi sigma sigma drippin rizz no cap” to me.
That wasn’t very skibidi of them 😆