A primary school teacher has shared a baffling list of slang used by 10-year-olds that even Gen Z can’t seem to understand.
Kit Brown, 25, a year five teacher at Peartree Spring Primary School in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, took to TikTok to share a bizarre list of slang used by his students that he can’t understand.
Kit is a popular TikTok user who showcases the life of a school teacher and has amassed a whopping 1.9 million followers on the app.
In a new video, the Gen Z teacher shared a list of weird phrases used by Gen Alpha kids in his class, all of which seem difficult to understand.
Filming himself from inside a classroom, the young teacher explained that the first phrase that comes to mind is “skibidi bath.”
Kit Brown took to TikTok to share a list of unusual slang used by her fifth-year students at her school in Stevenage.
“What the hell is a skibidi bath? Why can’t anyone go 30 seconds without saying it?” he asked.
According MashableThe skibidi toilet originates from a series of animated videos created by Georgian animator Alexey Gerasimov.
The videos follow a story in which mobile toilets with human heads fight against “humanoids.”
The series is a cherished love of Generation Alpha, hence its popularity as a phrase and now the word skibidi apparently means ‘bad’ or ‘great’ depending on the context.
Second on the bizarre list was “what the hell?”, a phrase Kit said she asked several people to explain but was only met with blank faces.
Sigma, which is the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet, is a variation of alpha or beta and means “cool guy,” according to Today.
“I’ve asked around, but no one can tell me what ‘what the sigma’ means,” the professor said. The third and possibly the strangest is ‘skibidi ohio rizz’.
Kit, bewildered, said, “It’s obviously a variation of the skibidi dip. I know what the rizz is, but the skibidi ohio rizz? I don’t understand that.”
The strange terminology refers to someone’s ability to flirt or “hook” someone. In this context, Ohio apparently refers to something that is embarrassing, while skibidi is considered bad, hence the meaning of “bad flirting.”
One of the words used by the youngsters was “skibidi bath,” which the teacher said his students cannot stop saying.
Finally, he asked what ‘mewing’ was, apparently another peculiar saying of Generation Alpha.
Mewing is apparently a new trend where young people press their tongue against the roof of their mouth to make their jaw look tighter and slimmer.
Viewers of the video, including parents and Gen Zers, took to the comments section to give their theories about Kit’s fifth-graders’ curious new slang.
One frustrated father clearly recognised some of the young man’s remarks, writing: ‘My son says ‘what the fuck’ and I can’t stand it!’
A second tried to clear up the confusion by suggesting some definitions for the slang. They said: ‘Skibidi toilet means cool, sigma means alpha/leader and I think mewing means good jaw/fit and skibidi ohio rizz, I have no idea…’
Another user couldn’t believe he no longer understood more modern slang, writing: “I refuse to believe the younger generation is old enough to use slang I don’t understand.”
Professor Kit has made a name for himself as a popular social media star who shares his life as a teacher; his content includes how to overcome classroom challenges, new teaching styles, and “a day in the life” videos.
The fifth-grade teacher has previously been praised for adopting TikTok into his children’s curriculum, using music from the app to help children remember their times tables.
Viewers took to the comments to share their confusion and also to suggest what the definitions of the out-of-place vocabulary might be.
He does this by replacing the lyrics of popular songs, such as those by Taylor Swift, with mathematical terminology and often uses well-known phrases or songs to get his class’s attention, the report said. BBC.
The 25-year-old had been a footballer for Luton Town but, to his dismay, was released at the age of 16.
Not knowing what she wanted to do, Kit headed off to college, where she earned a degree in teaching and has been pursuing that career for the past few years.
The youngster also appears on CBBC Bitesize Daily and is involved in Premier League extension team Primary Stars.
Some of the slang used by Kit students bears some similarities to that used by Generation Z – for example, “rizz” (good for chatting or flirting), which was recently named Word of the Year by Oxford University Press.
In fact, the influence of slang in schools is so strong that one survey found that foreign students who are members of Generation Z and are learning English are desperately trying to understand popular phrases.
Trinity College London research shows that 71 percent of international students learning English ask their teachers and lecturers to explain slang terms they have seen on social media, TV or elsewhere.
Teachers have even resorted to recommending shows like Friends, Stranger Things and Sherlock to their students to help them learn English.
The most frequently used slang terms are ‘beef’ (an argument), NPC (short for non-playable character, meaning a boring person) and ‘pop-off’ (to go mad), according to the survey of academics.
Also appearing are fam (meaning friend or relative) and peng (something good or someone attractive).
The survey found that 80 percent of international students arrive already familiar with multicultural English (MCE) slang terms, having learned them through social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, but they don’t always know what they mean.
International students are also brushing up on their English with British TV shows like Top Boy.
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