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Don't know exactly but something similar to a mixture of a brave, true, and cool statement. Think it was first used by right wing chuds but then adopted ironically by terminally online liberals.
You'd say "based" if you agree with the political messaging of something.
(Pls correct me if I'm wrong)
There was a multi panel comic posted today or yesterday, I think the final panel mentioned skibidi.
Found it. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3caedeba-754f-4af7-8130-bbc45aa77ce1.jpeg
1: Father, you have no respect. You simper over mother without end, and it brings shame upon me.
2: Quite. I may be "skip to the lou, my darling", but your mother has earned my undying respect. My world goes crazy without her.
3: She's a gentleman of audacious taste.
4: Double France? Double France.
Is…is this Loss?
Skibidi. I know it's based on some YouTube things but I don't get it.
Skibidi comes from Scatman and no one can convince me otherwise.
Skee ba bop ba dop bop, ba bop ba dop bop
It's part of a lyric from an Arabic song that was featured in some viral Tiktok videos, most notably this one
It became sort of a filler word, but mostly think of it as being synonymous with "cool"
Huh and here I thought it was a reference to the Little Big song of the same name
same here! confused why a 2018 Russian groups pop song became popular in 2024, but i guess that’s the internet 🤷♂️
I think that is a person or at least something can somewhat let me know?
My son told me that DTF means "Doing the Face Book", but I sometimes see it being used in other sites that I like to visit that aren't social media sites. Does the Face Book really carry that much weight on the Internet? What does "Doing the Face Book" really mean exactly?
It means "down to fuck", it means your open to sexual activity. Doing the Facebook is a lie hea telling you to avoid the awkward situation
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Pretty sure you’re shitposting, but for any parents who don’t know, it means “down to fuck.”
Well don't know if he is shitposting but for the longest time I thought Netflix and chill was just inviting someone over and watch a movie. Until the other day someone told me that the expectation is to fuck.
See I would totally be down to just hang and watch a movie with a friend, then GTFO.
I think Netflix is becoming an increasingly hard-sale on it's own these days.
Very true. It's upsetting on Netflix or prime to search for a movie and it autocompletes but then they just show you "I know you really want to see X, but how about Y instead"?
I hear it more in-person recently, but also online. What does "out-of-pocket" mean when describing behavior? I've only ever heard it used to describe financial circumstances until a couple years ago.
It seems like it's roughly synonymous with "crazy" or "rude" or "unexpected", but I'd love to have it explained better.
That's pretty much it. It's when somebody's behaviour is out of line.
Use it as an adjective: e.g. "You are/that is out of pocket"
In finance, out-of-pocket is synonymous with cash on hand, liquid assets. Means you can pay now without needing to incur a debt.
In business, out-of-pocket is usually synonymous with out-of-office, like AFK Away-From-Keyboard. Often shorter term than being fully on vacation. "I'll be OOP after 2pm for a doctor's appt."
I have recently heard out-of-pocket used among youngsters or the terminally-online to mean rude or crazy, like you said. "Beyond the standards of normalcy".
"out of pocket" is what you pay, but may not be the total cost of the item/service. "I only had to pay $50 out of pocket and my insurance covered the rest"
It can also be used in business to mean unavailable. "I have to take my kid to the doctor and will be out of pocket for a couple of hours"
Same here the only out of pocket I have ever heard is either when your broke or having to pay for something.
Younger people of lemmy, what are some nuanced sayings that you would like to have explained to you?
what's a lefty-capucinno ?
Why do old people always follow the same rules of syntax and grammar?
Just kidding I’m old and I want to know why young people mangle english so much.
Privacy - Privacy is the state or condition of being free from public attention or unsanctioned intrusion, allowing individuals to control their personal information and maintain boundaries from others. It involves the right to keep one’s personal life, thoughts, and activities confidential, and to decide what information is shared and with whom. Privacy ensures protection from surveillance, interference, and misuse of one’s personal data, supporting autonomy and dignity in personal and professional contexts.
I know y’all had a rough start growing up online, but that word really used to be important to us grey beards who watched all this online stuff unfold over the decades.
Sometimes I wonder if the younger folks realize you don’t have to document your life on the internet.
Pog/poggers. I’m old but usually up on things as a long-time knight-of-new but this term slipped by me years ago and I never caught its meaning.
POG = Play of the Game
It was used by people in the chat when watching video game streamers pull off an impressive play.
It just kind of morphed out of that to mean something awesome happened.
It’s an expression of shock and excitement. It comes from a specific image that became a Twitch emote of the same name. If you look up “pog” or “pogchamp”, you should find the image. The face pretty much speaks for itself. It’s one of the staples of Twitch chat culture
The term has also evolved in everyday speech as essentially being equivalent to “sick” or “dope”
I always thought pog was the thing in the 90's where you would have to flip them and whatever flipped you got to keep.
That's true, but I believe in this case it's a double meaning referencing a twitch streamer playing that game Pog, and the acronym "Play Of [the] Game".
Twitch is a popular live stream platform, on it users can post emotes which have names. One of the oldest and most popular emotes is pogchamp, it used to be the face of a streamer who made the expression after winning a game of pog but he got banned for some controversial statements (typical right wing covid denial, jan6th apologia) and the emote was replaced with a lizard making a similar face. This has slowly bled into the mainstream just as the word pog or poggers.
The facial expression sums up it's meaning, but it's basically one of shocked happiness, you would use it if a streamer does something rare/lucky/skillful. Luke sky-walker turning off his targeting computer but still destroying the deathstar is poggers. Getting an A on a multiple choice test despite guessing every answer is poggers.